Tactical & Practical

Cody Wittick makes his Tactical & Practical debut by outlining the 6 steps he takes when Meta performance drops, rather than panic pulling levers. His full breakdown can be found in this tweet: https://x.com/Cody_Wittick/status/2059355220358955458?s=20 This episode is brought to you by Intelligems.io, which is my favorite tool to use to increase meta performance. Test headlines, copy, images, offers, prices, and everything else you can think of on your shopify store! If you're struggling to get meta to reach new people, you need to be using WasteNot.io | I've used it at two brands now and seen an immediate reduction in CAC that resulted from us getting better at excluding past customers. Click here to sign up today: https://www.wastenot.io/case-studies/large-dtc-watch-brand?ref=nathaniel

Did you know you can start running gifting messaging on your site & in your ad account BEFORE you launch a sale, like Father's Day or BFCM? Early in the month of May, I tested Father's Day Gifting Messaging across websites of 4 different brands that all sell products that make good father's day gifts. Even before the sale or the offer is launched, this messaging outperformed evergreen site content, increasing CVR & RPS. Then, and maybe most importantly, once the sale does launch, we already know which messaging is best to roll out across the site and ad account, and can squeeze every single drop we can out of the promo period. One client, YoY father's day comps are nuts: They spent 30% LESS money on ads, and did 34% MORE revenue. You 1000% need a plan to test gifting messaging in OCTOBER this year, weeks before you launch any kind of holiday sale, so that when you launch the sale, you're launching it already having your messaging dialed in. Tactical & Practical is brought to you by Intelligems.io - they're the software solution that allows me to test all this messaging on site and shows me where we're increasing Conversion Rate, Revenue Per Session, and a lot more! Tactical & Practical is also sponsored by Waste Not! A software that fortifies your Meta ad spend to cut waste, reduce audience overlap, and decrease cost to reach new audiences! Check out what they've done for me here: https://www.wastenot.io/case-studies/large-dtc-watch-brand?ref=nathaniel

Proof Wallets is spending as many ad dollars on Linear TV as they are on Meta, and performance is better on TV... If I was consulting for @DanaPeters0321 at the time they launched TV campaigns, I probably would've told him not to do it. I would've argued that it's a distraction this early in the business, and that there was still a lot of room for them to grow & optimize Meta. Good thing Dana and I didn't meet till a few months later, because now there's one ad that has spent multiple millions of dollars and isn't slowing down. This episode of Tactical & Practical is SUPER tactical, we cover the logistics of Tatari advertising (this episode is not sponsored by them btw), how performance has been, and their trajectory for this channel. This episode is brought to you by Intelligems.io. Optimize every piece of your shopify store by split testing prices, offers, content, new landing pages and more. It can even split test by traffic source which is necessary if you're going to be testing new channels like we talk about in this episode! If you're struggling to get meta to reach new people, you need to be using WasteNot.io | I've used it at two brands now and seen an immediate reduction in CAC that resulted from us getting better at excluding past customers. Click here to sign up today: https://app.wastenot.io/users/register/?ref=nathaniel

When should you iterate? And when should you test net new creative concepts? The simple answer for me, is when you hit a point of diminishing returns with iterations, shake the etch a sketch, and start over with net new concepts The first round of headline testing increased CVR by 27% The next round, we iterated on the winners, and increased CVR by 11% The next round, we iterated again and only increased CVR by 2% It’s time to start the cycle over This episode is sponsored by intelligems.io - the best way I know how to run tests like I show in this episode.

