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Alex Chan

Alex Chan is a Singapore-based marketer associated with Omni Digital. The posts focus on paid advertising and creative strategy, including testing ads, finding qualified leads, and helping businesses grow.

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At a glance

Most useful for paid advertising and creative strategy for Singapore B2B lead generation.

Best for

Singapore B2B services or manufacturing-adjacent firms with referrals and no paid campaign history.

Not for

Consumer lifestyle brands buying creator sponsorship inventory with fixed fees and audience guarantees.

Key takeaways

  • A cheap lead is not a good lead.
  • Ads are judged in seconds, and most brand video is built wrong.
  • The product is usually fine; the assumed reason to buy is the problem.

Check first: Confirm if Chan accepts creator-style brand partnerships and request rates, deliverables, and audience data.

Main ideas
A cheap lead is not a good lead · Ads are judged in seconds, and most brand video is built wrong · The product is usually fine; the assumed reason to buy is the problem
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5 things I learned from failing at 4 businesses before one finally worked
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What they are known for

Alex Chan is a Singapore-based marketer associated with Omni Digital.

  • Their LinkedIn posts are known for practical accounts of paid advertising: how to test creative, find the right buyers, and judge leads by whether they become customers.
  • The posts also connect that work to their path from private banking through several ventures to focusing on marketing.
  • Follow Chan for worked examples and a clear recurring lesson: learn what customers respond to before scaling spend.

Chan makes performance-marketing choices concrete by showing what changed and why.

  • In a post about a digital loan marketplace, for example, they contrast plentiful but poorly qualified leads with campaigns built around borrower concerns, tests across offers and audiences, and feedback on leads that became borrowers.
  • In another, a referral-led printing company’s first paid campaigns began with defining a qualified lead and setting up measurement before scaling.
  • Across these examples, the distinctive thread is challenging the initial assumption—about the audience, the message, or what counts as success—then testing an alternative.
  • Chan also shares exceptions to a simple growth-at-all-costs story: their posts describe learning through failed ventures and warn that cheap leads or more simultaneous projects can obscure the results that matter.
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Ideas and priorities

Alex Chan writes about paid advertising for Singapore service businesses, largely drawing on their agency work at Omni Digital.

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A single argument runs through most of the posts: expensive mistakes happen before any money is spent—in defining a good lead, understanding what the buyer wants and earning attention in an ad’s first few seconds.

  • They return to two habits: test small before scaling, and put budget only behind what has proved itself.
  • They also share an unusually candid career story of four failed businesses before settling on marketing.

A cheap lead is not a good lead

Chan argues that the number most agencies report, cost per lead, can look healthy while the business quietly loses money: leads that never qualify still cost the sales team hours.

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Their alternative is to define a qualified lead before launch, then send post-conversion information back into the ad platforms so the algorithms learn to find people who actually buy, not just click. They also reject monthly budget reviews as too slow; money should move weekly toward whatever is scaling profitably.

A Singapore digital loan marketplace was generating plenty of enquiries but too few borrowers.

  • Chan rebuilt the creative around the concerns borrowers actually raise — approval speed, paperwork, trust in the lender, and how a marketplace compares with going straight to a bank.
  • They fed qualified-lead signals back into Meta and Google instead of optimising for raw leads, and cut underperforming budget clusters weekly.
  • They report Meta cost per lead down 32–39% and cost per qualified lead down 45% over three months.

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Ads are judged in seconds, and most brand video is built wrong

Chan's creative rule: audiences decide almost immediately whether a message is for them, then spend the rest of the time justifying that decision — and the feed only speeds the process up.

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The practical consequence is that the opening seconds are the whole game; video made to look polished rather than convert wastes the spend behind it. They contrast most B2B brand video, which they say is not built to convert, with dedicated shoots where the value proposition lands clearly enough for a prospect to decide within the first 15 seconds, as well as podcast-style founder videos and self-filmed footage that read as real rather than commercial.

A tuition campaign had a strong offer and a workable budget but opened with lines like "quality education" and "experienced teachers."

  • Chan says they changed only the first three seconds of the ad, and cost per lead fell by about half, with more serious enquiries.
  • In a separate case, they describe a dedicated lead-gen shoot for a commercial printing company, built so a prospect could decide within 15 seconds.

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The product is usually fine; the assumed reason to buy is the problem

Chan's most repeated teaching point is that businesses fail because they are certain about why customers care, not because the product is weak.

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They recommend watching what buyers actually do — where orders come from, how a product gets used — before making more ads based on the original story. When the real reason turns out to be different, changing the story rather than the product unlocks growth.

Chan retells the P&G Febreze launch: the 1996 spray flopped because people who live with a smell stop noticing it.

  • In-home observation found a customer using it as a finishing touch after cleaning; the 1998 relaunch around that new reason to buy doubled sales within two months.
  • They apply the same move to a gourmet snack brand whose consumer-focused ads were not converting until order data showed companies buying in bulk as corporate gifts.
  • Repositioned around that buyer, the brand generated, they report, roughly $65,000 in revenue from about $1,200 in ad spend.

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Sameness, not price, is what makes a lead expensive

In crowded local categories, Chan argues, identical claims make buyers stop reading and start comparing prices, raising cost per lead without anyone changing the product or pricing.

