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Paid and organic demand
Paid media creates and captures demand now. SEO compounds it over time. TNT connects campaigns with product, category, comparison, and educational content around how customers discover, evaluate, and choose what to buy.
FOR ECOMMERCE AND DTC GROWTH TEAMS
Your profitable growth hit a ceiling. More ad spend won't break through it.
When revenue rises but contribution margin stalls, the problem is rarely one campaign. TNT connects paid media, SEO, creative, and store data to show which campaigns acquire profitable new customers and what can actually scale.
Built for brands with a proven product and a scale problem.
TRUSTED BY ECOMMERCE AND CONSUMER BRANDS
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WHY BLENDED ROAS FAILS
Your ROAS look fine.Your profit doesn't.
Meta reports a strong ROAS. Google claims the same sale. Returning customers keep buying. Total revenue looks healthy. Finance still sees contribution margin tightening.
Blended reporting cannot tell you whether paid media acquired a valuable new customer, harvested demand from someone who would have purchased anyway, or pushed a discounted order that lost money after COGS, shipping, processing, fulfillment, and returns.
TNT separates acquisition from retention, connects product economics to campaign performance, and uses what happens after the first purchase to guide what happens before the next one.
acquisition / margin view
SIGNALSTORE-WIDENEW-CUSTOMER COHORT
First-time customers—1,284
New-customer CAC—$61
Net revenue$412k$188k
Contribution margin31%9%
Payback—94d
Repeat purchase38%12%
LTV$240$173
MARGIN-AWARE ATTRIBUTION
See which campaigns acquire profitable new customers.
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Paid or organic visit
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First purchase
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Net revenue
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Contribution margin
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Repeat purchase
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LTV
Fuse by TNT connects acquisition data from Google, Meta, TikTok, Reddit, Direct Mail, and more to the order and customer outcomes recorded in your existing eCommerce stack. Instead of treating every order as equal, it shows which campaigns, audiences, creative, landing pages, products, and offers produce first-time customers and durable value. When COGS, discounts, returns, shipping, and fulfillment data are available, the operating view can move beyond platform ROAS toward the margin the business actually keeps. Marketing gets a clearer view of what can scale. Creative gets better evidence about what to make next. Finance gets a result it can trace back to the business.
The wire between intent and Impact.
FROM FIRST IMPRESSION TO CONTRIBUTION MARGIN
Fix the entire growth system, not just the ad account.
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Creative built to keep scaling
Creative is not a request queue. It is a performance system. TNT turns customer language, product proof, campaign data, and competitive context into a repeatable testing pipeline across search, social, and video.
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Landing pages and product pages
The message that earns the click should continue through the page. TNT matches landing pages and product pages to the audience, product, offer, and stage of consideration, then measures which paths create valuable first purchases.
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Margin and customer-value signals
The account should learn from more than order volume. TNT connects first-time customer status, net revenue, contribution margin, repeat purchase, and LTV to acquisition when the underlying data supports it.
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Pacing against inventory and cash flow
More demand is not always better demand. TNT plans and paces against inventory, product mix, margin, seasonality, fulfillment capacity, payback, and the cash the business can responsibly deploy. Scale is not more budget. It is more budget directed toward profitable new-customer growth.
DIFFERENT MODELS. THE SAME STANDARD OF PROOF.
Your growth system should match how your customers buy.
eCommerce is not one operating model. The right acquisition and measurement system depends on the product, purchase cycle, catalog, margin structure, and role of repeat revenue. These are common applications, not boundaries around who we can help.
DTC and physical products
Connect campaigns to first-time orders, net revenue, product margin, repeat purchase, and customer value. See whether paid media is creating new demand or collecting credit for demand the brand already owned.
First-time customersNCACNet revenueContribution marginRepeat purchaseLTV
Do not see your exact model? If customer, order, and product economics can be connected to acquisition, the system can be configured around how your brand grows.
TNT GROWTH
first-time customer P&L
First-time gross revenue$214,800
Discounts-18,900
Refunds-7,340
COGS-81,600
Shipping-12,450
Processing-6,220
Fulfillment-9,880
Paid-media spend-72,000
NEW-CUSTOMER CONTRIBUTION MARGIN$6,410
ACQUISITION ECONOMICS · VERIFIED
THE NEW-CUSTOMER P&L
Stop letting repeat customers make acquisition look healthier than it is.
