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Brand ROI: Metrics That Matter in the First 90 Days
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Summary
Growth adds complexity — in reach, messaging and measurement. As awareness scales, what was clear quickly tangles: more leads, a thinner pipeline. The solution isn’t more activity; it’s defining demand first — the problem, triggers and capture paths. When teams see the same picture, awareness amplifies fit, and growth becomes predictable.
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In this video, Preetum Mistry (CEO & Managing Partner) explains why chasing brand awareness won’t fix your demand challenges—and what to do instead.Our Perspective
What this means for leaders navigating growth, change or transformation in their organisation.
The Hidden Trade-Off
Awareness is appealing because it’s easy to buy, easy to count, and easy to celebrate. Yet the quiet cost is misalignment between what you amplify and what actually creates revenue. Visibility without relevance accumulates attention you can’t convert. The practical question is not “How many saw it?” but “Which buyers recognised a problem you’re best placed to solve—and took the next step?”
The Content Marketing Institute notes that 87% of B2B marketers say content mostly lifts brand awareness, which highlights how much effort still clusters at the top of the funnel rather than at moments of intent. Awareness is necessary; it’s just insufficient on its own.
Design For Demand
A more dependable route is to architect demand first and set awareness to serve it. That means picking one sharp problem, defining the signals that mark an in-market buyer, and choreographing how people move from education to evaluation to purchase. When you design the demand path—positioning, problem education, and capture—awareness becomes a precision tool, not a loudhailer.
In our experience with mid-market organisations, the fixation on reach inflates lead counts while the sales pipeline thins. The remedy is to make awareness the outer layer of a system built for fit, timing, and proof—not a standalone objective.
Signals Of Misfit
When awareness outruns demand design, the symptoms arrive before the cause is obvious. Look for tell-tale patterns that compound over quarters:
- Lead totals rise while qualified opportunities fall; discounts creep in as cycles lengthen.
- Teams chase impressions and clicks; sales disputes lead quality; energy fragments across tactics.
- Buyers remember slogans, not outcomes; repeated promises replace substance and trust erodes.
These are not media problems. They’re positioning and path problems that media alone can’t fix.
Operating Changes
Leaders can reset the system by aligning message, market, and measurement around fit and timing:
- Define the ideal customer by urgent problem, buying triggers, and explicit disqualifiers.
- Build a message architecture: problem framing, distinct value, and proof stories mapped to stages.
- Engineer capture paths: diagnostic tools, right-sized commitments, and clear handovers to sales.
- Reset metrics: prioritise cost per qualified opportunity, win rate, and deal velocity over impressions.
Do this, and awareness stops being a volume game. It becomes an amplifier for a demand engine tuned to the right buyers at the right moment—where every campaign sharpens learning and compounds trust, and growth becomes more predictable.
Sources:
- B2B Content Marketing Benchmarks — Content Marketing Institute
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