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Lola's had the brand. We built everything else.

Lola's had been making people happy with cupcakes for the best part of two decades: a loyal following, and a product genuinely worth talking about. Online, though, they had only the foundations, and not much more. We built the growth engine on top.

🔍 google.com/search?q=birthday cupcakes london
#1 in Google's AI Overview
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Where they are now
11,000+
page-one Google rankings
700%
return on ad spend
£100K+
a year from email
#1
in Google's AI Overview
The challenge

A great product, only the foundations online.

Lola's had the product and the loyal following. Online, they had the basics and not much more: little visibility on Google, no rankings for the big terms, and no real SEO behind the pages.

No email automation, no digital PR, no conversion testing. So the searches Lola's could have owned were quietly going to competitors instead.

A Lola's Cupcakes store
How we did it

We built the growth engine, channel by channel.

SEO · 01

An organic channel that compounds

We mapped the full search opportunity across gifting, occasions and delivery, then built the technical foundation and content to own it. City-by-city landing pages extended Lola's reach right across the country.

  • 11,000+ page-one Google rankings at peak
  • City landing pages that took Lola's national
  • Ranking for birthday, wedding and corporate gifting
A Lola's cupcakes kiosk
Google Ads · 02

Every pound of ad spend, paying for itself

Gifting buyers and everyday buyers behave differently, so we built separate campaigns for each, with bidding and landing pages matched to intent. Every increase in spend was earning its keep before we scaled it further.

  • 700% return on every £1 of ad spend
  • Multiple millions in revenue driven from ad spend
  • Hundreds of thousands in profit, at a very strong margin
A Lola's celebration cake
Email · 03

One-time buyers, turned into repeat ones

The best-performing emails weren't newsletters, they were triggered by what customers actually did. Someone who bought a birthday cake last year is almost certainly buying another this year, so we built a whole range of automated flows that reach the right customer at the right moment.

  • £100K+ a year from automated email
  • A full suite of flows: birthday, post-purchase, win-back and more
  • Repeat orders from customers who'd otherwise have drifted away
A box of Lola's cupcakes
Digital PR · 04

We got Lola's in front of the whole country.

Every national feature did two jobs at once: a high-authority link that lifts everything in search, and Lola's landing in front of people at the exact moment they're hunting for a gift.

What it did
High-authority links that lift the whole site in search
What it did
Lola's in front of buyers at the exact gift-hunting moment
What it did
Enough authority to reach Google's AI Overview
Featured in
Time OutEvening StandardThe IndependentNational gifting guides
#1in Google's AI Overview for gifting and cake search terms, the position above every organic result.
Where it landed

From a great product to a proper growth engine.

Lola's came to us with a brand people loved and the bare foundations online. They now have:

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