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Their fix is to start with positioning: clearly explain what the method does differently and address the objections customers quietly carry into an enquiry call. Sharper messaging is then matched with founder-led content and, importantly, follow-up systems to close incoming enquiries.

A premium Math and Science tuition centre running since 2007 had genuinely strong teachers and results but advertised the same MOE-trained claims and smiling-kids photos as everyone else.

  • Chan says they stopped selling "a great tuition centre" and started explaining what their coaching method did differently.
  • They replaced generic ads with podcast-style founder videos and self-filmed centre footage, and built a CRM to track leads through the funnel.
  • Reported outcome: cost per lead down 52%, 170 leads at about $25 each, and a conversion rate 2.6 times the in-house setup, with teaching, syllabus and pricing untouched.

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Build a runway before you scale the spend

Chan treats testing as a career principle and an advertising one.

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Their sequence: prove the creative works on a small scale, refine it, then move budget behind the winners.

  • They define a paid-media foundation by audience, lead definition and budget flow before chasing momentum.
  • It is their direct answer to how a business with no advertising history should start.

Before leaving private banking, Chan says, they ran a small tuition centre on the side for two to three years, using the lower stakes to learn website building, Google Ads, SEO and Facebook ads.

  • That made leaving "a decision backed by proof" rather than a gamble.
  • They apply the same logic to a flooring company with no brand presence or paid-acquisition history: test conversion-driven video across Meta, Google and TikTok, refine creatives and landing pages, then scale — a process they report produced seven-figure revenue in the first ten months.

An earlier post tells the same period differently: Chan describes quitting private banking in 2017 for dropshipping as something they thought would bring freedom and that "nearly broke me." The runway framing and the near-break framing sit side by side in Chan's own account of the same years.

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Do one thing properly instead of five anxiously

Focus is Chan's most personal recurring priority.

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They describe spreading themself across several ventures at once and concluding that ambition on the outside can mean none of the businesses gets the version of them it needs.

  • Their stated turning point was not a new idea but committing to the single skill they kept returning to: marketing.
  • They make the same argument about advertising budgets, where concentrating spend behind tested winners beats spreading it across channels.

At one point, Chan was running four businesses simultaneously — dropshipping, a tuition centre, pest control and a braised pork rice franchise — and writes that they were spread so thin none of them got what they needed. They also describe nights spent wondering whether to return to banking for a stable paycheck before that focus led to Omni Digital, which they say has helped 50+ Singapore businesses generate over $85M in paid-ads revenue.

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The campaign does not end at the enquiry

Across the case studies, Chan treats lead handling as part of marketing, not a sales department problem.

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Campaigns are structured for measurement before momentum, and enquiries are tracked through qualification and follow-up so sales can close instead of chase. They pair media buying with the visibility and cadence that determine whether leads turn into revenue.

In the tuition case, leads were already arriving but were not being managed, so Chan's team fixed visibility, follow-up cadence and the qualification flow.

  • In the loan marketplace case, unqualified enquiries were costing the sales team hours of wasted follow-up while looking fine on the cost-per-lead dashboard.
  • For the printing company with no advertising history, campaigns were structured for measurement from the first spend rather than quick volume.

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There is no best agency, only a fit

Chan pushes back on the search for "the best agency in Singapore," comparing it to finding the best pair of shoes.

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Their argument: fit depends on where a business is.

  • The agency that suits a funded startup burning cash for growth is often wrong for a lean local business, and an e-commerce specialist may have no idea how to generate leads for a tuition centre or a renovation firm.
  • Buyers should instead ask who understands a business like theirs and can prove they have done it before.

The post directly reframes the query "best digital marketing agency in Singapore": rather than ranking agencies, Chan argues buyers should test for category proof. Omni Digital aims to be the right agency for the businesses it is built to serve, not the best for everyone, they say, citing 50+ Singapore businesses and over $85M in paid-ads revenue.

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Start with their work

5 things I learned from failing at 4 businesses before one finally worked

This is the clearest account of how Chan frames their history, the failures that preceded the agency, and the focus argument they now sell.

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Read it first to put the later case posts in context.

Chan describes running four businesses at once — dropshipping, a tuition centre, pest control, and a braised pork rice franchise — and the cost: “I was spread so thin that none of them got the version of me they needed.”

  • They turned to the skill that kept recurring, marketing, which became Omni Digital.
  • In this post, they say Omni has helped 50+ Singapore businesses generate over $85M in revenue through paid ads.

For brands planning a campaign

The “50+ businesses / $85M+” figure is a scale claim brands should verify with references and account-level detail before treating it as a benchmark. The focus argument is the pitch for concentrating budget on one tested channel rather than splitting it across several at once.

I didn't leap from banking to marketing — I tested it for 3 years first

It answers the newcomer’s obvious questions: how did Chan get into paid media, and how do they start with a business that has never run ads?

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The tuition-centre detail also explains the local Singapore service-business examples in later posts.

Chan says that before leaving private banking, they ran a small tuition centre on the side for two to three years, using it to learn website building, Google Ads, SEO, and Facebook ads in a low-pressure setting.