Great conversation with @heyitsalexP around perceived value, marketing in the world of fashion, upsells, bundles, and more. Tactical & Practical is sponsored by Intelligems.io - my go to testing tool to help find new ways to increase the percieved value of our products. Check them out! Follow Alex on twitter and subscribe to her newsletter here: https://x.com/heyitsalexP https://t.co/kIyKSdSSQ1

The most valuable copywriting inspiration I've ever gotten is from songwriters. They're the best at writing in a way that makes people feel something. They're excellent at making the aspirational feel within reach. They're better than any marketer at making people feel at home, and comfortable in their lyrics. Great advertising should aspire to do those things too. So, in this episode, I share 3 songs that taught me how to speak to our customers with more familiarity, how to hype up our customers without being too cheesy or on the nose, and how to bring an aspirational lifestyle to appear within reach to our customers if they use your product. This episode is brought to you by Intelligems.io so you can test copy, content, prices, and offers all across your shopify site to make more money! Sign up for my copywriting skool here: https://www.skool.com/bottomsup/about

Since I'm taking some time off from full time employment, my entire steak & whiskey budget is now dependent on freelance work... So, I'm going to market my freelance services the way I wish freelancers & agencies marketed to me while I was on the brand side. Which means... 1. I won't make you hop on a call if you don't want to, I'll explain everything in this podcast. 2. I won't gatekeep my process, I'll lay it out in detail. If you have an internal team that are experienced & talented copywriters, & they have the spare time to adopt new processes, you can send them this and you can execute on it without paying me a dime. You're welcome. 3. I won't charge bigger brands bigger retainers just because they can afford it. The price is the price is the price, and I explain in this episode why my flat fee (no percentage of spend bullshit) is a no brainer and you're guaranteed to make a ton of money off my work. Who's ready to write better copy & make more money?

CMO of Ridge & the Most Valuable Guest of Tactical & Practical, Couuor Mac joins the pod to talk media buying, on-site messaging testing, and hammock-maxxing.

Some of you have spent a year split testing on your website and don't have anything to show for it... and I think I know why. I ran a headline test on a landing page. The control variant was a very evidence-based, authority / credibility kinda headline. The variant that won the split test, and increased CVR by 48%, was on the other end of the spectrum, it was very emotional & benefit driven. THAT DOESN'T MEAN I SHOULD JUST SET THAT HEADLINE LIVE AND FORGET IT. All the results of that split test tells us is that CURRENTLY, our ads are doing a better job of bringing emotional buyers to our website. It means that we're NOT good at bringing logical buyers into our funnel. So now, my job is to create two separate funnels for the same product, one that appeals to emotional, benefit driven buyers, and the other that appeals logical buyers. Split testing should teach you how to grow your TAM, not just increase conversion rate for one specific cohort of your target market.

Brands need to act differently at different stages of growth. What works for a $50 million/year brand might drown a $10 million/year brand. Understand where you're at, and act accordingly.

How I build marketing teams When you should hire in-house vs agencies/freelancers How to keep employees accountable & productive without endless meetings & micro-managing & more don't miss this episode.

AI is great at some things It's bad at others And sometimes, it straight up makes mistakes or lies to me... I think it's all important that we take a step back, understand its strengths, weaknesses, how it can help us today, and how we should be building it into our brands for the future. This episode is all about The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly side of Artificial Intelligence:

Don't hire a performance marketers to do a brand builder's job.

