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Performance marketing agency

Ad spend judged on what it brings back.

Google, Meta and YouTube on one budget, moved every week to what brings customers at the lowest CAC, read from your own numbers.

Budget follows marginal CAC, weekly.
The short answer

What performance marketing is

Performance marketing is paid advertising bought and judged on results (sales, leads, bookings) rather than reach. Google, Meta, YouTube and LinkedIn run on one budget, optimised to CAC, CPL and ROAS, with tracking that holds up against your own records. Search captures demand that already exists; Meta and YouTube create more of it.

We run it as one plan across Google Ads and Meta ads (Facebook & Instagram), with one budget and one set of numbers. See all services for the rest of the stack.

The four numbers performance marketing is judged on: what each answers and where we read it
What it answersRead from
CACWhat one new customer costs, all-inYour store or CRM
CPLWhat one qualified lead costsYour CRM, after sales qualifies it
ROASRevenue per unit of ad spendYour orders, not the ad platform
MERAll revenue divided by all marketing spendYour books and ad accounts
Where to start

Demand capture or demand creation?

Demand capture is advertising to people already searching for what you sell, mostly Google Search. Demand creation is reaching people who are not looking yet, on Meta, YouTube and LinkedIn. Capture is faster to profit; creation is what grows the pool of buyers. Most accounts need both, weighted by what each returns.

Demand capture compared with demand creation: where it runs, who sees it and what we judge it on
Demand captureDemand creation
Where it runsGoogle Search, Performance Max, MapsMeta, YouTube, LinkedIn
Who sees itPeople already searching for what you sellPeople who fit your buyer but are not looking yet
What decides itBids, relevance and landing pagesCreative: the hook, the format, the offer
What we judge it onCPL or CAC from your recordsAssisted CAC, tested with holdouts
How it works

How we decide where the money goes

By marginal CAC. Every week we compare what the next unit of spend returns on each channel, measured in your own records, and move budget there. Platforms flatter themselves: Google and Meta can both claim the same order, so we reconcile every claim against the single order record in your store or CRM.

Two platforms, one sale: the store holds the only order, so the store settles the count.
  1. Both platforms claim it

    A buyer sees a Meta ad, later searches on Google and buys. Each platform reports the sale as its own, so the dashboards add up to more sales than you made.

  2. We check your records

    Your store or CRM holds one order. We match every platform claim to it, so each sale is counted once and credited fairly.

  3. We price the next unit

    For each channel we ask what the next unit of spend returns on the real order count. That is marginal CAC, and it is what budget follows.

  4. Budget moves, weekly

    Money shifts toward the lowest marginal CAC every week. We keep a holdout slice running to check what each channel truly adds.

Why the dashboards disagree

Double counting

Google and Meta each take credit for the same order, so the totals add up to more sales than you made.

Attribution windows

Each platform counts views and clicks over its own window. The longer the window, the more sales it claims.

Tracking gaps

Ad blockers and consent banners hide real sales from the platforms, so they optimise on partial data.

Platform ROAS vs real ROAS

Why does platform ROAS look better than your bank?

Because each platform grades its own work. It counts sales after a view or click inside a long window, and it does not know the other platforms exist. Real ROAS is revenue from your own orders, counted once, divided by what you spent. It is almost always lower, and it is the only one your bank statement agrees with.

We report both, side by side, so you can see the gap and watch it close as tracking improves.

Platform ROAS compared with real ROAS: where each number comes from and what it misses
Platform ROASReal ROAS
Counted byThe ad platform, for its own adsYour store or CRM, for all sales
WindowLong click and view windowsSet by us, the same for every channel
Same sale on two platformsCounted twiceCounted once
Best used forDay-to-day delivery signalsDeciding where the budget goes
What we do

What a performance marketing agency does each week

Five jobs, in order. The audit sets the baseline, tracking makes it trustworthy, and the rest runs on a weekly loop.

Find the leaks first.

We audit your ad accounts and tracking before touching a campaign, then set a baseline CAC from your own records.

