Your ROAS Looks Great. So Where's the Profit?

Your Google Ads are performing. Your ROAS looks healthy. Your agency's delighted.

So why isn't your brand making any bloody money?

In this episode of the eCom Collab Club® Podcast, Adam Pearce is joined by Nick Trueman, Director of Spec Digital and host of Winning With Shopify, to tackle one of eCommerce's most expensive misunderstandings: the difference between successful advertising and profitable growth.

It's Part 2 of their PPC-meets-CRO crossover, and this time Adam's asking the awkward questions.

They get into why ROAS can be a dangerously misleading metric, how PPC and conversion rate optimisation should work together, and why throwing more money at Google Ads won't magically fix a website that's losing customers.

Nick shares some brilliant examples from the trenches, including a hideous website converting at 10%, a simple product-description change that increased conversions by 25%, and why a seemingly harmless 15% discount can absolutely batter your margins.

There's also plenty of discussion about dodgy tracking, customer lifetime value, mobile site performance and why everyone involved in growing an eCommerce business seems to be making money... except the founder.

Because revenue is lovely. Profit's rather important too.

What you'll hear:

• Why ROAS doesn't necessarily reflect profitability
• When to invest in PPC and when to prioritise CRO
• Why beautiful websites don't always convert better
• How product margins and customer lifetime value change your advertising strategy
• The importance of PPC and CRO teams sharing data
• How paid search insights can improve product pages and onsite messaging
• Why mobile speed, reviews and product credibility matter
• How discounting can quietly destroy your margins
• Why inaccurate tracking leads to expensive decisions
• Using customer behaviour to find conversion opportunities
• Why conversion rate isn't always the metric to obsess over

About the Guest

Nick is Director of Spec Digital, a digital marketing agency specialising in PPC and SEO, and host of the Winning With Shopify podcast.

Missed Part 1?

Before Nick faced Adam's questions, Adam joined Nick on Winning With Shopify to discuss five Shopify CRO changes that generated $1 million in additional revenue.

🔗 Listen here:
https://wwspodcast.com/episodes/5-shopify-cro-changes-that-generated-1m-in-revenue

Links & Resources

Spec Digital: ⁠https://spec.digital/⁠

Winning With Shopify: ⁠https://wwspodcast.com/⁠

Adam Pearce: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shopifyexpertadampearce/

eCom Collab Club®: https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-ecom-collab-club/

More from eCC: https://linktr.ee/ecomcollabclub

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