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

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How to Build UTM Tracking Links in Wicked Reports

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Every Platform Grades Its Own Homework : Scott on the ROAS Trap

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The Paid Traffic Truth : Meta's New Customer Conversion Just Jumped 66%

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The Paid Traffic Truth : The New Customer Markup Your Dashboard Hides

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Why Agencies Shouldn't Fear the Numbers

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Your Data Is Being Estimated — And Nobody Told You

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Three Attribution Shifts Every DTC Brand Should Know

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How Meta, Google, and TikTok Changed Your Numbers Without Telling You

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Why High ROAS Isn’t Enough : Scaling with the Outcome Force

By Scott Desgrosseilliers on Apr 13, 2026, 9:15:00 AM

Why High ROAS Isn't Enough: Scaling with the Outcome Force

Here’s a scary truth for eCommerce operators: you can have great ROAS and still be wasting money. Many campaigns look profitable in-platform, but in reality, they’re recycling customers you already have, giving you an inflated sense of performance.

Topics: Wicked Reports Marketing Attribution ad spend optimization Five Forces Methodology Outcome Force Scaling Growth
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Diagnosing Rising nCAC: Why Your Offer Might Not Be the Problem

By Scott Desgrosseilliers on Feb 2, 2026, 9:00:00 AM

Diagnosing Rising nCAC: Why Your Offer Might Not Be the Problem 

When your paid media costs start creeping up, the natural reaction is to panic. Most founders and agencies immediately start "thrashing"—changing the offer, the landing page, the product bundles, and the creative.

Topics: Wicked Reports Marketing Attribution New Customer Acquisition Cost (NCAC) ad spend optimization Top of Funnel Data Accuracy
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Attribution Modeling Types Explained : 2026 Guide

By Scott Desgrosseilliers on Oct 11, 2024, 9:04:50 PM

ATTRIBUTION MODELING TYPES EXPLAINED : A 2026 GUIDE TO CHOOSING THE RIGHT ONE


Every marketer wants the answer to one question - what's actually working? It's easy to spread budget across channels and hope. The hard part — the part that separates brands that scale from brands that guess — is knowing how each touch actually contributes to winning a customer. That's what attribution modeling is for.

Attribution models move you past surface metrics to show which marketing activities influence which parts of the customer journey. Used well, they replace guesswork with data you can allocate budget on. Used badly — or trusted blindly from a single ad platform — they can point you confidently in exactly the wrong direction. This guide covers the main model types, when each fits, and the catch that undermines all of them if you're not careful.

Topics: Wicked Reports Attribution Health multi-touch attribution ad spend optimization marketing ROI
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FunnelVision : See Which Funnel Stages Waste Ad Spend

By Scott Desgrosseilliers on Dec 13, 2023, 10:42:57 AM

FUNNELVISION : SEE WHICH FUNNEL STAGES ACTUALLY DRIVE SALES AND CUT WASTED AD SPEND


Most ecommerce brands can tell you their overall ROAS. Far fewer can tell you which stage of their funnel is quietly burning money. That gap is where ad budget goes to die. FunnelVision is the Wicked Reports report built to close it by showing you the full customer journey stage by stage so you can see exactly where spend is working and where it is wasted. Here is what it does and why it matters.

Topics: Wicked Reports funnelVision ad spend optimization marketing ROI full funnel attribution
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Scale Winners Early : Purchase-Timing Attribution

By Scott Desgrosseilliers on Apr 4, 2017, 5:34:07 PM

How to Scale Winning Campaigns Before Your Competitors Do

Most marketers find out a campaign is a winner long after the window to press the advantage has closed. The data trickles in, you wait to be sure, and by the time you scale, the edge is gone. What if you could see which campaigns and which timing were about to pay off, and act on it weeks before your competitors caught on? That is the idea behind Predicted Future, and the timing signals underneath it.

Topics: Wicked Reports customer behavior ad spend optimization purchase timing best time to buy maximize ROI email optimization