Case Study

Strategic Seasonal Marketing Grows Direct Online Revenue 45% Through Peak Season for Land of Natura

Coming out of its second full year in business, the Land of Natura team had ambitions to continue growing revenue and guest count into year three. However, in the face of decreasing overall demand for day trips and vacations to the Wisconsin Dells, a comprehensive growth marketing strategy was necessary to fight against local market trends.

45%

increase in direct online revenue

24%

increase in website conversion rate

55%

increase in digital ad spend while Growing overall ROAS 31%

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Moved onto page 1 of Google for the very competitive term “Wisconsin Dells Water Parks”

How We Did It

  1. Pricing & offer strategy
  2. Seasonal advertising campaigns
  3. Ongoing web conversion rate optimizations
  4. Group/B2B marketing strategy & execution
  5. Content & SEO strategy
  6. Growth marketing strategy & consulting

Approach

With the help of the savvy Land of Natura team, we built and executed a strategic marketing plan for Land of Natura. We combined a content and SEO strategy focused on capturing search intent that mattered, an out-of-home marketing blitz including multiple local billboards, a seasonal offer and pricing strategy built to maximize revenue before, during, and after their short 2-month peak season, an ongoing effort to improve website conversion rate through seasonal and demographic optimizations, and a group/B2B marketing engine to help get their group sales off the ground.

“Working with Blend feels like an extension of our team. They get our market and our industry, and their strategic approach has been invaluable as we continue to grow.”
—Adam, CEO of Land of Natura

Online revenue & conversion rate results: Land of Natura’s session channel mix this year vs last year is very similar, so this year-over-year comparison includes all traffic. When excluding display, paid social, and cross-network traffic, (a common method for getting a more consistent view of conversion rates YoY) the results look even better (+61% online revenue growth, +49% conversion rate growth).

Advertising results: The ROAS number we’re primarily considering is a blended ROAS, which looks at last-click revenue from ad-sourced traffic. When you look at Google Ads and Meta Ads platform ROAS numbers, we also saw a decrease in ROAS of 5% on Google, and an increase in ROAS of 12% on Meta. It’s important to note that our approach to Google and Meta advertising here is full funnel—most of our incremental spend this year went towards increasing demand and was focused on mid to top of funnel users.

SEO results: This result is during the June, July, and August months 2025 vs 2024.