BEFORE you launch that new advertising channel, try these 5 things to try to spark new growth in a product or brand that's hit a plateau: 1. Test new prices & offers on your hero SKU. Price-Market-Fit is not something you can set and forget, just look at gas prices the last couple weeks. The price consumers are willing to pay for your product changes with inflation, election cycles, and category maturity. If you haven't tested your prices or offers in the last year, they're officially out of date, test them again. 2. Shoot new creative in different formats and with different creators than you've worked with in the past. If you're ad account is full of UGC, maybe try producing some high quality, polished assets. If you've relied super hard on videos, try some statics. Not every person in your target market will resonate with the same content format. When I see UGC as a marketer, I assume it's fake and dismiss it. When my wife sees UGC of someone who has the same pain points as her, she trusts it. Don't leave any part of your target audience out in the cold, make creative that can resonate with every corner of your audience. 3. Take this mentality into your copywriting, too. If you typically lean into negative, fear of loss, risk aversion messaging, then you're only going to acquire customers who resonate with that. Try to frame it positively, or be more optimistic in your messaging. Instead of showing them what they might lose without your product, show them what they'll gain by adding it to their lives. 4. Look for anomalies in your customer reviews to give you new ideas for ad angles. If 80% of your 5-star reviews are about how awesome your product looks, that means you're really good at marketing how good your product looks. Acquisition is self fulfilling prophecy... But if 10% of your 5-star reviews are about how good your products makes someone feel, then you're probably MISSING that benefit in your top spending ads. Go make more ads & landing pages about how they'll FEEL, and you'll acquire more of those customers that your last round of ads wasn't talking to. 5. Make new products that appeal to a wider range or a different segment of your market. Jack Daniel's does this perfectly. I never buy their base bottle, Old No 7 that costs $25. But there's 8 bottles of specialty, limited edition Jack Daniel's bottles that I paid over $500 each for on my shelf right now. They never would've gotten that money from me if they didn't push into a new market. Mercedes does this great, too. They make the G wagon for people who are rich. They make the C class for people who want to look rich. Rolex sells the dayjust and the daytona, to completely different tax brackets. Puma sells some traditional golf shoes, and ones with camo print all over them. I'd never by the traditional ones (or anything from puma usually) but I'm on my second pair of the camo ones... and so on. Obviously new product dev takes a lot of time, but you can definitely do those first 4 things BEFORE adding the complexity and unknowns of a new advertising channel. Then, when you do launch that new channel, you'll have more learnings for how to make it work for you. Happy scaling

Did you know that you don't have to just ask "How did you hear about us?" in your post purchase survey? I think it's way less valuable to use it as a form as attribution, and way MORE valuable to ask them questions that'll shape your marketing strategy in the future. At Adapt, I'm asking "When did you first hear about us?" "Who supports you on your health journey?" "How do supplements fit into your daily routine?" "What's your favorite way to stay active?" Each of those will affect how we measure our marketing efforts, how we position our brand, what kind of organic content we'll create, which influencers we'll partner with, and what IRL events I'll want us to be a part of. Those insights are way more valuable to me than hearing someone try to remember where they heard about us. - Then, we have some winning results from a brand who just INCREASED their prices - Tweet of the week is really tactical Meta advice - A JUICY Marketer's Anonymous from a guy who's about to quit his job

On this episode: - I started an influencer program with $8k that grew into a multi 7-figure channel - A new form of ad iteration made me sell out of my hero SKU way too fast - Ad fatigue is self inflicted? - Headline tests continue to move the needle - Marketers need to understand WHY performance is bad, then they can work on how to improve it

Most of the time I buy whiskey, I'm happy, celebrating, I'm buying to have a good night with friends or to mark a milestone. But on rare occasions... I buy whiskey when I'm sad, angry, frustrated, stress, I buy it as a coping mechanism... Now that's not good, and it's been a long time since I've done it so don't worry about me, lol... but it exposes a flaw in the way that most of the industry is talking about customer personas. How can one buyer (Me) have two completely opposite mindsets (happy or angry), that lead me to the exact same purchase decision (11 shots of Jack Daniel's)? And if that's possible, why aren't we trying to market to all those different motivators? In this episode, I break down how I use Valence & Intensity zones in my performance copywriting process to reach new areas of our market that some of our top ads just can't resonate with. Watch this episode, then ask Claude to analyze and indentify the valence & intensity zones of your top performing ads, and re-write new variations in the other zones. You'll reach buyers who are in-market for your product, that don't resonate with the tone of your current ads at all.

