#dtc

7 notes tagged “dtc”.

• Choosing the pain point and awareness level for a DTC offerStefan Georgi's 2026 workshop diagnoses — the "lying awake at night" test for bleeding-neck pain points (why brain fog fails), the fear-to-product magnitude mismatch, why solution-aware copy caps scale and starves affiliates, simple mechanisms over science, and modelling competitors' structure while differentiating on one feature.
• Do order bumps and upsells still pay on Meta? (AOV up, CAC up)Stefan Georgi's June 2026 thesis that raising front-end AOV with bumps, upsells and subscriptions roughly doubles CAC on Meta because the algorithm hunts pricier buyers — the $47-book case at 4–6x ROAS with no upsells — and how it reverses his own 2024 advice; move AOV tactics to the back end.
• Funnel economics "dirty math" — day-zero gross profit and the four leversStefan Georgi's back-of-napkin funnel math for DTC, info and high-ticket offers (CPA, day-zero AOV, COGS, gross profit), the four levers (lower CPA, lower COGS, raise AOV, raise LTV), and his peptide-funnel case that went from −$146 to +$56 per customer with three changes.
• Launching Meta ads for a new DTC brand — product, pillars, statics firstThe zero-to-one sequence from Zach Stuck (Mars Men, Hollow) and Dara Denney — pick a product/AOV that Meta economics can carry, "spiderweb" every problem the product can solve into pillars, test pillars with cheap statics in one purchase-optimised campaign, then add $100 creator videos and listicle landing pages.
• Persona landing pages, listicles and promo assetsHow Dose builds angle/persona-specific landing pages (the "grill dad" listicle), when a listicle format fits, buy box on-page vs redirect for advertorials, PDP vs LP for paid traffic, no-dev page builders (1 month → 1 week), and low-lift Black Friday promo assets.
• Price testing DTC and info offers — when higher wins and when lower unlocks scaleStefan Georgi's price-test cases (skincare single bottle $59→$79 at the same conversion; a blood-sugar supplement cut from $69/59/49 to ~$39/34/29 that doubled-to-tripled conversions and enabled scale), adding a bigger package, testing a lower front end when ROAS is ~1.3, and CTC's warning about drifting price-per-unit.
• Which funnel to launch with — the "Occam's razor" structure per verticalStefan Georgi's 2026 rule that the simplest funnel that works wins — ads → product page for DTC, ads → landing page for info, VSL → book-a-call with a qualifying form for high ticket, a quiz → trial for subscription apps (expect to run negative), and a low-ticket test before launching high ticket to cold traffic.