  • Account and tracking audit
  • Wasted spend found and stopped
  • A baseline CAC from your records
Tools

The performance marketing tools we work in

The ad platforms we run, where we track sales, and your own systems, which settle every argument. Every ad account stays in your name, and you can see all of it.

Where we run ads

One budget across all of them.

  • Google Ads
  • Meta
  • YouTube
  • LinkedIn
  • Instagram

Where we track

Server-side tracking, so sales are counted once.

  • Google Tag Manager
  • Google Analytics 4
  • Stape
  • Looker Studio

Where the truth lives

Your orders and leads settle every argument.

  • Shopify
  • WooCommerce
  • HubSpot
  • Zoho CRM
  • Salesforce
What to expect

What should a performance marketing agency show you?

Your own numbers, every week. A performance marketing agency should show spend and customers side by side, read from your store or CRM, with the changes it made and why. It should work inside accounts you own. If the only proof is the platform's dashboard, you are being asked to trust the seller.

The one number

What we report: CAC from your own records

Blended and per-channel CAC (or CPL for lead businesses) and ROAS, read from your store or CRM rather than platform dashboards. Every Monday you get the number, what moved it, and what we changed. The target is agreed in week two, so every report is judged against something you chose.

The number

Blended CAC

What one new customer costs across every channel.

Ad spendNew customers

Blended and per channel · every Monday

Read from

  • Your store or CRM. New customers and revenue, counted from your own orders and leads.
  • GA4 and server-side tracking. Which channel and which ad, once tracking is rebuilt.
  • The ad platforms. Spend and delivery. Their sales claims are checked, never trusted.
One line, one point per week. Each step is tagged with what we changed. CAC is read from your orders or leads; MER sits beside it as a check on the whole business.
  • Why not platform ROAS?

    Platforms count the same sale twice and grade their own work. Your orders don’t.

  • Why not clicks or CTR?

    A cheap click that never buys is a cost. We report customers.

  • Why not blended ROAS alone?

    It hides which channel is doing the work. We read CAC per channel and MER for the whole business, side by side.

What it costs

What does performance marketing cost?

It depends on which channels we run, how much you spend on ads, and how much creative we produce each month. The audit comes first: you see what it found, which channels it recommends and what the plan costs, then decide. Ad spend goes from your card straight to the platforms; it never passes through us.

First 90 days

Your first 90 days of performance marketing, week by week.

  1. Weeks 1–2Audit

    We audit the accounts and the tracking.

    Where spend leaks, what the platforms miss, and a baseline CAC from your own records.

    Audit0 of 4 checked
    • Account structure
    • Tracking and tags
    • Wasted spend
    • Baseline CAC
  2. Week 2Number

    We set the target CAC.

    A CAC or CPL target, set with you, that every plan and Monday report is judged against.

    The number0 of 3 agreed
    • CAC or CPL target
    • Monday reporting
    • Source: your records
  3. Weeks 3–6Rebuild

    We fix tracking and rebuild campaigns.

    Server-side tracking, offline conversions, then campaigns and landing pages built around them.

    Rebuild0 of 4 done
    • Server-side tracking
    • Offline conversions
    • Campaigns rebuilt
    • Landing pages
  4. Week 7Launch

    We launch the plan you approved.

    You see the ads, audiences and budgets before anything goes live.

    Launch0 of 3 approved
    • Ads and creative
    • Audiences
    • Budgets
  5. Weeks 8–12Test

    We test creative and move budget weekly.

    New creative every week, budget to the lowest marginal CAC, and a Monday report on the one number.

    Weekly loop0 of 4 each week
    • New creative tested
    • Budget reallocated
    • Winners scaled
    • Monday report
Who it’s for

For businesses that buy customers with ads.

Whoever buys customers with ads, and can show us their orders or leads.

  • Online stores Orders are the proof, so CAC and MER are easy to read. More orders
  • SaaS & tech Demos and trials, judged on pipeline rather than clicks. More demos booked
  • Schools & colleges Admission enquiries, counted from applications, not form fills. More admissions
  • Real estate Site visits booked, tied back to the ad that drove them. More site visits
  • Clinics & hospitals Bookings from search and Maps, at a cost you can see. More booked appointments

Not a fitIf you can’t share your orders or leads with us, we can’t judge spend by cost per customer, and that’s how we work. If you run only one channel, see Google Ads or Meta Ads.

