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3x Higher ROI

Achieve greater returns with optimized performance campaigns.

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Track Every Click

Real-time tracking for complete transparency.

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Proven Growth Framework

Scalable strategies to boost brand awareness.

Setsail ROI Framework™: Driving Growth Through Hearts and Numbers

We combine creative excellence with data-driven strategies to accelerate business growth, using proven industry-specific roadmaps that deliver both brand impact and measurable results.

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Vision Mapping

Set the Foundation for Measurable Brand Growth

Our proprietary Vision Mapping process includes

  • Audience Analysis: Understand demographics, behaviours, and preferences for precise targeting.

  • Competitor Benchmarking: Identify gaps and opportunities for differentiation.

  • Performance Goals: Establish measurable objectives to track success.

  • Channel Strategy: Identify the best-performing channels for impactful campaigns.

Visual Mapping

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Marketing Lab

Test, Analyze, and Optimize Campaigns

Our proprietary Marketing Lab process includes

  • Campaign Prototyping: Test multiple campaign variants for effectiveness.

  • A/B Testing: Identify the most effective creatives, headlines, and CTAs.

  • Data-Driven Iteration: Refine campaigns using real-time insights.

  • Channel Alignment: Ensure cohesive messaging across all platforms.

Marketing Lab

3

Scale & Optimize

Expand Success and Maximize Efficiency

Our proprietary Scale & Optimize process includes

  • Budget Optimization: Allocate resources to the most effective channels.

  • Multi-Channel Scaling: Broaden your reach across high-value platforms.

  • Performance Monitoring: Track key metrics in real-time for quick adjustments.

  • ROI Focus: Refine strategies to maximize ROI and minimize ad spend waste.

Scale & Optimize

Who

Target Audience

What

The Value Prop

Where

Mkt Channels

When

Peaks

Why

Motivation

What is Performance Marketing and How Does it Work?

Performance marketing encompasses any data-driven marketing activity where a brand pays partners only when buyers take predefined actions. Unlike traditional marketing methods, where brands pay upfront for potential exposure, performance marketing ensures payment occurs only after a desired outcome is achieved. These actions could range from clicks and impressions to more significant metrics such as lead generation, sales, or subscriptions.

According to Per Petterson, Chief Strategy Officer at impact.com, performance marketing “includes all marketing strategies where the brand pays for a tangible outcome instead of potential results.” This result-oriented approach minimizes risks for brands while maximizing returns, making it a preferred strategy in today’s competitive landscape.

Performance marketing leverages real-time analytics to identify which partners or channels led to conversions. Brands often use campaign codes, dedicated landing pages, and performance marketing software to track and attribute results. This transparency and accountability allow brands to optimize their campaigns continuously.

Measurable Growth Strategy for Brand Awareness

Our process delivers measurable brand awareness through a three-phase approach: Vision Mapping, Marketing Lab, and Scale & Optimize, each designed to improve campaign efficiency and scalability. By combining strategic foresight with iterative testing, our methodology ensures continuous improvement and tangible results.

The importance of performance marketing lies in its precision. Unlike traditional brand marketing, performance marketing offers the ability to track every interaction, making it easier to refine strategies based on real-time insights. This approach is highly effective in driving measurable outcomes, including increased traffic, higher engagement, and improved conversion rates. By focusing on quantifiable metrics, businesses can ensure they are investing their marketing budgets wisely.

In addition to measurable metrics, performance marketing fosters adaptability. In a rapidly changing digital landscape, being able to pivot strategies in response to real-time feedback can mean the difference between stagnant campaigns and exponential growth. This dynamic approach keeps brands competitive and ensures they stay relevant to their target audience.

1. Vision Mapping

In this phase, we align your business goals with key marketing objectives to create a clear path for measurable brand growth. We start by understanding your current position in the market and your target audience. This helps us identify actionable opportunities and set performance benchmarks to track progress. Vision Mapping ensures that your brand awareness campaigns are built on a solid foundation of data and strategy.

Vision Mapping also involves identifying potential roadblocks and addressing them proactively. By doing so, we reduce the likelihood of campaign failure and increase the chances of meeting your brand awareness goals. This phase sets the groundwork for effective marketing by providing clarity on where to focus efforts and how to allocate resources.

Key Points Expanded

  1. Audience Analysis: Deep dive into your audience demographics, behavior, and preferences for precise targeting.
  2. Competitor Benchmarking: Evaluate competitor performance to find market gaps and opportunities for differentiation.
  3. Performance Goals: Establish specific, measurable, and achievable goals to gauge campaign success.
  4. Channel Strategy: Identify the best-performing channels for your brand, from paid search to social media and beyond.

