Paid Growth · Vancouver
Know the math
before you spend.
Google Ads, paid social and remarketing built around customer value, conversion and acquisition cost. Not clicks for the sake of clicks.

The problem
More traffic is not alwaysmore business.
Paid campaigns fail when media, landing pages and sales economics are treated as separate problems.
Click
Landing page
Lead
Sales conversation
Customer
Every step has a conversion rate.Every step changes what a lead can cost.
A campaign judged only on clicks can look successful while the business underneath it loses money on every customer. The economics have to be understood end to end, before the budget moves.
Acquisition model
What can you affordto pay for a customer?
Average revenue or gross value from a new customer.
Of the leads you receive, the share that become customers.
The most you are willing to pay to win one customer.
Of the visitors who land, the share that become leads. Optional.
The model
- Customer value
- $5,000
- Max acquisition cost
- $75015% of customer value
- Close rate
- 25%
- Max cost per lead
- $187.504 leads per customer
- Visits per lead
- 12.5at 8% landing conversion
- Max cost per click
- $15
Traffic Lead Customer Revenue
Example planning model. Actual performance depends on market demand, competition, conversion rate, margins, sales process and campaign execution. Nothing you enter here is stored or sent anywhere.
The system
Advertising is onlythe first step.
Demand
Understand the available market and customer intent.
Campaign
Match message and targeting to that intent.
Landing page
Give the customer one clear reason to act.
Conversion
Measure calls, forms, bookings and qualified leads.
Follow-up
Make sure the lead actually receives a response.
Sale
Connect marketing activity with real customers.
Attribution
Know what produced the business.
Different channelsdo different jobs.
01 / High-intent demand
Capture demand already in the market.
Google Ads
Search works best when customers already know what they need. The job is to capture that intent efficiently and send it to an experience capable of converting it.
- Search campaigns
- Remarketing
- Performance Max where appropriate
- Negative-keyword strategy
- Conversion tracking
- Landing-page alignment
- Budget control
02 / Demand creation
Reach customers before they search.
Paid Social
Paid social can create and shape demand rather than simply compete for an existing search. Meta and Instagram carry most of this work; TikTok joins where the audience genuinely lives there.
- Audience strategy
- Creative direction
- Message testing
- Retargeting
- Lookalikes
- Landing experiences
03 / Re-engagement
Stay visible after the first visit.
Remarketing
Most visitors do not act on the first visit. Compliant, consent-based audiences keep the business present through the decision without following anyone around the internet.
- Site audiences
- Abandoned enquiry
- Content engagement
- Product and service interest
- Coordinated follow-up
After the click
Ads cannot fixa weak destination.
Paying for traffic before fixing the landing experience is often just paying to expose the problem faster.
- Message match
- Page speed
- Mobile clarity
- Offer structure
- Call and form design
- Trust
- Conversion tracking
This is why we also build the destinations. When the landing experience is part of the same engagement, message, page and measurement are designed together.

Attribution
Know what createdthe customer.
- Google Search
- Meta
- Referral
- Organic
Lead
CRM / Sales
Customer
Revenue
Platform reporting is not enough.
An ad platform can tell you what it believes happened after a click. The business needs to know which campaigns produced real enquiries, qualified opportunities and customers.
- GA4 and analytics
- Conversion events
- Call and form tracking
- CRM handoff
- Offline conversion import where supported
- Unified reporting
Attribution is an evidence system, not certainty. We build the strongest evidence the stack allows and say plainly where the picture is incomplete.
The message
The media cannot rescuean offer nobody wants.
The campaign can only amplify what already exists. If the offer, positioning or landing experience is weak, scaling spend usually scales the weakness.
What we work on before scaling
- Offer clarity
- Audience problem
- Creative and message
- Differentiation
- Evidence
- Call to action
The math
We show the math.
Allowable acquisition cost
Customer valuethe share of it you can spend= what a customer may cost.
From there, a lead’s worth is that number multiplied by the close rate, and a click’s worth follows from the landing page. Every budget conversation starts from these three lines.
- Customer value
- What a new customer is actually worth to the business.
- Close rate
- How many leads it takes to produce one of them.
- Target CPA
- The most a customer can cost before the math breaks.
- Target CPL
- What that makes a single lead worth paying for.
- Search demand
- Whether enough people are looking to sustain the plan.
- Campaign mix
- Which channels carry which part of the job.
Proof it works
Verified client result
InstantCash4Cars
−50%
Marketing spend
Business volume maintained.
In the client’s own words: marketing spend cut by approximately 50% without losing business volume, after the campaigns, tracking and reporting were rebuilt around cost per customer. Efficiency can matter more than spending more.
How we work
Understand the economics.Then build the campaign.
01
Audit
- Current campaigns
- Tracking
- Landing pages
- Offer
- Sales process
- Account ownership
02
Model
- Customer value
- Target CPA and CPL
- Budget
- Channel role
- Conversion assumptions
03
Build
- Campaign architecture
- Audiences
- Ads
- Landing hooks
- Tracking
- Attribution
04
Optimize
- Spend
- Leads
- Qualified opportunities
- Acquisition cost
- Revenue where available
Investment
Know the scopebefore the spend.