Blended MER and ROAS can improve because existing customers are buying again, even while paid media is getting worse at acquiring new ones.
A first-time customer P&L isolates the economics acquisition actually controls: first-time gross revenue, discounts, refunds, COGS, shipping, processing, fulfillment, and paid-media spend. That gives the team a clearer view of new-customer contribution margin and the CAC the business can afford.
Retention still matters. It just should not subsidize weak acquisition invisibly. The operating question is not whether the platform reported a good ROAS. It is whether the account acquired customers at economics the business can sustain.
CREATIVE IS A GROWTH INPUT
A winning ad is an asset with an expiration date.
eCommerce accounts often hit a ceiling because the brand cannot replace winning creative fast enough. Frequency rises, the audience stops responding, CAC climbs, and the team keeps spending because the blended dashboard still looks acceptable.
TNT builds creative as a measured operating system. Hit Rate tracks which concepts, hooks, messages, formats, products, and offers earn the right to scale. The Growth Pod uses those results to decide what to iterate, what to retire, and what the next brief needs to learn.
The goal is not more creative for its own sake. It is a reliable supply of new evidence before yesterday's winner becomes today's budget leak.
PROOF THAT SURVIVES THE P&L
The result should hold up after COGS, discounts, and returns.
eCommerce proof should show what changed in first-time customer growth, CAC, contribution margin, payback, repeat purchase, LTV, or profit, with a number the business can verify.
SENIOR OPERATORS FROM DAY ONE
You should not have to teach your agency how eCommerce math works.
Every TNT client works with a dedicated Growth Pod: a Chief Strategist, media buyer, creative specialist, and analyst. The team that pitches you is the team that runs the account. Your Growth Pod already understands the tension between revenue and contribution margin, acquisition and retention, product mix and inventory, creative volume and fatigue, and growth and cash flow. You do not spend the first three months explaining why a 4x platform ROAS can still lose money.
BUILT TO PLUG INTO THE BUSINESS
One growth system across marketing, creative, merchandising, finance, and operations.
Profitable eCommerce growth is cross-functional. TNT works with your internal owners to agree on customer definitions, attribution rules, product economics, inventory constraints, creative priorities, and the targets that govern scale. Marketing keeps the channel context. Creative keeps the brand standard. Merchandising and operations keep the product reality. Finance keeps the profit standard. TNT turns those inputs into a system that can move budget with evidence.
Results for growth system
Marketing
Marketing keeps the channel context.
Creative
Creative keeps the brand standard.
Merchandising
Merchandising keeps the product reality.
Operations
Operations keep the product reality.
Finance
Finance keeps the profit standard.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
What eCommerce growth teams ask before the audit.
Eight direct answers before you hand us the account.
TNT uses the strongest business signal the underlying data can support. Platform ROAS and revenue remain useful diagnostics, but the operating target can move toward first-time customers, net revenue, contribution margin, payback, and LTV when those inputs are available and reliable.
Blended metrics combine new and returning customers, hide product-level economics, and can give several channels credit for the same order. They can look healthy while new-customer acquisition and contribution margin are getting worse.
Yes, when the store and customer data contain a reliable customer identifier and order history. Fuse connects that status back to the acquisition path so the team can evaluate the economics of first purchases separately from retention.
Paid media creates and captures demand immediately. SEO compounds demand capture across product, category, comparison, and educational searches. TNT uses the same customer questions, product proof, and conversion evidence to coordinate both systems.
Yes. The Growth Pod turns customer language, product proof, competitive context, and campaign results into concepts, hooks, formats, and briefs, then uses Hit Rate to decide what earns more budget and what should be retired.
Yes. Subscription and replenishment models require a different view of value, including first order, subscription conversion, renewal, churn, payback, and LTV. The acquisition system is configured around that purchase cycle.
The strongest fit is a brand with a proven product, meaningful paid-media spend, usable store and customer data, and a scale problem that cannot be solved by raising budgets alone.
TNT reviews attribution, paid media, SEO, creative, landing pages, product mix, customer data, and available profit signals. You receive a written assessment of where performance is breaking, what we would change first, and what the opportunity could mean for profitable growth.
FOR OPERATORS WHO WANT THE PLAYBOOK
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