CASE STUDY

Contained Australia

Building Contained Australia's National Lead Engine From Scratch

How Market Lead built Contained Australia's national paid acquisition system from zero in 90 days, delivering 840+ sales qualified leads at $18 CPL (85% below the $50-$120 industry benchmark for high-ticket B2B), with a 12% landing page conversion rate (vs 2-5% benchmark) and 2%+ Meta CTR (vs 0.8-1% baseline).

Industry

B2B Commercial Storage and Modular Spaces

Services

Google Ads, Meta Ads, High-Converting Landing Page Development, Enterprise Reporting

Time Frame

First 90 Days

Sales Qualified Leads

Sales Qualified Leads

840+

Cost Per Lead

Cost Per Lead

$18

Conversion Rate

Conversion Rate

12%

Meta Click Through Rate

Meta Click Through Rate

2%+

The

Challenge

The

Challenge

The

Challenge

A National Product, A National Vacuum

Contained Australia manufactures premium steel-frame enclosure kits that convert shipping containers into commercial spaces. Their kits power self-storage operators, container yards, construction sites, agricultural operations, and mining camps across Australia. Price point: $30,000 to $80,000 per kit.

The product was proven. The distributor network was in place. Demand showed up in pockets wherever word-of-mouth ran.

But the national market they wanted to serve was off the table without an acquisition engine. There was no paid advertising history. No high-converting landing page. No tracking. No mechanism to feed leads into the right distributor in the right state. Internal management had hit the ceiling of what referrals could deliver, and the regional distributors had capacity sitting unused while leads were missing.

0 paid leads, no high-converting landing page, no tracking infrastructure, no lead routing system, no per-state campaign architecture

0

Paid Leads (Before)

0

Paid Leads (Before)

840+

Qualified Leads (After 90 days)

840+

Qualified Leads (After 90 days)

Our

Approach

Our

Approach

Our

Approach

Segment by state, qualify by intent.

Market Lead built the entire acquisition stack from zero. The strategic challenge wasn't just generating leads, it was routing them. Each state had its own distributor expecting qualified buyers in their region. The system needed to be one funnel from the top and four funnels by the bottom. Every campaign was structured by state. Every lead was tagged by state. Every dollar of budget was allocated by state demand against distributor capacity. Within seven days of launch, sales qualified leads were exploding through the engine.

The Economics

$18 cost per lead came in up to 85% below the $50-$120 industry benchmark... for a product priced at $30,000 to $80,000, that delta is the difference between an acquisition cost that defines the business model and one that's a rounding error against revenue.

Execution

Execution

Execution

Multi-Channel Precision Targeting

High-Converting Landing Page

• Dedicated lead-capture domain, separate from the main site, built for paid traffic conversion.
• Seven-field multi-step form filtering out non-commercial enquiries.
• CTAs anchored to commercial buyers: self-storage, construction, agriculture, and mining.
• 12% conversion rate, 3–6x the typical B2B benchmark.

High-Converting Landing Page

• Dedicated lead-capture domain, separate from the main site, built for paid traffic conversion.
• Seven-field multi-step form filtering out non-commercial enquiries.
• CTAs anchored to commercial buyers: self-storage, construction, agriculture, and mining.
• 12% conversion rate, 3–6x the typical B2B benchmark.

Google Ads

• Commercial search terms: container conversion, enclosure, and product-specific queries.
• State-segmented campaigns across NSW, VIC, QLD, and SA/WA.
• Negative keywords filtering DIY, hobbyist, and unrelated searches.
• Weekly budget shifts balancing lead supply against distributor capacity.

Google Ads

• Commercial search terms: container conversion, enclosure, and product-specific queries.
• State-segmented campaigns across NSW, VIC, QLD, and SA/WA.
• Negative keywords filtering DIY, hobbyist, and unrelated searches.
• Weekly budget shifts balancing lead supply against distributor capacity.

Meta

  • Segmented architecture running direct response and brand trust campaigns across all four distributor regions.

  • Video creative held Meta CTR above 2%, against the 0.8–1% baseline.

  • Industry-targeted audiences across self-storage, construction, agriculture, and mining.

  • A/B testing across headlines, imagery, and CTA copy.

Meta

  • Segmented architecture running direct response and brand trust campaigns across all four distributor regions.

  • Video creative held Meta CTR above 2%, against the 0.8–1% baseline.

  • Industry-targeted audiences across self-storage, construction, agriculture, and mining.

  • A/B testing across headlines, imagery, and CTA copy.

Data & Attribution

  • Separate live dashboards for each distributor region surfacing state-level leads.

  • Lead database segmented by industry vertical and budget band.

  • Daily tracking of spend, leads, CPL, and qualification rate by state.

  • Distributor lead quality feedback fed back into the ad account to retrain toward commercial intent.

Data & Attribution

  • Separate live dashboards for each distributor region surfacing state-level leads.

  • Lead database segmented by industry vertical and budget band.

  • Daily tracking of spend, leads, CPL, and qualification rate by state.

  • Distributor lead quality feedback fed back into the ad account to retrain toward commercial intent.

The

Outcome

The

Outcome

The

Outcome

From Zero to a National Lead Pipeline in 90 Days

Contained Australia went from no paid advertising history to a national lead engine generating 840+ commercially qualified leads in the first 90 days at $18 per lead, up to 85% below the $50-$120 industry benchmark for high-ticket B2B.

The high-converting landing page held a 12% conversion rate against a 2-5% generic LP benchmark, and Meta ads sustained CTRs above 2% against the 0.8-1% Meta baseline, both exceptional results for B2B.

The state-segmented architecture meant each distributor in NSW, VIC, QLD, and the SA/WA region received clean, qualified demand inside their territory, with no cross-bleed and no fighting over leads. 80%+ of those leads were sales qualified, naming a commercial use case above the minimum budget for a kit. The acquisition machine now runs as the company's primary lead engine, with weekly budget rebalancing across states based on distributor capacity and live demand.

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Time Frame

First 90 Days