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§ 02 — PPC & Paid Acquisition

A year-long
paid programme,
engineered

A twelve-month paid-acquisition programme run like an engineering team. Google, Meta, LinkedIn, TikTok — instrumented end-to-end on offline conversions, not vanity metrics. The goal isn't to spend more; it's to know exactly what every dollar is doing.

The engagement
12 months
Programme · monthly + performance

Minimum commitment. Reviewed quarterly.

Booking Q4 2026
What's included

The work.

№01
Account architecture

Campaign hierarchy that scales past $100k/mo

№02
Creative testing systems

Frameworks for shipping 20+ ads/week

№03
Server-side conversion APIs

Recover signal lost to iOS / cookies

№04
MMM-lite attribution

Geo-holdouts and incrementality measurement

The process

How it's built.

Same rhythm every engagement — clear phases, weekly demos, written deliverables. Nothing is "in review" forever.

01
Audit (Month 1)

Account-level teardown across every channel. Find the waste, the wins, and the gaps. Restructure the account hierarchy for scale.

02
Instrument (Month 1—2)

Server-side conversions on every channel. Identity resolution. The plumbing that recovers much of the signal lost to iOS and cookie deprecation.

03
Scale (Month 2—12)

Weekly creative shipping, ongoing budget reallocation, and constant testing. Two-week rolling sprints with clear hypotheses.

04
Compound

Quarterly incrementality reviews. Annual planning. The programme gets smarter every month — that's the point of doing it for a year.

Deliverables

What you
walk away with.

Google-first
Specialist focus: Google Ads + tracking
  • ▸ 01
    Full account audit + restructure across all platforms
  • ▸ 02
    Server-side conversion APIs on every channel (Google, Meta, LinkedIn, TikTok)
  • ▸ 03
    Creative testing system shipping 20+ ads / week
  • ▸ 04
    Weekly performance reviews + monthly written reports
  • ▸ 05
    Quarterly incrementality tests (geo-holdouts)
  • ▸ 06
    MMM-lite attribution model in your warehouse
  • ▸ 07
    Annual budget plan + media-mix recommendation
Tools

Tool-agnostic where possible. Opinionated where it matters.

Google Ads
Meta Ads
LinkedIn Ads
TikTok Ads
Apple SA
GTM Server
Segment
BigQuery
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Common questions

Before you ask.

What's the minimum monthly spend?+

I'm most useful from $30k/mo upward — below that, the operator overhead doesn't make sense. If you're smaller, I can point you to better-suited specialists.

Do you work with our existing agency?+

Sometimes. Often the cleanest version is replacing them. But if you have a creative shop or platform-specialist you love, I orchestrate around them.

What happens after twelve months?+

Most clients renew. A few graduate to running it in-house with my fractional support. The handover docs make either path workable.

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The operational software a growing company needs but never has time to build — invoicing, admin, ops dashboards.

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Ready to ship?

Tell me about
the work.

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