Paid ads without a funnel is lighting money on fire.
Most ad agencies are measured on one thing: can they deliver clicks? They’re not incentivized to care where those clicks land. You pay for traffic, that traffic hits a landing page written by someone else, read by a prospect who hasn’t been warmed up by a pre-sell, gets dropped into an email sequence nobody rewrote this year, and disappears. You got charged for every click along the way.
The problem isn’t the ad spend. The problem is that ads without a matching funnel is 80% waste by design. You can’t out-target a bad offer. You can’t out-bid a landing page that doesn’t convert. You can’t A/B-test your way out of a sales page that misdiagnoses the market.