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Stop Wasting 40% of Ad Spend on Existing Customers
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Stop Wasting 40% of Your Ad Spend on Customers You Already Own
Here is an uncomfortable possibility most brands never check: a large share of your Meta ad budget, often a third to a half of it, may be going toward reaching customers you already own. Meta reports those repurchases as conversions, your ROAS looks healthy, and the whole time your actual new-customer growth is flat. You are paying to reacquire people who were going to buy anyway, and calling it acquisition. Here is why it happens and how to stop it.