This piece of work is part of our two core engines. We don’t sell it as a standalone, one-off service. Every project with Asymmetric starts with the 1-Day Pathfinder Sprint, where we size up your competitors and match this work to your real numbers.
Paid Media
You’re paying for traffic and trusting the platforms to tell you whether it worked, and they’re grading their own homework. The numbers that justify more spend aren’t the numbers that tie to revenue, so budget quietly leaks into clicks that never become customers. We run Google Ads, Meta, Amazon PPC, and LinkedIn as one program with tracking you own, so every dollar earns its place against real closed revenue, not a platform pixel.
Precision beats volume.
Most of your paid budget is set up for reach, and reach is what costs you. A smaller, sharper company can’t win by buying the biggest audience; spread evenly across every keyword and placement, the spend thins out and the cost per lead drifts up while the platforms report a return on ad spend that flatters their own pixel. That’s how the budget flatlines instead of growing. What you actually want is fewer wasted clicks and a lower, defensible cost per lead, spend concentrated on the exact accounts and ready-to-buy searches you’re built to serve, where you can own the searches the big spenders ignore. We run all four channels as one coordinated program, pick them by where your buyers actually decide rather than what’s fashionable, and build the tracking (server-side, with duplicates stripped out) that takes scoring out of the platforms’ hands, so every campaign teaches the next one what actually worked.
The platforms grade their own homework. Left alone, they report the numbers that justify more spend: last-click conversions, inflated view-through, a return on ad spend measured against their own pixel. We build the tracking and measurement that takes scoring out of their hands: server-side tracking, duplicates stripped out, and a clean line from ad click to qualified lead to closed revenue. That tracking is what turns spend into something that builds, because every campaign teaches the next one what actually worked.
Concentration beats spread. Rather than thin a budget evenly across every keyword, audience, and placement, we put it on the highest-intent terms and the accounts most likely to buy, and pull it off the rest. A smaller shop can own the narrow set of searches that matter to it long before it could afford to compete on the broad ones. We’d rather own the searches with buying intent than rent visibility across a market we can’t win outright.
Creative is where you get the most out of a dollar, so we test it like it. Structured, ongoing testing across offers, hooks, and formats, one clean experiment at a time, with enough volume behind each to trust the result. Winners scale, losers get cut, and the account gets sharper every month instead of drifting. The work builds on itself: better data means better targeting, better targeting means better creative, and the cost to reach the right buyer keeps falling.
Build the tracking, then spend on what works.
Audit
We start with your tracking before your spend, because broken measurement is the more expensive problem. We follow the path from ad click to qualified lead to closed revenue and find where it’s cut: last-click conversions standing in for real tracking, view-through inflating numbers nobody can act on, budget bleeding into keywords and placements that never turn into work. You walk us through your accounts, your CRM, and what you currently believe is working. What you get is a clear read on where the money actually goes versus where the platforms say it goes, the gap that’s been quietly holding down your return. Everything we build next is aimed at closing it.
Strategy
We decide where budget gets concentrated before a dollar runs. That means picking the channel mix by where your buyers actually decide (Google, Meta, Amazon, LinkedIn) not by what’s fashionable, and finding the ready-to-buy searches and accounts you’re uniquely built to serve, where you can own the searches the big spenders ignore. Just as important, we set up the tracking first: server-side, duplicates stripped out, and the line back to revenue, spelled out up front so the program can learn from day one. You’ll see the plan: channels, audiences, the concentrated bets, and how each will be judged. It’s the difference between spending evenly across a market you can’t win and concentrating on the slice you can.
Launch
We build the campaigns on top of the tracking, not the other way around. The server-side tracking and duplicate-stripping go in first, so every click is counted cleanly the moment spend starts; then we build the campaigns around the ready-to-buy terms and accounts from strategy, and produce the first creative (offers, hooks, and formats built to be tested, not admired). You’re asked for brand assets, offer details, and sign-off on the concentrated approach. What goes live is a program standing on a footing that can actually learn, instead of one chasing a platform’s flattering pixel. That footing is what turns the first month of spend into what the next month builds on.
Optimization
This is where the work pays off, and it never stops. We run structured, ongoing creative testing (one clean experiment at a time, with enough volume behind each to trust the result) scaling winners and cutting losers so the account sharpens every month instead of drifting. Spend gets moved toward whatever earns its place against closed revenue, and pulled from whatever doesn’t. You get reporting tied to real results, plus a clear answer to where the next dollar should go. The building is the point: better data means better targeting, better targeting means better creative, and your cost per lead falls because the system is working, not because of a bid advantage you’re renting.
What this earns you.
A cost per lead low enough to change the math on growth. For Exterior Renovations that meant leads around $61, a siding campaign near $42, held at roughly 80% search-impression share. Your number depends on your market; the discipline that drove theirs is what we bring.
Return on ad spend measured against real closed revenue, not a platform’s self-flattering pixel. The same concentration that took Doudlah Farms’ Amazon spend to a 3.42× average return, because budget went where it converted instead of spreading where it didn’t.
Spend that builds instead of flatlining. Every campaign feeds the next, so targeting sharpens and waste falls while the same budget does more work each month.
A clear answer to where the next dollar goes. You fund the channel that earns it on evidence you own, not the one that shouts loudest in a dashboard.
Where this has paid off.
Selected work
High-intent lead campaigns
Exterior Renovations
Leads at roughly $61 (and a siding campaign near $42) held at about 80% search-impression share, the lowest cost per lead we drove all year.
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Amazon PPC at scale
Doudlah Farms
Amazon PPC scaled daily sales from around $700 to roughly $3,000 at a 3.42× average return on ad spend, spend concentrated where it converted.
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Local-services Google Ads
Advanced Health & Safety
Google Ads tuned hard for cost per lead in a seasonal local-services market, where the right search at the right moment is worth more than reach.
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Paid media retainers typically $3,000–$8,000 per month, plus ad budget managed separately. Retainer scope varies with how many platforms and how complex the campaigns are.
Frequently asked questions
What does a paid media project cost?
Paid media retainers typically run $3,000–$8,000 per month, plus ad budget managed separately. Retainer scope varies with how many platforms and how complex the campaigns are.
Which channels do you run?
Google Ads, Meta, Amazon PPC, and LinkedIn, run as one coordinated program, picked by where your buyers actually decide rather than what’s fashionable.
How is your attribution different from the platforms’?
The platforms grade their own homework. We build server-side tracking with duplicates stripped out that takes scoring out of their hands, so every dollar is judged against real closed revenue (a clean line from ad click to qualified lead to closed deal) not a platform pixel.
Every engagement starts with a 1-Day Pathfinder Sprint.
One day, $950 (credited to your first month if you go on to a plan). We go through your real numbers and hand you a ready-to-run 90-day system. Prefer to talk it through first? Book a call with Mark.
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This piece of work is part of our two core engines. We don’t sell it as a standalone, one-off service. Every project with Asymmetric starts with the 1-Day Pathfinder Sprint, where we size up your competitors and match this work to your real numbers.