Money Well Spent — The Seven-Figure Test Behind Doubling Qualified Leads

How to Get More From a Seven-Figure Ad Budget: Judging which paid channels deserve more money and which are only absorbing it.

Shraddha Pradhan runs paid acquisition at the level where a wasted month costs more than most marketing teams spend in a year. Over ten-plus years she has owned seven-figure monthly budgets across Google, Meta, LinkedIn, YouTube, Amazon and programmatic for companies including MaintainX and FreshBooks, and the lesson she keeps proving is that the size of the budget decides almost nothing. At MaintainX she scaled channel budgets more than three times over and doubled product-qualified leads year on year by fixing the mix, the creative and the measurement before adding a dollar. She walks through how to tell a channel that is genuinely working from one that is only absorbing money, which tests earn a bigger budget, and what gets cut first when the numbers stop moving. Listeners leave able to audit their own ad spend line by line and defend every dollar to a finance team.

About Shraddha Pradhan

Shraddha Pradhan, podcast guest

Performance Marketing & Demand Generation Strategist

10+ years Scaling paid acquisition across SaaS, app and B2B7-figure Monthly ad spends owned and optimized3X+ Channel budgets scaled at MaintainX2X PQLs year over year from app acquisition

Shraddha Pradhan is a performance marketing and demand generation leader who has spent more than a decade answering one of the most important questions in growth: How do you turn marketing spend into measurable pipeline and revenue?

Originally trained as an electronics and communications engineer, Shraddha made an unconventional move into marketing and built her expertise from the ground up - working across agency and in-house environments, B2B and B2C, and brands ranging from global names to fast-growing technology companies.

Her career eventually took her deep into B2B SaaS, where she helped build and scale performance marketing engines for ambitious growth-stage businesses. At MaintainX, Shraddha scaled paid media investment from approximately $100,000 to $3.5 million per month, using data and commercial results to demonstrate where greater investment could generate greater returns.

Today, she advises early-stage and Series A technology companies on building performance marketing engines designed to accelerate customer acquisition, pipeline and revenue.

But Shraddha's philosophy goes far beyond running better ads.

She is a revenue-first marketer who believes one of the biggest mistakes businesses make is judging marketing by what happens inside an advertising platform. A campaign can generate the right lead at the right cost and still fail if the wider system - messaging, lifecycle, speed-to-lead, sales follow-up and conversion - isn't working.

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