PaidLab
B2B Paid Media & PPC Performance Strategy
Your paid media engine stops working when you stop asking why.
Paid media is the fastest lever in B2B marketing and the easiest to waste. PaidLab covers paid search, programmatic, and performance strategy for teams that need ad spend to turn into qualified pipeline — not impressions.
Every piece is built around the question most platforms train you to stop asking: why is this working, and what happens when it stops?
Your Paid Media ROAS Is a Fiction. Both Numbers Are Wrong.
Your platform says 5x ROAS. Your backend says 2x. Averaging them gives you a number that describes nobody. The only metric that matters is incrementality, and most marketing orgs don't have the discipline to measure it.
The PPC Budget Question Nobody Wants to Answer Honestly
I've watched companies burn through six figures on paid search while celebrating 'impressions' like they were actual revenue. The dashboards looked gorgeous. The results were fiction. Here's what actually separates PPC strategies that pay off from expensive habits dressed up as strategy.
The 4-Step Roadmap to AI Agents for Google Ads
Everyone's racing to deploy AI agents for Google Ads, but the teams seeing 34% ROAS improvements aren't the ones who built fastest, they're the ones who got the sequencing right. Here's the four-stage roadmap that separates expensive toys from actual ROI.
The PPC Clean-Up: How to Audit and Fix 'Value Inflation' in Google Ads
Your tROAS looks incredible on paper, but finance can't find the revenue. That's not a platform bug, it's value inflation, and it's probably your own tracking setup feeding Smart Bidding phantom numbers. Here's the audit protocol to fix it before the CFO starts asking questions.
The 40% Revenue Drop That Should Haunt Every Marketing Leader
A PPC manager applied every best practice in the book and watched revenue crater 40%. The lesson isn't about Google Ads, it's about what happens when marketing execution ignores the one question that actually matters: can your business survive the learning curve?
How AI Visibility Adds Context to PPC Performance
Your paid search dashboard is lying to you, or at least telling half the story. When AI Overviews tank your CTR by 68%, the problem isn't your campaign structure. It's that you're optimizing a shrinking slice of the pie while ignoring the one that's actually growing.
LinkedIn Ads for B2B: The CFO-Safe Playbook for Provable ROI
A $24 click converting at 8% to SQLs costs $300 per qualified lead, but whether that's a 25:1 return or a loss depends entirely on your deal size. Here's the math your CFO will actually respect, and the pilot framework that proves LinkedIn belongs in your channel mix before you commit real budget.
ChatGPT Ads: The CFO-Safe Pilot Plan
OpenAI's ad platform just went from $200K enterprise experiments to self-serve CPC bidding for any US business. I've pulled apart the mechanics, pricing, and measurement infrastructure, here's what the math actually looks like for your pipeline.
LinkedIn Isn't Just Top-of-Funnel Anymore: What Dreamdata's Data Means for Your Budget
Thirty percent of your SQL sessions are now influenced by LinkedIn, not awareness impressions, actual sales-qualified leads. If you've been treating LinkedIn as a brand-building playground and shutting off campaigns after the form fill, the data says you're leaving money on the table.