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The Paid Traffic Truth : Why Your Meta Cost Rose but Your Click Price Didn't
Jul 28, 2026 by Scott Desgrosseilliers
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Every Platform Grades Its Own Homework : Scott on the ROAS Trap
Jul 27, 2026 by Scott Desgrosseilliers
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The Paid Traffic Truth : The ROAS Trap Held a Second Week — and Got Wider
Jul 22, 2026 by Scott Desgrosseilliers
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The Paid Traffic Truth : Your best ROAS channel costs the most per new customer
Jul 14, 2026 by Scott Desgrosseilliers
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The Paid Traffic Truth : Meta's New Customer Conversion Just Jumped 66%
Jul 8, 2026 by Scott Desgrosseilliers
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The Paid Traffic Truth : The New Customer Markup Your Dashboard Hides
Jul 6, 2026 by Scott Desgrosseilliers
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Your Data Is Being Estimated — And Nobody Told You
Jun 15, 2026 by Scott Desgrosseilliers
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Three Attribution Shifts That Changed This Week — And What They Mean for Your Revenue
Jun 8, 2026 by Scott Desgrosseilliers
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How Meta, Google, and TikTok Changed Your Numbers Without Telling You
Jun 5, 2026 by Scott Desgrosseilliers
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How Link Necklaces Cut Meta nCAC 22% and Nearly Doubled New Customers
May 28, 2026 by Scott Desgrosseilliers
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The Monday Routine That Stops Wasted Ad Spend : The Five Forces Playbook
Apr 27, 2026 by Scott Desgrosseilliers
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How to Use Ecommerce LTV to Optimize Cold Traffic
By Scott Desgrosseilliers on May 31, 2022, 12:46:12 PM
HOW TO USE ECOMMERCE LTV TO OPTIMIZE COLD TRAFFIC AD SPEND
Customer lifetime value is the most underused metric in ecommerce — and that's exactly why it's an edge. Most brands optimize their cold-traffic ads for the cheapest possible click, lead or first purchase. The brands that win optimize for something their competitors aren't even measuring - which cold traffic turns into high-value, repeat customers. This is how you do that.
Topics: Wicked Reports cohort analysis customer lifetime value (CLV) Cold Traffic Attribution ecommerce metrics
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Cohort Analysis : Track Long-Term Revenue, LTV & Break-Even
By Scott Desgrosseilliers on Feb 28, 2020, 12:55:22 PM
COHORT ANALYSIS: HOW TO TRACK LONG-TERM REVENUE, LTV, AND DAYS TO BREAK EVEN
Here's a question most ecommerce brands can't answer accurately: how much money will the customers you acquire this month spend with you over the next year — and which of your campaigns brought in the ones worth the most? If you can't answer that, you're allocating budget blind. Cohort analysis is how you answer it.

