Tactical & Practical

The best ad I saw in all of October didn't come from a DTC brand you've heard of... It wasn't even a DTC brand... In this episode I break down the best ad of October & teach you how you should be applying the principles that make it a great ad to your next batch of creative. If you want your ads to work better, start testing creative, copy, and offers on your WEBSITE with Intelligems.io. Use code...

I think marketers should be lazy Maybe "efficient" is the better word. But tbh I'd rather lazy over a marketer who doesn't understand the difference between activity and productivity My job as a CMO is basically to make the company the most money while spending the least money Hit our biz goals as efficiently as possible. But I've been getting DMs from CEOs that sound like, "I feel like my marketi...

2 Undefeated Advertising Tactics, regardless of any algorithm change, or the channel, or the year... these two tactics, when executed well & consistently, will improve the effectiveness of your advertising 100% of the time: 1. Understand your customers' REAL consideration journey. How long does it take someone from discovery to purchase? What micro decisions do they need to make along the way befo...

7 ways to measure the effectiveness of your FUNNEL FILLING: 1. Google Search Volume 2. Total REACH (all ad & organic channels) 3. Cost Per 1,000 Accounts Center Accounts Reached (Meta) 4. New Visitor Percentage (Meta) 5. Blended Cost Per New Site Session 6. Blended Cost Per New Lead 7. Revenue Per Lead (short time frame: 7-, 14-days etc) What else would you add? October is FUNNEL FILLING SZN for e...

None of you should be copying & pasting the same exact tactics that 9-figure brands use in their marketing to your 6-, 7-, or even 8-figure/yr brands. You should take inspiration from them, but then run those tactics through the FILTER of your brand, your budget, your bandwidth, your skillset, and your customer base, before applying those tactics. In this episode of Tactical & Practical, I talk ab...

Tactical & Practical is brought to you by Intelligems.io - your one-stop-shop for PROFIT GROWTH. Split test prices, offers, progress bars, content, and anything else you can think of on your website to maximize your top and bottom line. Here are the 3 biggest lessons I learned during my time at OG, and how you can apply them to your growth marketing channels: You’re not selling what you think you’...

$25 will buy you a bottle of Jack Daniel's in a liquor store, but only 4 shots of Jack in a bar. When my wife & I go to Five Guys for dinner we usually spend $40, but last night we got it delivered so we paid $75. At my local steakhouse, the tomahawk at $149 makes the $91 ribeye look like an amazing deal. And at the movie theater, I never get the medium popcorn for $12.50 because the large is only...

I'm running through our MANDATORY website testing checklist before Black Friday in this episode. It's going to guarantee that our funnel is as dialed in as possible before we get to Nov 1st and have to start scaling aggressively. If you feel like your website testing strategy has been a little sloppy, or maybe a little inconsistent, send this to your team and make sure you're dialed in for Christm...

I'm not a watch designer by any means... in fact, most of you have seen the way I dress, I have no business working in the fashion industry whatsoever... But, there are still some instances where marketing needs to inform product development. 1. When there's low hanging fruit based on sales data 2. When the product launch calendar needs to support performance marketing 3. When there's customer fee...

Countdown to Black Friday: 112 Days I'm doing a series of episodes counting down to this holiday shopping season and teaching you how to prepare for it. First up, I wanted to talk about scaling your influencer program ahead of Q4. Done well, influencer should be the highest return on ad spend you see in your business, but it's also one of the hardest channels to scale, which is why you need to sta...

In this episode, I deep dive my process for creating, testing, and scaling profitable acquisition offers. Tactical & Practical is brought to you by Intelligems.io - our profit growth platform. Unlock more profit from every site visitor by split testing offers, prices, images, and a whole lot more with Intelligems. Schedule a demo today and let 'em know I sent you!

On this episode, I share the full keynote I gave at the DTC Growth Summit in New York last week, where I show you my entire copywriting process, share my ChatGPT prompts, and explain how copywriting has become a huge performance lever for us. We wouldn't be able to test all this copy without our sponsor: Intelligems.io - your one stop shop for all your split testing needs. Go to intelligems.io, sc...

