The Wall Every Scaling DTC Brand Hits

Scaling an e-commerce brand past the $5 million revenue mark introduces a challenging new problem, often referred to as The 8-Figure Attribution Trap.

How to Use First Click Attribution to Optimize Ecommerce Marketing

What content attracts the most valuable new clicks or leads to your brand?

You know, the ones who become buyers, and especially repeat buyers.

This is exactly what the First Click Attribution Model can tell you. An accurate First Click Attribution Report makes it easy to accurately depict the data about high performing or non-performing campaigns  at the top of your marketing funnel.

Once you can easily compare ROI across channels and campaigns, it's easy to get the highest ROI from your paid ad budget by killing the poor performing campaigns and scaling the high performing ones.

Getting new customers can feel like a significant challenge when running a digital marketing agency, right? It is tough. You are not just trying to convince someone totally new to choose your client's product; you are often working with customer data that mixes everyone together.

Have you ever wondered which ads are bringing in sales, and which campaigns are wasting ad spend?

5 Ways TikTok Drives Online Shopping Growth and Platform Revenue

The creator economy is here, thanks to social media platforms like TikTok, Facebook, and Instagram. Now, businesses, brands, and influencers are taking to social media with its far-reaching and lucrative impact, while the e-commerce umbrella expands to include social media marketing and social commerce.

Customer Lifetime Value (LTV) is an often overlooked metric for ecommerce companies. That's not a bad thing though because it gives an advantage to brands who are using it properly to optimize cold traffic. Their competitors don't even know what they are missing!

The e-commerce landscape has exploded since the pandemic. Global retail e-commerce sales are now projected to surpass $6.4 trillion in 2025, demonstrating the massive acceleration of digital retail. To track this shift, Wicked Reports utilized the foundational 2021 revenue data from the Statista eCommerce Market Forecast to rank the top sectors, offering a crucial benchmark on where customer spend was concentrated at the start of this digital surge. E-commerce is defined as the online purchases of consumable and durable goods for personal use.

Growing an ecommerce store is like putting together a puzzle with four critical pieces:

The 3 New Truths of E-commerce Marketing

Last Updated: November 30, 2025

In a perfect world, growing your ecommerce store would be logical and easy…