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!