Omni Lab Consulting

Omni Lab is a demand gen agency for Series A to Series D B2B SaaS companies. We help you create, manage, and optimize paid advertising campaigns across most major ad channels like LinkedIn, Google Ads, YouTube, Display, Reddit, TikTok, and more.

We focus on optimizing for leading and lagging indicators to ensure your paid efforts are driving qualified leads and opportunities that meet your ICP.

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Co-Founder @ Omni Lab | Paid Media for B2B SaaS brands

Over the last 15+ years, I've worked for 4 VC backed SaaS companies, consulted with more than 100+, helped 1 get acquired, 1 reach unicorn status, and many more generate millions in net new revenue.

I've also seen a handful of those startups go out of business...including my own SaaS business so I know many of the mistakes. 

Over that time I've noticed that the buyer's journey has evolved. 

Today buyers have the power.

Yet, many SaaS businesses still continue to run the same programs that worked a decade ago. 

They continue to over-rely on lead gen and create friction in the buying process. 

This is pushing customer acquisition costs sky high and causing many to miss their targets. 

The way forward is to take a buyer-centric approach to creating and capturing demand. 

Buyer-centric demand gen is when your funnel aligns with how the buyer wants to learn about your company. 

It means you write in the language your buyer understands, you consider how they consume information, and when and how they want to buy. 

When you take a buyer-centric approach you generate more pipeline and revenue and an enduring brand. 

This is why we started Omni Lab.

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What we do for Series A to Series C SaaS startups:

→ Manage and optimize paid media across any digital channel
→ Distribute content/messaging via paid to grow pipeline and revenue
→ Build out engaging ad creative
→ Focus on optimizing the funnel based on pipeline and revenue. 

Results from SaaS companies we have worked with: 

→ Unicorn Status in 10 months
→ Grew pipeline 372% and lead > opp rate 266%
→ 1,300% increase in revenue Q3 > Q4
→ 20% increase in revenue Q over Q

If you are looking to create and capture demand via paid media, let's chat :) 

email: jonathan@omnilabconsulting.com or DM me

Jonathan Bland

If I were a VP of Marketing/Founder/CEO, and I were trying to get my first 100 users. I wouldn't use paid ads. 

I'd first focus on doing the following (in this order)

1.) Email/call/reach out to everyone you already know that could be a fit
2.) Email/call/reach out to everyone you know that might know your ICP
3.) Email/call/reach out to people that could be a fit that you don't know
4.) Post/engage thoughtfully on social media

Ideally, these all happen before you even build the production app, so you can validate that there is a problem and that demand already exists. (we know that doesn't happen sometimes...)
 
In this time, you'll learn:

- The messaging that resonates best
- The top use cases/problems for your product
- The positioning that worked best
- The specific segments that convert better
- And so on

Which will then derisk your investment in paid media and ultimately your product roadmap. 

It doesn't mean everything will be "figured out", but many of the fundamentals will be in place to allow channels to have a better ROI.

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Co-Founder @ Omni Lab | Paid Media for B2B SaaS brands (HIRING)

"You can have the best product in the world. But if no one knows about it, you have NOTHING."

Arnold wasn’t wrong.

In categories where every product starts to look the same, mental availability becomes the real advantage.

If you’re not top of mind when they’re ready to buy, you’re invisible.

It looks like we are forecasted to close out 2025 at a 34% YoY growth rate. 

And I couldn't be happier with what the entire Omni Team has accomplished; this can't be achieved without all of you!

And most importantly, to all the SaaS brands that trusted us with their paid media strategy. 

And to the many more that helped provide feedback and advice along the way, especially my Pops ;) 

We are by no means perfect, but with every mistake we have made along the way, we have done our best to take in that feedback to get better. 

I can tell you with complete conviction that we will continue to push ourselves harder to do everything in our control to put any brand we work with in the best position to increase brand awareness and drive pipeline through paid media. 

