Lean PPC Methodology

How modern paid traffic acquisition technologies and Lean Thinking approaches can radically improve results and increase the return on investment in internet marketing?

Lean PPC Methodology

What problems does a business face

when using paid promotion channels and paid search as a sales tool?

"Lack of Revenue with Increasing Costs"

There is a feeling that you have hit a "ceiling." The growth of marketing budgets has stopped influencing overall revenue.

"Specialist Qualification"

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Constant searching for and changing marketers does not lead to an improvement in financial metrics or sales growth.

"Falling Profitability"

Increasing the promotion budget reduces profitability and increases the cost of a single order.

"No Understanding Where the Money Goes"

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What drives the result? Which tools work best? Do all ideas generate profit?

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Why do such problems arise?

To answer this question, it is important to divide the client acquisition system into two flows — operations and the promotion process itself.

FLOW 1 "MARKETING AND SALES OPERATIONS"

What causes losses for your business in marketing operations?

X1. No understanding of what creates value

Which actions of promotion specialists affect revenue, and which are a waste of time and do not create any value for the business and end consumers?

X2. Losses are the essence and part of the process

Sequences and work that increase the cost of all marketing processes and create 7 types of losses (low quality, overproduction, information loss, etc.).

X3. Lack of manageability

There is no clear understanding of exactly what needs to be done at a specific moment, with the help of what and by whom, so that the business receives the highest quality result with minimal costs.

FLOW 2 "PROMOTION TACTICS AND PROCESS"

What creates losses in the very essence, strategy, and system of promotion?

Y1. No understanding of the "customer journey"

With the help of which channels, how, and when does a potential buyer interact with you and your competitors, depending on the stage of the purchase decision?

Y2. Non-target actions and decisions

Which stimuli, ads, offers, and creatives will work for a specific consumer at a specific moment? With the help of which actions will they move to the next stage?

Y3. What is important for the client at each stage?

What answers does the buyer subconsciously want to receive at a specific moment in time, which are capable of instilling trust in your offer and making them choose you among competitors?


How to eliminate these losses, increasing the profitability of your advertising budgets by 30–60%?


Foundation of Success. Lean 6 Sigma Marketing

How we achieve an advantage and the best result on the market with the help of Lean 6 Sigma, integration of modern promotion technologies, and automation. Process, methodology, and tools.

1

Define | DMAIC-cycle

Before starting the setup or optimization of your advertising campaigns, we aim to understand your business, the strengths and weaknesses of your products and offers, clients, and competitive environment.

We divide the entire promotion and sales process into parts, visualize it as a sales funnel with clear quality requirements, intermediate, and final results for each stage.

2

Measure | Impact on Profitability

We answer the question of what stage the process is currently at, measure current indicators and the impact of each element of the promotion system (products, categories, search queries, client groups, etc.) on profitability, revenue, and set goals.

For large samples and complex projects, we use MSA or GAGE R&R tools to measure variability, stability, and data reliability.

3

Analyze | Search for Losses and Growth Points

The main task is to build cause-and-effect relationships between all elements and factors of the paid promotion system to identify both critical problems that steal your profit and unrealized potential.

We answer the questions: What is the reason for the existing results in marketing? Where are the hidden potential and losses in the promotion process? Which tasks and improvements are capable of giving the best result with minimal costs?

4

Implement | Hypothesis Testing and Optimization

First of all, we use a priority matrix, and proceed to implement those tasks that require a minimum of time and expense, and at the same time give maximum financial return.

Having achieved "quick wins," we ensure the launch of long-term improvement programs, test hypotheses and ideas, standardize, and improve the technology for attracting clients

5

Automate | Self-Learning System

An algorithm that automatically analyzes the effectiveness of each element: products, prices, stocks, categories, audiences, and groups of search queries based on statistically significant data and is capable of segmenting clients in real-time, moving them through audiences, changing bids, budgets, and ad chains.

In parallel, the overall body of information is evaluated by dozens of parameters and rules, and notifications about failures, anomalies, or positive trends are received.

6

Control | Maintaining Progress

We regularly check all successful solutions and results and control their repeatability, comparing dozens of key indicators with actual goals.

Our team analyzes the results of experiments and the latest trends weekly, reviews the strategy for using traffic acquisition channels for which we are responsible monthly, and monitors the correctness of the work and the results of advertising campaign settings daily, both automatically and manually.

