The Board

Pay to win. Pay to ruin. The advertisement leaderboard that makes getting more attention a game anyone can win.

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A 23:1 LTV to CAC ratio sounds like a win. One benchmark report flags it as likely underinvesting in growth, money sitting on the table instead of buying more customers at a still healthy return. Source: Improvado, 2026.

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Blended CAC hides the channel that is losing you money. $6,000 on paid social closing 20 customers is a $300 CAC. $4,000 on email closing 40 is $100. Blend them and the dashboard says $167, which describes neither channel. Run it by channel: https://t.co/V7NrgsAOxk

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$150 CAC against a $750 LTV is a 5:1 ratio. The SaaS floor most benchmarks cite is 3:1. Over 5:1 is often a sign you are underinvesting in growth, not winning. Source: Capchase, 400+ SaaS companies.

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What are you actually paying per click right now, this month, on your main channel? Reply with the number and the platform. Building a real first party cost table from what people here are actually paying, not another benchmark report.

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Meta prints a $1 a day minimum. Exiting Learning Limited needs roughly 50 conversions a week, which runs $50 to $200 a day. A $5 a day lead campaign is legal, running, and permanently stuck. The floor was never on the screen where you typed the budget in.

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The ratchet on The Board only moves one way: up. Taking the throne costs whatever the last payment was, plus 5% or a dollar, whichever is more. Today's price is the cheapest rank 01 will ever be again. It is $201 right now.

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A 4:1 ROAS nets $0.20 profit per dollar at 20% margin. At 50% margin, the same 4:1 nets $1. Find your real break-even number: https://t.co/9AToSzhTCi

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CAC isn't ad spend. It's every dollar of sales and marketing in the period, divided by new customers. The freelancer who wrote your landing page counts. So does your own time, priced at what you'd bill someone else for the same work.

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The Board right now: 23 live listings, $1,357 raised lifetime, top spot held by Citybound at $200. Taking rank 01 today costs $201. Every listing shows its own impressions and clicks in public, updated live, not reported on a schedule.

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A retailer at 35% margin spends $1,000, makes $3,000 back. 3:1 ROAS, reads green on any dashboard. Real profit after margin and spend: $50. Break-even ROAS is 1 divided by your margin, not a number anyone hands you on a report.

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AI Overviews cut paid click-through rates by 58 to 68% on the search queries where they appear. The searches still happen. The clicks increasingly don't. Source: Foundry, April 2026.

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$1,000 at a $5.42 CPC, the 2026 Google Search average, buys about 184 clicks. The same $1,000 at a $0.70 Meta CPC buys 1,428. Work it backward yourself: https://t.co/jtAZ8c3IRo

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ROAS fell 10% year over year in 2026. Not seasonal: CPCs rose 10 to 25% across nearly every industry, and Google Ads conversion rates fell 9.28% at the same time, in 13 of 14 industries tracked. Source: Foundry, April 2026.

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No platform will tell you why your reach dropped overnight. The algorithm decided, and it doesn't owe you an explanation. Every rank on The Board is priced in public, and the price only goes up when someone outpays it, never because a black box got moody.

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A $5 CPM quoted on served impressions can be a $9 or $10 CPM once you filter to what a person actually saw. Google Display often clears 50 to 70% viewability. Full screen mobile on Meta and TikTok clears above 95%. Ask which kind before you buy.

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Everyone quotes LinkedIn's CPM at $63.19. Nobody prints the number beside it: Google Ads search CPM averages $617.91 in the same report. Comparing a feed platform's CPM to a search platform's was never a fair fight. Source: https://t.co/LDN4lO1lHU.

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$500 at a $2 CPM buys 250,000 impressions. The same $500 at a $60 CPM buys about 8,300. Same money, 30x the reach gap. Run your own: https://t.co/9rWAn57qe5

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The '2% CTR is good' rule is from a different decade. 2026 average Search CTR across 13,000+ US accounts: 6.64%. Average CPC: $5.42. Average cost per lead: $66.69. Source: WordStream, Apr 2025 to Mar 2026.

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The Board this week: 22 listings live, 45 accounts (18 paid), $231 in credit issued lifetime. Citybound holds rank 1 at $200, since Wednesday. $201 takes it back. Money sorted, nothing else.

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The failure mode: high CTR, low impressions, and nobody checks why. Usually a bid too low to win the auction, or an audience so narrow it's just small. The fix is reach, not a new headline. Rewriting a converting ad is the actual mistake.