I've been at a brand where an average SMS campaign would do $8k in revenue. Then we sent one that did $40k in 30 minutes. I've ran an email account that made $6k on a normal daily email campaign. Then we sent one that did $75k in 24 hours. And no, those campaigns weren't sent on black friday, they weren't even sent in Q4. In this episode, I show you how you can take a moment that your customers care about, or can relate to, bring them into your world to experience it with you, and have a day that makes your entire month. I also award a tweet of the week award, share the results of a split test that DID NOT GO MY WAY, and attempt to answer the question, "How do you get away from discounting all the time?" (the first few seconds of audio are a little sketchy then by 10 seconds it's good)

In this episode I break down how we just: - Doubled ad spend while increasing aMER - How doing less allows you to do more - Testing CTA button text - Resending emails to non openers (the easiest, lowest hanging revenue in all of ecom) - & what to do what your top selling product starts to plateau

President of GrooveLife.com joins the show to talk about building lean & efficient marketing teams.

Learn how I've helped 7 figure brands break through the 8 fig/yr mark, here some anonymous questions from marketers early in their careers, and check out a recent DISCOUNT test I ran with suprising results, my Tweet of the Week, and a JUICY Tactical Tip for SuperBowl Sunday.

Dive into how I started a new brand, and how I think about creative strategy & split testing when nobody has ever heard of you.

We need to throw out the word "brand" I think our simple, performance-marketer brains completely crumble when we try to think about building a "brand." It's abstract, it sounds antithetical to performance & growth, and it leads marketers into a lot of bad behavior Instead, you should be trying to build PERSONALITY into your company. A personality that is capable of showing up in the right context, to each persona you're trying to sell to. Think about your own personality. You show up differently to saturday night dinner with friends than you to do sunday afternoon lunch with your in laws. You might dress different, you might drink differently, and you definitely talk different. You dress differently to a concert friday night than you do to work on monday morning. You're not being fake, you're being authentically you in every one of those situations, but you're showing up in the right context for different people, places, and times. That's what our "brands" need to be able to do in 2026 and beyond. Can we show up with the proper context, to specific personas in our target audience, at the right times, on the right channels, with the right influencers & partners? That's how the next great brands are going to be built.

Yes, the majority of Americans aren't rolling in cash right now... But, the top 10% of earners are still seeing your ads, visiting your website, and spending their money. Why aren't you giving them the opportunity to give you MORE?

Discounts are like binge drinking - Lots of fun in the short term (big revenue boost) - Leads to bad behavior (hacky marketing) - Creates shallow, meaningless relationships (low LTV customers) - Terrible Hangovers (awful performance after the sale) - It's more acceptable to do around major holidays (if you're doing it august I assume your life & business are not going well) ...But a great offer is like sharing a pour of Kentucky's finest bourbon. It starts with meaningful connection (strong messaging), and creates a long lasting relationship (profitable LTV). Listen to this episode and hang around till minute 6 where I show the results of a split test where we reduced our discount from 30% to 20% and decreased our CAC, and increased CVR & RPS.

The CMO of The Ridge is back on the pod to break down how he's thinking about 2026, including 103 ideas to improve performance next year, an increased focused on retention, on-site merchandising strategy, and organic social.

The best ad I saw in all of October didn't come from a DTC brand you've heard of... It wasn't even a DTC brand... In this episode I break down the best ad of October & teach you how you should be applying the principles that make it a great ad to your next batch of creative. If you want your ads to work better, start testing creative, copy, and offers on your WEBSITE with Intelligems.io. Use code NATE10 to get 10% off your subscription price.

I think marketers should be lazy Maybe "efficient" is the better word. But tbh I'd rather lazy over a marketer who doesn't understand the difference between activity and productivity My job as a CMO is basically to make the company the most money while spending the least money Hit our biz goals as efficiently as possible. But I've been getting DMs from CEOs that sound like, "I feel like my marketing team is doing a ton of work, but we're not making an progress. What are we doing wrong? How do I change that?" So, here's how you change that. It all starts with a simple, reliable, and repeatable testing strategy that you team executes to learn things about your customers, then applies those learnings to the entire marketing funnel. Stop, read that again, slowly^ I break down specifically how to test ad creative & landers in this episode of tactical & practical, and even share some juicy results of the first split test I'm running at my new job. Tactical & Practical is sponsored by Intelligems.io - Use code NATE10 for 10% off your subscription.

