Michelle wanted to build a Podcast and Instagram community around learning the French language as an adult, as she was living in Paris and found it difficult to access easy resources which would help her acquire fluency faster. She particularly wanted to focus on high quality audio resources.

She wanted to spend $0 in paid marketing, and build the community organically.

Michelle was approached by a fintech B2B SaaS company to scale their paid growth marketing efforts. Through a careful data-driven approach, Michelle experimented with multiple paid channels and identified the most promising channel based upon the Cost of Acquisition (CAC).

Up until now, the company had not experimented with paid channels, and weren't sure if they could make the costs work for their self-serve software product.

Doing very well on Facebook but need help with Google Shopping, search (and eventually YouTube) need to keep above a 3.5x return while spending more.

Celebrante is an Australian celebrant directory which makes money from celebrants when users make an enquiry with them through the Celebrante website.

The business model is simple, generate enquiries through the website at less than it costs in marketing to generate the enquiry.

The previous owner was forced to sell the website after rising Google AdWords costs had made the website no longer profitable.

Lance Tapsell, a long-time celebrant and customer of the site decided to purchase it and try to get it profitable again.

By engaging Pathfinder, the business was able to dramatically reduce its cost per lead and ensure profitability for the business and its future.