And with that growth, we are starting up conversations in search of the following roles:

- Sr. Paid Search Manager
- Sr. Paid Social Manager
- Sr. Demand Gen Manager (paid focus)

If you are in the U.S. and have strong in-house experience at a SaaS brand or support SaaS brands at an agency, I'd love to chat. 

Even if you aren't quite ready to move, I'd like to meet, as it could be a fit down the road. :)

We look for people who are:

- Curious, like to go deep
- Focus on pipeline accountability
- Deeply technical with paid media
- Deep experience working with CRMs 
- Good at communicating and setting expectations
- Stay up to date with the latest things happening in SaaS

Drop me a DM and we'll find some time over the next couple of weeks to chat. 

Once again, thanks to all who have supported and trusted us. 🙏 🙏 🙏

People forget that buyers buy on their timeline. 

Not on yours. 

Just the other day, a vendor gave me a deadline to close a contract. 

They said, "We can offer the discount until the end of the month."

My first reaction was feeling pressure to sign the deal. (what they want)

Then I just felt like I was being rushed to buy something. 

It made me want to abandon the whole deal. 

This isn't the type of environment you want to create for buyers. 

During the sales process or before. 

However, we often spend so much energy trying to convert people who aren’t even close to making a decision yet.

Instead, we need to find ways to "eat up" more mental real estate so we are the first brand that pops into their minds. 

We can do that by: 

- Building deep relationships with them
- Helping them with something
- Being clear with what we do
- Creating memorable moments
- Sharing something they value

Stop trying to force the sale, be a helpful guide, and stay top of mind so when they are ready, they choose you on their timeline.

I'm a bit worried about you. 

We just launched the campaign, and you want to know how it's performing?

Coming from a sales background, I used to think marketing’s job was simple: deliver more inbound leads so I could hit quota with fewer cold calls. 

Over time, I realized most of the real impact marketing generates isn’t visible in the short term and doesn’t look like a “lead.”

Yet, marketing is under more pressure than ever to deliver "leads". 

A recent survey by MarketingWeek found that 37.7% are under pressure to deliver leads, regardless of quality (unacceptable in my book). 

And 52% claim senior leadership fails to understand the importance of marketing beyond lead generation. (yep, we all know this and feel this)

Marketing can be a short-term lead generator and needs to connect back to business outcomes; however, you'd be incredibly short-sighted if you think that's all marketing "does". 

Marketing is:

- Positioning the product so sales can increase win rates
- Building mental availability so cold outbound reply rates increase
- Building content engines that engage and build trust with buyers before they are in-market
- Making the website clear so buyers understand what the hell you do
- Feeding marketing insights to the product team to guide the product roadmap
- And more

Many of those things don't show up as “leads" in the CRM, yet they make selling dramatically easier in the long term.

So from the sales perspective, it’s easy to conclude that if marketing isn't driving leads, it isn't doing anything because the impact isn’t always immediate or visible.

And from marketing’s perspective, it’s exhausting to constantly defend long-term work to short-term pressures.

The reality?

1.) Marketing needs to help the whole org understand what it's doing to drive both short and long-term goals. 

2.) And ensure proper expectations are set, as everything marketing does can't be measured with the same brush. 

3.) In addition, focus on reframing the way you talk about other initiatives that aren't directly related to promotion. 

Instead of saying “we are redoing messaging and positioning this quarter to better position the company in the category.”

You say, “We are reworking how we position ourselves in the category to help buyers better understand why we are a better choice against alternative solutions, which will help improve lead-to-opportunity conversion rates."

Like everything, it's about balance, setting the proper expectations, and helping educate senior leadership on how to measure different initiatives.

Easier said than done.

How would you feel if you told your CEO that you saved the company $100k?

And that you reallocated that budget to better-performing campaigns, which should drive an estimated x number of high-intent conversions. 

I can't think of any VP of Marketing who wouldn't want to share that story. 

And this is exactly the story for this SaaS brand that's raised more than $100M.

Over the past 3 months, they have spent $99,849k on keywords with zero conversions. 