2 Undefeated Advertising Tactics, regardless of any algorithm change, or the channel, or the year... these two tactics, when executed well & consistently, will improve the effectiveness of your advertising 100% of the time: 1. Understand your customers' REAL consideration journey. How long does it take someone from discovery to purchase? What micro decisions do they need to make along the way before they make the final purchase decision? What are the external & internal factors that are capable of affecting that decision making process? Who (other than the brand) can affect that process? Influencers? Social proof from real customers? An authority in your space? When is the right time in their lives to make this purchase? If you don't have solid answers to those questions, then you're FORBIDDEN from listening to another marketing podcast. Don't listen to mine, don't listen to anyone else's. In fact, unfollow me on twitter until you find the right answers to those questions (HINT: you can upload all your customer reviews to Chat, ask it those questions, and it'll give you a great foundation to start with) Then, you can start crafted better messages, offers, and campaign schedules to accelerate those customer journeys and more effectively persuade more of your target audience to buy. 2. Understand how your advertising impacts your ultimate business goals. When you advertise product X, how much revenue comes in from product X? How much revenue comes in from other products who saw an ad for product X. What does the customer journey (12-month LTV) look like for customers acquired on product X? Add up all that revenue, subtract COGS, CAC, and any other costs that went into selling it (software, content creation, etc). Is it actually creating the profit you thought? Then you need to watch how your advertising inputs affects these outcomes. You might come up with an offer, like a big discount, that produces a higher 7-day ROAS. BUT, if the cohort of customers acquired on that offer are WORSE customers (less repeat purchases), then you might be hurting the long term health of the business. So, those are my 2 undefeated advertising tactics: - Understand your customers' real & complete consideration & purchase decision making process, and use that info in your marketing efforts - Understand how your advertising inputs affect the business outcomes, and make sure that aligns with what the shareholders want to happen. Stop talking about andromeda please

7 ways to measure the effectiveness of your FUNNEL FILLING: 1. Google Search Volume 2. Total REACH (all ad & organic channels) 3. Cost Per 1,000 Accounts Center Accounts Reached (Meta) 4. New Visitor Percentage (Meta) 5. Blended Cost Per New Site Session 6. Blended Cost Per New Lead 7. Revenue Per Lead (short time frame: 7-, 14-days etc) What else would you add? October is FUNNEL FILLING SZN for ecom, but a lot of marketers rely on HOPE to make sure it's going well without any concrete data, which I don't advise. Measuring these 7 metrics, and comparing them to the same time frame from last year or last sales period will give you a leading indication of how effectively you're filling the funnel, and how lucrative November & December might be for you. It's not iron clad, every year in ecom is different, but if you pull these metrics compared to last year, you'll start to see a picture of how you're stacking up year over year, and it should become clear what you need to work on before the holiday shopping season starts! T+P is sponsored by Intelligems.io - Use Code NATE10 to get 10% off your subscription and start making more money by split testing prices, offers, content, and more on your shopify store today!

None of you should be copying & pasting the same exact tactics that 9-figure brands use in their marketing to your 6-, 7-, or even 8-figure/yr brands. You should take inspiration from them, but then run those tactics through the FILTER of your brand, your budget, your bandwidth, your skillset, and your customer base, before applying those tactics. In this episode of Tactical & Practical, I talk about how we've taken inspiration from Ridge's creator strategy with MKBHD, Portland Leather Goods' Meta ad creative strategy, and how we've used similes & metaphors like great songwriters to improve our direct response copywriting. Go to Intelligems.io to start split testing high impact areas of your website and making your ad dollars more efficient! *before any of you say trickle down economics don't work so you hate this episode, shut up. Idk what trickle down economics are but I've made good money doing this^ and trickle down tactics was a catchy name for this episode. Stop being a dork.

