ActionCOACH Case Study | 630+ Coaches, 20,000+ Leads | Optimise Your Marketing
Case Study — Business Coaching & Franchise

9 years. 630+ coaches. 20,000+ leads across four countries.

Client: ActionCOACH
Sector: Business Coaching & Franchise
Duration: 9 years
Delivered by: Optimise Your Marketing
9yrs
Longest-running OYM client partnership
630+
Coaches supported across the network
20,000+
Leads generated across four countries
4
Countries — UK, USA, Canada, South Africa
The challenge

Supporting a global franchise network at scale — consistently, locally, and internationally.

ActionCOACH is the world's number one business coaching franchise with hundreds of independent coaches operating across the UK and internationally. OYM has been ActionCOACH's marketing partner for over nine years — one of the longest-running and most wide-ranging partnerships in OYM's history.

The challenge was twofold: support the network at scale across the whole UK, while also working with individual coaches at a local level. Each coach needed their own visibility, their own lead pipeline, and their own online presence — without contradicting the global brand above them.

Managing reputation across hundreds of independent operators, keeping search presence consistent, and building commercial pipelines that actually converted required an ongoing, multi-layered approach spanning SEO, social media, review platforms, and paid campaigns.

What OYM did

Reputation management

Monitoring and managing ActionCOACH's appearance across search, review platforms, and social media — ensuring a clean, credible presence at every touchpoint.

Local SEO for individual coaches

Each coach needed visibility in their own area. OYM built and managed local SEO strategies for coaches across the UK, ensuring they appeared for the searches that mattered most.

Lead generation campaigns

OYM built and ran lead generation campaigns bringing enquiries across the entire UK network and beyond — including USA, Canada, and South Africa.

Content and social media

Consistent content strategy and social media management to keep ActionCOACH front of mind for business owners actively looking for coaching support.

Commercial pipeline

End-to-end pipeline management — from first contact through to conversion — ensuring leads were followed up and nurtured properly across the network.

The results

Numbers that speak for themselves

9yrs
Ongoing partnership — OYM's longest
20,000+
Leads generated across four countries
630+
Coaches supported across the network
4
Countries covered — UK, USA, Canada, South Africa
Why it worked

Nine years. One partner. A network that kept growing.

Franchise marketing is uniquely complex. You need to serve the brand at the top and the individual at the bottom — simultaneously, consistently, and at scale. OYM understood that from the start and built a model that could do both.

The longevity of this partnership is the proof point. ActionCOACH have worked with OYM for nine years because the work generates real commercial outcomes — leads that convert into paying clients for coaches across four countries.

Two-level marketing

Serving the global brand and individual coaches simultaneously — without one undermining the other — required a strategy built for franchise complexity from day one.

Local and national simultaneously

Every coach needed local visibility. The brand needed national credibility. OYM built systems that delivered both without doubling the effort.

Lead quality over lead volume

20,000+ leads across four countries over nine years reflects a focus on generating enquiries from business owners actively looking for coaching — not just traffic.

The longest relationship tells the story

Nine years is the real result. Agencies don't keep clients for nine years by accident — they keep them by consistently delivering.

What this means for you

Is this your situation?

If you run a franchise, a network of independent operators, or a business that needs to generate leads consistently across multiple locations or territories, OYM has done it before — at scale, over time, and across international markets.

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Relevant BIG12 pillars

Pillars used for ActionCOACH

This partnership spanned Lead Generation, Local SEO, Social Media, Google, Algorithms, and Test & Measure across nine years.