What content attracts the most valuable new clicks or leads to your brand?

You know, the ones who become buyers, and especially repeat buyers.

This is exactly what the First Click Attribution Model can tell you. An accurate First Click Attribution Report makes it easy to accurately depict the data about high performing or non-performing campaigns  at the top of your marketing funnel.

Once you can easily compare ROI across channels and campaigns, it's easy to get the highest ROI from your paid ad budget by killing the poor performing campaigns and scaling the high performing ones.

It seems like everyone is talking about optimization. But, most “optimization,” tips online are really just how to set up winning campaigns for beginners.

Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC) is a critical metric for anyone using paid advertising for an ecommerce brand. If your CAC is too high, revenue won't grow, but if you aren't spending enough on leads they will not convert to customers.

Getting a good Return On Ad Spend (ROAS) makes the difference between a thriving ecommerce brand and a dying one. It’s important to understand how to use ROAS as a metric to make marketing decisions about your paid advertising, and also when ROAS might not be that helpful.

ROAS is especially important for ecommerce businesses who are running multiple ads on different channels. It gives a metric that can be tracked at the channel, campaign, or ad level to determine what is working and what is not with regards to advertising performance.

Using ROAS, you can often tell at a glance whether an ad is a candidate for scaling or needs to be turned off. It’s very helpful for evaluating the effectiveness of specific advertising campaigns, rather than a 10,000 ft view of your marketing department.

Unless you have been advertising online blindly or spending too much time on TikTok, you have probably seen the acronym CPL. Cost Per Lead (CPL) is a metric that most media buyers track for the brands they advertise for.

How to Improve Your ROI Without Increasing Ad Spend

Optimizing ad campaigns is a critical part of improving ROI and maintaining the health of your ecommerce business.

In today’s multi-channel environment, industry analysts estimate that up to 44% of digital advertising spend is wasted due to inaccurate attribution, exacerbated by the shift to privacy-first data models.

Understanding how much money your leads continue to spend with you is an extremely important data point.

In 2025, where immediate front-end ROI is often negative, the ONLY way to make profitable scaling decisions is by identifying if Leads found through Source A spend significantly more money faster than Leads from source B. This long-term profitability must dictate your budget allocation.