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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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The Paid Traffic Truth : Which Way Is Last-Click Attribution Wrong? One Direction
Aug 17, 2026 by Scott Desgrosseilliers
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The Paid Traffic Truth : Why Last-Click Attribution Cuts Meta's ROAS and Pays Search
Aug 10, 2026 by Scott Desgrosseilliers
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The Paid Traffic Truth : Why Your Best ROAS Channels Bring the Fewest New Customers
Aug 3, 2026 by Scott Desgrosseilliers
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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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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.

