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Solution blueprint 04 · Digital marketing

Ads that pay back, and numbers the store agrees with.

A fashion brand's cost per sale keeps climbing, the ad platforms report more sales than the store ever saw, the same three ads have run for months, and most customers never order twice. This is how we would run its growth for the next ninety days.

A blueprint, not a client story: a problem we see often in D2C fashion, and how we would solve it.

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The situation · what hurts

Where itbreaks today

The symptoms that bring a team to us, in their own words.

  • Numbers that disagreeThe ad platforms claim more sales than the store recorded.
  • Tired creativeThe same few ads have run for months, and results fade.
  • One-time buyersMost customers never place a second order.
  • Discounts as the only leverEvery push is a sale, and margins shrink with it.
The solution · 9 parts, 8 flows

The blueprint,drawn

How the pieces fit together. Follow the numbers.

CreatorsUGC and reelsCreative labFive concepts a weekADMeta and GoogleBroad, tested creativeThe storeFast product pagesAPIServer-side eventsDeduplicated with the pixelSEGCustomer segmentsRecency, frequency, valueOne dashboardStore-confirmed revenueWAWhatsApp and emailRepeat and win-backWeekly reviewWhat wins, what stops12345678
  1. 1Creators → Creative labRaw footage every week
  2. 2Creative lab → Meta and GoogleTested small, then scaled
  3. 3Meta and Google → The storeClicks land on fast pages
  4. 4The store → Server-side eventsPurchases sent server side
  5. 5Server-side events → One dashboardPlatform and store numbers side by side
  6. 6The store → Customer segmentsWho bought what, and when
  7. 7Customer segments → WhatsApp and emailJourneys for each segment
  8. 8One dashboard → Weekly reviewThe next week's briefs
Blueprint 04 · D2C fashion
The decisions · 4 that matter

What we woulddecide, and why

Reliable, scalable, secure and sensible on cost: the choices that get there, with the settings beside them.

01Measurement

Numbers the store agrees with.

Purchases are sent to the ad platforms from the server as well as the browser, with one event id so nothing counts twice. The store's own revenue becomes the source of truth, and the headline number is blended efficiency, revenue over all ad spend, rather than any one platform's claim.

The settings · measurementspec
Headline
Blended MER: revenue over total ad spend
Tracking
Meta Conversions API and GA4, server side
Dedup
One event id for pixel and server
Truth
Shopify orders, not platform reports
Links
One UTM convention, enforced
02Creative

Five new concepts every week.

Creative is run as a system, not a mood: each week brings new hooks, angles and formats from creators and the studio, tested on a small budget with clear rules for what scales and what stops. Winners are recut, not run until they die.

The settings · creativespec
Volume
Five concepts a week
Formats
Reels, UGC, static, carousel
Test budget
A fixed share of spend
Kill rule
Agreed before the test starts
Library
Every result tagged by hook and angle
03Retention

A second order without a discount.

Customers are grouped by how recently, how often and how much they buy. Each group gets its own journeys on WhatsApp and email: thanks and care after the first order, a nudge when they are due to reorder, and a win-back that leads with new arrivals rather than a coupon.

The settings · retentionspec
Segments
Recency, frequency, monetary value
Journeys
Post-purchase, reorder, win-back
Channels
WhatsApp templates and email
Offers
New arrivals first, discounts last
Consent
Opt-in respected, easy opt-out
04Budget

Spend where the margin is.

Each product line gets a target cost per sale from its real margin, not a single number for the whole store. Spend shifts every week toward the lines and audiences that clear it, catalogue campaigns run from a clean product feed, and pacing is checked daily.

The settings · budgetspec
Targets
Per product line, from margin
Campaigns
Broad audiences with tested creative
Catalogue
Advantage+ shopping and Performance Max
Feed
Titles, images and stock kept clean
Pacing
Checked daily, moved weekly
Design targets · agreed up front

What goodlooks like

Targets we would set together before the first line of work, and measure against after.

Weeklycreative tests, five concepts each
1dashboard the brand and agency share
3retention journeys live within 30 days
90 daysto a stable efficiency target

The plan

  1. 01Audit accounts, tracking and marginsWeeks 1 to 2
  2. 02Server-side tracking and the dashboardWeeks 2 to 4
  3. 03Creative system and first testsWeeks 3 to 6
  4. 04Retention journeysWeeks 5 to 8
  5. 05Scale what winsWeeks 8 to 13
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