Here’s how to see if you have the same opportunity:

1.) Export or build a report in Google Ads and pull metrics/attributes that include: keywords, clicks, impressions, CPC, cost, conversions, conversion rate, and search impression share. 

2.) Take the average cost per conversion for a similar campaign (e.g., non-brand)

3.) Apply a filter to your report to be set at 1.5-2x (or an amount you are comfortable with) the average cost per conversion

4.) Apply a filter to the conversion column to look for keywords that have spent 1.5-2x your average cost per conversion with zero conversions. 

That’s it. Or you can automate this with rules; albeit, I still think some human oversight is important. 

Generally, I’d start with reviewing the brands CRM or offline conversions; however, if conversion tracking is set up correctly, that should be sufficient to guide you on what to cut keywords that have produced zero conversions. 

Many of these keywords for this SaaS brand generally aligned with the brand; however, 20 other keywords in the account aren't close to being maxed out. 

So while you could argue you should review:

- search terms report
- match types
- ad copy
- landing page,
- Etc.  

...You already have clear proof that these other 20 keywords are driving high-intent conversions right now. 

You can always come back to keywords that have been cut to work on all those things I mentioned, but if you are looking for something that can help improve performance in the short-term, that is where you should start.

Why is it getting more expensive to acquire customers?

There is no question that 2025 has been the year of "how do we get more efficient with our marketing spend".

The Emerging Cloud Index shows public software companies down 6.3% YTD. 

Pavilion did a survey back in May of 2025 showing the new CAC Ratio for new customers continues to rise, 14% higher in 2024.

And many CMOs I talk to still don't have enough pipeline coverage.

Meanwhile, every channel is dead or dying (according to {insert name} thought leader).

The reality is that it's much more complex than asking "what's the best channel or tactic?"

Your product, positioning, brand, pricing, and sales motion all impact CAC. 

You can have the BEST marketing in the world with the best content, but if your product isn't solving a big problem at an affordable cost, then it doesn't matter how many ads you run. 

There are, however, ALWAYS things in your control as a marketer that can help improve efficiency, and those are the variables you need to focus on. 

Take a look at the deck below from a recent Factors.ai webinar I hosted with ✌🏻Jason S., to hear four practical things you can do. 

TL;DR Focus first on what you can control, then use other macro-level data points to support the narrative of what's going on in the market.

Pavilion

↳ Co-Founder @ Omni Lab | B2B Paid Media | AI Architect

How to Decrease CAC

At Omni Lab, we've seen a 667.34% increase in traffic from ChatGPT YoY. 

And just the other day,  Lee Gannon from Cognism sent me this Slack below. 

More and more people who come to us inbound are mentioning LLMs as one of the ways they found us; ChatGPT is the first, followed by Perplexity, and then Google AI. 

It's somewhat clear that these could be some of the reasons we are being recommended:

- We are listed in some top 10 demand gen/paid media agency comparison lists
- We have been producing organic content on LinkedIn for years
- We've done content collaborations (e.g. guest podcast, webinars, events)
- We've implemented a number of technical changes on our website to optimize for LLMs
- We've added a structured list-based page dedicated just for LLMs to read called "Hey AI Read this"
- We're also being recommended in some "agency recommendation" threads on Reddit

While all this is generally good, I have noticed that some brands are:

- Often a bit smaller, less qualified
- The calls are often colder; less familiar with us

Regardless, it's clearly a good thing to see more activity with LLMs trending up, and I'd expect not just us but other categories to see the same thing. 

I'm also sure some people will ask an LLM for recommendations, then simply go to your website directly, which creates holes in this analysis.

Senior Demand Generation Manager at Cognism | Growth Marketing B2B SaaS | Paid Media Specialist

Cognism

"SQLs are up 57%" 

"No, I actually see that we are only up by 37%"

I've seen these conversations play out so many times internally between teams. 

And sometimes between us with the brands we support. 

When you aren't aligned or you have reporting discrepancies it makes impossible to understand what's working and what's not. 