Tactical & Practical is brought to you by Intelligems.io - your one-stop-shop for PROFIT GROWTH. Split test prices, offers, progress bars, content, and anything else you can think of on your website to maximize your top and bottom line. Here are the 3 biggest lessons I learned during my time at OG, and how you can apply them to your growth marketing channels: You’re not selling what you think you’re selling. Make sure you are marketing what your customers REALLY, maybe even subconsciously, want. Big growth doesn’t come from big ideas. Big growth comes from relentlessly testing & optimizing the fundamentals of marketing. Stack 5-10% wins over and over and over and over again, you’ll pick your head up 12 months later and realize you doubled the size of your company. Always do what’s best & what works for your brand. Don’t rely on “industry standards” or “best practices.” Feel free to take inspiration from the biggest & best brands in our industry, but make sure you run those tactics through the filter of your brand, your customers, and your budget before executing them yourself Let me know your fav lesson in the comments, thanks for listening.

$25 will buy you a bottle of Jack Daniel's in a liquor store, but only 4 shots of Jack in a bar. When my wife & I go to Five Guys for dinner we usually spend $40, but last night we got it delivered so we paid $75. At my local steakhouse, the tomahawk at $149 makes the $91 ribeye look like an amazing deal. And at the movie theater, I never get the medium popcorn for $12.50 because the large is only 50 cents more. The way we perceive prices as consumers can be manipulated by other closely related costs, the context of where you are & what's going on in your life, and even the emotions you're feeling. So today we're going to talk about how to use these practical price anchors to your advantage for your ecom store. Because if you're not anchoring your prices throughout your marketing funnel, your customers are going to anchor them for you, and most often they'll compare it to the last thing they bought on amazon, and you're going to lose that battle. Take 9 minutes on this episode where I give 4 real examples of PRACTICAL PRICE ANCHORS. Tactical & Practical is sponsored by Intelligems.io - the ultimate split testing tool that's proven to increase & optimize your P&L. Go to Intelligems.io and let em know I sent you to start making more money from your website visitors today!

I'm running through our MANDATORY website testing checklist before Black Friday in this episode. It's going to guarantee that our funnel is as dialed in as possible before we get to Nov 1st and have to start scaling aggressively. If you feel like your website testing strategy has been a little sloppy, or maybe a little inconsistent, send this to your team and make sure you're dialed in for Christmas. This episode wouldn't be possible with our website split testing partner: Intelligems.io - the most reliable & profitable split testing tool out there! Go check them out and let them know I sent you.

I'm not a watch designer by any means... in fact, most of you have seen the way I dress, I have no business working in the fashion industry whatsoever... But, there are still some instances where marketing needs to inform product development. 1. When there's low hanging fruit based on sales data 2. When the product launch calendar needs to support performance marketing 3. When there's customer feedback 4. When you need new products to expand your TAM I break down these 4 points with real world examples in this 8 minute episode. Tactical & Practical is sponsored by Intelligems.io

Countdown to Black Friday: 112 Days I'm doing a series of episodes counting down to this holiday shopping season and teaching you how to prepare for it. First up, I wanted to talk about scaling your influencer program ahead of Q4. Done well, influencer should be the highest return on ad spend you see in your business, but it's also one of the hardest channels to scale, which is why you need to start NOW if you haven't already. The buyer pool explodes in November & December, so I think most brands can invest in bigger & broader influencers than they might feel comfortable with for most of the year, but now is the time to go big. Listen here in full, or anywhere you listen to pods, brought to you by @Intelligems

In this episode, I deep dive my process for creating, testing, and scaling profitable acquisition offers. Tactical & Practical is brought to you by Intelligems.io - our profit growth platform. Unlock more profit from every site visitor by split testing offers, prices, images, and a whole lot more with Intelligems. Schedule a demo today and let 'em know I sent you!

On this episode, I share the full keynote I gave at the DTC Growth Summit in New York last week, where I show you my entire copywriting process, share my ChatGPT prompts, and explain how copywriting has become a huge performance lever for us. We wouldn't be able to test all this copy without our sponsor: Intelligems.io - your one stop shop for all your split testing needs. Go to intelligems.io, schedule a demo, and let 'em know I sent ya!

