Client case study · Catering
How Sri Lakshmi Caterers booked ₹88+ lakh in orders from digital marketing
14 months. ₹6.3 lakh total investment. 1,000+ tracked enquiries. 292 confirmed orders. The complete, month-by-month story, with the real ledger.
₹88.3L
Bookings revenue
14.1×
Blended ROI
1,000+
Leads tracked
33.6×
Best month ROI
June 2025 – July 2026 · Website, Google Ads, SEO and lead tracking
The client
Sri Lakshmi Caterers, Bangalore
A vegetarian wedding and reception caterer in Bangalore. A family business with 25 years of experience and over 4,000 weddings served.
But reputation alone doesn't fill next season's calendar. Growth depended almost entirely on word of mouth and repeat clients, enquiries came in unpredictably, nothing was tracked, and younger customers who search Google first were finding competitors instead.
- 25
- Years in business
- 4,000+
- Weddings served
- Veg
- Specialist caterer
The approach
What we actually did, step by step, from June 2025.
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Fast, conversion-focused website
A mobile-first site built around one goal: turning visitors into enquiries. Clear menus, gallery, service pages for weddings and corporate events, and enquiry forms plus WhatsApp on every page.
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2
Google Ads on high-intent searches
Campaigns targeting people actively searching for wedding and event caterers in Bangalore, on a modest ₹19k–29k/month budget. No display fluff, no broad audiences; every click tracked to an enquiry.
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3
Every enquiry logged
A shared tracker records every lead: source (ads, organic, WhatsApp, calls), status, follow-up notes and final order value. 1,000+ leads logged; this is where the ROI numbers on this page come from.
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4
Organic SEO that compounds
On-page SEO, content and local optimisation for searches like “catering services Bangalore”. Organic now brings a steady stream of free leads alongside the paid campaigns: 179K search impressions and climbing.
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5
Scale what works, cut what doesn't
A monthly review of the ledger: which campaigns produced confirmed orders, not just clicks, which localities convert best, and where budget should move next. That is how year-two ROI rose from 11.4× to 16.2×.
The results
The real month-by-month ledger
Every figure below comes from the client's live lead tracker: spend, confirmed booking revenue and ROI for all 14 months.
2025 · June–December
11.4× ROISpend ₹2.69L Revenue ₹30.54L Client profit ₹27.86L
| Month | Spend | Revenue | ROI |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2025 | ₹28,080 | ₹2,72,400 | 9.7× |
| Jul 2025 | ₹26,040 | ₹4,79,475 | 18.4× |
| Aug 2025 | ₹45,600 | ₹3,59,950 | 7.9× |
| Sep 2025 | ₹40,800 | ₹3,16,000 | 7.7× |
| Oct 2025 | ₹45,600 | ₹7,79,800 | 17.1× |
| Nov 2025 | ₹45,600 | ₹5,85,800 | 12.8× |
| Dec 2025 | ₹37,200 | ₹2,61,000 | 7.0× |
2026 · January–July
16.2× ROISpend ₹3.58L Revenue ₹57.79L Client profit ₹54.21L
| Month | Spend | Revenue | ROI |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 2026 | ₹36,000 | ₹12,09,000 | 33.6× |
| Feb 2026 | ₹45,600 | ₹7,21,000 | 15.8× |
| Mar 2026 | ₹45,600 | ₹10,86,600 | 23.8× |
| Apr 2026 | ₹82,800 | ₹6,85,000 | 8.3× |
| May 2026 | ₹49,200 | ₹8,77,300 | 17.8× |
| Jun 2026 | ₹49,200 | ₹6,78,500 | 13.8× |
| Jul 2026 | ₹49,200 | ₹5,21,650 | 10.6× |
Spend includes management fee and ad budget. Revenue = confirmed catering orders logged in the lead tracker. ROI = revenue ÷ total spend.
The lead funnel
Fourteen months, every lead logged.
Every lead is logged with its source, follow-up status and order value; that discipline is why these numbers can be published.
1,000+
Enquiries received
90+
Average leads a month
292
Confirmed orders
₹30K+
Average order value
Straight from the dashboards
Figures from the Google Ads, Search Console and Analytics accounts we manage for Sri Lakshmi Caterers. Screenshots of each panel are being added.
Google Ads
- Clicks
- 5.47K
- Impressions
- 44.2K
- Searches
- High-intent only
Search Console
- Organic clicks
- 3.54K
- Impressions
- 179K
- Average position
- 9.9
Google Analytics
- Enquiries
- 1,000+
- Leads a month
- 90+
- Source-tagged
- 100%
Why it worked
Three lessons any caterer can take from this
01
You don't need a huge ad budget; you need the right searches.
These results came from ₹19k–29k a month in ad spend. The win wasn't spending more; it was showing up exactly when someone in Bangalore searched for a wedding caterer, and sending them to a page built to convert.
02
If you don't track leads, you can't grow them.
The lead tracker turned marketing from a cost into an investment with a visible return. Knowing that October converts better than December, or that WhatsApp leads close faster than email, is what let us reallocate budget intelligently.
03
Year two beats year one, because SEO compounds.
ROI grew from 11.4× to 16.2× in the second year with almost the same spend. As organic rankings matured, more leads arrived free, and every free lead pushes the blended ROI higher.
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