Segments and demand scenarios
Who buys, when and why.
Demand you can test. Segments, messages, channels and the path to a deal, built around the cost of a customer and its payback period.
Sound familiar?Channels are launched without a shared logic, Acquisition cost is rising, and nobody understands why, Marketing is judged by reach
Marketing and Advertising
Who buys, when and why.
How much you can pay for a customer given your margin and cash reserve.
Which hypotheses we test, in what order and with what stopping criteria.
Where each step is recorded and how the budget is optimized.
The cost of attention is rising in almost every market, and that isn't your fault. The real question is whether your margin can bear the new price of a customer. If the model hasn't been recalculated, "marketing stopped working" really means the economics stopped adding up.
A map of segments and demand scenarios.
The maximum affordable cost of a customer by segment.
A channel test plan with criteria.
An analytics setup from inquiry to money.
The cost of waiting
The budget will be allocated out of habit.
Inquiries will stay impossible to compare by quality.
The team won't know what exactly to improve.
including marketing and sales salaries, by channel.
how many months until the cost of a customer is recovered.
the share of revenue from the main channel.
As many as you can test with clear criteria. Usually you start with two or three.
When it fails a criterion named in advance, on cost per customer or payback period, within the agreed time.
That's a strong sign of the product and also a ceiling: this channel scales poorly with money. You need a second channel you can manage.
Services: Marketing as a System · Marketing Audit · Google Ads Materials: Unit economics for owners: seven numbers · Marketing stopped working: five real reasons
Unit economics for owners: seven numbers
You don't need a forty-tab financial model to tell whether a business is making money or imitating growth. You need seven numbers and honesty when you fill them in.