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SALES & GROWTH . E-Commerce Growth . 2018

Holiday Scale

$69K/Week in Time for the Holidays

Andy Houston author chipBY ANDY HOUSTON
Three parallel funnel columns with offers compressing into HOT and weekly revenue holdingPROSPECTWARMHOTQ4 AUCTION SPIKES$69K / WEEKHELD THROUGH HOLIDAY SEASON
$69K/wk
Q4 holiday
$20-30K
starting budget
3
offer types
Held
through season

Context

Established ecommerce brand heading into Q4 with solid product/fit but underbuilt advertising systems. Came in around October with $20K to $30K to start and aggressive holiday targets.

Problem

They needed to ramp fast into the most expensive auction season of the year without blowing the budget on unproven structures. There was no time for a slow, cautious optimization cycle.

Approach

Built a multi-account, multi-campaign architecture: three primary offer types, separated by funnel stage (prospecting, warm, hot) and key personas. Inside that scaffold, we pushed structured split-testing for creatives, offers, and audiences with clear decision rules: find winners fast, protect them, and feed them.

Prospecting/warm/hot funnel-stage parallel split-test flow.

PARALLEL SPLIT TESTING . FUNNEL STAGEPROSPECTINGVAR AVAR BVAR CVAR DWIN: VARIANT BWARMVAR AVAR BVAR CVAR DWIN: VARIANT DHOTVAR AVAR BVAR CVAR DWIN: VARIANT A

Stack

  • Facebook Ads
  • Shopify
  • Structured campaign and ad-set design

Result

$69K/wk
Q4 revenue

Scaled to roughly $69K/week in revenue through the core holiday window and held performance through the season instead of spiking and crashing. The account exited Q4 with more clarity than it entered.

$69K/WK · Q4 REVENUE

Weekly revenue counter holding $69K/week through holiday season with auction-cost overlay.

Q4 REVENUE$62K$65K$68K$71K$69K$72K$70K$74K$71K$69K$73K$75KCPM RISES W12 . CONTROLLED$69K/wkHELD ACROSS Q4

Impact

The client did not just have a good Black Friday. They left with a durable account structure, proven audiences, and tested creative angles they could reuse for future launches.

Lessons

In seasonal windows, over-planning burns the window. What carries a campaign is a structure that survives fast budget shifts and feedback loops tight enough to act on the same day. A 60-page media plan gives you neither.

Why this matters to you

Relevant for brands entering a make-or-break season (holidays, launches, fundraising windows) who need to ramp aggressively and keep control.

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