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SE4 EP28: The Single Channel Trap
Season 4 · Episode 28

SE4 EP28: The Single Channel Trap

I was recently approached by a struggling 7-figure ecommerce business with sales in the region of $350K/month rev. that dropped to $260K/month, to help diagnose their rapid 25% fall in sales and propose a turnaround. Here is what I noticed about this bus

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July 3, 201921m 42s

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I was recently approached by a struggling 7-figure ecommerce business with sales in the region of $350K/month rev. that dropped to $260K/month, to help diagnose their rapid 25% fall in sales and propose a turnaround.

Here is what I noticed about this business and other ecommerce businesses that have had a similar drop in revenue. 

Their number one issue was their over-reliance on a single channel for traffic; in their case AdWords. Year over year, CPM increased and so did their spend; but their sales from the channel actually stalled.  

They also did not focus much attention on retention. 

 

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