Structured creative testing
A standing test programme with enough volume to reach significance, and retirement rules for fatigued assets.
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Our performance marketing services combine paid media, PPC management and conversion rate optimisation into one programme judged on ROAS, CPA and profit. As a performance marketing agency, we move budget to what earns and cut what does not.
Get a free audit →We manage paid channels against a single blended efficiency target rather than optimising each platform to its own reported ROAS. That reframing is what stops budget drifting toward whichever network claims credit most aggressively.
Underneath it sits the unglamorous work: correct conversion tracking, structured creative testing, audience expansion sequenced so CAC does not spike, and periodic holdout tests to establish what spend is genuinely incremental.
The uncomfortable test: add up the conversions every platform reports and compare it to orders in your own system. If the first number is meaningfully larger, you are allocating budget on figures that cannot all be true.
Every engagement covers all five. Structured creative testing sits at the centre — the rest make sure the data is right, the targets are blended and your spend is proven to be incremental.
A standing test programme with enough volume to reach significance, and retirement rules for fatigued assets.
One CAC or ROAS figure across all paid, so channels are compared on the same basis rather than on self-reported numbers.
Properly implemented measurement that survives browser restrictions, because bad data produces confidently wrong decisions.
Expansion planned so CAC rises predictably rather than spiking when the efficient segments are exhausted.
Geo and audience holdouts on branded search and retargeting, to establish what your spend actually caused.
Six workstreams, measurement first — because optimising against broken tracking makes performance worse with total confidence.
Server-side conversion tracking, deduplication and a blended reporting layer. Nothing else matters if the numbers being optimised against are wrong.
Structure, targeting overlap, wasted spend and creative fatigue across every channel. Most accounts have meaningful budget going to segments that never convert.
One CAC or ROAS goal across all paid, with channel roles defined — prospecting, capture, retention — so each is judged on the job it is doing.
Standing tests with defined win conditions and retirement rules, because creative is the largest lever in paid social and the fastest to decay.
Sequenced so efficiency degrades predictably as you scale rather than collapsing when the cheapest segments run out.
Geo and audience holdouts run periodically, particularly on branded search and retargeting where reported returns are usually most inflated.
ⓘ Tracking is fixed before budget increases — each phase starts only when the one before it is working.
We lead with blended CAC and ROAS. Platform figures appear as diagnostics, clearly labelled as self-reported rather than presented as truth.
Server-side measurement before optimisation. Tuning an account against broken conversion data produces confident, expensive mistakes.
We run holdouts even when the result is awkward. Discovering that retargeting was over-credited is worth more than a flattering report.
Structured testing with real win conditions, because with bidding automated, creative is where the remaining performance difference lives.
If a channel is not incremental we recommend cutting it, even though that reduces the budget we manage. Managing spend that does not work is not a service.
Paid and SEO planned together so you are not buying clicks for terms you already rank first for, which is one of the most common avoidable wastes.
Same budget, very different outcomes. Point by point, here’s how a specialist partner compares to a typical agency or doing it in-house.
| What actually matters | RecommendedSachkhandPaid media specialists | Typical agencyGeneralist team | In-house / DIYStretched team |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senior paid media specialist on your account | Always | Often a junior | Stretched thin |
| Server-side conversion tracking | ✓ | Pixel only | Often broken |
| One blended CAC / ROAS target | ✓ | Per-platform ROAS | Unknown |
| Account & wasted-spend audit | ✓ | Surface-level | Rarely |
| Creative tested to significance | Monthly | Ad-hoc | Rarely |
| Incrementality & holdout tests | ✓ | Never | Never |
| Audience expansion planned | ✓ | Broad & hope | Guesswork |
| Landing pages & CRO included | ✓ | Extra cost | Rarely |
| Budget moved to what earns it | ✓ | Fixed splits | Habit |
| Reported against your own revenue | Monthly | Platform numbers | Platform numbers |
| Coordinated with SEO & email | ✓ | Separate teams | Ad-hoc |
| No long lock-in contracts | Monthly | 6–12 mo lock-in | N/A |
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We reconcile platform-reported performance against actual revenue and report the gap rather than hiding it.
Total paid spend divided by total new customers — the figure that cannot be inflated by attribution windows.
All paid spend against actual revenue from your own system, not the sum of what each platform claims.
Holdout-tested contribution, so you know what spend genuinely caused rather than what it was near.
How each asset decays with frequency, driving retirement decisions before efficiency collapses.
What the next customer costs as audiences expand — the number that tells you where scaling stops being efficient.
Fix measurement, cut waste, then scale — scaling before the first two multiplies the problem.
Server-side tracking, deduplication and blended reporting built before any optimisation. You get an honest baseline, which is frequently lower than the platforms were claiming.
Trustworthy numbersOverlapping audiences, fatigued creative, non-converting placements and branded-search overspend removed. This usually funds the rest of the programme by itself.
Same results, lower spendA standing programme with defined win conditions, run at volumes that reach significance, with retirement rules for decaying assets.
A compounding creative libraryAudience expansion sequenced against marginal CAC, with periodic holdout tests to confirm incrementality as spend grows.
Efficient, verified scaleDirect answers on attribution, scaling and what paid can realistically deliver.
Further reading
The thinking behind the work. These guides go deeper on the methods this page describes — written by the team that runs them.
Performance MarketingA digital marketing ROI framework for 2026: server-side tracking, MER, incrementality testing, marketing mix modelling, LTV:CAC and payback period.
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Google AdsThe complete Google Ads guide for 2026: campaign types, Performance Max, bidding, keywords, Quality Score, conversion tracking, costs and scaling.
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