Final buying questions and useful commitments

Bottom of Funnel Marketing: Help Buyers Finish the Decision

Bottom of funnel marketing helps someone who is considering an offer decide whether to commit. It answers remaining questions about fit, cost, evidence and the next step. The aim is a suitable purchase or accepted sales action, not pressure at any cost. Match the message to the decision the person is actually ready to make.

Help suitable buyers decide

How do you improve the final purchase decision?

Quick answer: Identify the final obstacle before buying more traffic or offering another discount. A buyer may need a clear total cost, credible product evidence, a useful demonstration or a reliable sales response. Use FroggyAds to test traffic against a destination that resolves the relevant question, then judge completed actions and their quality together.

For an example of how a reporting tool defines stages, see Google Analytics: Funnel Exploration. A configured funnel describes recorded actions under its rules. It does not reveal every reason a customer hesitated. Combine the observed pattern with relevant enquiries, product knowledge and permitted customer research before deciding what the next campaign should change.

Five priorities near the purchase decision

Name the actual commitment before writing a closing message.
Investigate the remaining question instead of assuming every hesitation needs a discount.
Keep proof, terms and the destination consistent with the offer.
Review accepted actions and later quality alongside completion counts.
Use FroggyAds traffic controls with an advertiser-side definition of useful progress.

What does bottom of funnel marketing actually do?

It helps someone considering an offer resolve remaining questions before a meaningful commercial commitment.

Bottom of funnel is a planning label for decisions close to a commercial commitment. It is not a verified psychological state assigned to every visitor. Someone reviewing pricing may be comparing suppliers, checking a future budget or simply learning. Use the signal as context and provide a suitable route without assuming that one page visit proves an imminent purchase.

Name the commitment precisely. A completed order, an accepted quotation request and a paid subscription create different obligations for the customer and the business. The information needed before each one also differs. This precision helps you choose the evidence and action that belong on the destination instead of presenting every interested person with the same closing message.

Keep room for a well-informed decision not to buy. If the offer cannot meet a material requirement, a clear explanation protects the customer and saves your team time. The marketing objective is to help suitable buyers proceed confidently. Concealing a limitation may raise an immediate conversion count while creating disappointment, cancellations or avoidable support work later.

Bottom of funnel: A planning label for work supporting a commercial decision near commitment, not a verified mental state.
Readiness signal: Observed behaviour that suggests a relevant decision may be active, with its uncertainty retained.
Buying objection: An unresolved concern about fit, cost, evidence or conditions that may prevent commitment.
Purchase friction: A difficulty in completing an intended action, distinct from deciding that the offer is unsuitable.
Accepted action: A completed step that meets the advertiser’s stated business criteria after the relevant review.

Why can an interested buyer still decide not to proceed?

Interest can coexist with an unanswered question, an unsuitable offer or a process that makes completion difficult.

Hesitation can reflect a missing answer, an unattractive offer or an inconvenient process. These are different problems. A discount may help a price-sensitive buyer but will not establish whether a product fits their task. More reminders will not explain an unclear service scope. Identify the reason you can reasonably investigate before selecting the intervention.

Read the evidence near the decision. Repeated questions in sales conversations may show that the page omits an important condition. Failed completion events may suggest a technical issue. A long comparison period can be normal for a considered purchase. None of these observations alone proves the cause, but each points toward a more useful next question than a generic demand for more conversions.

Do not assume the journey moves neatly from awareness to purchase once. Google’s consumer research describes people moving between exploration and evaluation. Use the funnel to organize your work, while allowing customers to revisit information or return later. A useful closing message helps with the current question rather than insisting that the person occupy a permanent stage.

Eight questions behind the final commitment

#	Final decision	What to clarify
1	Commitment	The purchase, payment or sales step the person is considering.
2	Suitability	The requirement the offer must meet for this buyer.
3	Proof	Evidence that answers the actual remaining question.
4	Cost and terms	The applicable commitment and conditions, explained accurately.
5	Completion route	How the action succeeds and how a failure becomes visible.
6	Human response	What help follows an enquiry and who can provide it.
7	Acceptance	Which completed actions meet the business’s stated criteria.
8	Later quality	Relevant reversals or feedback that change the initial interpretation.

