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The 60-Day Proof Gap

Aug 6, 2026

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4 min read

The 60-Day Proof Gap

Customers aren’t always rejecting the product. Your first-order quantity may be encouraging them to stop before it has a chance to work.

Alexander Jost
Alexander Jost

Strategy of the Week

How to Discount

Jul 30, 2026

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4 min read

How to Discount

Your discount size matters less than the language you wrap around it.

Alexander Jost
Alexander Jost

Strategy of the Week

Discounts Turn "Ready to Buy" Into "Waiting to Buy"

Jul 23, 2026

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4 min read

Discounts Turn "Ready to Buy" Into "Waiting to Buy"

The margin you give up is the part you can see. The next-purchase delay you create is the bigger problem.

Alexander Jost
Alexander Jost
Discounts Turn "Ready to Buy" Into "Waiting to Buy"

Jul 21, 2026

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5 min read

Discounts Turn "Ready to Buy" Into "Waiting to Buy"

If your best full-price customers get the same discount spam as your bargain hunters, you’re literally paying to devalue your own brand.

Alexander Jost
Alexander Jost

Strategy of the Week

Stop Using One Cadence for Everyone

Jul 16, 2026

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4 min read

Stop Using One Cadence for Everyone

A first-time buyer and a fourth-time buyer don't buy on the same clock. So why do they get the same emails?

Alexander Jost
Alexander Jost
Stop using one cadence for everyone.

Jul 14, 2026

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5 min read

Stop using one cadence for everyone.

Variable purchase windows demand variable cadence. Personalize retention timing by customer behavior to boost repeat purchases and LTV.

Alexander Jost
Alexander Jost

Strategy of the Week

John Feeney on acquiring the right customers, not the most customers.

Jul 9, 2026

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6 min read

John Feeney on acquiring the right customers, not the most customers.

The Head of eCommerce for one of the largest supplement businesses in the UK on why deep discounts buy you the wrong buyers, auditing your assortment for customer quality and building an acquisition and retention flywheel.

Alexander Jost
Alexander Jost

Strategy of the Week

The Acquisition Treadmill Ratio

Jul 2, 2026

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5 min read

The Acquisition Treadmill Ratio

How much of your monthly revenue had to be bought again from scratch?

Alexander Jost
Alexander Jost
The Acquisition Treadmill

Jun 29, 2026

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5 min read

The Acquisition Treadmill

How much of your monthly revenue had to be bought again from scratch?

Alexander Jost
Alexander Jost

Strategy of the Week

Matt Nastos Runs Growth for 100+ Premium Brands.

Jun 25, 2026

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8 min read

Matt Nastos Runs Growth for 100+ Premium Brands.

On creators as the new wholesale, TikTok's AOV ceiling, and the category he's most quietly bullish on.

Alexander Jost
Alexander Jost
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