Ecommerce growth insights straight from the trenches
Meta only crowns one winner per ad set when your variants are too similar. How many Facebook ad variations to test per concept, and how to restructure for more.
Lifetime LTV is a number you can't bank. Here's how to build a 60-day cash multiplier, cohort it by first product, and set a true allowable CAC from it.
Most product reshoots are wasted money. Here's the generative-fill workflow we use to turn one photo into a month of ad variations, and where it still fails.
Most brands under ~$5M can't generate enough geo conversions to trust a holdout. Here are four cheaper measurement layers I'd use first, by revenue stage.
Most lean DTC teams hire five smooth generalists when one sharp operator plus an agency punches harder. Which spike to hire first at each revenue stage.
Around 70% of people never watch past your first three seconds, so the hook is the test, not a finishing touch. Here's how we make hooks different enough.
Past a certain size, stock is the constraint on scaling ads, not budget. How I throttle, redirect, or push spend by SKU, run sell-through, and use pre-orders.
Almost every brand that scaled fast is fighting something. How to pick a strategic enemy that blames a force not your customer, and thread it through ads.
Panic-cutting a budget on one bad day is catching a falling knife. Here's the asymmetric rule we use: scale up fast off yesterday, scale down slow over days.
You can't create desire, only call it out. My three-source research flow (brand, competitors, online) for finding the wants that become winning hooks.