traction-paid-acquisition

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Plan paid acquisition tests from Traction across SEM, social/display ads, and offline ads. Use when designing ad experiments, keyword tests, audience tests, paid channel budgets, or deciding whether a paid channel can acquire the right customers profitably.

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Traction Paid Acquisition

Use this skill to design paid acquisition experiments that validate customer quality and economics before scaling spend.

Source Traceability

Primary source: Traction, chapters 9-11 and the appendix. Authoring notes: converted lines 1233-1627 and 3335-3340.

Channels

SEM: test high-intent search demand and conversion economics.
Social and display ads: test targeted audiences, creative, and offer resonance.
Offline ads: test channels that competitors may ignore, especially niche podcasts, local media, or audience-specific placements.

Workflow

State the buying intent or audience hypothesis.
Select one paid channel strategy, not a broad paid marketing mix.
Define the conversion event that matters.
Set a small budget and time box.
Create a minimal landing path with tracking.
Estimate break-even CAC from price, margin, and LTV.
Run the test and compare CAC, conversion quality, and reachable volume.

Output Format

markdown

# Paid Acquisition Test

## Hypothesis
[Audience/intent + offer + expected conversion.]

## Channel Strategy
- Channel:
- Audience or keywords:
- Offer:
- Budget:
- Duration:

## Economics
| Metric | Estimate |
|--------|----------|
| Price/LTV | |
| Gross margin | |
| Break-even CAC | |
| Target CAC for test | |

## Creative/Copy
- Ad angle 1:
- Ad angle 2:
- Landing page promise:

## Tracking
- Conversion event:
- Attribution method:
- Customer quality check:

## Decision Rules
- Double down:
- Iterate:
- Kill:

Quality Bar

Track conversions, not only clicks.
Compare CAC against LTV or expected customer value.
Keep early tests narrow enough to interpret.
Avoid large budgets before one strategy has signal.