Insights

Ecommerce growth insights straight from the trenches

Type

Clear
Filtering by:
Tag
close icon
Creative Strategy, UGC & Ad ProductionVariations vs Iterations: How to Evolve a Winner Without Triggering Meta's 'Similar' Penalty

Meta now collapses near-identical ads onto one, so headline swaps stop opening up spend. The difference between a reskin, a variation and a real iteration.

March 31, 2025
Scaling, Budgets & BiddingThe Rule of 10,000: Exactly How Many New Ads Your Brand Should Ship Each Week

The real ceiling on your ad spend is creative volume, not budget. Two copyable formulas for how many new ads to ship each week, worked for 7 and 8 figures.

March 20, 2025
Profitability, Offers & Unit EconomicsStop Optimizing for Conversion Rate: The Revenue-and-Profit-Per-Session CRO Framework for Shopify Brands

Conversion rate hides what you actually keep. Reframe CRO around revenue per session and gross profit per session, with ICE, merchandising and bundle plays.

March 9, 2025
CRO, Landing Pages & RetentionThe Post-Purchase Upsell Playbook: Add Six Figures With Market-Basket Analysis

A one-click post-purchase upsell is the rare 30-minute install that pays whether or not you tune it. Here's how to map it across four placements.

February 26, 2025
Operations, Team & AgencyThere's No Such Thing as a Good Agency, Only Good People at Agencies: How to Vet Who Touches Your Account

There's no such thing as a good agency, only good people at one. The three questions that reveal who'll actually touch your account, us included.

February 15, 2025
Brand, Strategy & DTC TrendsIs Brand Search a Waste of Money? Jones Road Tested It Four Times, Here's Our Take

Branded search shows a beautiful ROAS and recaptures demand you'd get for free. Here's the holdout test, the 66% recapture, and three cases where we still bid.

March 27, 2025
Meta/Facebook Ads MasteryWhen to Kill a Facebook Ad: The Decision Tree We Use Inside Client Accounts

The campaign, ad-set and ad-level rules we use to decide when to turn off a Facebook ad, including the 3-day vs 7-day window and the one early-kill case.

March 16, 2025
Creative Strategy, UGC & Ad ProductionStop Writing Demographic Avatars: The Identity-First Customer Profile We Build Before Spending a Dollar

The demographic avatar tells you who your buyer is, never why they buy. Here's the three-section identity-and-emotion doc we fill in before spending a dollar.

March 5, 2025
Scaling, Budgets & BiddingFrom $0 to $5k/Day: A Week-by-Week Anatomy of Launching a Brand-New Ad Account

A brand-new ad account, week by week: the hard deck I held through a A$340 early CPA, the losers I killed, and the exact rules that scaled it.

February 23, 2025
CRO, Landing Pages & RetentionThe ROAS Equation: Why Your Landing Page Is Two of Your Four Scaling Levers

CVR x AOV x CTR / CPM means your landing page controls half your ROAS. Two numbers tonight tell you exactly where your funnel is leaking money.

February 12, 2025
Thank you! Your submission has been received!
Oops! Something went wrong while submitting the form.