WordPress marketing & attribution nerd. 15 years of sales funnels, CAC, LTV, and asking "but which campaign actually made money? Clicks lie. Profit doesn't.
5 things I'd track from day one if I were launching a business today.
I learned these the hard way — after making $287K and not being able to explain where it came from. 🧵
5. A monthly spend-to-profit connection.
Dead simple. I spent X here. It returned Y in revenue and Z in profit.
Every channel. Every month.
If you can't see this, you're guessing. Guessing at scale gets expensive.
That's my 5.
But I'm probably missing something.
What would you add? What are you tracking that I didn't mention?
(And be honest — how many of these 5 are you actually doing right now?)
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