How to Launch Paid Acquisition in a New Market

Entering a New Market With Paid Media: A launch sequence for testing channels, setting budgets and reading early results.

Shraddha Pradhan leads cross-functional paid acquisition at MaintainX, where she owns seven-figure monthly ad spend across Google, Meta, LinkedIn, YouTube, Amazon and programmatic platforms. Over ten years in performance marketing, including FreshBooks, she has opened new markets and new channels from a standing start, and has scaled channel budgets more than threefold in her current role. This conversation covers the unglamorous part: what to test first in a market with no historical data, how much budget a real read needs, how long to wait before calling a result, and when to shut a channel down rather than keep optimising it. She also covers the reporting side, including how paid results get explained to a leadership team that wants pipeline, not impressions. Listeners leave with a launch sequence for a new market or channel, and the numbers that say whether it is working yet.

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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