For local businesses spending on ads — or about to
Know Where to Advertise Before You Spend Another Dollar.
A free 2-minute diagnosis that shows the channel your business should advertise on, your Ad Readiness score, and the #1 thing holding your growth back.
Built by the team behind ads earning 7–12% click-through to landing pages.
$15.19
Cost per new seller · Marketplace client
7–12%
Click-through rate from our ads to landing pages
$25K
In sales in 72 hours · $200 product launch
1M+
Followers on a single channel we built
In the next 2 minutes, you'll discover:
- Which channel deserves your first advertising dollar — Meta, Google, or LinkedIn — based on how customers actually find businesses like yours.
- Boosting posts is the easy way to advertise, right? Wrong. The campaign structure behind ads that send 7–12% of viewers to the landing page — several times what typical Meta ads get.
- What you should never do before spending a dollar on ads — the step most businesses (and most agencies) skip.
- The #1 ceiling holding your growth back, pinpointed from your answers: your message, your creative, your follow-up, or your budget.
- How to know if you're ready to advertise — before you spend a dime finding out the hard way.
- Why your ads might not be the problem at all — and where your leads are really slipping away.
You know you need to advertise. Nobody will tell you where.
Facebook says advertise on Facebook. Google says Google. The agency down the street says you need all of it, on a retainer, for twelve months. So you boost a few posts. Maybe you try Google for a month. The money goes out, a few clicks come in, and you're left wondering whether ads just don't work for your business.
They do. But most businesses start on the wrong channel, with an untested message, and no way to tell which part is broken. This diagnosis fixes the first problem in two minutes — and shows you exactly which part to fix next.
How it works
Answer 9 questions
About your business, your customers, and how you market today.
Get your diagnosis
Your growth channel, readiness score, #1 ceiling, and a 3-step plan, instantly.
Build your plan
Book a free strategy call to map the exact campaign your business should run.
Real results · Southern California online marketplace
The same process you're about to start — diagnosis, plan, result.
$607.56
Ad spend
186
High-intent leads
40
New sellers listing
- 1
The diagnosis
A Southern California online marketplace had a supply problem: no sellers listing items, so there was nothing for dealers to buy. Growth channel: Meta video. #1 growth ceiling: the message — sellers didn't yet see a reason to list.
- 2
The plan
We defined the ideal seller, wrote hooks around their problem, produced the video creative, and built a campaign with one clear action: list your first item.
- 3
The result
By Month 2: 186 high-intent leads and 40 new sellers listing, on $607.56 in ad spend — $15.19 per seller. Each listing can generate up to 3 dealer sales at $45 each: up to $135 in revenue from a $15.19 acquisition. Time on site more than doubled, from 18 seconds to 40.
186
High-intent leads
from 0 in Month 1
40
New sellers listing
from 0 in Month 1
$15.19
Cost per new seller
$607.56 total spend
+123%
Time on site
18.1s → 40.3s
Results from one client engagement. Your results depend on your market, offer, budget, and follow-up.
Your diagnosis is Step 1. The strategy call is Step 2.
Built by a team that makes the ads, not just talks about them
Pixel Smash Studio
We're a strategy, video, and advertising studio built on one standard: not views, not likes — return.
Pixel Smash was founded by Barrett Haywood, who built a single channel to more than 1 million followers and used content to drive $25,000 in sales in 72 hours on a $200 product. He's a U.S. Marine Corps veteran who spent years in wealth management and banking, helping business owners make return-on-investment decisions with real money.
Every engagement runs on our DASE℠ system: Data, Art, Story, Executable Strategy.
Two minutes now, or another month of guessing.
Find out where your business should advertise, what's holding it back, and what to do about it — free.
P.S. Every month you advertise on the wrong channel, or with an untested message, is budget you don't get back. The diagnosis takes 2 minutes and costs nothing.