Good to know
What to know before you hire marketing for your store
ROAS on its own tells you very little about an online store. A campaign can show a strong return on ad spend while the products it sells carry thin margins, high return rates or shipping costs that eat the difference. Before anyone builds an account, the team asks for your margin by category, your return rate and what a repeat customer is worth over a year. That way bids and budgets follow profit, not the number on the dashboard.
The holiday season starts in summer
Holiday feeds, creative and email lists get built in late summer, not in November. Confirm inventory before budgets go up, because an ad that sells a product you can't ship brings refunds and reviews you don't want. Back to school and category peaks work the same way. The team writes the plan around your stock and shipping cutoffs and pulls paid spend back on lines that run low.
Measurement after the privacy changes
Browser and app privacy changes mean the pixel alone no longer sees every purchase. So the team checks the server side first: Meta's Conversions API, enhanced conversions in Google Ads, GA4 with ecommerce events, and a consent banner that matches how your store actually collects data. After that, the team reads attribution across channels instead of trusting any one platform's report, since each of them claims the same order.
Retention before more acquisition
Most stores spend nearly everything on new customers and almost nothing on the ones who already bought. Email and SMS flows, a post-purchase sequence, replenishment reminders for consumables and a loyalty mechanic usually add orders faster, with no extra ad spend. The team looks at your repeat rate by product before deciding how much of the monthly budget goes to acquisition and how much to keeping the customers you have.