Do you ever feel like leadership isn't listening to the marketing team? I've been there More often than not, I actually think it's the marketer's fault. We need to do a better job of: - communicating problems that we foresee on the horizon, even if they're not impacting us today - Showing data that proves these problems will eventually impact the top & bottom line (it's not the CEO's job to care about your email CTR or whatever metric you're looking at, but show them how it'll impact the overall biz in the future) - Being persistent about getting these problems addressed, and not forgotten I've got a great relationship with the founders of OG, and I've had rocky relationships with previous CEOs/Founders I've worked for, but in both scenarios, I could have and should be better about this^ I hope this episode helps, it's advice I still need to take myself. Tactical & Practical is sponsored by Intelligems.io - your one stop shop for PROFIT GROWTH. Unlock more top and bottom line dollars by split testing on your shopify store today! Go to Intelligems.io and let 'em know I sent you!

In this episode, Nate answers your questions in the DMs about: - Static vs Video Meta Ads - AI Tools - The neccessary Tech Stack for $10mm/yr brands - And how aggressively to scale ad spend Tactical & Practical is sponsored by Intelligems, the one-stop-shop for PROFIT GROWTH & OPTIMIZATION for all shopify stores. Go to Intelligems.io and schedule a demo so you can start testing copy, images, offers, pricing, and a whole lot more to increase your top and bottom line.

My entire marketing strategy can be distilled down into 10 words “Acquire as many high-value customers as you can afford” Before I bring on a new resource, channel, tactic, or SaaS, asking myself these questions has brought a ton of clarity to my decision making process, and prevents us from chasing shiny objects “Will this help me acquire more high-value customers?”  Or  “Will this allow me to afford more high-value customers?” Let’s break down the strategy word by word, so you can have that same clarity & confidence in your decision making. “Acquire” You need new customers, always. Acquisition has to be the starting point. “As many” This speaks to growth, and growth doesn’t happen by accident. You must plan for growth. “High-value customers” Don’t chase the cheapest customers. Don’t even chase the customers that have the highest day 1 ROAS. Acquire customers that have the highest lifetime profit. “As you can afford” DO NOT grow at all costs. Grow within what you can afford (within a realistic time frame I’m not saying all 365 days a year have to be profitable). If you can’t afford to acquire any more high value customers, work on decreasing your CAC, increasing your AOV, and increasing your LTV (HINT: increasing your AOV & LTV is easier than decreasing your CAC, start there.) Tactical & Practical is sponsored by Intelligems.io - our one-stop-shop to grow & optimize our PROFIT. It lets you test a ton of elements on your site, from prices & offers, to copy, content, and structure. If you're not focused on testing your website, you're leaving money on the table, so go schedule a demo, let 'em know I sent you, and you can start adding dollars to your top and bottom line today!

One guy's opinion. Do whatever you want with this info, I don't care, I'm just tryna sell watches and the perspective I share in this episode has help us do that a lot. Tactical & Practical is sponsored by Intelligems.io - our one-stop-shop to grow & optimize our PROFIT. It lets you test a ton of elements on your site, from prices & offers, to copy, content, and structure. If you're not focused on testing your website, you're leaving money on the table, so go schedule a demo, let 'em know I sent you, and you can start adding dollars to your top and bottom line today!

To offer free shipping, or to charge for shipping, that is the question. This episode dives into how you can use different shipping offers to create more PROFIT in your biz, with real examples from 3 brands. Tactical & Practical is sponsored by Intelligems.io - your one stop shop for profit growth. Intelligems allows us to test content, prices, and offers all across our shopify store using PROFIT as our north star metric. Unlike most SaaS, Intelligems doesn't charge you a % of revenue generated from it, it's super affordable for brands of all sizes. Hit them up to schedule a demo and let them know I sent you!