  • They apply the same logic to client work: a flooring company with no brand presence or paid-acquisition history tested conversion-driven video across Meta, Google and TikTok, refined creatives and landing pages, and only then scaled spend.
  • Chan reports 7-figure revenue in the first 10 months.

For brands planning a campaign

For a business with no historical ad data, the sequence is small-scale testing first, then budget behind winning creatives. That sequencing is worth copying; the headline revenue figure is stated in the post but not independently verified.

When a founder tells me they've grown the business entirely on referrals for 20 years

It is the clearest worked example of Chan's process for a long-established, offline, referral-led business.

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It also shows the questions they ask before making any creative.

This is the closest post to a referral-only business.

  • A commercial printing company had grown through relationships and repeat orders for two decades, never run a paid ad, and then saw growth slow.
  • Chan describes building a paid-media foundation from scratch: defining the target and what counted as a real lead, and structuring campaigns for measurement before momentum.
  • The work included a dedicated lead-gen video designed to help prospects decide within the first 15 seconds, statics across multiple messaging angles, and targeting expanded beyond Singapore.
  • The reported first-30-day outcome is 300+ qualified leads at a cost per lead below $10.

For brands planning a campaign

Use this as a template for a first paid test at a referral-led company: agree on what counts as a qualified lead, build measurement before spending, and shoot video designed to convert rather than reusing brand footage. The reported numbers show what Chan claims is achievable, not a forecast.

Most marketing agencies optimise for cheap leads. The smart ones optimise for qualified ones.

It defines what Chan means by a qualified lead and shows the difference between optimising for lead volume and revenue on the other side of the click.

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Anyone benchmarking lead-gen frameworks should check whether their tracking sends conversion data back to the ad platforms.

Chan describes a Singapore digital loan marketplace whose leads were plentiful but wrong: people clicked without qualifying, costing the sales team hours of follow-up while the cost-per-lead dashboard looked healthy.

  • The rebuild involved creative based on real borrower concerns — approval speed, paperwork anxiety, trust in the lender, and how a marketplace compares with going directly to a bank — plus structured A/B tests across offers, hooks and audiences.
  • The team fed qualified-lead signals back into Meta and Google instead of optimising for raw leads, and reviewed budgets weekly rather than monthly.
  • Reported results over three months: Meta cost per lead down 32–39%, cost per qualified lead down 45%, and new clients up 114%.

For brands planning a campaign

Before scaling, decide how to record a qualified lead and whether post-conversion data can be fed back to Meta and Google. The weekly budget-review cadence is portable; the percentage improvements are the post's own claims.

We like to believe people judge us fairly. They don't. They decide in about 3 seconds.

It is the most concrete creative rule Chan publishes and the clearest example of changing and measuring a single variable — the basis of a testing framework.

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It also shows the client results they cite publicly.

Chan argues that audiences form an opinion in roughly three seconds and then justify it, and that the feed speeds up the process.

  • The example is a tuition campaign where the offer, service and budget were fine, but the ads opened with lines like “quality education” and “experienced teachers.”
  • They say they changed only the first three seconds of the ad, cutting cost per lead by about 50% and bringing in more serious enquiries.
  • The post also lists other Omni results: cost per acquisition from $50 to $21 in education, $65k in sales from $1.2k ad spend in e-commerce, and 400%+ year-on-year revenue growth in interior design, with 7-figure budgets managed across Meta, Google and TikTok.

For brands planning a campaign

An opening-seconds hook test is a cheap first experiment: same offer, same funnel, different first three seconds. The listed results are self-reported claims to probe, not benchmarks.

Most tuition centres in Singapore look identical online

It shows how Chan handles a crowded local service category where the product is good but the messaging is undifferentiated — a common starting point for B2B service businesses.

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They argue that sameness, not price, raises cost per lead.

A Math and Science tuition centre operating since 2007, with strong teachers and premium pricing, was blending into a crowded feed: the same MOE-trained claims, smiling-kids photos and eight-week promises.

  • Chan describes sharpening the explanation of what the coaching method did differently, replacing generic ads with podcast-style videos featuring the founder and self-filmed footage that felt like a real centre rather than a polished commercial, and building a CRM to track leads through the funnel.
  • Reported outcome over a few months: cost per lead down 52%, 170 leads at roughly $25 each, and conversion rate up 2.6x against the in-house setup.

For brands planning a campaign

When a category is saturated with identical claims, start with positioning, not budget. Pair a messaging change with follow-up tracking so sales can act on existing leads; the post notes that leads were arriving but not being managed.

A billion-dollar product almost died on the shelf because the people who made it were sure they already knew what it was for

It explains the reasoning behind much of Chan's client work: check what people actually do before deciding what a product is for.

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It is a useful counterweight to assuming the advertised audience is the buying audience.

Chan retells the Febreze story: P&G launched the odour-removing spray in 1996, but it flopped because people who lived with smells had stopped noticing them.

  • In-home observation revealed one customer using it as a finishing touch after cleaning.
  • The 1998 relaunch gave customers a new reason to buy and doubled sales within two months, per the post.
  • Chan then applies the pattern to a gourmet snack brand whose ads targeted everyday shoppers until order data showed companies buying in bulk as corporate gifts.
  • Repositioned around that buyer, the brand reported roughly $65,000 in revenue from about $1,200 in ad spend and multiple five-figure corporate orders.

