Running Dry — Why the Channel That Built the Pipeline Stops Filling It

When a Paid Channel Stops Working: Spotting channel fatigue early and moving budget before pipeline drops.

Shraddha Pradhan has watched the same pattern across app, SaaS and B2B accounts. The channel that built the pipeline quietly stops delivering, and the team answers by pushing more money into it. With over ten years buying media at seven-figure monthly scale for companies including MaintainX and FreshBooks, she reads the early signals, including a rising cost per qualified lead, creative fatigue, and an audience already reached three times over, before the quarter goes sideways. At MaintainX she scaled budgets more than three times over by moving money across Google, Meta, LinkedIn, YouTube, Amazon and programmatic rather than pushing one channel past its limit, and doubled product-qualified leads year on year while doing it. She covers when to open a new channel, how long to give it to prove itself, and what to protect while it does. Listeners leave knowing how to spot a drying channel a full quarter early.

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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