Marketing that finds traction before it scales spend
Early on, the job is not growth. It is finding the one or two channels that work at all, proving it cheaply, and not burning the runway on the other eight.
What you get
- A message that holds up outside the building
- Evidence about which channels are worth funding
- A site you can change without a release cycle
- Less time spent on manual follow-up
Most early-stage marketing fails by doing a bit of everything. A blog nobody reads, ads on three platforms, a rebrand, and no clear read on which of them produced the last ten customers.
We would rather test a small number of things properly. Pick the channels that match how your buyers actually look for this, run them long enough to mean something, and stop the ones that do not work before they get expensive.
What this includes
Positioning that a stranger understands
What you do, who it is for and why it is different, in language that does not need a founder in the room.
A website that can be changed weekly
Fast to load, easy to edit, built so testing a new message does not need a developer and two weeks.
Small, honest channel tests
A defined budget, a defined question, and a decision at the end. Including the decision to stop.
Automation instead of headcount
The follow-up, reporting and admin a small team cannot afford to do by hand, handled by workflows.
Questions we get asked
Sometimes not yet, and we will tell you. If the honest answer is "spend it on the product for another quarter", that is what you will hear.
It depends on how long your sales cycle is and how much traffic the test gets. We agree what "working" means and how long it takes to know, before spending anything.
Yes, though the work is different: positioning, the site and an audience to launch to, rather than campaigns.
Other industries we work in
SaaS
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