For brands planning a campaign

Before scaling creative, check where orders or enquiries actually come from; a B2B channel may be hiding inside a consumer-facing brand. The historical Febreze figures come from a well-known case study; the snack-brand figures are the post's own claims.

Best digital marketing agency in Singapore

It is the clearest statement of who Chan says Omni Digital is for and against—the judgement a brand needs before shortlisting an agency.

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It also gives the questions they think a buyer should ask.

Chan argues there is no single best agency, only fit: the agency that suits a funded startup burning cash for growth is often wrong for a lean local business that needs every dollar to convert, and an e-commerce specialist may have no idea how to generate leads for a tuition centre or a renovation firm.

  • Omni Digital's stated position is not to be the best agency for everyone, but the right one for the businesses it is built to serve.
  • The post again cites 50+ Singapore businesses and over $85M in revenue through paid ads.

For brands planning a campaign

Use it to test fit rather than reputation: ask for proof in your own category, not general praise. For a referral-led B2B business, ask whether there is evidence of lead generation for a similar buyer.

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Topics and approach

Posts cited for each topic
Founder-led video and formats built for paid distribution4
Founder background and the case for fit over rankings4
Positioning and differentiation in look-alike categories3
Funnel visibility, CRM and follow-up as part of the campaign3
Qualified leads, not cheap leads2
Building a paid-media foundation for businesses that grew on referrals2
Test creative broadly, then scale only the winners2
Repositioning around the buyer who is already converting2

Qualified leads, not cheap leads

Chan's central argument is that lead cost is the wrong scoreboard.

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In a case study of a Singapore digital loan marketplace, they describe campaigns that produced plenty of clicks but few borrowers, leaving the sales team to absorb the wasted follow-up.

  • Their fix was to rebuild creative around real borrower concerns (approval speed, paperwork, lender trust), keep rotating A/B tests across offers and hooks, feed post-conversion data back into Meta and Google so the algorithms optimise for people who actually convert, and reallocate budget weekly instead of monthly.
  • Chan reports Meta cost per lead down 32–39% and cost per qualified lead down 45% over three months.
  • A separate post makes the same point in a general essay about how people decide in roughly three seconds, using a tuition campaign where changing only the opening seconds cut cost per lead by about half.

Optimise for post-conversion signals, rotate tests across offers, hooks and audiences, reallocate budget weekly, and treat the first seconds of an ad as the main determinant of whether the rest gets read.

For brands planning a campaign

If you brief Chan on a lead-generation campaign, expect them to define a qualified-lead definition before launch and measure success by cost per qualified lead rather than CPL. Be prepared to share post-conversion data with the ad platforms, which usually means involving sales or granting CRM access.

Examples: Source 1 · Source 2

Building a paid-media foundation for businesses that grew on referrals

Chan describes a commercial printing company that had run for decades on word of mouth and never run a paid ad.

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With no historical data, they started by defining the target audience, what counted as a real lead, and how budget should move through the funnel.

  • They then produced lead-gen videos designed to land the value proposition within the first 15 seconds, ran statics across multiple messaging angles, and expanded targeting beyond Singapore into adjacent markets.
  • Chan reports 300+ qualified leads in the first 30 days with cost per lead below $10.
  • A companion post frames the same discipline as building a runway: Chan says they ran a small tuition centre on the side for two to three years while still in private banking, learning websites, Google Ads, SEO and Facebook ads, and applied the same test-before-you-spend logic to a flooring company that reached seven-figure revenue in its first ten months.

Define the audience, lead criteria and budget flow before spending; shoot conversion-focused video; test statics across angles; expand into adjacent geographic markets once the baseline is visible.

For brands planning a campaign

A good fit if you have offline credibility and loyal clients but no paid-media history. Expect a measurement-first setup phase before spend ramps, a dedicated video shoot rather than reused brand assets, and a willingness to test regional audiences outside your home market.

Examples: Source 1 · Source 2

Test creative broadly, then scale only the winners

Chan's scaling case study is a skincare brand, Gentle Therapy, that wanted modest, steady order growth and instead saw a reported tenfold jump in monthly revenue.

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They attribute it to an unglamorous process rather than luck: running UGC videos, skincare education content and podcast-style videos side by side across Meta and Google, letting purchase data show which ones people actually bought from, increasing budget only behind winners, and continuing to test so growth held instead of spiking and fading. Chan's point is that spending more is easy, but knowing which creative deserves the budget is not; scaling requires constant testing, not a one-time switch.

Run multiple creative formats in parallel across channels, increase budget only behind demonstrated winners, and keep testing while scaling.

For brands planning a campaign

Useful if you have a proven product but don't know which asset is driving growth. Budget should include an ongoing creative supply, not a single launch set, and reporting should show which specific creative is driving purchases, not just blended ROAS.

Examples: Source 1 · Source 2

Positioning and differentiation in look-alike categories

Chan argues that sameness, not price, drives high lead costs for many service businesses.

