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The Paid Traffic Truth : Paid Traffic Enters Q4 Cheaper Than It Left August
Oct 5, 2026 by Scott Desgrosseilliers
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The Paid Traffic Truth : Why Meta's New Customer Cost Fell Four Weeks Straight
Sep 28, 2026 by Scott Desgrosseilliers
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The Paid Traffic Truth : Why YouTube's New Customer Cost Just Reset
Sep 21, 2026 by Scott Desgrosseilliers
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Why Your Holiday Marketing Reports Lie to You Twice
Sep 18, 2026 by Scott Desgrosseilliers
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The Paid Traffic Truth : Why Holiday Demand Pays Meta and Bills Google
Sep 15, 2026 by Scott Desgrosseilliers
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The Monday Morning Report Is Eating Your Agency's Week
Sep 11, 2026 by Scott Desgrosseilliers
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The Paid Traffic Truth : Why Labor Day Made Your Ads Look Smarter Than They Are
Sep 9, 2026 by Scott Desgrosseilliers
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Why One Channel Looks Too Cheap and Too Expensive at Once
Sep 2, 2026 by Scott Desgrosseilliers
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The Paid Traffic Truth : The 159% Markup Hiding Inside Your Blended CAC
Aug 31, 2026 by Scott Desgrosseilliers
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How to Track SEO & Content ROI in 2026 (Zero-Click Era)
Aug 27, 2026 by Scott Desgrosseilliers
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The Paid Traffic Truth : Why Your Priciest Ad Channel Grows the Fastest Customers
Aug 24, 2026 by Scott Desgrosseilliers
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Setting the Intention : How the 5 Forces Automates Your Marketing Decisions
By Scott Desgrosseilliers on Jan 16, 2026, 9:30:00 AM
SETTING THE INTENTION : HOW THE 5 FORCES AUTOMATES YOUR MARKETING DECISIONS
For years, getting a real edge in ecommerce meant having the best data scientists or the most elaborate spreadsheets. You mined dashboards by hand, hunting for the signal in the noise. But manual data mining is slow, and in paid advertising, slow is expensive. The answer is not to hand your decisions to a black-box algorithm that guesses. It is to automate them with a system that computes the answer from your real data and shows you the math. That distinction, deterministic not generative, is the whole point.
Topics: Wicked Reports nCAC Marketing Automation AI in Marketing 5 Forces Methodology Ad Scaling Strategy
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Boost Your Sales with E-commerce Marketing Analytics
By Scott Desgrosseilliers on Mar 5, 2025, 10:12:16 AM
BOOST YOUR SALES WITH ECOMMERCE MARKETING ANALYTICS: MEASURE THE RIGHT METRIC FOR EACH CAMPAIGN
Running an ecommerce business means juggling products, site, and campaigns, and eventually every decision comes down to the data. But most ecommerce marketing analytics lead you astray in two specific ways: they judge every campaign by the same metric, and they trust each platform's self-reported numbers. Fix both, and your analytics start telling you the truth. Here is how to choose the right metric for each campaign and measure it against real revenue.
Topics: Wicked Reports attribution windows Attribution Health multi-touch attribution Marketing Automation Data-Driven Decisions
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ActiveCampaign Attribution : Track Real Email ROI
By Scott Desgrosseilliers on Feb 24, 2018, 4:23:15 PM
ACTIVECAMPAIGN ATTRIBUTION : TRACK THE REAL REVENUE YOUR EMAIL DRIVES, NO UTMS REQUIRED
ActiveCampaign is a powerful email and marketing automation platform. What it cannot tell you on its own is which of your ads created the leads your automations nurture, or how much real revenue each campaign and sequence actually produced across the full customer journey. The Wicked Reports ActiveCampaign integration closes that gap, and it does it with one feature that sets it apart from every other email integration. It tracks every email click automatically, with no UTMs required. Here is how it works and why it matters.
Topics: Wicked Reports Active Campaign Marketing Attribution Marketing Automation email attribution
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Drip Attribution: Track Real Email & SMS ROI
By Scott Desgrosseilliers on Mar 22, 2017, 5:35:31 PM
DRIP ATTRIBUTION : HOW TO TRACK THE REAL ROI OF YOUR DRIP EMAIL AND SMS
Drip is a capable email and SMS automation platform, especially popular with businesses selling courses, ebooks, software and consulting. It is good at sending and automating. What it cannot do on its own is tell you which of your ads and campaigns actually created the subscribers who went on to buy, or how much revenue your Drip flows truly drove across the full customer journey. For that you need attribution that connects Drip to your real sales across every channel. Here is how to track the real ROI of your Drip marketing.

