PAID SEARCH & SOCIAL

Where address-level intent converts.

The highest-intent moment in fiber is a person typing their street name. The buy should be built around that moment.

THE REALLOCATION, MEASURED

The gap between a good campaign and a bad one is not 20%.

$41
Cost per lead, newly serviceable address targeting
Savannah and Brunswick
$668
Cost per lead on the campaigns money moved out of
The worst was $856
$44–62
Cost per preregistration in construction markets
Paid social, ahead of the flip
16x
Efficiency gap between the two approaches
A reallocation, not a budget increase
THE DISCIPLINE

Buy against retained contribution, not leads.

A lead that cannot be served is a cost. A lead that installs and cancels in sixty days is a bigger cost, because you paid the acquisition and the commission and got a clawback and a bad review.

So the optimization target is not cost per lead. It is cost per installed subscriber who is still there at ninety days. That changes which campaigns get money — and it usually moves budget toward the unglamorous ones targeting streets that went live last week.

Spend increases get gated. We model investment as tranches against a historical baseline with expected marginal CAC rising across each gate, so the decision at every step is whether the next increment still earns its place. It protects client capital in markets that look like they want unlimited spend.

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