Alex Piliavsky

Recent Articles

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Cut Fast or Burn Budget: A UA Lesson

Scaling UA depends on cohort-level measurement and cutting losing channels fast. In our Eyecon case study, monthly spend grew from about $10,000 to roughly $600,000, and payback fell from over a year to 2–3 months. Here are the rules.

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Google’s AI Max Can Break Your Attribution

Google’s AI Max for Search can send a click to a different page than the final URL you set. Here’s Google’s guidance on tracking templates, URL exclusions, and testing, plus our three-step checklist for keeping CRM attribution intact.

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User Demand Isn’t a Business Case

At a caller-ID app, around 25% of surveyed users said they’d want VoIP calling. We didn’t build it: a flat “unlimited” price couldn’t cover per-minute costs. Here are five checks to run before you build.

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Ugly Pages Win: Clarity Beats Beauty

A plain, outdated landing page beat every polished redesign we A/B tested, converting at 10–11% against 7–8%. Here is why clarity beats beauty, how to test a redesign, and what it means for AI agents.

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Demographics Don’t Convert. Behavior Does.

Inside a digital health company, we spent $20,000 on a channel whose audience matched our core customer’s age almost perfectly, and we made zero sales. Here’s why intent and context beat demographics, and what Google’s Demand Gen changes.

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