Customer Acquisition Strategy

Your marketing should pay for itself.

I help growth-stage businesses build customer acquisition systems where the front end funds the back end — turning marketing from a cost center into a revenue engine.

$2M+

In managed ad spend

$6.6M

Revenue generated

3–5×

Buyer conversion lift

The Problem

Growing businesses are spending more on marketing and getting less for it.

01

Rising Acquisition Costs

Every major ad platform is getting more expensive. The customer who cost $40 to acquire three years ago now costs $75–$100, with no improvement in lifetime value to show for it.

02

Cash Flow Under Pressure

Growth requires upfront capital with delayed returns. You pay for ads before customers convert, creating a cycle where faster growth means tighter cash flow.

03

Agency Roulette

Most $3–10M businesses have cycled through two to four agencies, spending $100K–$250K with little to show for it. The model is broken, not the execution.

The Model

Customer-Funded Growth

An acquisition model where the process of acquiring a customer generates revenue — partially or entirely — before the customer ever buys your core product or service.

Traditional Acquisition

Spend first. Hope later.

Monthly ad spend $10,000
Leads generated 200
Customers acquired 20
Front-end revenue $0
Cost per customer $500
Time to ROI 60–90 days
vs.

Customer-Funded Growth

Revenue from day one.

Monthly ad spend $10,000
Entry product buyers 400
Customers acquired 40
Front-end revenue $18,800
Net cost per customer $0
Time to ROI Same billing cycle

Built on the same economic model used by

Costco, Amazon Prime, Dollar Shave Club, HubSpot, and the most valuable growth companies in the world — adapted for businesses doing $3M–$10M in revenue.

Who This Is For

Customer-Funded Growth works across industries.

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Professional Services

Law firms, accounting practices, and consultancies using paid diagnostics and audits to fund client acquisition.

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Health & Wellness

Med spas, dental practices, and clinics using introductory treatments to offset patient acquisition costs.

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E-Commerce & DTC

Product brands using starter kits and curated entry products to create buyers from cold traffic.

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Home Services & Trades

HVAC, plumbing, and landscaping companies using paid inspections to convert to high-margin projects.

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SaaS & Software

Software companies using paid onboarding sprints to drive subscription conversion and reduce churn.

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Agencies & B2B

Service businesses using entry-level engagements to demonstrate capability and ascend to retainers.

"The most successful companies in the world do not treat customer acquisition as an expense. They treat it as a revenue event."
— From the Customer-Funded Growth Manifesto
Allie Bjerk
About

Strategy built on math, not theory.

I've spent over $2 million on paid advertising — not managing it for clients from a distance, but building and testing acquisition systems hands-on, dollar by dollar, across dozens of industries and business models.

That work led to a discovery most marketing consultants never make: the acquisition process itself can generate revenue. I built a proprietary methodology — Customer-Funded Growth — that restructures how businesses acquire customers so that marketing pays for itself from day one.

I work with established businesses doing $3M–$10M in annual revenue who are ready to stop treating marketing as a cost center and start treating it as a growth engine.

$2M+

Personal ad spend

$6.6M

Revenue generated

1,000+

Businesses advised

What would it mean if your marketing paid for itself?

Let's find out. Schedule a strategy call to explore whether Customer-Funded Growth is the right model for your business.

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