REC № 0002 · Headland Mission Beach

Built To Be Found.

Headland, Mission Beach. Twelve titled coastal lots and an approval that will not come again. We built the brand and the website that sell the opportunity.

$14.26a lead · a $60–90 projection

The Brand Book

The Whole System,
In One Book.

Twelve lots. One development approval. Freshly titled and ready to sell, with no name and no identity to sell them under. We made the brand out of the two things that were already true. The place and the document council issued. Everything since has been built on it.

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01CoverBrand book · v6
Cover, the Headland brand book v6 Tap to enlarge
01The Problem

No Conversion.

An early paid run to a warm audience saw four hundred leads, without a real enquiry. The offer needed a trustworthy brand, and reach for the unaware buyer who could afford to build.

Before · marketed as Lugger Bay Estate

The Lugger Bay Estate information memorandum cover, agent-branded
Information memorandum
The for-sale board, standard agency layout
The sale board
The lot plan, blue boundary outlines over an aerial
The lot plan
An empty cleared homesite, saturated stock photography
A homesite
The feature icons, generic listing graphics
The feature list
02The Strategy

Lifestyle and Freedom.

Paid social, to reach the buyer further afield, not in the Colliers portal. The insight: this buyer's fear is operational, not philosophical. The dread is spending two years and seven figures only to find the approval will not allow the home they wanted. De-risking is the gateway, and lifestyle the reward.

Who

  • Australians 45 to 65, Brisbane and Melbourne
  • Designing the next chapter
  • Well capitalised, patient, wary of marketing

Not who

  • Yield investors
  • Deal seekers
  • Off-plan buyers
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03The Website

As a Document.

We hand-built a custom site that reads like the front matter of a book. Five sections and twelve lot pages, under a Volume, Section and Plate scaffolding. The site plan is interactive, traced from the real survey, each lot colouring open, under contract or sold from a live status file. A three-tier funnel, every lead straight to the agents. The top of funnel, the Information Memorandum that lands in the inbox within minutes.

Visit the live site →One document, presented as a website
04The Renders

Closing The Imagination Gap.

83% of buyers' agents say staging on empty lots, leads to improved sales, as buyers can picture it as their own (NAR, 2025).
We built a render pipeline in-house. One architectural register across the lots, graded to sit beside the real drone photography.

Lot 18, vacant land to finished build, before and after
Lot 18 · static
Lot 21 · swipe
Lot 22 · video
05The Message Test

Two Messages. Two Jobs.

Flight 1 ran Approval against Freedom on near-identical spend, so the read is clean. The leads landed close. What separated them was what people did next.

ApprovalFreedom
Spend$1,358$1,465
Leads102105
Cost per lead$13.31$13.95
Comments215
Shares2833
Saves4232

The carousel that walks through the approval is where the questions land. The Freedom reel is the one people send on and keep. Freedom is the more efficient unit. Approval is the one people question, and a buyer whose fear is operational asks before they enquire. Both jobs matter, so both stay in the flight.

Meta Ads Manager · campaign to date, live · read 2 August 2026. Spend held level across both messages.

06The Feed

A Presence, Built From Zero.

The page started empty. We built it into the home for the campaign and posted the work while the paid engine ran. Seventy-five thousand views landed inside twenty-eight days, on Facebook and Instagram, almost none of them followers yet. Then came the proof only strangers can give. They visited the profile, clicked through to the site, and shared the work themselves. Fifteen shares carried one reel across Far North Queensland on its own.

123Profile visits, people checking the page
~1KClicks through to the live site
99.3%Reached who don't yet follow the page
15Shares that carried one reel across FNQ

Source: Meta Business Suite, 28-day window to 24 July 2026.

headland.missionbeach · the feed
The Twelve
Approval
Freedom
Enquire
07The Reporting

Every Number, On The Record.

One link, shared with the owner and both agents. A live campaign record refreshed every Friday. Spend, leads, cost per lead, the read on every ad, next to the plan and the sector benchmark. No slideware. No month-end surprise. They read on Friday and act on Monday, off the same numbers we run.

headland · the campaign recordLive
YKC AgencyFlight 01 · Approval vs Freedom
Performance campaign to date · read 2 August 2026
Spend$2,965at $100 a day
Leads208goal 100 to 150
Cost / lead$14.26forecast $60 to 90
Impressions127,010across both messages
The message test approval against freedom
Approval
Leads102
Cost / lead$13.31
Comments21
Shares28
Saves42
Freedom
Leads105
Cost / lead$13.95
Comments5
Shares33
Saves32

Read against the plan, not the sector. Governing metric is cost per intent lead. Figures move with late attribution.

Live from Meta · Flight 1 · this panel reads the campaign, it is not a screenshot