In the new song, "Skoal, Chevy, & Browning" Morgan Wallen uses the positive attributes that those^ brands have, and likens them to the type of man he hopes to become. "Be a friend like Skoal, always there in a pinch Love your woman like a Chevy, steady as a rock When you've got something to say, do it like your Browning, and try to shoot 'em straight" This is the EXACT principle I covered in an episode a few weeks ago: Original Grain says their watches are Rugged & Dependable, like the men who wear them Jack Daniel's has said their whiskey is bold & complex, just like those who enjoy it Ridge says their wedding rings are as reliable as the men who wear them After you watch this episode, go to ChatGPT, tell it to write 100 positive adjectives that could be used to describe your product AND your target customer, then start testing copy that follows this formula: Our [product] is [positive attribute] & [positive attribute], just like the [target customer] who [action verbs] it It'll make you more money, I promise Shoutout to the guys who actually wrote the song, Joe Fox, Chase McGills, and Josh Miller... I wonder if they do any freelance copywriting for ecom brands. They're better at it than 99% of us. Tactical & Practical is sponsored by Intelligems.io - if you're feeling inspired to write some new copy after this episode, make sure you TEST IT with Intelligems to maximize the PROFIT you can extract from your shopify store. Test copy, images, videos, prices, buttons, and everything else you can think of with Intelligems.io - let 'em know I sent you and start making more money today!

In this episode, I show you how to evaluate the results of split tests based on different cohorts (new vs returning site visitors, mobile vs desktop traffic, cold vs warm traffic), so you can stop marketing to the averages, and start marketing to individuals. Tactical & Practical is brought to you by Intelligems.io Intelligems is our profit-optimization platform, and it's the reason why we're able to dig into the results of these tests at the cohort level, and roll our personalized experiences on our website. Go to intelligems.io today and tell 'em I sent you!

In this episode, I break down a super overlooked tactic: how to find your best-performing ad traffic destinations. The results might surprise you as much as they surprised me. This episode is brought to you by Intelligems.io If you don't know, Intelligems is the software that shows me all the blue bars I've been sharing - it's the results of split tests we've ran through their software on our shopify store, and it's one of the most impactful tools we have in our tool kit. Plans start at just $99/mo, so it's in reach for EVERY brand who wants to make more money!

In this episode, Nate covers 5 ways to make your customer acquisition MORE PROFITABLE, with real examples & case studies of each. Tactical & Practical is sponsored by Intelligems.io - If you want to test more offers on your website that'll make you more money, schedule a demo with intelligems and start offer-testing today!

Copywriting is a performance lever. Tbh, it's one of the biggest performance levers we have... but I slept on it for WAY TOO LONG early in my career. In this episode, I break down some copy we wrote & tested that increased CVR & Profit Per Session of our top landing pages by double digit percentages. You owe it to your shareholders to start testing messaging on your website, so take 13 minutes to watch this pod & start writing new copy today. We can't test our copy without today's sponsor - Intelligems.io - Our one stop shop for profit growth! It allows us to test content, copy, images, prices, and offers all across our website and it's been a gamechanger for our biz! Go to intelligems.io and let 'em know I sent you to start making more money today!

Everyone complains about how unreliable Meta is... but those people will tell you that it's the only viable testing ground for new creative... It's not. We test creative on our website first, then roll out winners to our ad account, and it's paid off big time. This episode covers how we test messaging, visuals, and site structure elements on our website to massively increase our top & bottom line. This website testing wouldn't be possible without our sponsor: Intelligems.ioIt allows us to test every aspect of our website, with the goal of growing our revenue & profit per session. Schedule a demo today and tell 'em I sent you!

Everything you need to know about price testing, neatly packaged into one, 25 minute podcast episode: Nate is proud to partner with Intelligems.io for a 6-part series to get you up to speed on all things PROFIT-OPTIMIZATION. This series will focus on split testing high impact areas of your website & customer journey to make sure you're adding the most dollars possible to your top & bottom line. Stay tuned for the rest of the series.