Audience analysis not only helps in precise targeting but also in crafting messages that resonate deeply with different customer segments. Competitor benchmarking allows businesses to differentiate themselves by learning from what competitors are doing well—and what they are not.

Main Deliverables

  • Audience segmentation report
  • Competitor analysis dashboard
  • Performance goal framework
  • Channel strategy guide

The 5 Different Types of Performance Marketing Channels

  1. Partnership Marketing: Partnership marketing involves strategic collaboration between two parties—businesses or individuals. This includes influencer marketing, affiliate marketing, and commerce content marketing. Influencers generate up to 11 times the ROI of traditional advertising.
  2. Display Ads: Display ads are a staple of performance marketing. Brands now pay partners based on conversions rather than mere impressions or clicks, ensuring cost efficiency.
  3. Native Advertising: Native ads blend seamlessly into the content of websites. Since they don’t appear as traditional ads, they often result in higher engagement.
  4. Social Media Marketing: Social media offers fast-paced engagement, making it ideal for performance marketing. Influencers and publishers share performance-driven links, driving measurable actions.
  5. Search Engine Marketing (SEM): SEM uses both paid and unpaid strategies to gain visibility on search engine results pages. Brands only pay when users click on their ads, ensuring a direct return on investment.

2. Marketing Lab

Marketing Lab is where ideas turn into actionable campaigns. We test, analyze, and refine every aspect of your campaign before scaling. Our lab-driven approach reduces risks, optimizes spend, and ensures your brand messaging resonates across channels. Each experiment we run is tied to your overall performance goals.

Through rigorous testing, Marketing Lab identifies what works and what doesn’t, ensuring that only the best-performing strategies are scaled. This process allows for greater flexibility and adaptability, which is crucial in today’s fast-changing digital landscape. By continuously iterating and improving, we help your brand stay ahead of the competition.

Effective experimentation is at the heart of Marketing Lab. By running small-scale tests, we ensure that larger campaigns are backed by data-driven decisions. This approach minimizes waste, enhances creative effectiveness, and ensures a higher ROI.

Key Points Expanded

  1. Campaign Prototyping: Test multiple campaign variants before launch to optimize for maximum engagement and impact.
  2. A/B Testing: Run controlled tests to determine the best-performing creatives, headlines, and call-to-actions.
  3. Data-Driven Iteration: Continuously improve campaigns by analyzing real-time data and applying insights rapidly.
  4. Channel Alignment: Ensure consistent messaging across paid, owned, and earned media channels for cohesive brand awareness.

Campaign prototyping allows us to validate ideas quickly, while A/B testing ensures we use only the best-performing elements in the final campaign. This process eliminates guesswork and ensures every decision is rooted in data.

Main Deliverables

  • A/B test reports
  • Campaign prototypes
  • Weekly performance analytics
  • Cross-channel messaging guide

3. Scale & Optimize

Once we validate what works, we scale your campaigns across platforms while optimizing for better cost-per-acquisition (CPA) and click-through rates (CTR). Our focus is on improving efficiency and expanding reach without increasing cost disproportionately. We use advanced analytics to find opportunities for ongoing improvement.

Scaling is not just about increasing budget—it involves smart allocation of resources to channels that deliver the highest ROI. By monitoring performance continuously, we ensure that scaling efforts yield sustainable growth. Our data-driven approach minimizes risk and maximizes returns, ensuring that your brand awareness campaigns deliver long-term value.

To further enhance performance, we continuously seek out new channels and emerging trends. By staying ahead of industry shifts, we ensure that your campaigns remain relevant and impactful.

Key Points Expanded

  1. Budget Optimization: Maximize ROI by reallocating budgets toward high-performing campaigns and channels.
  2. Multi-Channel Scaling: Expand your presence across additional high-value channels for increased reach.
  3. Performance Monitoring: Use real-time dashboards to monitor key performance indicators and adjust as needed.
  4. ROI Focus: Continuously refine strategies to increase ROI while minimizing waste in ad spend.

Budget optimization ensures that your marketing dollars are always working hard. Multi-channel scaling provides a broader reach, while real-time monitoring enables quick adjustments to keep performance on track.

Main Deliverables

  • Scaling roadmap
  • Multi-channel performance report
  • Budget optimization tracker
  • ROI monitoring dashboard

Why Partner With Us?

With a data-driven approach and proven success across industries, we help brands achieve measurable growth. Our expertise in performance marketing ensures that your brand awareness campaigns deliver real value, with transparency and precision every step of the way.

