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Client:
Wright Dietitian
Sector:
Sports Dietetics
Range:
Perth → National

Wright Dietitian Went From Waiting On Referrals To Booking Clients Nationwide For Under $60 A Lead

How We Helped A Perth Sports Dietitian Reach Australia-Wide Everyday Athletes At $110 Cost Per Client Acquired

$57.21
Cost per lead
$73.38
Cost per intro call
$110.45
Cost per proposal
4
Clients converted
First 5 weeks after launch
Meta Ads account data
Growth Engine deployed
Wright Dietitian
Perth → National
$57.21
Cost per lead
01
The brief

What they came in with, and what changed.

Goals
/ 01
  • Reach everyday athletes across Australia
  • Stop relying on referrals and clinic leads
  • Build a consistent, predictable client pipeline
Problems
/ 02
  • Stuck waiting on referrals to come in
  • Limited reach despite being able to serve nationally
  • No system to attract and convert ideal clients
Results
/ 03
  • 4 clients converted within just 5 weeks
  • Cost per lead came in at $57.21
  • Full national reach unlocked from Perth base
02
The full story

How the engine was built.

The problem, the build, and what it produced. Three parts, one system.

XDS-GE.v1// Growth Engine

Great everywhere, findable nowhere

Samantha Wright runs a Perth-based sports dietitian practice built for a specific kind of client: the everyday athlete, a full-time professional who trains hard Monday to Friday and races HYROX, marathons or endurance events on the weekend. She could service that client anywhere in Australia. The problem was never her service, it was reach. Her pipeline depended almost entirely on referrals and leads passed through her clinic network, which worked, until it stopped being enough. Referrals are unpredictable, slow, and geographically limited, and there was no system actively finding the exact person she was built to help outside her own postcode.

Built for the person who races on Saturday and works Monday

Xcelerate built and launched the full Growth Engine targeting everyday athletes nationwide, with Meta campaigns engineered to attract serious competitors, not casual browsers. Landing pages spoke directly to that performance-focused professional, someone who takes weekend racing as seriously as their weekday career, and automated follow-up nurtured every enquiry from first click through to a booked intro call, so nothing slipped through while Samantha was seeing clients.

A pipeline that didn't exist five weeks ago

Within 5 weeks of launch, the system was generating leads at $57.21 each, moving qualified athletes to a booked intro call at $73.38, and through to proposal stage at $110.45. Four clients converted in that first five weeks alone, a pipeline that simply hadn't existed before, now producing traceable results week after week.

Wright Dietitian's numbers are one Perth practice's numbers, in one niche. What transfers is the targeting: speaking to the exact person who needs you, not everyone who might, and following up before that person moves on to whoever answered first.

Endurance athlete running before dawn, lit by a single orange rim light
The target: the everyday athlete

Growth Engine // System mapXDS-GE.v1

InputTargeted trafficMeta or Google, built to attract buyers, not browsers
ConvertLanding pageWritten for one exact person, filtering before it converts
NurtureAutomated follow-upEvery enquiry answered in minutes, not days
OutputBooked jobsTraced back to the click that produced them
03
The splits ·
First 5 weeks after launch

Every stage, measured.

Split 01 // Stage 1
Cost per lead

Serious athletes raising their hand, found nationwide by Meta campaigns.

$57.21
Split 02 // Stage 2
Cost per intro call

Automated follow-up moved every enquiry to the calendar while Samantha saw clients.

$73.38
Split 03 // Stage 3
Cost per proposal

Qualified, briefed, and ready to commit. This is the $110 client acquisition line.

$110.45
Finish line // Result
Clients converted

A pipeline that didn't exist five weeks earlier, producing traceable results week after week.

4
04
The transformation

Drag the line. See the difference.

BeforeAfter · XDS
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05
Receipts

Traceable results, on the record.

Cost per lead
$57.21
Cost per intro call
$73.38
Cost per proposal
$110.45
Clients converted
4
Reach
Perth → National
Figures are live results from the client's
Meta Ads account data
over the
First 5 weeks after launch

The Xcelerate team really know their stuff and have exceeded all my expectations! In a very short time, I’ve seen results I couldn't have imagined without their expertise and support. I would strongly recommend them to anyone looking for real progress!

Samantha Wright
Sports Dietitian