Use the table to connect the final commitment to the information and response it requires. The choices should be specific to the offer. A retailer may need to clarify delivery and returns; a service provider may need to explain scope and availability. The same increase in button clicks can have very different meaning in those two situations.

Prepare the final purchase route

Bring a decision-ready offer to your next campaign

Choose FroggyAds for a traffic test when you have a clear offer and a destination prepared for the relevant decision. Our available targeting, source and budget controls help you manage the media purchase. Your own customer and sales records should determine whether the response meets the commercial criteria that justify continuing.

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Illustration of audience targeting controls for a bottom of funnel marketing test

Ten steps to resolve the right buying obstacle

1. Name the actual commitment

Define the action you want the customer to take and what happens immediately afterward. For a quotation request, specify what information the team needs and what the response will cover. For a purchase, confirm what the buyer receives. A precise commitment gives copy, sales and measurement teams the same task to support.

Use the customer’s perspective as a final check. Can they tell whether they are requesting information, entering an agreement or paying? If the distinction is unclear, fix the explanation before optimizing the button. A persuasive action label should make the next step more understandable, not obscure its consequence.

2. Define a meaningful readiness signal

Choose a readiness signal that has a defensible meaning in your own context. An active sales conversation can indicate a different situation from a single pricing-page view. Record what is known and what is only inferred. Avoid describing all visitors in a broad traffic segment as purchase-ready because the campaign is labelled bottom of funnel.

3. Find the unresolved question

Identify the unanswered question closest to the commitment. It might concern compatibility, the service boundary, total cost or what support follows purchase. Use actual enquiries where available. If you have only a hypothesis, label it and plan how to learn. Rewriting the entire page is less useful than resolving the issue that repeatedly stops a suitable buyer.

4. Prepare the relevant evidence

Prepare evidence that answers that question directly. A documented feature can address suitability, while a demonstration may show the relevant workflow. Use real, permissioned customer evidence only when it applies. An unrelated testimonial or an impressive logo does not substitute for the information a buyer needs about this offer.

5. Check the route to completion

Check whether the route can deliver the promised action. The enquiry must reach the right team; the checkout must present the applicable cost and complete correctly. Baymard’s research identifies avoidable checkout friction alongside reasons such as browsing and price comparison. Diagnose the actual route rather than assuming every abandoned attempt can be recovered through persuasion.

6. Establish the current result

Establish a baseline with the same action definition and review period you intend to use afterward. Separate duplicate submissions and relevant reversals. Keep the audience and source context visible. This helps prevent a change in counting, timing or traffic mix from looking like an improvement in the customer’s final decision.

7. Change the specific obstacle

Change the obstacle you have identified. If the scope is unclear, explain the scope. If suitable prospects need a demonstration, provide one that addresses their use case. Limit unrelated changes where practical. When several parts of the offer change together, describe the result as a combined revision rather than assigning all credit to one sentence.

8. Review the quality after conversion

Look beyond the initial completion. A new order can later be cancelled, and a booked call can fail to meet the advertiser’s qualification criteria. Choose a reasonable review window for the outcome. A useful improvement should remain useful when the business has had time to assess what it received.

9. Prepare the human response

Prepare a response for the cases that need human help. Tell the buyer what to expect and give the receiving team the relevant context. Keep unresolved enquiries visible. A late or irrelevant reply can undo a clear campaign promise even when the advertisement and form performed their immediate tasks correctly.

10. Expand only what remains useful

Extend the approach only when the result supports it and the business can fulfil the promise. A successful small cohort does not guarantee the same result at a different source mix or volume. Increase the commitment deliberately and keep checking whether customer fit, response quality and the relevant economics remain acceptable.

Which outcomes show useful progress near purchase?

Assess the completed action, its acceptance, relevant costs and later quality under a consistent definition.

Judge completed actions together with their acceptance and later quality. A higher conversion rate is not enough if the change attracts unsuitable buyers or increases reversals. Use media cost per accepted action for the relevant scope, and keep revenue or contribution separate until those values are known and appropriately reconciled.

