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Case study, home & garden ecommerce

When platform ROAS lies, run the business on profit

ClientGarden furniture brand
EngagementDiagnostic audit, measurement rebuild
ScopePaid audit, email audit, server-side tracking
Decision basisProfit on ad spend, not platform ROAS

An established garden furniture brand was being undercut by its own retailers on Google Shopping, with no MAP policy in place, while its paid search account contained a collapsed broad match campaign quietly burning budget. Platform-reported ROAS was driving decisions that ignored margin entirely, and server-side tracking had not been started, so every number was consent-degraded.

What we found

The diagnostic surfaced the broad match campaign running at 0.27 ROAS, flagged as urgent. The email audit found a welcome series archived with no replacement, duplicate abandoned cart flows, and a draft review request about to send to more than 1,400 contacts.

What we did

We rebuilt the measurement foundation with server-side tracking and clean attribution, restructured the shopping and search campaigns, and shifted the decision framework from platform ROAS to profit on ad spend, because with retailers undercutting RRP, revenue-based ROAS was actively misleading.

What changed

Budget decisions now run on profit, not platform-reported return. The brand can see which retailer dynamics are a pricing problem versus a marketing problem, which changed the conversation from "why is ROAS down" to "which products should we defend".

Diagnostic auditServer-side trackingPOASPaid search QA
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