Read more

In a tuition-centre case study, they describe a premium Math and Science centre that had operated since 2007, with genuine teacher quality and results but ads that looked like everyone else's.

  • The team stopped competing as "a great tuition centre" and instead communicated what the coaching method did differently and how it addressed the objections parents bring to enquiry calls.
  • They replaced generic ads with podcast-style founder videos and self-filmed centre footage, and built out CRM tracking for follow-up and qualification.
  • Chan reports cost per lead down 52%, 170 leads at about $25 each, and a conversion rate 2.6 times the in-house setup, with no change to teaching, syllabus or pricing.
  • A home and living flooring case study makes a similar move, shifting messaging to craftsmanship and materials and targeting buyers willing to pay for premium.

For brands planning a campaign

A fit if your category is crowded and your product is genuinely differentiated but the ads sound like competitors'. Expect work on positioning and messaging before media buying, plus founder-on-camera content rather than polished commercials.

Examples: Source 1 · Source 2 · Source 3

Repositioning around the buyer who is already converting

Chan uses the 1996 Febreze launch as a teaching case: P&G assumed people would buy the spray to remove odours, but research showed people who lived with a smell stopped noticing it.

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The relaunch around a different reason to buy doubled sales within two months.

  • Chan applies this to a gourmet snack brand whose consumer ads were not converting until the team examined where orders came from and found companies buying in bulk as corporate gifts.
  • The campaign was repositioned around that buyer, with reported revenue of about $65,000 from roughly $1,200 in ad spend and several five-figure corporate orders.
  • Chan's conclusion is that most businesses fail not because the product is bad but because they are too certain about why people should care.

Interrogate the assumed reason to buy by looking at actual order behaviour before spending more on creatives that address the original story.

For brands planning a campaign

Worth testing if your brand's ads underperform despite a strong product. Expect a challenge to your assumed buyer: a review of who is actually ordering, and possible repositioning toward a business, gifting or bulk-purchase segment you had not targeted.

Examples: Source 1 · Source 2

Funnel visibility, CRM and follow-up as part of the campaign

Across the case studies, Chan treats lead handling as part of marketing rather than a separate sales problem.

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In the tuition example, they say the leads were already arriving but were not being managed, so their team fixed visibility, follow-up cadence and qualification flow so sales could close instead of chase.

  • In the loan marketplace example, the same issue appears as wasted sales-team hours from unqualified enquiries; in the printing example, it appears as campaign structure built for measurement before momentum.
  • Chan consistently pairs media buying with the systems that determine whether leads become revenue.

For brands planning a campaign

Bring your CRM or the ability to build one, and expect campaign design to include qualification criteria, follow-up cadence and reporting that connects spend to closed business rather than leads alone.

Examples: Source 1 · Source 2 · Source 3

Founder-led video and formats built for paid distribution

Chan's recurring format choices are conversion-oriented: dedicated lead-gen video shoots where the proposition lands within 15 seconds, podcast-style videos with founders, self-filmed centre or workshop footage that reads as real rather than polished, UGC, and statics tested across multiple angles.

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They distinguish these from most B2B brand video, which they say is not built to convert. The formats recur across printing, tuition, skincare and flooring examples, suggesting these are their default production choices rather than one-off experiments.

Dedicated shoots engineered for paid media; podcast-style and self-filmed formats; UGC and statics tested in parallel.

For brands planning a campaign

Plan for shoot time with a founder or operator, and expect raw, direct-to-camera or podcast-style assets rather than a brand film. Short hooks matter more than production polish in this approach.

Examples: Source 1 · Source 2 · Source 3 · Source 4

Founder background and the case for fit over rankings

Three posts are personal narrative rather than campaign case studies.

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Chan says they left private banking in 2017 for dropshipping, then ran a tuition centre, pest control and a braised pork rice franchise, at one point juggling four businesses, before focusing on marketing and founding Omni Digital.

  • They report working with 50+ Singapore service businesses and generating over $85M in revenue through paid ads.
  • One post argues against searching for the "best" agency, comparing it to finding the best pair of shoes: fit depends on the business, and an agency suited to a funded startup may be wrong for a lean local business.

Figures such as 50+ businesses and $85M+ are self-reported in Chan's own posts. Ask for supporting documentation if they are central to your decision.

For brands planning a campaign

Useful context if your decision hinges on the operator's commercial background and whether they have run businesses as well as campaigns. Chan says they are not the right agency for every business, so an early scoping conversation is likely.

Examples: Source 1 · Source 2 · Source 3 · Source 4

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Brands and businesses

Alex Chan's posts describe almost all of their relationships with Omni Digital, the Singapore paid-ads agency they say they run.

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Campaigns they describe run across Meta, Google and TikTok, with reported results for businesses in commercial printing, consumer lending, tuition, home and living flooring, e-commerce and gourmet snacks.

  • Only one client is named in the posts here — Gentle Therapy, a skincare store — so ask for named client references if that matters to your decision.
  • The posts also recount earlier ventures they ran before the agency, among them a tuition centre, dropshipping, pest control and a braised pork rice franchise.

Omni Digital

Owned business

Singapore paid-ads agency that Chan says they run.