Observation	Useful meaning	What not to assume
Completed action	The defined step was recorded successfully	Every completion is a suitable customer
Accepted action	The business confirmed the stated criteria	Acceptance equals booked revenue
Media cost per accepted action	Relevant media spend divided by accepted actions	It includes uncounted sales or service costs
Sales response	The promised follow-up occurred and addressed the enquiry	A sent message resolves the buyer’s question
Time to decision	The cohort’s progress under the relevant timing	Every slow decision is a process failure
Reversals	An initial commitment did not remain accepted	All early conversions retain their original value

Check the reporting definition before comparing stage percentages. Google Analytics distinguishes open and closed funnels and counts users according to the specified sequence. A configuration change can alter who appears in the result. Keep the same settings for the comparison or explain the difference before presenting it as a change in customer behaviour.

Match the offer and the traffic

Choose a format that supports the actual offer

Choose a format that can introduce the offer honestly and lead to the prepared destination. A short display message may suit a clear product benefit; another available format may give different context. Verify the actual campaign options. A format does not by itself prove high intent, and this guide does not imply a FroggyAds customer-list or remarketing integration.

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Illustration comparing advertising formats for bottom of funnel marketing execution

Three final decisions that require different help

A service prospect choosing a supplier

A service prospect may be comparing providers after an initial conversation. Help them understand scope, the proposed next step and any practical requirement that changes suitability. Make the quotation or consultation request precise. The marketing work is to resolve a real buying question and prepare a useful response, not to count every form as a new customer.

A shopper deciding whether to complete an order

A shopper near checkout may need to understand the final order before proceeding. Make the relevant total, delivery expectation and terms clear at the appropriate point. If the price is genuinely unsuitable, a clearer interface cannot erase that fact. Distinguish a missing explanation from an offer the customer has reasonably chosen not to accept.

A trial user deciding whether to pay

A trial user considering payment needs to know what the paid plan adds and what changes at the commitment. Explain the actual terms and supported capabilities. Review whether the trial has demonstrated the relevant use case. A trial start alone does not establish readiness to pay, and a paid start alone does not establish durable customer value.

Five shortcuts that can weaken the sale

Discounting every hesitation

Do not use a discount as the default answer to every hesitation. It may reduce contribution without resolving uncertainty about fit or implementation. Before changing the price, investigate the objection and the consequences for the offer. Where a genuine promotion is appropriate, explain its conditions and assess the result on the reduced economics.

Proof that does not answer the question

Choose proof for the question being asked. A detailed feature description can help someone assess compatibility, but it does not prove a revenue result. A customer story needs relevant context and permission. If the evidence is incomplete, narrow the claim or offer a way to evaluate the product rather than filling the gap with borrowed credibility.

An enquiry without a useful response

Make the sales response part of the campaign promise. If the destination invites a detailed consultation, the team should be ready to provide that conversation. Record recurring unanswered questions and use them to improve the offer explanation. More traffic will not repair a handoff that consistently leaves suitable prospects waiting or misunderstood.

Repeated messages after the decision changed

Keep follow-up relevant to the person’s current situation in any supported, permitted channel. Someone who has bought, declined or become ineligible should not receive an unchanged closing message indefinitely. Check the actual tools and data permissions before planning such activity. We do not infer a FroggyAds audience-sync or automated suppression capability from this general recommendation.

Sales that create avoidable reversals

Include the quality of the resulting commitment in the review. A campaign that makes unsuitable purchases easier can create returns and frustration. Ask whether the customer received the offer they expected and whether the business can serve them. The objective is a useful transaction, not simply an event recorded before the problems become visible.

Treat a pause as a valid response to a concrete defect. If the destination describes an unavailable offer or the receiving team cannot handle requests, resolve that issue before continuing the same promise. Keep the reason specific. A temporary operational problem should not be confused with evidence that the entire audience or product has no value.

What should you fund before more closing-stage traffic?

Repair missing decision support and response capacity before sending more visitors to the same unresolved obstacle.

Prepare the proof a buyer still needs before adding media. A clear scope explanation, an accurate price presentation or a working demonstration may be the necessary first investment. Choose the work that addresses the observed obstacle. Buying traffic to an unchanged route can repeatedly expose the same unanswered question without improving your understanding.

Allow for the time needed to evaluate completed actions. A service enquiry may need review, while an order may have a relevant cancellation period. Use your own business context to choose the timing. Do not publish an attractive early result as mature value simply because the reporting tool can display it immediately.

