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New customer costs fell $55. Meta missed it.

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The sooner you buy Meta clicks, the more you make

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Is the 49% BFCM click premium worth it?

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The Paid Traffic Truth : Paid Traffic Enters Q4 Cheaper Than It Left August

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The $55 nCAC drop Meta never showed you

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Why Meta customers gain $112 after the click

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The Paid Traffic Truth : Why YouTube's New Customer Cost Just Reset

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Why Your Holiday Marketing Reports Lie to You Twice

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The Paid Traffic Truth : Why Holiday Demand Pays Meta and Bills Google

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The Monday Morning Report Is Eating Your Agency's Week

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Why One Channel Looks Too Cheap and Too Expensive at Once

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The Paid Traffic Truth : The 159% Markup Hiding Inside Your Blended CAC

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How to Track SEO & Content ROI in 2026 (Zero-Click Era)

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How to Track YouTube Ads & Measure Real ROI

By Scott Desgrosseilliers on Oct 2, 2018, 8:37:24 AM

HOW TO TRACK YOUTUBE ADS AND MEASURE REAL ROI FROM VIDEO 

The oldest problem in advertising still bites hardest on YouTube. As the saying goes, half your ad budget is wasted and you just do not know which half. Video makes that worse, because a YouTube ad so often does its work early — someone watches on their phone during a commute, forgets about it, then searches your brand three days later on a laptop and buys. Last-click attribution gives YouTube zero credit for that sale. If you are judging YouTube on what Google Ads reports, you are almost certainly underrating it. Here is how to track YouTube ads properly and measure their real ROI.

Topics: Wicked Reports conversion tracking marketing ROI YouTube Ads Video Ad Attribution
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The Missing Piece of Ecommerce Growth : Why Stores Guess

By Scott Desgrosseilliers on Feb 24, 2018, 4:21:05 PM

THE MISSING PIECE OF ECOMMERCE GROWTH : WHY MOST STORES ARE GUESSING


Growing an ecommerce store is like assembling a puzzle with four critical pieces. Miss any one and the picture never comes together. Most stores nail three of them and are quietly missing the fourth, which is exactly the one that tells them whether the other three are working. Here is the puzzle, and the piece almost everyone is missing.

Topics: Wicked Reports Marketing Attribution ecommerce growth marketing ROI people based attribution
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The Wicked Reports ROI Report : See What Marketing Earned

By Scott Desgrosseilliers on Nov 4, 2016, 4:09:40 PM

THE WICKED REPORTS ROI REPORT : SEE WHAT YOUR MARKETING ACTUALLY EARNED

Most marketing metrics tools still expect you to do the heavy lifting. They will give you numbers, as long as you handle the coding, tracking, filtering, and analysis yourself. That is like a restaurant serving you dinner only if you do the kitchen prep. So ask yourself two questions.

If a CMS will write HTML for you, a CRM will manage your pipeline, and Google and Meta optimize bids automatically, why do you still put up with a reporting tool that makes you become a data analyst before you can see a result? And do you really want to spend your time mastering data analysis instead of growing your business?

Topics: Wicked Reports ROI Report WickedSmartz marketing ROI Full-Impact Attribution