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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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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 Every DTC Brand Should Know
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 Retargeting Trap: More New Customers on Half the Spend
By Scott Desgrosseilliers on Dec 12, 2025, 9:00:00 AM
The Retargeting Trap : How OneCore Media Got SweetLegs More New Customers on Half the Spend
WHAT IS THE RETARGETING TRAP?
The retargeting trap is a marketing failure where brands unknowingly spend their budget re-acquiring existing customers instead of finding new ones. It creates a treacherous paradox: platform ROAS looks high, often 6x to 10x, while actual new customer growth stays flat. Using FunnelVision to audit their retargeting loops, the agency OneCore Media helped its client SweetLegs generate more revenue and more new customers on roughly half the ad spend. Here is how.
Topics: Wicked Reports funnelVision Marketing Attribution New Customer Acquisition Cost (NCAC) e-commerce growth retargeting loop
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What Wicked Reports Does : 5 Forces AI, Advanced Signal & More
By Scott Desgrosseilliers on Dec 11, 2025, 9:15:00 AM
What Wicked Reports Does : The System Behind Better Budget Decisions
WHAT DOES WICKED REPORTS ACTUALLY DO?
Wicked Reports replaces revenue illusions with a faster, clearer decision system. It reconciles every channel against your real orders, then turns that into scale, chill, kill decisions you can act on. The core capabilities are 5 Forces AI for deterministic recommendations, Advanced Signal for training Meta on new customers, FunnelVision with infinite lookback for the full journey, and localized reporting so global teams decide on proof, not vibes. Here is how each one works.
Topics: Wicked Reports funnelVision Marketing Attribution Data Reporting 5 Forces AI Profitability Analysis
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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.