So often, reports aren't using the same date property, the same filters, or the same attribution model, which creates frustrating moments when two teams report completely different results. 

Or worse, they aren't agreed on, or they change often, which then destroys historical funnel conversion rates. 

To avoid this, sales, marketing, product, and the exec team must agree on:

- Lead stage names and definitions
- How performance will be measured and with what KPIs
- Determine CRM properties  and filters for key reports
- The exit criteria used to move someone from one stage to the next

This is your internal data dictionary that everyone in the company can review to ensure reporting stays aligned. 

You then need to agree on the ONE attribution model you'll use for determining "source". 

Why one?

Because it adds way more complexity when you change models, and it's difficult to communicate results across multiple models. 

You can and should use different models to support a narrative you are trying to communicate and/or answer different questions, but the core reporting needs to be aligned on ONE. 

As you build up reporting consistency, it'll get a lot easier to do "accurate" funnel analysis and understand the impact of experiments you are running. 

Without this, you'll be stuck in endless arguments trying to benchmark results on data that isn't consistent.

If your friend just bought a new Ferrari, would you buy one?

Probably not. 

Then why are you so concerned with what keywords your competitors are bidding on. 

You have to fight the social conformity.

Just because they decided to spend a bunch of money (or go into debt) doesn’t mean it’s the right financial decision for you.

The same thing is true for doing competitor keyword research. 

If Monday.com can help with workflow automation and is the number one recommended by Google in its Workflow Automation tools recommendation list...

Should they bid on "workflow automation" just because similar products to theirs are bidding on it?

Not necessarily. 

Here’s why:

1.) You’re copying an unknowable strategy

You have no clue whether their campaigns are profitable, whether they’re targeting the same ICP, or whether their agency is just dumping budget to show activity.

2.) You inherit their mistakes

Just because they can bid on something doesn’t mean you should. Most companies run mediocre PPC programs with bad tracking and outdated keyword lists.

3.) You become reactive instead of buyer-focused

The moment you optimize based on what competitors do, you stop optimizing for what your customer actually searches for.

Sure, use tools like Spyfu, Ahrefs, and others to see what keywords they are bidding on for research, but don't chase competitors. 

Chase your customers.

Why are the first 10 minutes of webinars wasted talking about "housekeeping items”? 

Why not instead jump straight into the content? 

If I listen to a recorded webinar, I’ll always skip ahead as the first 5-10min is usually just pre-webinar banter, intros talking about people's background, the agenda, and other "house keeping items". 

I've never been on a live webinar that does this.  

What if you skipped all of that and started with a compelling question to get people thinking? 

Or what if you simply dove right in to the content? 

That’d hook them in early.

Maybe something like this: 

1.) Open with a compelling hook (big insight, misconception, or story)
2.) Deliver the #1 takeaway immediately (buy trust in the first 60–90 seconds)
3.) Move straight into the content
4.) Keep intros to ~15 seconds
5.) Skip the housekeeping entirely (or put it in the chat)

Worth a thought.

Garnter found that buyers spend only 17% of their total buying time with sales.

The other 80–95% happens in channels marketing owns or influences, search, social, peers, review sites, your website, and product.

Surveys from Gartner, McKinsey, and 6sense all tell the same story:

– 60%+ of buyers would prefer a rep-free experience.
– 80% of sales interactions now happen through digital channels.
– In 4 out of 5 deals, the buyer has a preferred vendor in mind before they ever talk to a rep.  ￼

If marketing now influences roughly 80% of the buying journey, then marketing should receive a greater share of investment.

Sales isn’t going away, but its role continues to shift later in the process. By the time a buyer submits a “demo request,” they’ve nearly made their decision.

That puts a huge responsibility on marketing:

Be the brand they think of before they’re ready to buy.

Invest accordingly.

Andrew Hoerner

Director, Corporate Marketing

Early Warning® -- the company behind Zelle(R) and Paze(TM)

Early Warning powers and protects the U.S. financial system with cutting-edge solutions like Zelle®, Paze℠, payments & fraud intelligence, and so much more. I joined to transform b2b marketing including GTM and growth strategies, brand awareness, reputation marketing, and strategic marketing initiatives for the company behind some of the most used (and beloved) solutions in finance.