Include the effort needed to fulfil the next step. A specialist demonstration or a detailed quotation consumes capacity. Match campaign pace to the team’s ability to deliver what was offered. When evaluating a larger test, consider that workload alongside media cost so a rise in enquiries does not create a worse experience for suitable buyers.

Resolve a concrete buying obstacle

Test the improvement your business is ready to support

Start your FroggyAds campaign when the next step is ready to receive visitors. Select available audience and source settings and a budget appropriate to the question. Keep the offer stable enough to interpret the response. Use your own accepted-outcome evidence to decide whether another source, a clearer message or more delivery is the right next move.

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Illustration of a campaign launch checklist for bottom of funnel marketing

Where FroggyAds belongs in the final purchase route

FroggyAds provides the paid-traffic side of this plan. We help advertisers manage available campaign settings and review source-level evidence. The destination, product terms and sales acceptance remain your responsibility. This division gives the media test a practical purpose without pretending that traffic delivery can certify purchase intent or remove every obstacle to buying.

Our self-serve workflow lets you set campaign budgets, choose available targeting and manage sources. Those controls are useful when you want to test a decision-ready offer in a measured way. Connect the campaign to your supported tracking arrangement and review the resulting actions against the business criteria you set before launch.

Keep the advertised promise current. If availability, price or eligibility changes, check the creative and destination together. A returning visitor should not encounter a different commitment without a clear explanation. Consistency helps customers assess the offer and helps your team interpret whether the campaign is attracting the response it was intended to support.

A practical sequence for learning before expansion

First: understand the obstacle

First, investigate the suspected obstacle with the smallest useful set of records and customer questions. Confirm the offer, relevant completion event and response process. Fix an obvious factual or functional defect before designing a larger test. The length of this phase depends on the problem; an arbitrary calendar target is not evidence that the route is ready.

Next: test the supported change

Next, try the supported change and observe the relevant cohort. Keep the previous basis available for comparison and note differences in traffic or timing. Review both completion and acceptance. If the evidence remains sparse or inconsistent, report that uncertainty rather than forcing a confident verdict to fit a predetermined reporting date.

Then: decide whether to extend it

Then decide whether to extend, revise or stop the approach. Use the mature result and operational feedback together. Preserve the part that helped the buyer and investigate any remaining obstacle. A repeatable improvement is one your business can continue to deliver, not simply the best-looking week in a dashboard.

What should a tool or partner help you resolve?

A useful tool addresses a defined problem in the actual buying route and makes its evidence limits understandable.

Which unresolved buyer question or process problem will this tool address?
What relevant information can it observe, and what remains unknown?
How does it fit the real sales, checkout or customer-response route?
Can the team distinguish failed attempts, duplicate events and accepted outcomes?
What implementation and ongoing work is needed to keep its records useful?
Which promised results are supported, and which still require a real test?

Choose a tool or partner for the unresolved task. You may need better enquiry handling, a way to inspect a failure or support for a defined test. Ask how the proposed solution fits the actual process and what it cannot observe. More features are not a substitute for answering the buyer’s concrete final question.

Give buyers evidence they can use

Give the prospect evidence that is both relevant and easy to assess. Explain what the product or service does, which conditions matter and what happens next. A comparison should use like-for-like facts rather than invented competitor weaknesses. Clear limits can improve the quality of a decision without weakening the legitimate strengths of your offer.

Keep customer examples honest. Distinguish a demonstration from a measured result, and do not present a hypothetical calculation as a case study. Where you use a real customer account, retain the permission and relevant circumstances. The reader should be able to understand what the evidence supports and what remains uncertain for their own situation.

Review the final purchase information when the offer changes. Old screenshots, obsolete conditions and inconsistent response instructions can undermine an otherwise useful campaign. Keep the important answer close to the decision it affects. The page should help someone choose, rather than force them to assemble the offer from contradictory fragments.

Bottom of funnel marketing questions

What does bottom of funnel marketing include?

A strong bottom-of-funnel section resolves the final questions before a meaningful commitment. It can support a purchase, paid subscription or accepted sales step. The work should improve suitability and clarity, rather than push every visitor into the same action.

How can you identify a buyer who may be ready to proceed?

