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Customer Acquisition Strategy

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

How we work

1

Segments and demand scenarios

Who buys, when and why.

2

Acquisition economics

How much you can pay for a customer given your margin and cash reserve.

3

Channels to test

Which hypotheses we test, in what order and with what stopping criteria.

4

The path to a deal and analytics

Where each step is recorded and how the budget is optimized.

Sound familiar?

  • Channels are launched without a shared logic.
  • Acquisition cost is rising, and nobody understands why.
  • Marketing is judged by reach.

What usually lies behind it

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.

What you get

  • 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

If nothing changes

  1. 01

    The budget will be allocated out of habit.

  2. 02

    Inquiries will stay impossible to compare by quality.

  3. 03

    The team won't know what exactly to improve.

When you don't need this service

  • The offer doesn't differ from competitors'. Positioning comes first.
  • Demand rests on one channel that works, and the only task is to scale it. Then working in that specific ad account is faster.

How to tell it worked

Cost of a customer

including marketing and sales salaries, by channel.

Payback period

how many months until the cost of a customer is recovered.

Resilience

the share of revenue from the main channel.

Questions

How many channels do we need?

As many as you can test with clear criteria. Usually you start with two or three.

When should a channel be switched off?

When it fails a criterion named in advance, on cost per customer or payback period, within the agreed time.

What if demand relies on referrals?

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.

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Services: Marketing as a System · Marketing Audit · Google Ads Materials: Unit economics for owners: seven numbers · Marketing stopped working: five real reasons

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