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The Paid Traffic Truth : The New Customer Markup Your Dashboard Hides
Jul 6, 2026 by Scott Desgrosseilliers
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Your Data Is Being Estimated — And Nobody Told You
Jun 15, 2026 by Scott Desgrosseilliers
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Three Attribution Shifts That Changed This Week — And What They Mean for Your Revenue
Jun 8, 2026 by Scott Desgrosseilliers
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How Meta, Google, and TikTok Changed Your Numbers Without Telling You
Jun 5, 2026 by Scott Desgrosseilliers
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How Link Necklaces Cut Meta nCAC 22% and Nearly Doubled New Customers
May 28, 2026 by Scott Desgrosseilliers
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The Monday Routine That Stops Wasted Ad Spend : The Five Forces Playbook
Apr 27, 2026 by Scott Desgrosseilliers
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How the Optimization Force Improves Campaign Performance
Apr 20, 2026 by Scott Desgrosseilliers
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Why High ROAS Isn’t Enough : Scaling with the Outcome Force
Apr 13, 2026 by Scott Desgrosseilliers
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Why Your Ad Dashboard Is Lying — And What It's Costing You
Apr 13, 2026 by Scott Desgrosseilliers
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Are Your Campaigns Failing — Or Are You Just Measuring Too Soon?
Mar 30, 2026 by Scott Desgrosseilliers
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The Most Powerful ROI Report for Marketing Attribution
By Scott Desgrosseilliers on Nov 4, 2016 4:09:40 PM
The Most Powerful ROI Report You’ll Ever See
Before you read about the new ROI Report from Wicked Reports, ask yourself a couple of questions.
Topics: Wicked Reports ROI Report WickedSmartz intelligent analytics interface Customer Journey Tracking Full-Impact Attribution
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Email Open Rates vs. ROI: Stop Obsessing Already
By Scott Desgrosseilliers on Oct 18, 2016 1:00:58 PM
Last week we talked about why online marketers need to prioritize return on investment over cost per click. Today we’re discussing the relative importance of open rates.
Topics: Email Marketing Email ROI marketing attribution ROI Email Open Rates track ROI Automated ROI reporting
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3 Reasons Why CPC Is Costing You Big Time | Wicked Reports
By Scott Desgrosseilliers on Oct 11, 2016 4:01:16 PM
If you’re like most online marketers you evaluate your ad campaigns by measuring their cost per click. Not only has this been best practice since, well, forever, it has also been the only way you could get a quantitative handle on advertising effectiveness.
Topics: cost per click Wicked Reports ROI LTV LTV calculation LTV data Return on Investment (ROI) cpc data
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Facebook Conversion Path #4: Long-term Conversion
By Scott Desgrosseilliers on Oct 3, 2016 4:02:42 PM
Here’s the last conversion path our Facebook lead, Maximus, followed before purchasing from the Wicked Good Juice company. Six months after Maximus first became a lead, he buys from a webinar that was promoted on Facebook and email but opts in with a different click than the one described in the previous conversion path. Maximus is 20 years old, male, and likes the Boston Red Sox.
Topics: Facebook Conversion Tracking
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Path #3: Understanding the Facebook Webinar Conversion Path
By Scott Desgrosseilliers on Sep 19, 2016 4:04:00 PM
A lead for six months buys from a webinar that was promoted on Facebook and Email.
Topics: Facebook Conversion Tracking
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Exploring Common Facebook Conversion Paths
By Scott Desgrosseilliers on Sep 12, 2016 4:05:43 PM
To follow up on our last post we’ll examine some typical customer click paths and demonstrate the challenges of traditional last-click conversion tracking. We’re going to follow a lead called Maximus for a fictitious company, “Wicked Good Juice (WGJ).” Their online marketing efforts will convert Maximus across four possible customer journeys from prospect to buyer. Maximus is a young man, 20 years old, who likes the Boston Red Sox. Today we’ll examine the first customer path.
Topics: Facebook Conversion Tracking
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Facebook Conversion Path #2: Over Time
By Scott Desgrosseilliers on Sep 9, 2016 12:59:15 PM
In our last post we met a lead called Maximus and followed him along a Facebook conversion path through multiple marketing offers from the Wicked Good Juice Company. In this post we track him through a second set of marketing contacts before he finally makes a purchase. Maximus is 20 years old, male, and likes the Boston Red Sox.
Topics: Facebook conversions
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Understanding Facebook's Custom Conversion Events
By Scott Desgrosseilliers on Sep 7, 2016 12:39:48 PM
Last year Facebook upgraded to a new way of tracking that offered a significant improvement. The new tracking allows you to define which URL means a conversion. When the Facebook tracking code detects that defined URL loading up for a person who clicked or viewed one of your ads, it awards that ad a conversion. That seems clear enough.
Topics: Facebook custom conversion
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How Lobster Co. Clawed $8K+ from Ad Spend and Raised ROI by 611%
By Scott Desgrosseilliers on Sep 2, 2016 4:07:30 PM
You probably know that Facebook advertising is one of the best ways to get more sales for your business. In fact 3,750,000 online business owners now use Facebook to acquire their customers. One issue with Facebook Advertising data, however, is that it’ doesn't give you the “complete picture.” Let me explain.
Topics: Facebook advertising Wicked Reports Facebook ROI ROI
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ActiveCampaign + Stripe: Unlocking Wicked Good ROI Tracking
By Scott Desgrosseilliers on Aug 8, 2016 12:32:18 PM
ActiveCampaign + Stripe = Wicked Good ROI: Tracking Real Sales Data
The wait is OVER!