A useful readiness signal has a defined meaning in your business, such as an active requirements conversation or a relevant return to an offer. It remains evidence of behaviour, not proof of a person’s complete intent. Use it to choose helpful information without assuming purchase is inevitable.

Should every final-stage campaign offer a discount?

Use a discount when it addresses a real commercial objection and the reduced economics remain acceptable. Check whether the actual problem is fit, proof, terms or process first. A lower price cannot supply a missing capability or repair an unclear commitment.

What kind of proof helps a buyer make the final decision?

Choose evidence that answers the remaining question. A specification can clarify fit, a demonstration can show a workflow, and a properly contextualized customer example can illustrate experience. Do not use unsupported claims or irrelevant endorsements as a substitute for the answer the buyer needs.

How do you separate purchase friction from an unsuitable offer?

Distinguish the difficulty of completing the action from the attractiveness of the offer. Observe where the process fails and review relevant customer questions. Some people are still comparing or reasonably decide against buying. A higher completion rate is useful only when the resulting commitments remain suitable.

Is bottom of funnel marketing the same as remarketing?

No. Follow-up to previously engaged people is one possible activity when supported and permitted. Bottom of funnel work also includes offer clarity, relevant proof, sales response and the final purchase route. This guide does not claim a particular FroggyAds remarketing integration.

Which outcomes should a final-stage campaign measure?

Measure the defined completed action, its acceptance and the relevant cost or value after an appropriate review period. Keep duplicates, cancellations and later quality visible. A button click or submitted form should not automatically be described as a customer or accepted revenue.

How long should you wait before judging the result?

The commitment, sales process and available evidence determine the review period. Recent enquiries should not be compared uncritically with older opportunities that have had longer to progress. State what is mature enough to assess and what remains unresolved rather than using one universal deadline.

When should a bottom of funnel campaign pause?

Pause or limit the affected campaign when a concrete defect makes its promise inaccurate or the business cannot fulfil the requested next step. Examples include an unavailable offer or broken enquiry route. Correct the problem before repeating the same invitation, and retain the evidence for the decision.

How can FroggyAds support the paid-traffic part of the plan?

FroggyAds supports the traffic purchase through a self-serve workflow with available targeting, budget and source controls. Bring a prepared destination and an advertiser-side acceptance rule. Use the observed response to guide the next test; traffic delivery is not a guarantee of qualified buyers or sales.

References for measurement and customer decisions

Use the references below to understand the named measurement products and general advertising principles. Platform reports have specific settings and limits. They help describe recorded activity but do not automatically explain customer motives. Confirm the current requirements of your implementation and keep your business outcome definitions clear.

Eight prompts for reviewing a stalled purchase

Use these questions when a promising route produces less accepted progress than expected. Start with the commitment and the buyer’s unresolved concern. The answers should identify a concrete investigation or revision. If the team only repeats that more conversions are needed, it has not yet chosen a useful intervention.

The commitment being considered

What is the person being asked to commit? State the payment, information, meeting or agreement involved. Confirm that the creative and destination describe it consistently. A visitor should not need to guess whether an action is exploratory or binding before deciding to continue.

Record the explanation beside the relevant offer version. This helps a later reviewer understand what customers were told when the cohort entered. If the commitment changes, separate the resulting observations rather than treating them as evidence about an unchanged offer.

The unanswered buyer question

Which question remains unanswered? Use the language found in relevant enquiries where possible. If the concern is delivery timing, an unrelated testimonial will not answer it. If it is technical fit, a price reduction may be beside the point. Choose evidence that deals directly with the obstacle.

The role of the next message

What should the next message contribute? It may explain a condition, demonstrate a feature or invite a useful conversation. Avoid repeating the same closing command without adding relevant information. Make the message appropriate to what the person can reasonably know and do at that point.

The start and completion of this decision

Which recorded action starts this review, and which one completes it? Use events that correspond to the decision you are studying. Check that the implementation does not count a failed attempt as success. Keep the stage definition stable enough that a later comparison has a clear meaning.

The response the buyer should expect

What response should the buyer expect from your business? Explain the purpose of the conversation or the next processing step. Make sure the receiving team has the information it needs. A well-written campaign cannot compensate for a response process that repeatedly fails to deliver the promised help.

