Worth knowing
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 any account is built, the team needs your margin by category, your return rate and what a repeat customer is worth to you over a year, so that bids and budgets follow profit rather than the number on the dashboard.
The holiday season starts in summer
Product feeds, creative and email lists for the holiday season are built in late summer, not in November. Inventory has to be confirmed before budgets go up, because an ad that sells a product you cannot ship creates refunds and customer reviews you do not want. Back to school and category-specific peaks follow the same logic: the plan is written around your stock and shipping cutoffs, and paid spend is pulled 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. The setup the team checks first is server-side: 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. Attribution is then read across channels rather than trusted from any single ad platform's own report, because each one 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 are usually a quicker place to add orders without adding 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.