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Their posts describe managing seven-figure budgets across Meta, Google and TikTok, with reported outcomes such as a home and living flooring brand going from 2.5x to 4.8x ROAS in 60 days and $65,000 in sales from about $1,200 in ad spend. They credit Omni Digital to their earlier failed ventures and the marketing skill they kept returning to; the posts state they run the agency but give no formal title.

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Gentle Therapy

Client

Skincare store that came to Chan's agency for steady growth.

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After testing UGC, skincare education and podcast-style creative side by side on Meta and Google and scaling only behind the winners, the posts report a 10x jump in monthly revenue and a team answering DMs daily.

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Topics and similar creators

Alex Chan writes on LinkedIn about paid advertising for Singapore service businesses, mostly through client case studies from their agency, Omni Digital.

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Start with the case studies: a digital loan marketplace getting clicks but not borrowers, a commercial printing firm that had grown on referrals for decades and never run an ad, a premium tuition centre that looked like every competitor, and a skincare store that grew tenfold after one creative emerged as the winner.

  • Read them in pairs: the same arguments recur across cases.
  • Cost per lead can hide lead quality; an ad's opening seconds matter; identical claims in a crowded category raise costs without anyone touching prices; and budget should follow only creative that has proved itself.
  • Posts recounting Chan's career—private banking, dropshipping, a tuition centre, pest control, a franchise, and finally marketing—explain the testing-before-scaling habit they apply to client accounts.
  • Pick the case closest to your business, then read a second to see how consistently they make the argument.
Paid media lead generation Qualified-lead optimisation Creative testing Ad hooks and first seconds Positioning and differentiation E-commerce scaling Moving from referrals to paid growth Founder and career lessons Performance marketing Direct-response creative Paid social and search advertising Lead funnel and CRM Agency case-study posts Founder-led video Podcast-style video UGC video Singapore SME marketers Local service businesses E-commerce brand owners

Joshua Chui (Josh C.)

Both write about a problem Chan returns to: in a crowded market, customers choose a provider for how it works, not because it restates the problem.

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Both draw on running Meta ads for several Singapore tuition centres at once, whose ads competed for the same parents.

  • They argue that leading with a shared pain point gets a brand noticed, then lost among competitors.
  • Both work in direct response and use concrete ad results rather than general advice.

Chui writes as an individual creative strategist taking on their own clients, focusing on ad creation: hooks, angles drawn from customer research, creator instructions, and free test ads offered to brands spending at a certain level.

  • Chan writes as an agency operator and covers the whole funnel: lead qualification, CRM visibility, follow-up cadence, weekly budget reallocation, and reported costs per qualified lead.
  • For hands-on creative strategy, Chui is the closer fit; for media buying and the systems around it, Chan is.

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Saikat Sarkar

Both warn that a healthy-looking metric can mask a weak business.

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Sarkar illustrates the point with an AI system that books calls with poor-fit prospects or people who never show; Chan uses a cost-per-lead dashboard that looks fine while unqualified enquiries consume the sales team's time.

  • Both advocate measuring qualified conversations and outcomes instead of activity.
  • They also describe how customer questions and objections can feed into content, FAQs, and landing pages, helping marketing and sales improve each other.
  • Sarkar's funnel map, from customer question through enquiry and follow-up, covers much the same ground as Chan's focus on what happens after a lead arrives.

Sarkar works as a web designer and digital marketing professional with solopreneurs and small businesses.

  • He focuses on which tool or automation can fix a clearly identified bottleneck, and repeatedly advises readers not to buy another tool or automate everything.
  • His writing offers general principles and checklists, rather than the campaign case studies, client revenue figures, or ad-platform detail Chan uses.
  • For paid-media execution, follow Chan; for deciding what to fix first, especially at a smaller business without an ads budget, follow Sarkar.

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Gemma Murphy

Like Chan's tuition-centre case, Murphy's work focuses on what happens after an enquiry arrives: whether leads are captured in one place, receive a prompt reply, get visible follow-up, and are qualified before discovery calls.

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Both argue that more leads can hurt a business without a system to handle them, and treat follow-up and qualification as marketing work rather than a sales-department problem. Murphy's Business Stress Test questions—automated welcome email, single CRM, spotting leads untouched for 48 hours, and pre-qualifying on the website—map onto the visibility and cadence fixes Chan describes.

Murphy writes for business owners who need to stop losing the enquiries they already get.

  • Her material focuses on automation, CRM, email sequences, and self-assessment quizzes for people already online.
  • Chan writes about generating demand through paid ads, testing creative, and scaling spend behind winners, with reported cost-per-lead and revenue figures.
  • Murphy's background is in websites and interior design rather than ad buying, and she writes from a solo operator's perspective.
  • Follow Murphy to improve lead handling; follow Chan to generate and scale leads.

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Audience

Alex Chan’s posts target Singapore businesses evaluating paid advertising, lead generation and creative strategy.

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For a B2B performance-marketing campaign, ask for recent LinkedIn audience analytics and engagement results on comparable campaign topics. If the campaign depends on job roles, industries or seniority, request audience survey results or another documented source for those attributes.

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Partnership options

Alex Chan's LinkedIn posts document client agency work, not a media partnership or sponsorship offer.