The period needed to judge the result

When will the outcome be ready to judge? Allow for the relevant qualification, payment or reversal process. Keep early activity separate from accepted value. This prevents an apparent improvement from disappearing as soon as the business has time to examine the resulting commitments.

The route when someone cannot proceed

What happens when a suitable person cannot proceed? Offer an appropriate way to resolve a practical question through the channels your business actually supports. Do not disguise an error as lack of interest. Record recurring obstacles so a recoverable problem can inform the next improvement.

The lesson from customers who reverse the decision

What do later cancellations or rejection reasons reveal? They may show that the initial promise attracted the wrong expectation or that an important condition was unclear. Use that feedback to improve the earlier decision. The goal is a healthier purchase route, not simply moving the same disappointment further downstream.

Name the commitment and a meaningful readiness signal.
Investigate the unresolved question or completion problem.
Prepare supported proof and a reliable response route.
Test a specific change with manageable FroggyAds traffic.
Review accepted actions and later quality before extending the campaign.

Start with the offer you can deliver today

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Search intent and buyer decision

Turn final-stage evidence into the next media decision

Use this guide when the immediate task is to resolve a final buying obstacle. For the broader sequence from visit to accepted value, continue with Conversion Funnel. Keep the final-stage investigation narrow enough to explain why the buyer hesitated and what evidence or process change could help a suitable person proceed.

Keep an unresolved question separate from an assumed traffic-quality problem. A legitimate visitor can decline because the offer does not fit, while a broken route can prevent an interested visitor from completing. Investigate the pattern with relevant source and business records before blaming either the audience or the page.

Checkpoint	Campaign action	Evidence to keep
Fit	Resolve the material question before asking for commitment.	Current offer, suitability conditions and supporting proof.
Test	Evaluate a specific supported change in the final route.	Comparable cohort, media cost and acceptance definition.
Decision	Continue only when the result remains useful after review.	Accepted actions, later quality and response capacity.

Hypothetical calculation: A campaign spends USD 180 and generates 12 quotation requests. Six meet the stated scope requirements after review. The media cost per accepted request is USD 30, compared with USD 15 per submitted request. These invented inputs illustrate qualification; they are not FroggyAds results or a complete customer acquisition cost.

Run a controlled FroggyAds traffic test around a commitment your business can support. Select available campaign controls, keep the offer accurate and assess the completed actions in your own records. Use those findings to decide where clearer proof, a better response or further media is justified. Create your free FroggyAds account

A worked decision about better leads

Hypothetical example: After a clearer scope explanation, another USD 180 cohort produces nine requests, of which six are accepted. Media cost per accepted request remains USD 30, while unsuitable requests fall from six to three. The result may reduce handling effort, but these small invented cohorts do not establish causality, revenue or statistical certainty.

Direct answer

Make the commitment clear and worthwhile

Help the buyer finish the decision with accurate information and a clear next step. Give suitable people a practical reason to proceed, respect a reasonable decision not to buy and review what happens after commitment. That creates a stronger basis for the next FroggyAds campaign than pressure, repeated reminders or an isolated conversion count.

FroggyAds buyer guidance

How should you design for purchase-ready visitors?

Direct answer: For Bottom of Funnel Marketing: Help Buyers Finish the Decision, remove uncertainty around the offer, eligibility, price context and next action while preserving measurement. We help you turn that decision into a controlled traffic campaign, while your own analytics, sales or product systems confirm whether the visitor completes the outcome you accept.

Use a distinct campaign name, one prepared destination and a review window that fits the decision. The evidence should cover qualified visit, checkout progress and accepted transaction. Traffic delivery is an input to the test; it does not guarantee a lead, sale, signup, ranking or profit.

Control	Record before launch	Review question
Design For Purchase-Ready Visitors	remove uncertainty around the offer, eligibility, price context and next action while preserving measurement	Can your team verify this condition from an owned source?
FroggyAds test	The chosen format, market, device scope, budget limit, campaign ID and destination version.	Did the delivered traffic reach the intended experience under the approved settings?
Accepted result	Qualified visit, checkout progress and accepted transaction within the declared observation window.	Does the result justify the next budget or creative decision?

Buy traffic only after the destination can answer the final decision questions. When that measurement path is ready, create your free FroggyAds account for this bottom of funnel marketing traffic test.