Turn on the warm assets we already have to hit the number now, while we build a paid engine that keeps it going after peak season.
One rep dials all day; referrals do the rest. About 5 demos a month. Nobody has built the inbound side yet, so there's nothing to fix, only to build.
No Google Ads running. Roughly 110 organic visits a month. The whole search channel is wide open, no ground to defend, just ground to take.
Contractors feel the pain now, in summer. People shop for the fix in the fall. Our 90 days (Jul to Oct) cover both: warm now, paid into the fall search peak.
How I'll operate: I don't scale a channel until it pays and repeats. Discover the real numbers, prove them, then scale. No internal data yet, so every figure here is a stated assumption to validate with your team. I show the math so we can swap in your real numbers live.
All three run on assets you already own. The other ideas I have are additive, a roadmap for after the 90 days, not a replacement for what's working.
Stand up tracking and one conversion page. List sequence live, first partner push, paid test. Goal: find the real numbers.
Nurture and scoring deepen the list. Second partner push. Tune paid toward a healthy cost per demo before spending more.
The paid engine carries the number into the fall search peak; warm keeps trickling. Scale spend only where CAC is proven.
| Customer lifetime | LTV | Cold paid | Tuned |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 mo (very conservative) | $6k | 1.4× | 2.6× |
| 18 mo | $9k | 2.0× | 3.9× |
| 24 mo (realistic) | $12k | 2.7× | 5.1× |
| 30 mo | $15k | 3.4× | 6.4× |
LTV ÷ CAC; 3× is the healthy line. Cold paid looks tight at a very conservative 12-month life. At the real SMB and vertical-SaaS range (20-30 months) it clears 3×, so we scale paid as it proves out, and confirm lifetime with your cohort data. Meanwhile, warm demos cost about $0.
≈ $35-40k media over 90 days. Media only. We run the first 90 days on the tools you already have (Mailchimp, HubSpot, Calendly) and add tooling when the volume earns it.
The warm bets carry the early number at almost no media cost. Most of the spend goes to the one channel built to scale: paid.
All good bets. All slower than a 10× in 90 days. Sequenced for after, so we never mistake motion for progress.
Hit the number now with what we already have.
Build the machine that keeps hitting it.