PAID MEDIA • META ADS • GOOGLE ADS • CONTENT STRATEGY

VACFSS Recruitment Campaign

Built and ran end-to-end recruitment marketing for an Indigenous-serving nonprofit — generating 4M+ results on a $15K budget by outperforming the industry cost benchmark by up to 4×.

Organization VACFSS
Duration Sept 2022 — Present
Budget managed $15K/year
Channels Meta · Google · LinkedIn · Organic

4.1M+

Results in 2025 across 24 campaigns

$0.21

Best CPC — vs $0.80 industry avg

331%

Web traffic increase over 2 years

117K

New users to vacfss.com in 2025

Cost Efficiency vs Industry

Meta Ads' cross-industry CPC average is $0.80. Every campaign I ran beat that ceiling — some by 74%. Low CPC isn't luck: it's evidence that the creative and targeting strategy is resonating.

CPC — cost per click

Industry avg
$0.80
Caregiver AD
$0.44
HR Recruitment
$0.21

Every dollar saved on CPC extends reach without increasing budget. The HR campaign delivered 108,440 clicks for $400 — a quarter per visit to the recruitment page.

80K landing page views / year ↑ 50% inquiries
59K+ Facebook referral visits Organic + Paid
$15,299 total 2025 spend 4.16M results

Cost per 1,000 Landing Page Clicks

Max = $800 (industry avg per 1,000 clicks)

Industry Average
$800 / 1K Benchmark
$800 per 1,000
July Caregiver AD — 2025
855K clicks · $3,000 −45%
$440 per 1,000
HR Recruitment — 2025
108K clicks · $400 −74%
$210 per 1,000

$800
Industry per 1K
$440
Caregiver per 1K
$210
HR Recruit per 1K

Meta Ads Manager · Jan–Dec 2025. Cost per 1K = CPC × 1,000.

Total results — max = 4,157,445 (2025)

2024
2,591,800 results · $12,396
2,591,800
2025
4,157,445 results · $15,299 +60%
4,157,445

Cost per 1,000 results — max = $4.78 (2024)

2024 efficiency
$12,396 ÷ 2,591K
$4.78 per 1,000
2025 efficiency
$15,299 ÷ 4,157K −23% cost/result
$3.68 per 1,000

2.59M
2024 results
4.16M
2025 results
$4.78
2024 per 1K
$3.68
2025 per 1K

Meta Ads Manager · Full-year 2024 & 2025, 24 campaigns each year.

Creative & Campaign Performance

Complete creative ownership — concept, design, copy, and placement optimisation across Feed, Stories/Reels, and Search. Every format from one source file.

VACFSS recruitment ad creative across Feed, Stories, and Search placements

Multi-format creative — Feed, Stories/Reels, Search column — deployed simultaneously

Targeting

Segmented by role — caregiver, social worker, admin — with retargeting pools built from site visitors and video viewers.

A/B Testing

Continuous creative tests on imagery, headlines, and CTAs — performance data feeding back into each design iteration.

Meta Ads Manager 2025 — 4.1M results across 24 campaigns for $15,299

2025 · 4,157,445 results · $15,299 spend · 24 campaigns

Meta Ads Manager 2024 — 2.5M results across 24 campaigns for $12,396

2024 · 2,591,800 results · $12,396 spend · 24 campaigns

2026 Caregiver Recruitment — Jan–Apr Results

The 2026 caregiver recruitment campaign launched in late January. Four months in, cost efficiency is outperforming peer benchmarks — and April marked the first month tracking direct inquiry conversions.

$4,499

Spent Jan–Apr 2026

23%

Lower CPL than similar ad sets

$0.27

Cost per landing page view (peers: $0.35)

18

Caregiver inquiries in April alone

At $0.27 per landing page view — vs. a peer median of $0.35 — the campaign is driving qualified traffic at roughly 23% lower cost than comparable ad sets on Meta. The 18 April inquiries represent direct pipeline for VACFSS caregiver recruitment.

Peer median CPL $0.35
This campaign CPL $0.27 (−23%)
Campaign window Jan 31 – Apr 30, 2026
Meta Ads Manager — 2026 Caregiver Recruitment Campaign Jan–Apr, $4,499.73 spend

Meta Ads Manager · 2026-Resources-Recruitment-ADS · Jan 1 – Apr 30, 2026 · $4,499.73 spent

Organic Reach & Takeaway

Paid media drove discovery; organic content built trust. Authentic photography from 200+ attendee events I coordinated fed the creative library — real community imagery is a meaningful part of why CPC stayed low.

Google Analytics — 31K + 28K Facebook referral users

Google Analytics — 31K + 28K Facebook referral users on top of organic search

Google Analytics 2025 — 117K new users, Become a Caregiver #1 page

2025 · 117K new users · "Become a Caregiver" ranked #1 at 46K views

What this demonstrates

The numbers — $0.21 CPC, 4M+ results, 331% traffic growth — are evidence of a specific skill set: translating cultural understanding into creative decisions, and creative decisions into measurable media performance.

A low CPC is not luck. It comes from designing ads that the right people actually want to click — which requires knowing who those people are, what matters to them, and how to speak to that in a single image and headline.

59K+
Facebook referrals to site
46K
"Become a Caregiver" views
200+
Community events photographed
3M
Impressions in one campaign year
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