By partnering with us, you gain access to a team that prioritizes innovation and results. Our proven frameworks and advanced tools ensure that every campaign is optimized for success. Whether you're a startup looking to build your brand or an established company aiming to expand your reach, our tailored strategies deliver results you can measure.

Our commitment to transparency sets us apart. We believe in sharing every insight, every report, and every result with our clients. This collaborative approach ensures that you are always in the loop and confident in the direction of your campaigns.

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Why Choose
Setsail Marketing

A Full Service Marketing Studio

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Setsail R0I Framework™

Proven ROI Framework™

10+ years of experience delivering exceptional ROI for clients.

Official Platform Partners

Certified partners with Google Ads, Meta Business, and other leading platforms

Dedicated Team

Full-service in-house expertise crafting customized strategies for your success

Trusted Experience

Serving government agencies and businesses across the US & Canada

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Performance Marketing Package

Data-driven ad campaigns across multiple platforms, optimized for conversions, audience targeting, and ROI improvement. Includes campaign strategy, management, and performance reporting.

One time setup cost

$1,800

Monthly, starting at

$2,400

What is included, broken down:

Based on the strategy we build – the final pricing is determined based on the best strategy according to the Performance Marketing Strategy & Setup

Performance Marketing Strategy & Setup

One-time Cost

Market Insights & Audience Strategy

We conduct thorough market and competitor research, analyze target demographics and keywords, forecast outcomes, explore relevant channels, and set clear goals—laying a data-driven foundation for your campaign.

$ 1,200

Platform Configuration & Campaign Setup

We set up ad platforms, implement tracking, define precise audiences, and create campaign structures to optimize your launch and performance.

$600
per Platform

$1,800

Campaign Management Per Platform

Monthly Cost

Continuous Campaign Optimization & Testing

We continuously monitor performance, refine bids and budgets, test and optimize ad copy, run A/B experiments, and perform in-depth analyses to drive maximum ROI.

included

Data Analytics & Performance Reporting

We deliver clear, actionable reports, provide competitor insights, and highlight strategic opportunities so you always stay ahead of the market.

included

Creative Refresh & Conversion Optimization

We refine and update your current creative assets, test new concepts, and enhance landing pages each month, ensuring consistent, high-impact results and better conversions.

included

$2,400 /month

Ad Spend

Platform Cost

Media Investment & Budget Allocation

These are the funds powering the ads and strategies we create. This number will stay within a budget but fluctuate to get the best ROAS / CPA stat we’re after

$ --- /month

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Frequently asked questions

There's a lot to know, but we try to make it simple for you. Of course, always feel free to reach out to clarify any points.

How is performance marketing different from brand marketing?

Performance marketing focuses on measurable results like clicks and conversions, while brand marketing builds long-term brand perception and awareness.

Can performance marketing improve brand awareness?

Yes, it enhances brand awareness by delivering targeted campaigns to the right audience and optimizing based on real-time data.

How do you measure the success of a performance marketing campaign?

We track key performance indicators (KPIs) like click-through rate (CTR), cost-per-click (CPC), and return on investment (ROI).

Which channels do you specialize in for performance marketing?

We specialize in paid search, social media, programmatic ads, and affiliate marketing to deliver cross-channel brand growth.

How quickly can we expect results from performance marketing?

While initial improvements can be seen within weeks, sustainable growth typically requires 2-3 months of iterative optimization.

What makes your approach unique compared to other agencies?

Our approach combines deep data analysis, strategic foresight, and continuous iteration to ensure your campaigns are always optimized for peak performance.

What KPIs should we focus on?

Depending on your goals, key KPIs may include cost per acquisition (CPA), lifetime value (LTV), cost per click (CPC), and return on ad spend (ROAS).

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OTHER GOALS

Understanding All Goals for Performance Marketing

Campaigns have many different goals. Over the past 10 years we’ve perfected this with the Setsail ROI Framework

For Sales:

Drive direct conversions by creating targeted campaigns that encourage customers to purchase your products or services, ensuring measurable return on investment (ROI).

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For Leads:

Generate high-quality leads by capturing customer information through forms, gated content, or engaging ads tailored to your audience's interests.

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For Website Traffic:

Increase website visits by implementing strategies such as paid ads, SEO, and content promotion to boost online visibility and engagement.

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For App Promotion:

Promote app downloads and usage by leveraging app-install campaigns, in-app engagement strategies, and retargeting potential users across multiple platforms.

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For Brand Awareness

Build brand visibility and educate your audience about your offerings through attention-grabbing ads, content, and video campaigns designed to move them toward consideration.

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For Local Store Visits and Promotions:

Attract foot traffic to physical stores by using geo-targeted ads, special offers, and promotions aimed at increasing in-person engagement and sales.

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