Optimise on closed deals
With a four-month cycle, form fills are the wrong target and the algorithm will confidently chase the wrong buyers for a year.
Cheap clicks are easy. Cheap customers are the job — and in Pune the two are frequently in opposition.
Automotive manufacturing and IT sit side by side here, and the student population is large enough to visibly distort seasonality — consumer demand drops in the summer break and spikes again at intake. Campaign calendars built on national averages consistently misread Pune.
Campaigns run in Marathi, Hindi and English where the audience warrants it.
Proofox is a performance marketing agency in Pune working with manufacturers, auto component suppliers, IT services firms and education groups. Search volumes in these categories are small, deal values are large, and the sales cycle runs for months — a combination that makes most default campaign advice actively wrong.
Optimising on form fills in this market misleads the algorithm rather than helping it. With a four-month cycle the only honest signal is closed revenue imported back into the ad platform, so bidding learns which clicks eventually became customers rather than which produced the most enquiries. It also means conversion rate matters far more than traffic: a few hundred searches a month is not a problem when one of them is worth several lakhs, so the budget goes into the landing page well before it goes into bids.
Pune rewards patience and punishes accounts optimised for monthly reporting. What decides whether spend works:
With a four-month cycle, form fills are the wrong target and the algorithm will confidently chase the wrong buyers for a year.
Small volumes and large deals mean the landing page matters more than the bid.
Procurement teams arrive with a specification. Marketing language loses them before the enquiry.
Month two will look empty. We agree in advance which signals count as progress so nobody panics.
CRM integration is not a refinement here, it is what makes the account work at all.
We import closed deals back from your CRM before we scale anything, because with a four-month cycle and these deal values, an account judged on enquiry count will chase the wrong queries with complete confidence for a year.
Ad spend is paid directly to Google and Meta and is never marked up, so we have no reason to recommend spending more than the account can profitably absorb. The same senior people stay on your account in month twelve as in month one.
The same scope we run everywhere, adapted to how buying actually happens in this market.
Where the budget currently leaks, quantified in the first two weeks.
Search, Shopping and Performance Max structured for control, with disciplined negatives.
Where creative is the targeting. New concepts weekly, tested one variable at a time.
Made in-house and refreshed continuously — usually the largest lever available in Pune.
Built and tested by us, because paid traffic to a weak page wastes the budget.
Qualified-lead and revenue signals sent back so bidding chases customers, not form fills.
Most clients here start with one and add the others once the reporting proves out.
Same team, same reporting, adapted to each market.
Send a short brief and a strategist — not a salesperson — replies within one working day with an honest read on whether we are the right fit.
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