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New customer costs fell $55. Meta missed it.

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The sooner you buy Meta clicks, the more you make

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Is the 49% BFCM click premium worth it?

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The Paid Traffic Truth : Paid Traffic Enters Q4 Cheaper Than It Left August

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The $55 nCAC drop Meta never showed you

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Why Meta customers gain $112 after the click

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The Paid Traffic Truth : Why YouTube's New Customer Cost Just Reset

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Why Your Holiday Marketing Reports Lie to You Twice

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The Paid Traffic Truth : Why Holiday Demand Pays Meta and Bills Google

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The Monday Morning Report Is Eating Your Agency's Week

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Why One Channel Looks Too Cheap and Too Expensive at Once

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The Paid Traffic Truth : The 159% Markup Hiding Inside Your Blended CAC

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

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Setting the Intention : How the 5 Forces Automates Your Marketing Decisions

By Scott Desgrosseilliers on Jan 16, 2026, 9:30:00 AM

SETTING THE INTENTION : HOW THE 5 FORCES AUTOMATES YOUR MARKETING DECISIONS

For years, getting a real edge in ecommerce meant having the best data scientists or the most elaborate spreadsheets. You mined dashboards by hand, hunting for the signal in the noise. But manual data mining is slow, and in paid advertising, slow is expensive. The answer is not to hand your decisions to a black-box algorithm that guesses. It is to automate them with a system that computes the answer from your real data and shows you the math. That distinction, deterministic not generative, is the whole point.

Topics: Wicked Reports nCAC Marketing Automation AI in Marketing 5 Forces Methodology Ad Scaling Strategy
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Boost Your Sales with E-commerce Marketing Analytics

By Scott Desgrosseilliers on Mar 5, 2025, 10:12:16 AM

BOOST YOUR SALES WITH ECOMMERCE MARKETING ANALYTICS: MEASURE THE RIGHT METRIC FOR EACH CAMPAIGN

Running an ecommerce business means juggling products, site, and campaigns, and eventually every decision comes down to the data. But most ecommerce marketing analytics lead you astray in two specific ways: they judge every campaign by the same metric, and they trust each platform's self-reported numbers. Fix both, and your analytics start telling you the truth. Here is how to choose the right metric for each campaign and measure it against real revenue.

Topics: Wicked Reports attribution windows Attribution Health multi-touch attribution Marketing Automation Data-Driven Decisions
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ActiveCampaign Attribution : Track Real Email ROI

By Scott Desgrosseilliers on Feb 24, 2018, 4:23:15 PM

ACTIVECAMPAIGN ATTRIBUTION : TRACK THE REAL REVENUE YOUR EMAIL DRIVES, NO UTMS REQUIRED


ActiveCampaign is a powerful email and marketing automation platform. What it cannot tell you on its own is which of your ads created the leads your automations nurture, or how much real revenue each campaign and sequence actually produced across the full customer journey. The Wicked Reports ActiveCampaign integration closes that gap, and it does it with one feature that sets it apart from every other email integration. It tracks every email click automatically, with no UTMs required. Here is how it works and why it matters.

Topics: Wicked Reports Active Campaign Marketing Attribution Marketing Automation email attribution
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Drip Attribution: Track Real Email & SMS ROI

By Scott Desgrosseilliers on Mar 22, 2017, 5:35:31 PM

DRIP ATTRIBUTION : HOW TO TRACK THE REAL ROI OF YOUR DRIP EMAIL AND SMS

Drip is a capable email and SMS automation platform, especially popular with businesses selling courses, ebooks, software and consulting. It is good at sending and automating. What it cannot do on its own is tell you which of your ads and campaigns actually created the subscribers who went on to buy, or how much revenue your Drip flows truly drove across the full customer journey. For that you need attribution that connects Drip to your real sales across every channel. Here is how to track the real ROI of your Drip marketing.

Topics: Wicked Reports Drip Marketing Attribution Marketing Automation email attribution