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Measurement, Attribution & IncrementalityMER First: The One Ad Metric That Survives Every Platform Apocalypse

Platform ROAS keeps redefining itself every era. My case for running accounts on MER and contribution, plus where a bad ROAS is a healthy business.

February 10, 2025
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Profitability, Offers & Unit EconomicsYour Offer Is the Bottleneck, Not Your Creative: The Buy-2-Get-2 Math That 10x'd a Brand's ROAS

Most 'creative fatigue' is really an offer problem. Here's the buy-2-get-2 math and no-brainer checklist that took a snack brand from 0.47x to 3.6x ROAS.

February 8, 2025
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Scaling, Budgets & BiddingHow We Took a Brand From $56k to $250k/Month in 90 Days: The Full Structure Breakdown

A radically transparent 90-day case study: the exact account structure and week-by-week scaling decisions that pushed spend ~200% while holding ROAS.

February 6, 2025
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Creative Strategy, UGC & Ad ProductionProduct Seeding Is the Cheapest UGC Pipeline You're Not Running (The $0.50 CPM Math)

Brands pay A$200-500 per UGC asset that product seeding generates near-free. The pipeline: budget by COGS, source from competitor followers, lock rights, brief.

February 4, 2025
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Meta/Facebook Ads Mastery5 Facebook Ad Hook Templates That Spent $100k+ Per Ad (With Swap-In Formulas)

Five Facebook ad hook skeletons with swap-in formulas, the awareness level each suits, and where it wins - so you can ship something that converts this week.

February 2, 2025
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Brand, Strategy & DTC TrendsWhen Should You Actually Diversify Off Meta? Both Sides of the $20M Debate

Some say brands leave Meta too early, others say leave sooner. My referee take: saturation is customers-vs-category-size, not revenue. Here's the model.

February 1, 2025
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Operations, Team & AgencyAgency or In-House? The Honest Decision Tree (From an Agency That Tells Clients When to Leave)

Agency or in-house isn't a yes/no. Here's the stage-by-stage decision tree I use - the core-competency test, and the trap nobody warns you about.

January 30, 2025
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AI & Automation for EcomYour Customers Already Wrote Your Best Ads: The AI Review-Mining Workflow We Use Before Writing a Word

Stop brainstorming angles. Your reviews already hold them. The exact AI workflow we run to tag customer language, count it, and turn it into hooks and briefs.

January 28, 2025
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CRO, Landing Pages & RetentionWhy We Tell Clients to Skip CRO (Until They've Fixed Their Offer and Headline)

Most agencies sell you CRO. We'll often tell you to skip it. 80% of conversion is offer plus a specific headline - the page is the smallest lever in the building.

January 26, 2025
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Measurement, Attribution & IncrementalityThe 15-Minute Meta Account Audit We Run Before Touching Any Client's Creative (CAPI, Pixel & Match Rate)

The agency checklist we run on every account before we look at the creative: attribution, pixel firing, CAPI match quality, dedup, and the 23% match rate fix.

January 24, 2025
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Profitability, Offers & Unit EconomicsYour LTV Is Fiction: The Fully-Burdened Math That Should Gate Your Ad Spend

The myth says your customer is worth $400 and you can spend $130. The burdened, delivered-to-door, post-refunds math usually says you can spend a third of that.

January 22, 2025
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Scaling, Budgets & BiddingThe Facebook Ads Account Structure That Scales From $0 to $50k/Month

Facebook ads account structure isn't one setup, it's a ladder. Here's the spend-tiered structure from $0 to $50k+ a month, so you can self-diagnose your rung.

January 21, 2025
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Creative Strategy, UGC & Ad ProductionFounder Ads Outperform Creator Ads 2x: Build a Weekly Founder Content Engine (Even If You Hate Camera)

Founder ads keep beating creator ads about 2x in my accounts. Here's the 60-minute weekly iPhone shoot, the hooks, and a path for camera-shy founders.

January 19, 2025
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Ethan To, CEO & Head of Growth