โ€œ๐—•๐—ฟ๐—ผ, ๐—ฅ๐—ข๐—”๐—ฆ ๐—ถ๐˜€ ๐—น๐—ผ๐˜„. ๐—•๐—ผ๐—ผ๐˜€๐˜ ๐—ธ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ผ ๐—ป๐—ฎ.โ€
โ€” ๐—ง๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐˜‚๐—ป๐—ผ๐—ณ๐—ณ๐—ถ๐—ฐ๐—ถ๐—ฎ๐—น ๐˜€๐—ผ๐—น๐˜‚๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป ๐˜๐—ผ ๐—ฒ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜† ๐—บ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ธ๐—ฒ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐—ฝ๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐—ฏ๐—น๐—ฒ๐—บ ๐Ÿ˜…

This oneโ€™s for every performance marketer in an Indian startup. You launch a campaign.

- You test 3 hooks, 2 creatives, 1 landing page variant.
- CTR is decent. CPM is stable. CAC is within target.

But suddenlyโ€ฆ
๐—ฆ๐—ฝ๐—ฒ๐—ฐ๐—ถ๐—ฎ๐—น ๐—ฆ๐—ผ๐—บ๐—ผ๐—ป๐—ฒ: โ€œROAS is low. Boost it.โ€

๐—ฌ๐—ผ๐˜‚: โ€œSure, but weโ€™re testing upper funnel TOF right now.โ€
๐—ง๐—ต๐—ฎ๐˜ '๐—ฆ๐—ผ๐—บ๐—ฒ๐—ผ๐—ป๐—ฒ': โ€œStill, just boost it. ROI should go up.โ€

As if boosting is some magic chai masala that makes everything better.
Hereโ€™s the truth no one says out loud:

๐—ฃ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ณ๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐—บ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฐ๐—ฒ ๐—บ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ธ๐—ฒ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด โ‰  ๐—ฏ๐˜‚๐˜๐˜๐—ผ๐—ป ๐—ฝ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐˜€๐˜€๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด.

Itโ€™s not a sab kuch boost kardo game. Itโ€™s a funnel game. A data game. A patience game!

But in most Indian startups:

1. Campaigns are judged in 48 hours
2. Attribution is done via screenshots
3. โ€œBest performing creativeโ€ = the one โ€˜That Someoneโ€™ forwarded on WhatsApp with 3 fire emojis. ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ

Weโ€™re out here trying to build funnels. But most people want shortcuts.

๐—ง๐—ผ ๐—ฎ๐—น๐—น ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—บ๐—ฒ๐—ฑ๐—ถ๐—ฎ ๐—ฏ๐˜‚๐˜†๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜€, ๐—ด๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐˜„๐˜๐—ต ๐—ณ๐—ผ๐—น๐—ธ๐˜€, ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐—ฎ๐—ฑ ๐—ป๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ท๐—ฎ๐˜€ โ€” ๐—œ ๐˜€๐—ฒ๐—ฒ ๐˜†๐—ผ๐˜‚!
๐—ก๐—ฒ๐˜…๐˜ ๐˜๐—ถ๐—บ๐—ฒ ๐˜€๐—ผ๐—บ๐—ฒ๐—ผ๐—ป๐—ฒ ๐˜€๐—ฎ๐˜†๐˜€ โ€œ๐—•๐—ผ๐—ผ๐˜€๐˜ ๐—ธ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ผโ€, ๐˜€๐—ฒ๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ๐—บ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ถ๐˜€ ๐—ฝ๐—ผ๐˜€๐˜ ๐Ÿ˜‚


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