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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 3 Mistakes Killing Your Top-of-Funnel Performance - A Wicked Reports Deep Dive
By Scott Desgrosseilliers on Dec 26, 2025 9:00:01 AM
How do you measure Top-of-Funnel (TOF) performance?
TOF success must be measured using New Customer ROAS and Multi-Touch Attribution rather than Last-Click or platform ROAS. Traditional metrics fail TOF because they ignore the "7-Day Trap" and allow algorithms to secretly reallocate budget into retargeting, creating a "Recoil Effect" that stalls long-term growth.
Topics: Wicked Reports New Customer Acquisition Cost (NCAC) Top of Funnel Ad Platform ROAS marketing budget waste scaling ecommerce TOF attribution attribution mistakes last-click ROAS
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The Growth Ceiling Trap: Why Meta Rewards the Wrong Campaigns and How to Fix the Bias
By Scott Desgrosseilliers on Dec 19, 2025 9:15:00 AM
What is the Growth Ceiling Trap? The Growth Ceiling Trap is a revenue plateau occurring when Meta’s algorithm optimizes for low-cost "vibes" (retargeting and repeat buyers) rather than true new customer acquisition. This creates an "Attribution Illusion" where platform ROAS looks high, but actual business growth remains flat because top-of-funnel prospecting is starved of budget.
Topics: Wicked Reports Advanced Signal New Customer Acquisition Cost (NCAC) Ad Platform ROAS Meta Bias Growth Ceiling Retargeting Waste
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Is ROAS Dead? The Truth About Modern Marketing Success
By Scott Desgrosseilliers on Aug 21, 2024 5:58:49 PM
The Rumors of ROAS' Demise Have Been Greatly Exaggerated
It's clickbait that works - marketers screaming from the mountaintops "ROAS is DEAD!".