Do you ever feel like leadership isn't listening to the marketing team? I've been there More often than not, I actually think it's the marketer's fault. We need to do a better job of: - communicating problems that we foresee on the horizon, even if they're not impacting us today - Showing data that proves these problems will eventually impact the top & bottom line (it's not the CEO's job to care a...

In this episode, Nate answers your questions in the DMs about: - Static vs Video Meta Ads - AI Tools - The neccessary Tech Stack for $10mm/yr brands - And how aggressively to scale ad spend Tactical & Practical is sponsored by Intelligems, the one-stop-shop for PROFIT GROWTH & OPTIMIZATION for all shopify stores. Go to Intelligems.io and schedule a demo so you can start testing copy, images, offer...

My entire marketing strategy can be distilled down into 10 words “Acquire as many high-value customers as you can afford” Before I bring on a new resource, channel, tactic, or SaaS, asking myself these questions has brought a ton of clarity to my decision making process, and prevents us from chasing shiny objects “Will this help me acquire more high-value customers?”  Or  “Will this allow me to af...

One guy's opinion. Do whatever you want with this info, I don't care, I'm just tryna sell watches and the perspective I share in this episode has help us do that a lot. Tactical & Practical is sponsored by Intelligems.io - our one-stop-shop to grow & optimize our PROFIT. It lets you test a ton of elements on your site, from prices & offers, to copy, content, and structure. If you're not focused on...

To offer free shipping, or to charge for shipping, that is the question. This episode dives into how you can use different shipping offers to create more PROFIT in your biz, with real examples from 3 brands. Tactical & Practical is sponsored by Intelligems.io - your one stop shop for profit growth. Intelligems allows us to test content, prices, and offers all across our shopify store using PROFIT...

In the new song, "Skoal, Chevy, & Browning" Morgan Wallen uses the positive attributes that those^ brands have, and likens them to the type of man he hopes to become. "Be a friend like Skoal, always there in a pinch Love your woman like a Chevy, steady as a rock When you've got something to say, do it like your Browning, and try to shoot 'em straight" This is the EXACT principle I covered in an ep...

In this episode, I show you how to evaluate the results of split tests based on different cohorts (new vs returning site visitors, mobile vs desktop traffic, cold vs warm traffic), so you can stop marketing to the averages, and start marketing to individuals. Tactical & Practical is brought to you by Intelligems.io Intelligems is our profit-optimization platform, and it's the reason why we're able...

In this episode, I break down a super overlooked tactic: how to find your best-performing ad traffic destinations. The results might surprise you as much as they surprised me. This episode is brought to you by Intelligems.io If you don't know, Intelligems is the software that shows me all the blue bars I've been sharing - it's the results of split tests we've ran through their software on our shop...

In this episode, Nate covers 5 ways to make your customer acquisition MORE PROFITABLE, with real examples & case studies of each. Tactical & Practical is sponsored by Intelligems.io - If you want to test more offers on your website that'll make you more money, schedule a demo with intelligems and start offer-testing today!

Copywriting is a performance lever. Tbh, it's one of the biggest performance levers we have... but I slept on it for WAY TOO LONG early in my career. In this episode, I break down some copy we wrote & tested that increased CVR & Profit Per Session of our top landing pages by double digit percentages. You owe it to your shareholders to start testing messaging on your website, so take 13 minutes to...

Everyone complains about how unreliable Meta is... but those people will tell you that it's the only viable testing ground for new creative... It's not. We test creative on our website first, then roll out winners to our ad account, and it's paid off big time. This episode covers how we test messaging, visuals, and site structure elements on our website to massively increase our top & bottom line....

Everything you need to know about price testing, neatly packaged into one, 25 minute podcast episode: Nate is proud to partner with Intelligems.io for a 6-part series to get you up to speed on all things PROFIT-OPTIMIZATION. This series will focus on split testing high impact areas of your website & customer journey to make sure you're adding the most dollars possible to your top & bottom line. St...

Nate is proud to partner with Intelligems for a 6-part series to get you up to speed on all things PROFIT-OPTIMIZATION. This series will focus on split testing high impact areas of your website & customer journey to make sure you're adding the most dollars possible to your top & bottom line. Stay tuned for the next 6 episodes!