Your martech stack is probably 40% redundant. Here's how to find out.
Most marketing teams accumulate tools the way offices accumulate printers — one at a time, for specific problems, until nobody knows what anything is for.
Audit methodology:
Step 1: Export your SaaS billing from your company credit card. List every tool with its monthly cost and the last time someone logged in (check billing admin panels for last login data).
Step 2: Map each tool to a marketing function. If two tools cover the same function, flag them.
Step 3: Check integration health. Tools that aren't connected to your CRM or analytics platform are islands. Data islands create reporting blind spots.
Step 4: Run a 2-week "tool holiday" on the flagged duplicates. Disable access, see who complains. The tools nobody notices are the ones you can cancel.
Typical findings: 2-3 tools doing the same email segmentation, a landing page builder that's been replaced by a newer tool but still has active pages, social scheduling tools that nobody posts from.
Stack audits usually surface $200-600/month in immediate cancellations.
Most marketing teams accumulate tools the way offices accumulate printers — one at a time, for specific problems, until nobody knows what anything is for.
Audit methodology:
Step 1: Export your SaaS billing from your company credit card. List every tool with its monthly cost and the last time someone logged in (check billing admin panels for last login data).
Step 2: Map each tool to a marketing function. If two tools cover the same function, flag them.
Step 3: Check integration health. Tools that aren't connected to your CRM or analytics platform are islands. Data islands create reporting blind spots.
Step 4: Run a 2-week "tool holiday" on the flagged duplicates. Disable access, see who complains. The tools nobody notices are the ones you can cancel.
Typical findings: 2-3 tools doing the same email segmentation, a landing page builder that's been replaced by a newer tool but still has active pages, social scheduling tools that nobody posts from.
Stack audits usually surface $200-600/month in immediate cancellations.
Paid search cases where automation actually beat manual
Five accounts that handed control to the machine — with results. Curated, sourced.
— 1. A retailer's tCPA migration — moved off manual bids; conversions rose 16% at the same CPA once it had 30 days of conversion data. Read for the learning-period reality.
— 2. A SaaS's search-term sculpting — fed negative keywords from a query report to a script weekly; wasted spend dropped 22%. The automation script is the gift.
— 3. A DTC's value-based bidding — passed margin (not revenue) to Smart Bidding; profit per click rose 13% even as raw conversions dipped. The margin-signal trick is the lesson.
— 4. A lead-gen brand's offline-conversion import — fed closed-won deals back to Google; the algorithm chased real revenue, CPL on qualified leads fell 19%. Essential for long sales cycles.
— 5. A marketplace's PMax structure audit — split asset groups by margin tier, stopped subsidizing low-margin SKUs; blended profit up 9%. Skip if you don't run PMax.
That's the stack for this week. Forward to a teammate.
Five accounts that handed control to the machine — with results. Curated, sourced.
— 1. A retailer's tCPA migration — moved off manual bids; conversions rose 16% at the same CPA once it had 30 days of conversion data. Read for the learning-period reality.
— 2. A SaaS's search-term sculpting — fed negative keywords from a query report to a script weekly; wasted spend dropped 22%. The automation script is the gift.
— 3. A DTC's value-based bidding — passed margin (not revenue) to Smart Bidding; profit per click rose 13% even as raw conversions dipped. The margin-signal trick is the lesson.
— 4. A lead-gen brand's offline-conversion import — fed closed-won deals back to Google; the algorithm chased real revenue, CPL on qualified leads fell 19%. Essential for long sales cycles.
— 5. A marketplace's PMax structure audit — split asset groups by margin tier, stopped subsidizing low-margin SKUs; blended profit up 9%. Skip if you don't run PMax.
That's the stack for this week. Forward to a teammate.
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