Long Distance Moving: 73 Leads at $35 CPL

Niche: interstate & long-distance moving
Market: USA
Channel: Facebook / Meta Lead Ads
Launched: February 2024
Ad spend: ~$2,700
Average job value: ~$5,000

My role: I led the strategy and ran this campaign with my team - competitor research, offer development, creatives, lead forms and daily budget control.
The client set a target customer acquisition cost of $500.
We brought it down to $300-$400 at an average cost per lead of about $35.

Where Things Stood at the Start

LongDistance Moving is a professional moving company handling interstate and long-distance relocations across the U.S. They came to us for one thing: a steady flow of quality moving requests at a cost that actually made sense for the business.
Expensive leads
Acquisition costs in the moving niche were high, and the client needed the cost per customer to stay under $500.
A crowded market
Dozens of movers were running nearly identical ads, so nothing stood out to the customer.
No strong offer
There was no clear reason to pick this company over the one advertising right next to it.
No predictable lead flow
No steady, measurable source of interstate moving requests to plan the business around.

What We Did

Ran deep competitor research and built an offer that actually stood apart
Wrote urgency- and value-driven messaging that created demand
Launched targeted Meta campaigns aimed at people actively planning an interstate move
Built custom and lookalike audiences for maximum lead relevance
Used native Facebook lead forms plus landing pages with strong CTAs and trust elements
A/B tested creatives and copy and tuned budgets daily to push the cost per lead down

The Results

Timeline: launched February 2024
  • Total ad spend: ~$2,700
  • 73 qualified moving leads
  • Average cost per lead: ~$35
  • Average job value: ~$5,000
  • Customer acquisition cost: $300-$400
  • Target CAC was $500 - we beat it
Meta Ads Manager screenshot: 73 Facebook leads at $36.59 cost per lead for a long-distance moving company
Meta Ads Manager: 73 Facebook leads from 5 ads, average cost per lead $36.59, total spend $2,670.84

The Key Insight

The U.S. moving market is one of the most commoditized lead-gen niches out there.

Every mover advertises the same three things: licensed and insured, free quote, best price. To the customer they all look identical.


So we did not start with targeting. We started with the offer.

Deep competitor research showed us exactly what every other mover was saying in their ads, which let us build a message nobody else was running: real urgency, a concrete reason to pick this company, and value tied to the move itself instead of a vague discount.


The second lever was the form.

Native Facebook lead forms removed the landing page friction, and qualifying questions filtered out tire-kickers instead of chasing raw volume. Fewer leads, better leads, about $35 each.


The third lever was daily management.

We A/B tested creatives and copy and moved budget to the winning ad sets every single day.


That combination:

  • brought 73 qualified interstate moving requests on ~$2,700 of spend
  • held the cost per lead at ~$35 in an expensive niche
  • pulled customer acquisition cost down to $300-$400 against a $500 target
  • gave the client a predictable, measurable source of jobs

The big takeaway:

in a commodity market, cheap leads do not come from cheap clicks - they come from a sharper offer and tight daily control of the budget you are already spending.

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