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How the audit finds
where revenue leaks.

The audit takes two weeks. It isn't a brand review or a list of best practices. It's a search for one number: the step in your funnel that converts far worse than it should. Here's how I find it, and why fixing it is almost always the best money you'll spend first.

01

Your funnel is
a chain of rates.

Every funnel is a handful of steps, each with a conversion rate. Multiply them together and you get revenue. When I map a client's funnel, one rate almost always sits far below where it should, and it's rarely the one the team is worried about.

Visitors10,000
2%→
Leads200
30%→
Qualified60
8%the leak
Deals5

Illustrative funnel. In this example the last step should be closer to 20%, which is what it does when qualified leads get a fast, prepared follow-up.

02

Why the weakest step
wins.

Because the rates multiply, improving any step lifts the result by the same proportion. What differs is how far each step can realistically move, and what it costs to move it. So I line every lever up side by side.

LeverTodayRealisticDeals
Double the ad spend10,00020,00010
Site conversion2%2.5%6
Qualification30%35%6
Qualified → deal8%20%12

Illustrative, each lever moved on its own from the funnel above. Deals rounded.

The middle two are worth doing eventually. The bottom one beats doubling the ad spend on its own, and it costs no media budget, because everything above it is already paid for. Doubling ad spend doubles the bill to get fewer deals, and the leak is still there, now leaking twice as much. That is what "find the leak before adding fuel" means in numbers.

03

What I look at
in two weeks.

Four things, and I need access rather than a presentation. Where a number doesn't exist yet, that's a finding too: you can't fix a step you can't see.

FunnelEvery step from first visit to closed deal, with a real rate on each.
CRMHow leads arrive, who owns them, how fast they get a reply, and where they sit untouched.
StackEvery tool you pay for, what it's connected to, and what data falls out between them.
NumbersClosed revenue traced back to its source, and what each channel really costs per deal.
What you get on day 14

A written plan, ranked by impact divided by effort, so the first item is the one that moves the most revenue for the least work. You can run it yourself or hire me to run it. It's yours either way.

$3.3M online for NWOT Outlet in under 30 months, at a consistent 6 to 8× blended ROAS. The store, the funnel and the email machine came first; paid was scaled against real ROAS, not guesses.

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