


This home and garden e-commerce store had been running advertising for years and offered a broad catalog. In reality, however, the core result was generated not by the full assortment, but by a handful of key products. Those products had two critically important advantages: strong LTV and solid economics from the very first purchase. So the task was not simply to “run the catalog,” but to build a system that consistently attracted customers to those key products and then increased their value through repeated touchpoints.
Build a stable customer acquisition system around key products that deliver strong ROAS from the first purchase and have high LTV.


Because of this, evaluating ad performance only by the first purchase or only by the cart was not enough. The strategy had to account for both fast payback and the customer’s future value.
The first focus was on products that already showed strong economics from the start: solid ROAS from the first purchase and high LTV in the ongoing customer relationship.
The second direction was work with other catalog positions. The goal was not to scale the whole assortment equally, but to constantly test new products and look for additional growth points.
As a result, we built a stable customer flow through both channels — Google Ads and Meta Ads. But it is important that advertising did not work on its own.
The project had its own retention through email campaigns, and a significant share of the most valuable conversions for the business came through phone calls. Those customers often brought even higher LTV than regular cart purchases.
That is why the system’s effectiveness was evaluated more broadly than only by cart orders: repeat sales, phone calls, and the long-term value of key customers were all taken into account.
In the end, the project was optimized for long-term work around key products, while also uncovering new items for further scaling.
What drove the result
A focus on key products that already delivered strong ROAS from the first purchase.
A model built around customer LTV, not just one-time sales.
Retargeting and dynamic retargeting to bring the audience back and warm it up.
Parallel testing of secondary products through Google Ads and Meta Ads.
Accounting for email-retention flows and calls as an important part of the customer’s real value.

