Guides
Hands-on comparisons and buying guides for the tools eCom brands run on: attribution, analytics, retention and more.

UTMs have become a critical source of truth for DTC marketing as platform tracking grows less reliable - this is a deep-dive in all its details. It shows how to build a clean, consistent naming convention that reflects your strategy and enables meaningful cross-channel analysis over time. Done right, UTMs turn noisy data into clear insights about what actually drives performance.

The DTC Growth Formula - a simple but powerful framework that explains what truly drives scalable, profitable growth in direct-to-consumer brands. It breaks growth down into capital efficiency, customer acquisition, lifetime value, and differentiation, showing how these levers interact and why small improvements can have outsized effects. More than a theory, it’s a practical mental model to help founders focus on the right priorities before optimizing KPIs and scaling.

Rising acquisition costs have made Customer Lifetime Value a critical growth lever for eCommerce, but only if you understand and use it correctly. This article breaks down how to calculate real CLV, why optimizing the CLV/CAC ratio alone is misleading, and how liquidity, timing of value, and risk ultimately determine how fast and profitably you can scale. It’s a practical, experience-backed guide to shifting from transactional thinking to a relationship-based model that maximizes long-term, absolute profit.