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DaddyDay.Club

DaddyDay will transform mental health for Dads everywhere. Am providing pro bono go-to-market strategy. Stay tuned!

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Coherent

• Coherent, the “spreadsheet-to-code” SaaS category creator. $75M series B from Maverick, Cathay 
• Built a global marketing motion from scratch: high performing team + top agencies
• Validated product-market fit, rationalized product/solution set, affirmed ICPs and personas in insurance, banking, capital markets. Supported new verticals and motions in supply chain, manufacturing, healthcare
• Ramped inbound demand gen, ABM to 40% of active pipeline, including 7 figure ABM-attributed inbound deals, while reducing CPL by 70%
• Field and partner marketing ramp contributed to eight figure partner deal pipeline
• Established “voice of CEO” and doubled PR coverage in 8 months

CMO -- Chief Marketing Officer

Multiple growth-phase SaaS startups

• Acting CMO across multiple scale-up b2b businesses in cybersecurity (biometrics), compliance (SaaS), marketing automation, and retail
• Collaborated with founders, CEOs, CROs, and boards on high-impact marketing, GTM, demand gen, and vertical strategies
• Hired and managed high-performing FTEs and agencies
• Built “lean” full-funnel demand gen; $5.7M in high intent leads 
• Refreshed brands, websites. Jumpstarted thought leadership motions

Chief Marketing Officer (Acting)

Symphony.com

• Symphony: the largest connected community for financial services collaboration, chat, workflows
• $2B valuation. Raised $460M from the largest global banks including Goldman Sachs
• I led a digital marketing transformation and built and sustained a high performance team
• Grew ARR from $30M to $100M through fierce sales alignment and targeted campaigns 
• Elevated the brand. Built community. Activated inbound marketing. Enabled sales
• Architected multi-touch and attributed Account Based Marketing (ABM/ABX) and demand gen
• Led product, solution marketing to launch 12 products. Integrated 2 M&As
• Ramped marketing, go-to-market, and demand gen for multiple new verticals
• Implemented Storyteller thought leadership social and content initiative
• Achieved 90% Y/Y increase in PR coverage for 3 years (TechCrunch https://tcrn.ch/31pNa3b, Forbes https://bit.ly/2Z1IXE8, Fast Company https://bit.ly/2GPABo7, more)

Executive Vice President, Global Marketing

FS-ISAC

• FS-ISAC: the largest cybersecurity information sharing community
• Helped grow logos from 2000 to 7000; 186% Y/Y increase in paid membership
• Built out digital marketing, hired and led team to create and operate the martech stack
• Marketed directly to CSOs, CISOs, CIOs and CROs at the world's top financial firms
• Founded the Media Response Team to handle severe crisis communications 
• FS-ISAC was a 2018 CIO 100 Award winner: https://bit.ly/2reCS5d
• Launched major initiatives: fsisac-summit.com, grfederation.org, shelteredharbor.org
• Concurrent role: launched Soltra, a SaaS spinout for cyber threat intelligence

Vice President, Marketing and Communications

Soltra (acquired by NC4 Nov 2016)

• Soltra, the most widely used threat sharing SaaS solution, backed by 10 top banks, FS-ISAC, DTCC
• Led creation of the ADDY award-winning brand, launched the company and its PLG motion
• In 12 months, built a $25M+ contract value pipeline with over 2800 companies using
• 70% of closed/won attributed to marketing
• The Wall Street Journal says: http://on.wsj.com/1LqJ9Oz
• Dark Reading writes: http://ubm.io/1BcWm8f
• TechCrunch says: http://tcrn.ch/200V8bj
• Concurrent role while also working for FS-ISAC

Vice President of Marketing (concurrent role)

VeloCloud Networks, Inc.

