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Your Ads Are Spending, Not Earning
You’re running Meta and Google Ads. The spend goes up every month. But the ROAS is stuck at 1.4× — which means you’re barely breaking even after COGS and fulfilment.
“I spend $15K/month on ads and make $18K back. After product cost, I’m working for free.”
Avg. cost: $8,400/mo in wasted spend
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72% of Shoppers Leave Without Buying
Industry average cart abandonment is 69.8%. Most stores do nothing about it. No exit-intent popups, no abandoned cart email sequences, no SMS recovery — that revenue just evaporates.
“I see 4,000 people add to cart every month. Only 1,100 actually buy.”
Avg. cost: 38% of potential monthly revenue
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Your Site Converts Badly on Mobile
Over 70% of your traffic is on mobile. But your mobile conversion rate is half your desktop rate. Slow load times (LCP >3s), tiny tap targets, broken checkout on iOS — buyers leave before they pay.
“Mobile traffic is up 40% but revenue hasn’t moved. My site must be fine. Right?”
Avg. cost: $3,200/mo in mobile revenue lost
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Google Doesn’t Know You Exist
Your competitors’ products rank on page 1 for exactly what you sell. Your product pages have no schema markup, thin descriptions, duplicate titles, and zero backlinks. Every month you’re invisible to high-intent buyers.
“I get traffic from ads but almost nothing organic. If I stop ads, the store goes dead.”
Avg. cost: 0% of organic potential captured
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Your Customers Buy Once and Disappear
Your repeat purchase rate is below 20%. No post-purchase email flow, no loyalty programme, no personalised product recommendations. You pay acquisition cost every single time instead of compounding on existing buyers.
“We have 8,000 past customers. We send them a promo twice a year and wonder why they don’t come back.”
Avg. cost: 5× higher CAC than retention
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Amazon Is Eating Your Brand Searches
Someone hears about your brand, Googles it — and clicks the Amazon listing that appears above your site. Amazon then owns that customer relationship, captures their data, and shows them your competitor next time.
“My Amazon sales look great. But my own site is stagnating and I have no customer data.”
Avg. cost: 15–35% revenue to Amazon fees
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Revenue Only Happens in Peak Season
Q4 is great. January through September is a slow bleed. You have no evergreen content engine, no consistent SEO traffic, no email programme driving purchases outside of Black Friday — so revenue is entirely ad-spend dependent.
“We do 60% of our yearly revenue in November and December. The rest of the year I’m just surviving.”
Avg. cost: 9 months of underperformance
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You Can’t See What’s Actually Working
iOS 14.5 killed last-click attribution. Your Meta Ads Manager shows 4.2× ROAS. Google Analytics shows the same customer came from organic search. Your email platform claims the purchase too. You’re making budget decisions with broken data.
“Every channel says it’s responsible for the sale. I genuinely don’t know where to put more money.”
Avg. cost: 20–40% budget misallocation