The Profound Agency
Agriculture & Food Production

Producers, processors and the people they need to hire

Agriculture and food production businesses market to two very different audiences — the trade or consumer buying the product, and the workforce they cannot fill locally. Both are reachable, and the recruitment side is usually the more urgent.

How do food and agriculture businesses fill hard-to-hire roles?

By advertising the job the way you would advertise the product — to people who are not looking on job boards. A family-owned food producer ran a recruitment campaign at a 1.37% click-through rate, roughly 19× the national average.

What we run for agriculture & food production clients

Campaigns in this sector

Clients are described by sector rather than named. Every figure is from the campaign it sits under.

Food production

A family-owned food producer ran recruitment at 19× the benchmark

A family-owned food and agriculture business could not fill roles through job boards.

What we ran

  • Recruitment advertising against local candidate segments rather than job seekers alone
Impressions
181,818
Clicks
2,490
Click-through rate
1.37% — roughly 19× the national average

Sustainable food and agriculture

A food marketing body reached nearly 10× the national average

A sustainable food and agriculture organisation needed awareness for its producers.

What we ran

  • Social Mirror ads extending existing content across the web
Impressions
Nearly 250,000
Clicks
1,700+
Click-through rate
0.72% — nearly 10× the national average

Questions we get asked

How do food and agriculture businesses fill hard-to-hire roles?
By advertising the job the way you would advertise the product — to people who are not looking on job boards. A family-owned food producer ran a recruitment campaign at a 1.37% click-through rate, roughly 19× the national average.
How many clicks should I expect?
The national average click-through rate for digital display advertising is about 0.07%, so 100,000 impressions should produce at least 70 clicks through to your website. On 300,000 impressions that is roughly 210 visits. Campaigns we run frequently beat that average by several multiples, but the benchmark is what any plan should be built on rather than the best case.
How many of those clicks turn into leads or sales?
That depends on your own website conversion rate, not on the ads. Take the share of visitors who currently do what you want them to do and apply it to the expected clicks: at 300,000 impressions and a 5% site conversion rate, roughly 210 clicks would produce about 10 conversions. If you do not know your current conversion rate, that is the first thing worth measuring, because it sets the ceiling on everything paid media can deliver.
Can you track whether someone who saw an ad came to my location?
Yes, on the channels that serve to mobile devices. If someone sees the ad and then visits your location with their phone within fourteen days, that visit can be attributed and reported. It is shown on your monthly report as verified and estimated visits.
What counts as a conversion, and do you measure view-throughs?
A click conversion is someone who clicked the ad and then completed the action you are tracking. A view-through is someone who saw the ad, did not click, and arrived at your site and converted later. Both are reported separately, because counting only clicks understates what awareness channels like video, audio and Connected TV actually do.

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