- Angle
Run a measurement-first pilot to answer a question the company has never been able to see: what online demand exists for its services, and at what cost per qualified enquiry? The campaign should establish that baseline, not hit a revenue target in the first month.
- Handoff
A written qualified-lead definition the sales team recognises.
A creative test log showing which hooks and angles produced qualified enquiries, not just clicks.
A weekly budget reallocation record showing what was cut and what was scaled.
A cost-per-qualified-lead baseline the firm can compare against future quarters.
- Scenario
A commercial printing and packaging firm in Singapore, more than 20 years old, earns almost all its revenue from referrals and repeat orders and has never run paid campaigns. It wants to know whether online demand exists in its category before committing serious spend. The buyer is a procurement or operations manager, not an individual consumer.
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- Steps
Before any spend, agree what counts as a qualified lead. Here, that means an enquiry from a company that meets a volume or account threshold, not any form submission. Chan's loan marketplace case shows why this comes first: campaigns optimised for raw leads train the ad platform to find the wrong people.
Build the account for measurement before momentum. Define the audience, what counts as a lead and how budget flows through the funnel, so early spend reports on the market rather than chasing growth too soon. This is the sequence Chan describes for the printing case.
Shoot a lead-gen video rather than reusing existing brand footage. Test whether a procurement manager can understand the offer and decide to enquire within the first 15 seconds.
Run static ads in parallel across distinct angles, such as turnaround time, material or finish quality, and handling of short-run or specialist jobs. Use cost per qualified lead to see which angle works.
Put more budget behind demonstrated winners, and keep testing as you scale. The skincare case is the model: formats run side by side, purchase or enquiry data determines which earns more budget, and growth is held rather than spiked.
Feed qualified-lead outcomes back into Meta and Google, and review budget allocation weekly rather than monthly. This is what separates the loan marketplace rebuild from the earlier account. It requires the firm's sales team to record what happens after an enquiry.
Once a baseline is visible, test an adjacent market across the border, where the same print demand exists but the firm has never competed for it.
If the firm's messaging reads like every competitor's, fix positioning before buying more media. The tuition centre case is the reference: sameness raises cost per lead because buyers stop reading the words and start comparing prices.
- Title
Referral ceiling test: a 60-day paid-media foundation pilot
- What the brand must supply
A working definition of a qualified lead agreed by sales, not marketing alone.
Access to enquiry outcomes after the click, so conversion signals can be returned to the ad platforms.
Willingness to shoot founder or operator video rather than repurpose existing brand assets.
A 60-day pilot window, with the possibility that the first weeks produce market data rather than scale.
- What this angle does not establish
The reported results behind these steps—300+ leads at under $10 cost per lead, cost per qualified lead down 45%, and the skincare revenue multiple—come from Chan's own posts and are not independently verified. Ask for supporting evidence.
No printing or packaging client is shown publicly signing off these figures, and no post in the reviewed set dates the printing case. Ask for client sign-off and the case date.