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What do you do with $1M in unused budget... in Q4?

In late 2023, a B2B SaaS company came to me with this exact challenge.

They hadn’t run ads in over two years.
They needed 15,000 new users before December ended.
It was already October.

And we all know... B2B acquisition slows down in the last two weeks of December.

So realistically... we had just 6 weeks.

Here was the acquisition goal:
• 5,500 PRO trial users @ $150 CPA
• 60% trial-to-paid conversion
• All-in on Meta, Google, and YouTube

Here’s what happened:

We ended the campaign with:
✅ 15,095 PRO users (274% of goal)
✅ 9,057 paying users (275% of goal)
✅ $78 CPA for PRO, $131 per paying customer

Platform breakdown:
Meta → 6,540 PRO @ $85 | 3,924 Paying @ $141
Google → 5,487 PRO @ $69 | 3,292 Paying @ $119
YouTube → 3,068 PRO @ $76 | 1,841 Paying @ $127

All in just 6 weeks.

What worked:
→ Prioritized high-LTV, English-speaking regions
→ Used credit card–connected trials as the core conversion signal
→ Balanced performance with awareness + influencer targeting — without diluting CAC

And the real takeaway from this is that ANYONE can spend $1M. But doing it with discipline, efficiency, and zero margin for error is a different game entirely.

Growth doesn’t come from hacks. It comes from clean systems that scale without breaking.

If you’re a founder or CMO preparing for Q4... is your system ready to scale under pressure?

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Hi, I’m Joan.

Follow me for practical breakdowns, ad clean-up strategies, and real results.

Yesterday I reviewed an ad account spending $6K AUD/month.

3 search campaigns split by state.
1 Performance Max.
8–10 ad groups per campaign.
20+ keywords stuffed into each one.

The budget was spread thin.
And the structure was very outdated and all over the place.

I pulled every converting search term since January,
then consolidated the whole thing with just one ad group per state.... clean and focused.

Three days later, the client messaged:

“We had 11 calls in one day, on a Saturday! That hasn’t happened in months!”

More campaigns or more budget doesn't always mean growth will happen.

It comes from clarity.
From removing the clutter, so every dollar helps the algorithm find your best customers.

That’s the kind of cleanup I do.

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Hi, I’m Joan.
I run paid media for SaaS teams who need real results, not more ad noise.
Plug-and-play performance marketing that cuts CAC, drives revenue, and frees up your team to scale.

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