01Paid social & search · attribution

Paid Ad Funnel Optimization

Rebuilt a multi-channel paid funnel and its attribution model — cutting ad spend 60% while growing revenue 42% and lifting blended ROAS to 4×.

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Overview

From fragmented spend to a clean growth engine.

The challenge

The business was spending aggressively across Meta and Google, but fragmented ad accounts and broken UTM tracking meant no one could say which channels actually produced customers. Spend was climbing faster than revenue, and budget decisions were guesswork.

The approach

I consolidated the accounts into a single, UTM-clean attribution model, then pruned the bottom-quartile audiences and reallocated budget strictly by ROAS — scaling retargeting and lookalikes while cutting wasted top-of-funnel spend. Reporting moved from vanity metrics to cost-per-customer and contribution.

What moved the numbers
  • Consolidated fragmented ad accounts into one clean attribution model
  • Rebuilt the UTM taxonomy → trustworthy source / medium reporting
  • Cut bottom-quartile audiences; reallocated budget strictly by ROAS
  • Scaled retargeting + lookalikes; killed wasted top-of-funnel spend
The rebuild, in charts

What changed, measured.

Spend, efficiency and conversion across the program. Figures are sanitized and indexed — trajectories are illustrative; the endpoints are the exact, verified outcomes.

Spend down, revenue up

Both indexed to 100 at program start

Index
Ad spendRevenue

Blended ROAS reached 4×

Return on ad spend over the program

ROAS

Cost per customer

Indexed CAC, declining

CAC

Contact → lead → customer

≈ 51K paid-social contacts tracked

Funnel
Paid-social contacts51,000· 100% of contacts
26.0% step conversion
Qualified leads13,260· 26.0% of contacts
26.9% step conversion
Customers3,570· 7.0% of contacts

≈ 7% contact-to-customer at peak — efficient spend compounds down the funnel.

UTM attribution

Share of tracked contacts by source / medium

Attribution
facebook / paid_social46%
google / cpc27%
instagram / paid_social14%
google / retargeting9%
other / referral4%

Net result: ad spend down 60%, revenue up 42%, blended ROAS at , and $500K+ in attributed revenue impact across ≈ 51K tracked paid-social contacts.

Lucidity

RevOps, growth & financial modeling. Selected, sanitized work by Josh Rowles.

Contact

Available for select fractional & project engagements.

josh@lucidityai.io

All figures are from real engagements. Client identity and category are withheld; metrics are presented in sanitized, indexed, or rounded form. The subject is described only as a bootstrapped, subscription-based service business.

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