I'm going to tell you about something that's going to piss you off. Not because it's complicated or expensive or impossible to do. You're going to be pissed because Chinese brands have been doing this for years while Western marketers have been getting fleeced by Meta and Google, convinced that paying more for less is just the natural evolution of digital marketing. It's not. We've been played.
Meta raised ad costs 60% since 2020, while cutting your reach and hiding everything behind black box algorithms. You're paying more to reach fewer people with zero proof any of it works. Their sales reps measure their own performance and call it success. Chinese brands abandoned this broken model years ago. They build communities that compound in value. They own relationships instead of renting them. Western marketers keep feeding the machine while the game has already changed. Stop renting eyeballs. Start owning something real.
It's 2:47 AM on a Tuesday in November. You're in your kitchen, eating shredded cheese directly from the bag, staring at your phone because someone in the company Slack just typed "quick question about tomorrow's launch" followed by the dots that indicate they're still typing. Those dots have been going for 90 seconds. You know whatever comes next is going to ruin your life.
This is Q4 in ecommerce.
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