FAQ

Questions about performance marketing

Spend and results

Start from your target CAC and how many customers you need. Divide one by the other and you have the spend that target implies. Then test: begin at a level where results are readable, and scale only the channels that hold their CAC as the budget grows. A number picked before measuring is a guess.

One that’s profitable after margin and repeat purchase. Break-even ROAS is 1 divided by your gross margin: at a 40% margin, break-even is 2.5. Anything above it earns; anything below loses unless customers come back. So a good ROAS is yours to calculate, not a number borrowed from another business.

Start with Google if people already search for what you sell, because search captures demand that exists. Start with Meta if you need to create demand, or sell something visual. Most businesses end up on both, weighted by what each returns. We start where your buyers are, then let marginal CAC set the split.

Two reasons: attribution windows and double counting. Meta credits a sale to an ad someone merely viewed or clicked days earlier, and Google can claim the same order. Add the platforms together and you get more sales than you made. We reconcile every claim against your actual orders, so you see the real count.

The platforms need a few weeks to learn, and results swing day to day. So we judge each change on the CAC trend over weeks, not on one good or bad day. Fixing tracking and cutting wasted spend often helps first; creative testing and budget moves then compound over the following months.

Working with us

Yes. Creative production and weekly testing are part of the service, because on Meta and YouTube the creative does most of the targeting now. We write the hooks, produce the formats, log what each angle did, and brief the next batch from the results, so the library gets sharper every week.

You do. We work inside your own Google Ads, Meta, GA4 and tag manager accounts, with the access you give us. The history, the audiences and the learnings stay with your business, and you can remove our access at any time. Leaving should be easy, so we have to keep earning the work.

Access to your ad accounts, GA4 and tag manager, plus read access to your orders or CRM, so we can build a baseline. Most useful is a view of past sales and margins. If tracking is broken or missing, that is the first job, because nothing else can be judged until each sale is counted once.

Yes. Many clients keep a marketer or founder close to the accounts, and we work alongside them: shared accounts, shared reports, and a weekly call where the people doing the work are in the room. We can take over a channel, run the testing loop, or just rebuild tracking and hand it back.

Because on Meta and YouTube the creative decides who sees your ad, and ads wear out. A steady stream of new hooks and formats finds winners faster, and a log of what each angle did tells us what to make next. Testing monthly means learning twelve times a year instead of fifty.

Choosing an agency

They do different jobs. Performance marketing buys customers now and stops when the budget stops; SEO takes months to build but keeps paying without per-click costs. Most businesses need both: ads for speed and testing, SEO for the base that lowers blended CAC over time. We plan them together, so each makes the other cheaper.

Yes. Our team is based in Chennai, and we run Google, Meta and YouTube budgets for businesses across India, the UAE, the US and Canada. You get the same Monday report on your own CAC whichever city you are in, and calls happen at hours that suit your time zone.

One your margin can carry. Work out gross profit per customer over the period they stay, then set CAC well below it so you also cover overheads and growth. A CAC that looks high can be fine for a business with repeat purchases and poor for one-time buyers. We set the target with you in week two.

MER, marketing efficiency ratio, is total revenue divided by total marketing spend, across every channel. It ignores attribution entirely, so platforms cannot inflate it. We read it beside per-channel CAC: channel numbers show where to move money, and MER confirms whether the whole business is getting more efficient.

Yes. LinkedIn suits B2B and SaaS buyers who are hard to reach elsewhere, though clicks cost more. We use it with a tight audience and judge it on pipeline from your CRM, not on leads alone. Often Google captures the intent and LinkedIn warms the accounts you most want to win.

Next step

Find what’s holding
the number back.

A 30-minute call. Bring your ad accounts and your order or lead numbers, and we’ll show you where the spend leaks.

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