Single-channel launch
$3,500 – $5,500
Fixed project
One platform: account audit, up to two campaigns built and launched, conversion tracking and landing hooks, a 60-day post-launch optimization window and weekly transparent reporting.
Multi-channel build
$6,500 – $10,000
Fixed project
Two or three channels launched together with unified cross-channel attribution, audience modelling, creative direction and the same 60-day optimization window across all of them.
Ongoing optimization
$1,500 – $3,500 / month
Month-to-month
Optional month-to-month optimization after launch: weekly campaign work, monthly performance review with the founder, new creative and landing tests. Cancel any month with 14 days notice.
All prices CAD, agreed in writing before work starts. No percentage of ad spend: you own the ad accounts and pay Google, Meta and TikTok directly, so the media budget never passes through us.
Where this works, and where it does not.
A good fit
- Established business with a measurable customer value.
- Existing demand, or a clear market opportunity worth testing.
- Willing to improve landing pages and tracking, not just buy media.
- Wants to own the ad accounts and the data.
- Values transparent economics over vanity metrics.
- Has a working sales and follow-up process, or will build one.
Probably not us
- Expects guaranteed ROAS or guaranteed lead volume.
- Wants to start spending before tracking exists.
- Wants cheap traffic rather than customers.
- Cannot define what a customer is worth.
- Expects media to fix an uncompetitive offer.
- Wants the agency to own the accounts and the data.
Paid captures today.Organic compounds over time.
Paid growth
- Fast market entry
- Controlled targeting
- Immediate demand capture
- Stops when spend stops
SEO & search visibility
- Compounding visibility
- Organic, local and AI presence
- Longer build time
- Creates durable search equity
Many businesses eventually use both, but each should have a clear job. Explore SEO & Search Visibility.
Questions before the spend.
How much should I spend on Google Ads?
Work backwards, not forwards. Customer value and close rate set what a lead can cost; the market sets how many leads are available; multiplying the two gives a budget the business can defend. Platforms also need enough conversion volume to learn, so there is a practical floor below which a campaign cannot be evaluated fairly. The model on this page is the starting conversation.
How do you determine target CPA?
From your numbers, not an industry benchmark. Target CPA is the share of customer value the business can afford to spend acquiring one customer, and target CPL follows from the close rate. If those inputs are unknown, defining them is the first piece of work, because no campaign can be judged without them.
Google Ads or SEO?
Different jobs. Paid captures demand today and stops when the spend stops; organic search compounds slowly and keeps working. Many businesses eventually run both, but each needs its own clear role and its own measurement. SEO and search visibility is a separate MOST service with its own page.
Do you charge a percentage of ad spend?
No. Percentage-of-spend aligns the agency's incentives against yours: it rewards spending more, not converting more. We charge a flat fee for a defined scope, and you keep 100% of the ad budget, paid by you directly to the platforms.
Do I own my ad accounts?
Yes, always. Ad accounts, analytics, conversion data and audiences are created under your ownership, and you pay Google, Meta or TikTok directly. If we stopped working together tomorrow, everything keeps running in your hands.
Do you manage Meta ads?
Yes. Meta and Instagram carry most demand-creation and retargeting work: audience strategy, creative direction, message testing and landing experiences, reported alongside search in one view.
Do you manage TikTok?
Where it genuinely fits. TikTok works when the audience and the creative format suit the business; it is offered as part of a multi-channel build where that is true, and we will say so plainly when it is not.
Do you build landing pages?
Yes, and it is often the highest-leverage part of the engagement. MOST builds websites and custom platforms, so the landing experience, message match, forms, calls and tracking can be designed together with the campaign rather than bolted on after it.
How do you track leads and sales?
Analytics and conversion events configured before launch, call and form tracking, and handoff into the CRM where the business uses one, with offline conversion import where the platform supports it. The aim is one report connecting spend to enquiries, opportunities and customers. Attribution is an evidence system, not certainty, and we say where the picture is incomplete.
How long before campaigns generate useful data?
Early signal arrives within weeks; decisions worth acting on need enough conversions to be meaningful, which can take one to three months depending on budget and volume. We set that expectation from the model at the start rather than promising a date.
Can you guarantee ROAS?
No, and no honest agency can. Performance depends on market, offer, competition, budget, landing page, sales process, tracking, seasonality, creative and execution. What we commit to is the method: modelled economics before spend, transparent reporting against them, and stopping things that do not work.
What happens after the initial build?
The campaigns are yours either way. Most clients continue into optional month-to-month optimization: weekly campaign work, a monthly review with the founder, and new creative and landing tests, cancellable any month with 14 days notice.
If your question is not here, ask it directly.
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Know what the campaignneeds to produce before it starts.
Vancouver, BC · Serving Metro Vancouver
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