•  Velocloud delives next gen WAN solutions and is backed by NEA and Venrock 
•  Provided marketing strategy and support to founders during launch and $21M funding
•  Managed rapid development and deployment of new website, video and content
•  Delivered strategic marketing guidance for positioning, PR and demand generation

Launch Advisor (concurrent advisory role)

Mintigo

• Sequoia-backed Mintigo uses big data to find the next "most likely to buy" customers
• Tripled the flow of marketing qualified and sales ready leads 
• Launched first version of SaaS product and revamped the website
• Ramped cost effective PR and social media leading to a full Forbes story - 
 http://onforb.es/18aBCUY and doubled the number of earned twitter followers
• Instantiated inbound and content marketing programs
• Matured marketing tech stack using Marketo, Sprout Social and Mintigo AI

Sr. Director of Marketing

McAfee (Acquired by Intel)

• McAfee: the world's largest dedicated security company. Acquired by Intel for $7.68B
• Led go-to-market strategy, launch & team for solutions in the $500M network security BU
• Owned go-to-market for $80M next generation firewall line. Exceeded bookings targets
• New product introduction with a key partner built a $25M sales pipeline within 12 months
• Integrated five acquired products including SaaS-based single sign on (SSO) and identity management. Directed positioning, pricing, packaging & sales enablement, mid-market and channel
• Led a brand awareness initiative that catapulted us to #2 social media share of voice in 90 days

Director, Product Marketing

CMO | Marketing Leader | B2B | SaaS | 0-5M | 10-20M | 30-100M | Storyteller | 4x Dad | ex Symphony, Intel, McAfee

I love to craft ”stories that sell.” For B2B SaaS companies focused on dynamic growth, I bring over 15 years of marketing leadership ranging from venture-backed startups to large global companies like McAfee/Intel (INTC). 

I am a full-stack marketing executive and have served as Chief Marketing Officer (CMO), EVP / Vice President of Marketing, and Head of Marketing during journeys from $0-5M, $10-20M, $30-100M, and $300-500M. My teams and approaches have directly helped impact $625M in revenue and 7650+ new logos. As a player-coach, I build high-performing marketing teams and programs that fiercely align with growth, performance, and awareness objectives.

Focus areas: 

B2B SaaS, enterprise software, fintech, insurtech, cybersecurity, AI, APIs, cloud-native, low code, marketing automation, big data, CRM, biometrics. Familiar with PLG and SMB motions.

Industries: 

Banking (from Tier 1 banks to community institutions), capital markets (multiple asset classes), insurance (P&C, L&R), legal services, supply chain, manufacturing, professional services, healthcare, retail.

Expertise:

Category, brand, awareness
-Category design and creation
-Brand launches, brand identity, brand up-leveling
-Brand awareness, thought leadership
-PR, AR, IR, influencers, communications

Go-to-market GTM
-Market research, ICP shaping, persona development, positioning
-Industry, vertical, regional, and segment GTM motions, activations
-PLG and EPLG strategy, launches
-Sales playbooks and sales enablement
-Partner and channel marketing
-Team, agency architecture, org design

Demand Gen, customer acquisition
-Demand generation, demand creation, demand capture, full-funnel
-Growth marketing, performance marketing, digital marketing,
-Inbound marketing, outbound marketing, SDR alignment
-Account based marketing (ABM), account based experiences (ABX), social selling
-PESO, SEO, SEM, PPC, paid, earned, shared, owned, out of home ads
-Content marketing, channel optimization
-Field marketing, events marketing
-Martech stack buildout, AI -enabled marketing tools, marketing automation
-Attribution, marketing mix modeling, dashboards

Product marketing, solution marketing
-Product launches, solution launches, integrated marketing campaigns
-Vertical marketing, segment marketing, industry marketing
-Customer success marketing, adoption marketing
-Developer and technical marketing
-Positioning / messaging, pricing, packaging, promotion, procurement
-Competitive intelligence

I work virtually, hybrid, or on-site. Bi-coastal: east coast or west coast, USA. Can commute to NYC quickly.

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