Grow impressions

Identify the channels where your buyers actually spend time, allocate budget with confidence, and build a distribution plan that compounds reach over time.

Grow impressions

Introduction

I've managed paid media budgets across LinkedIn, Google, Meta, and half a dozen other platforms for B2B companies of all sizes. The mistake I see most often is spreading too thin across too many channels too soon.

Channel planning is not about being everywhere. It's about picking the right places, mapping your campaigns to how buyers actually think, and making sure every euro you spend reaches people who could realistically become customers. Most teams try five channels at once and wonder why nothing sticks.

This playbook helps you calculate how many leads you need, figure out what you can afford to pay for them, and then dominate one channel before adding the next. It's the boring, disciplined approach to demand generation. And it's the one that actually works.

Chapters

1

Calculate how many leads you need and what you can afford

Work backwards from revenue to figure out how much traffic you actually need, then calculate the maximum you can spend per lead whilst staying profitable. This tells you which channels are even possible before you waste budget testing everything.

2

Start right, work left through the awareness stages

The hottest traffic (people comparing you to competitors) is expensive but easiest to convert. Start there, dominate it, then work backwards to warmer traffic, then cold traffic as you hit channel limits.

3

Dominate one channel before adding the next

Focus beats diversification. Scale one channel until it stops working efficiently, then add one more. Always have a backup channel started, but put 80% of effort into your primary channel.

4

Scale winning channels

Apply a structured approach to scaling what works: do more of it, make it better, then add new variations to extend your reach.

5

Test a new channel each quarter

Systematically evaluate and pilot one new distribution channel per cycle so you always have a backup if your main channel slows down.

6

Reallocate budget based on CAC by channel

Shift your spend toward channels with the lowest cost per acquisition and away from those producing diminishing returns.

7

Track share of voice against competitors

Measure how visible you are relative to competitors in your category and set targets for increasing your share of attention.

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Impressions

The total number of times your brand appears in front of potential customers across all channels.

Related topic

Demand generation

How do you get the right people to notice you without burning budget?

Grow impressions

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