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They include a general sales contact invitation to businesses interested in Omni Digital's paid-advertising services, but that is a client enquiry channel, not a published partnership product. Buyers considering a paid collaboration should ask whether Chan accepts creator-style brand partnerships and, if so, request rates, deliverables, sponsorship formats, audience guarantees and exclusivity terms.

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Campaign fit

A campaign to shortlist

Strong fit based on the posts reviewed.

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Brief

A Singapore B2B services or manufacturing-adjacent company that has grown for 20-plus years on referrals and repeat orders, has never run a paid campaign, and has an in-house sales team ready to act on inbound enquiries. Example shape: a commercial printing, packaging or industrial supply firm targeting procurement and operations managers in Singapore and nearby markets.

Reasons

  • The starting condition matches a case Chan documents directly: a commercial printing company with decades of offline credibility, no paid-ad history and slowing growth. They defined the audience and what counted as a real lead, then structured campaigns for measurement before spending. They later reported 300+ qualified leads in the first 30 days at a cost per lead below $10.
  • Chan starts with a qualified-lead definition, not a budget. In a digital loan marketplace case, they rebuilt campaigns around what actually became borrowers and reported a 45% drop in cost per qualified lead over three months. A referral-led business can adopt the same definition-first step without changing its product.
  • Chan's creative defaults suit a business with no existing ad assets: a dedicated lead-gen shoot that puts the proposition inside the first 15 seconds, plus statics tested across several messaging angles. That's a shorter, cheaper starting set than a brand film.
  • The printing case also shows expansion beyond Singapore into adjacent markets once a demand baseline is visible, matching a B2B firm whose buyers are across a border.
  • For an operator with an in-house sales team, Chan's approach fits a working CRM and sales follow-up: feed post-conversion signals back into Meta and Google, and review the budget weekly rather than monthly.
  • Chan argues against a universal best agency and frames the decision around fit for the business, so expect a scoping conversation before any campaign plan.

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Watch for

The results cited here are self-reported in Chan's own posts and have not been independently verified. Ask for references and account-level detail on the printing and loan figures.

The reviewed posts show no industrial or manufacturing client specifically; the closest precedent is a services-adjacent printing business. Ask for a like-for-like sector reference if that experience is essential.

The posts carry no per-post dates, so the printing case's recency cannot be confirmed. Ask when the case ran.

When to choose a specialist

Not a fit based on the posts reviewed. The mismatch is commercial format, not subject-matter competence.

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Brief

A consumer lifestyle brand buying creator sponsorship inventory: a fixed fee for an agreed number of posts, with audience demographics, engagement guarantees and exclusivity terms written into the deal. Example shape: a skincare or homeware brand that wants a named creator to publish sponsored content to a specified reach of target buyers.

Reasons

  • The posts describe no sponsorship product, rates, deliverables, audience guarantees, exclusivity terms or dedicated route for brands to enquire about partnering with Chan.
  • The public content is agency client-acquisition material. The enquiry invitation is for businesses interested in paid-advertising services, making it a client channel rather than creator sponsorship inventory.
  • Audience composition is not established. Only a follower count is available; there is no published breakdown by job role, industry or seniority. Ask for audience data before agreeing to a reach guarantee against a defined buyer segment.
  • The recurring methods are paid-media system-building: campaign structures designed for measurement, creative testing, post-conversion signal feedback and weekly budget reallocation. These are agency deliverables, not organic creator posts.
  • Even if the brand hired the agency instead of a creator, the working assumptions would still conflict with an awareness-based sponsorship. Chan's approach requires access to CRM or post-conversion data and optimises for cost per qualified lead, not impressions or engagement.

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Watch for

A brand undecided between sponsorship and hiring an agency should separate the two decisions. The posts support an agency-side paid-media conversation, not a creator sponsorship booking.

No sponsorship offer is documented in the material reviewed. Ask whether Chan accepts sponsorships.

A worked campaign example
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.

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Who else to consider

Joshua Chui

For the same decision — rebuilding paid-media targeting, creative testing and qualified-lead tracking for a long-established, referral-led B2B business — Joshua Chui is the stronger choice when the binding problem is the creative itself: the company's ads sound like every competitor's, and buyers cannot tell one offer from the next.

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Chui's documented work is built around that fix.

  • In the tuition-centre case, Chui ran ads for nine centres competing for the same parents.
  • The ads all opened on the same pain; what filled trial classes was leading with each centre's own teaching method.
  • Chui generalises the same point to solution-aware buyers elsewhere: the problem gets you noticed, the mechanism gets you chosen.
  • Chui works as a hands-on operator rather than an agency account — they say they make test ads themself, cite specific results (an 11.22% CTR against 1.02% for a discount ad to the same warm audience, a high-ticket coach scaled from $2k to $10k a week over six months, and time inside a DTC supplement brand spending $2M+ a month), and offer free test ads to brands spending $10k+ a month on Meta, with a case-study screenshot in return.
  • For a referral-led B2B firm that has never run paid media, that offer is a low-commitment way to test whether an outside creative strategist can make the offer legible in a feed before committing to a retainer.

The tradeoff is scope and infrastructure.