Value of the Methodology for Marketing

How can the integration of LEAN PPC radically increase your profit?

Elimination of Losses

Elimination of Losses

It eliminates losses related to errors, excessive processing, downtime, unnecessary movement of information, overproduction (reports, projects, and actions that no one will use) in your marketing operations and processes.

Process Predictability

Process Predictability

Allows for a clear understanding of the existing situation, the causes of problems, and the ability to forecast the results of projects or individual solutions with 80% accuracy in the medium term, effectively managing risks.

Protection from Errors

Protection from Errors

A set of tools with correct automation allows avoiding "silly mistakes," as well as the critical impact of the "human factor" on the results of promotion and sales, which leads to a reduction in process costs by up to 40% from the moment of implementation.

Understanding Consumers

Understanding Consumers

Not only to realize in words but also to be able to measure the needs of each group of clients at each stage of the sales funnel in the form of specific metrics, to understand how effectively the existing system uses this knowledge.

Lean 6 Sigma

Goal — reducing costs and improving the quality of processes. Means — combining a scientific approach and practical tools.

What is Lean?

Lean Manufacturing. This is a set of practices and tools aimed at building processes in such a way that each part of it meets the main task — creating value for the end consumer and the subsequent stages of the "production chain" by eliminating useless operations and tasks (losses)

6 Sigma

Helps manage and use a scientific approach for the implementation of the main ideas of Lean Manufacturing, both through the management of improvement projects and statistically reliable conclusions.

Easily Adaptable

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Despite the fact that Lean 6 Sigma was born in the industrial sector, it ideally adapts to marketing tasks and sales.

Profit-Centric

All actions are measured and evaluated from the perspective of their impact on financial indicators, which allows for a radical restructuring of the thinking of the team and the entire business towards profitability-oriented processes.

Scientific Approach

Conclusions, solutions, and ideas based not only on intuition and assumptions but, first and foremost, on statistically reliable data, variability control, and controlled experiments. This ensures higher quality forecasts and decisions.

Measurable Requirements

Requirements for results that are easily measurable. What is quality from the clients' point of view, and with the help of which research can you measure it? What are your clients willing to pay for? Which actions do not create value?

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Project Management

Project management tool. What sequence of tasks is most effective in improvement processes? How to correctly distribute roles, control, and motivate the team during project implementation?

Visualization

A clear and visual customer journey, information, and interactions between your team, contractors, and partners in the form of visual maps, graphs, and key indicators allows for faster problem detection and assessment of process opportunities.

Cycle of Improvements

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A constant, not episodic, cycle of improvements. How to create conditions for the cyclical nature of improvements that will not depend on changes in the team, priorities, and business environment, but will help achieve long-term preservation of already achieved results?

Client-centric

All tasks are built around the requests of external and internal consumers, which perfectly corresponds to the main goal of marketing strategies — to satisfy the needs of buyers better than your competitors do.

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Elements of Achievement

01

Search for Losses and Uncovered Expenses

CTQ, QFD (House of Quality), SIPOC, Voice of the customer, Value stream map, Lean Canvas, Customer Journey Map, Kano analysis, Ishikawa diagram, SIPOC.

02

Reliable Conclusions and Scientific Approach

Control charts, statistical measurements, GAGE R&R, MSA, scatter diagrams, frequency graphs, analysis of variance, regression analysis.

03

Search for Growth Points and Opportunities

Brown Paper, hypothesis testing algorithms, time trap assessment, Pareto chart, FMEA, Mistake Proofing, controlled experiments.

04

Project and Operations Management

A3 Sheets, DMAIC-cycle, Control Charts, Process Sigma Calculation, Cost Savings Calculations.


Understanding the Real State of Affairs

How to avoid distorting reality and understand the state of your business and each of its components, and how this will affect future results?



Change of Paradigm and Business Culture

How to motivate the team so that not only leaders but also ordinary employees can generate growth ideas, which is a key factor in your future success?


Implementation Results

01

Reduction of Costs and Losses

Up to 60% of useless actions and up to 40% of non-target expenses in advertising campaigns.

02

Increased Profitability

On average, we achieve an increase in profitability in paid promotion of 15-30%.

03

Process Predictability

Forecasting accuracy in the medium term is 80%, and 38% in the long term.

04

Revenue Growth with the Same Budgets

While maintaining identical budgets, we ensure revenue growth of 30–50%.


Find out what potential revenue and what losses are hidden in your promotion system!