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Ecommerce PPC Campaigns: Benchmarks, Attribution, and Systems That Drive ROAS

Most paid search practitioners can generate clicks. Far fewer can build ecommerce PPC campaigns that consistently compound returns at scale. The difference rarely comes down to bidding tactics or creative refreshes. It comes down to infrastructure: how attribution is structured, how benchmarks are interpreted, and whether the underlying system is designed to optimize for profit […]



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Brandon Dunham


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Marketing Analytics in 2026: Closing the Execution Gap

Most organizations today are drowning in data yet starving for direction. Despite unprecedented investment in tools, talent, and technology, a persistent and costly gap remains between what marketing analytics reveals and what marketing teams actually execute on. This is the execution gap, and in 2026, it has become the defining challenge separating high-performing organizations from […]



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Brandon Dunham


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Why Conversion Tracking Fails to Deliver Accurate ROI

Most marketers trust their conversion tracking data without question, yet that data is quietly misleading them every single day. Despite significant investments in analytics infrastructure, the gap between reported performance and actual business outcomes continues to widen, leaving growth teams optimizing toward metrics that barely correlate with real revenue. The uncomfortable truth is that conversion […]



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Brandon Dunham


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What Digital Marketing Actually Means in 2026

The rules have changed, and most marketers haven’t caught up yet. Digital marketing in 2026 looks fundamentally different from the discipline that dominated boardroom conversations just a few years ago. The convergence of AI-driven personalization, zero-click search behavior, and fragmented audience attention has forced a complete rethinking of what it means to build a sustainable […]



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Brandon Dunham


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Battle-Tested Data Analysis Tools for Growth Teams

In the high-stakes arena of growth teams, data is your sharpest weapon. Yet most teams waste hours wrestling with clunky spreadsheets or unreliable dashboards that crumble under real-world pressure. You know the drill: promising experiments fizzle out because insights arrive too late, or vanish amid noisy metrics. If you are an intermediate analyst pushing for […]



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Brandon Dunham


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