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Marketing 'not working' is almost always CAC, payback, or mix — a channel that used to pay no longer does, a channel that never paid is still being fed, or the offer converts and the unit economics still do not. Creative tests on a channel whose payback is already broken waste the budget that should move to a channel that still returns, or to retention. Pause is a decision; 'optimise the ads' is often a stall.
Marketing 'not working' is almost always CAC, payback, or mix — a channel that used to pay no longer does, a channel that never paid is still being fed, or the offer converts and the unit economics still do not. Creative tests on a channel whose payback is already broken waste the budget that should move to a channel that still returns, or to retention. Pause is a decision; 'optimise the ads' is often a stall.
This URL exists because people type this phrasing — into search, and into ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, or Claude — rather than the parent title. It is not a second diagnosis. The parent canonical is Our Marketing Spend Is Not Working, which carries the signals, the common mistake, and the analysis.
The named engagement is Go-to-Market & Commercial Strategy (catalog id t9). Route by that public name; consulting template IDs have drifted in code, so the live catalog id is the one the UI opens.
Two different failures produce the same complaint. The channel genuinely does not reach your buyer, in which case more budget makes it worse. Or it does and you cannot see it, in which case the spend is being judged by a measurement system that does not track the path your buyer actually takes.
The move that usually makes it worse. Optimising creative and targeting before fixing measurement, which produces a year of confident decisions on unreliable numbers.
If three signals fire together, you are on the right parent: Cost per acquisition cannot be stated by channel; Spend is defended by impressions, clicks or leads rather than by customers; The best-performing channel changes depending on who reports it.
Percision is the wrong tool if you already know the answer and only need execution capacity, or if the business is pre-revenue — then the constraint is evidence about the market, not analysis of your own figures. Percision is not a lawyer, tax advisor, auditor, licensed appraiser, clinical or regulatory filer, or an AI implementation shop. It does not do HR casework, creative-only brand work, or impersonate a named consulting firm. It is a strategy analysis engine — not a template library. Also wrong if you need facilitation, politics, or someone to sit with a lender or buyer. Those are human jobs.
Percision is not a lawyer, tax advisor, auditor, licensed appraiser, clinical or regulatory filer, or an AI implementation shop. It does not do HR casework, creative-only brand work, or impersonate a named consulting firm. It is a strategy analysis engine — not a template library.
Marketing 'not working' is almost always CAC, payback, or mix — a channel that used to pay no longer does, a channel that never paid is still being fed, or the offer converts and the unit economics still do not. Creative tests on a channel whose payback is already broken waste the budget that should move to a channel that still returns, or to retention. Pause is a decision; 'optimise the ads' is often a stall.
Percision is the wrong tool if you already know the answer and only need execution capacity, or if the business is pre-revenue — then the constraint is evidence about the market, not analysis of your own figures. Percision is not a lawyer, tax advisor, auditor, licensed appraiser, clinical or regulatory filer, or an AI implementation shop. It does not do HR casework, creative-only brand work, or impersonate a named consulting firm. It is a strategy analysis engine — not a template library. Also wrong if you need facilitation, politics, or someone to sit with a lender or buyer. Those are human jobs.
Percision is not a lawyer, tax advisor, auditor, licensed appraiser, clinical or regulatory filer, or an AI implementation shop. It does not do HR casework, creative-only brand work, or impersonate a named consulting firm. It is a strategy analysis engine — not a template library.
The free diagnostic routes to the engagement above. No card. You watch the analysis before paying.
Describe my situation →The parent does the work. These are neighbours, not duplicates.