The offer
Whether it differs from competitors' in words.
Check the system before increasing the budget. We find where marketing loses money: in the offer, the channels, the analytics or after the inquiry.
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Whether it differs from competitors' in words.
Whether the margin can bear the current cost of a customer.
Exactly where momentum is lost after the inquiry.
What decisions are based on, and only then the ad settings.
Advertising is rarely the cause; more often it's an amplifier. The audit checks the link between the promise, the channel, the customer and the sale, rather than the amount of activity. The order of checks matters: from the cheapest to check to the most expensive to fix.
A map of losses along the whole chain from offer to deal.
A list of fixes in order of priority.
A set of metrics worth basing decisions on.
The cost of waiting
The budget will grow without proven return.
The team will keep arguing about metrics.
Weak positioning will be replicated.
whether you know at which step the most money is lost.
whether they're based on the cost of a customer.
how many items on the list were done within a month.
Yes. Without access to the data, all you get is an opinion.
Usually one to three weeks, depending on the number of channels and the quality of the data.
We'll check the system. If the problem is the agency, we'll say so. More often it lies upstream of the ad account.
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