SMB STARTUPS

Demand and attribution

Marketing spends money and you cannot trace a dollar of it to a customer. That is not a reporting problem. It is an architecture problem, and it is fixable.

Paid media, organic search, CRM and measurement built as one system instead of four vendors pointing at each other.

  • Part of one engagement, not a separate vendor
  • Staff behind it, so throughput is not capped by my calendar
  • From $12,000 a month, or a fixed-scope build
  • Most engagements start with a diagnostic

What is actually included

Campaigns run against the API

Structure and creative testing automated against the advertising platform directly rather than clicked through a dashboard. It is the only way to test at a rate that produces answers.

Server-side measurement

So the platform's number and your books agree. When they disagree by half, every decision downstream of that number is being made on the wrong figure.

A warehouse you own

Your first-party data, in your own store, queryable by you. Not rented inside somebody's analytics product where the export is a support ticket.

Profit reported next to return

Return on ad spend is what the platform reports. Profit on ad spend is what you actually run on. They belong side by side.

What it looked like last time

In one of my own companies the ad platform's reported revenue and the actual books were a long way apart. Budget, hiring and the growth case were all built on the wrong number. Rebuilding the measurement was worth more than any campaign I could have run, and it is the first thing I look at now.

Figures, references and case detail are available under NDA. Nothing on this site carries a client's numbers.

Start with a diagnostic.

Two to four weeks, fixed price, scope agreed in writing. You get the plan and one working thing.

I take limited engagements.