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Test New Paid Social Channel

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Problem

Scenario

You work on a B2B SaaS product that sells IT management software to mid-market companies. The growth team wants to test a new paid social acquisition channel that targets IT admins and operations leaders, and believes the channel may bring higher-intent traffic than existing paid search but at a higher top-of-funnel cost. You can route eligible ad traffic to either the new channel treatment or the current paid acquisition mix as control, then measure downstream product and sales outcomes. The team wants evidence that the new channel improves efficient pipeline generation, not just clicks or form fills.

Constraints

  • Eligible paid social audience can drive about 12,000 ad clicks per week
  • Maximum experiment duration: 6 weeks
  • Test budget cap: $180,000 incremental media spend
  • Sales-qualified opportunity rate must not decline by more than 10% relative
  • Blended CAC payback for influenced deals must remain under 18 months

Question

How would you design this experiment end to end so you can decide whether to scale the new paid social channel, including the success metric, randomization approach, power and MDE, analysis plan, and how you would protect against common experimentation pitfalls?