  • Chui's posts focus on Meta direct-response creative for DTC and consumer education clients; Alex Chan's posts do not show Google or TikTok campaign management, CRM integration, qualified-lead definition work, or the post-conversion signal feedback behind their loan-marketplace case, where cost per qualified lead fell 45% after campaigns were rebuilt around leads that became borrowers.
  • A referral-led industrial or B2B services firm needs measurement plumbing as much as creative.
  • Chui's posts show creative and offer work, not the account structure, lead-quality definition and weekly budget reallocation across channels reported in Chan's referral-ceiling case.
  • Chui is also a solo practitioner taking a small number of clients, and the testimonials they publish come from people they have worked with; test capacity and third-party verification during scoping.
  • Chui is better when creative is the bottleneck and the firm can already act on and record qualified enquiries; less suited when the whole lead-gen system needs to be built and measured from scratch.

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Saikat Sarkar

For the same decision, Saikat Sarkar is the better choice when the bottleneck is after the click rather than at the top of the funnel.

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Sarkar's posts map the customer journey explicitly — customer question, content, profile visit, website, enquiry, follow-up, sales call — and argue that the right move is to find where people drop out and apply technology only at that point, rather than buying another tool or more traffic.

  • They apply this to AI automation with a concrete failure mode: a system that books 30 sales calls where 20 are poor-fit, 6 no-show and 4 misunderstand the offer can look green on a dashboard while the customer experience is red underneath.
  • The measurement set they recommend is qualified conversations, show-up rate, customer fit and actual enquiries.
  • They also describe turning repeated sales-call objections into FAQs, landing-page copy and follow-up messages.
  • That is the same feedback-loop principle Chan uses when feeding post-conversion data back into ad platforms, applied to content and site rather than bidding signals.
  • For a long-established referral business with an in-house sales team, this is a useful corrective if the first paid campaigns produce enquiries that go cold because the website does not pre-qualify, follow-up takes two days, or every objection is handled from scratch on each call.

The tradeoff is that Sarkar's posts stop short of paid-media execution.

  • They do not show campaign structure, targeting, creative testing or budget decisions on Meta, Google or TikTok; there is no client case with a cost per lead or cost per qualified lead, and no documented work with industrial, manufacturing or B2B services buyers.
  • Sarkar's stated role is web design and digital marketing, and the argument is largely diagnostic — identify the bottleneck first, automate only that.
  • That is valuable, but it does not deliver a campaign rebuild for a firm that needs to create and measure demand from scratch.
  • A firm that hires Sarkar instead of a paid-media lead would likely still need a media buyer or agency to build and run the ad account.

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Gemma Murphy

For the same decision, Gemma Murphy is the better fit when the business is small, owner-run, and the growth ceiling is operational rather than a lack of demand.

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Murphy's Business Stress Test is a seven-question diagnostic for owners who say they need more enquiries but would sink if more arrived: whether a lead gets a welcome email within five minutes; whether every lead lives in one CRM; whether the owner can see at a glance which leads have not been followed up in 48 hours; whether the website pre-qualifies; whether a 2AM visitor can get something useful without waking the owner; whether saying yes triggers automatic invoicing and onboarding; and whether the Google Business Profile is maintained.

  • The threshold is blunt: score below three and you do not have an enquiry problem, you have a system problem, and you should fix it before buying more attention.
  • For a referral-led B2B firm whose sales conversations are still tracked in inboxes and spreadsheets, that is a cheaper and more honest first step than a paid-media retainer.
  • It also aligns with the sales-side data access that qualified-lead measurement eventually depends on.
  • Murphy's own account explains the angle: moving from interior-design-adjacent printing work into building websites for interior businesses, then automating their own operation with CRMs, calendars and linked tasks, and now positioning on the strategy that lets an owner switch off at the end of the day.

The tradeoff is that Murphy's posts document systems and follow-up discipline, not paid acquisition.

  • They do not show ad-platform work, creative testing, targeting rebuilds or a cost-per-qualified-lead case.
  • The examples are small service businesses; the posts do not show B2B industrial or manufacturing buyers or large media budgets.
  • Hiring Murphy would address the CRM and follow-up plumbing that Alex Chan's method also requires, but not the core question for a firm seeking to create and measure online demand for its services and determine what it costs to convert.
  • Murphy is better as the operational fix before or alongside a paid-media build, not as the paid-media lead.

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Research methodology

  • Alex Chan has eleven LinkedIn posts, and the account details are dated 9 October 2026.
  • Three of the posts promote a live webinar dated 21 May 2026; the posts carry no individual publication dates, so the order of the client cases and any shift in emphasis over time are not established.
  • The posts are Chan's own agency case-study writing, so reported figures — among them 300+ qualified leads in the first 30 days at under $10 per lead, a 45% drop in cost per qualified lead, and a tenfold monthly revenue increase for a skincare store — are as stated in the posts and are not independently verified.
  • Only one client business, Gentle Therapy, is named; other engagements appear by sector.
  • No books, shows, interviews, third-party coverage, audience analytics or sponsorship terms appear in the posts here, so any such work sits outside this profile.
  • Whether Chan has signature books, shows or other earlier work remains unclear.

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