Case Study
Staar Surgical is a company specialising in a unique vision correction solution, known as Visian ICL in the US, and EVO Visian ICL in Europe, Asia, Canada and other countries. It is an implantable lens that works with your eyes to naturally correct your vision and can last for the rest of your life – however, the implants can also be removed.
As they are such a unique product in the eyecare industry, Staar Surgical needed help to promote their brand and products internationally. Known for our international expertise, and in-house global linguists, we were the natural choice to help them with their global paid strategy.
Staar Surgical had done some paid activity in Germany and Spain but needed help to find new market opportunities and expand internationally, whilst optimising their existing paid activity.
We are proud to announce that this work for Staar Surgical was shortlisted at the a US Search Awards in the Best PPC Campaign category and The Drum Search Awards USA.
Increase qualified visitors to the website, where they can then find local eye clinics and ophthalmologists who perform the Visian ICL procedure.
The target audience is likely to be at various stages of the buying funnel. Some users might be close to converting, some might be just searching for information around contact lens alternatives. The objective of the paid strategy is to get Staar Surgical’s brand and product out there at all different stages of the buying cycle.
Our international team used search impression share to identify new markets and opportunities.
Our multilingual digital marketing experts then localised the keywords and ad copy, depending on the needs of the individual market, and what local competitors were bidding on.
As the market presence grew to over 182 markets, the budget and bid adjustment strategy had to be carefully managed. Search Laboratory had to use past performance and new opportunities to guide this process. The team also started remarketing activity a couple of months after set-up, to maximise conversions.
Due to regulations within the healthcare industry, (which differs in each market) there are limits to the type of information and the type of advertising that can be executed for this product. This was challenging as it means the ads can’t include too much information, however, our international team ensured that the ads were all localised to the individual markets and commercial trends, to maximise conversions and provide users with a customised experience.
Alongside international work, Search Laboratory’s paid team utilised their in-house proprietary software, AlertLab, to maintain the budgets proportionately.
AlertLab was our proprietary PPC campaign monitoring software. It allowed for rapid automated monitoring of large-scale campaigns that would be impossible to do manually. For Staar Surgical, AlertLab was used to manage the budgets between the different locations, enabling Search Laboratory’s paid team to spend their time optimising the campaign and find further opportunities.
Over the course of the engagement, we have achieved the following results:
These great results have led to Staar Surgical taking spend from their other marketing channels and moving it to their paid campaigns.
“Search Laboratory has an international footprint and international team members that help us scale campaigns across the globe. They provide a huge value add as we know that a Google translation of an English campaign just doesn’t work.”
Ryan Black, Senior Manager, Digital Marketing, Staar Surgical
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