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NZ$330k in new revenue, from selling what actually paid.

Easy Tiger, a New Zealand online spirits retailer, ran a busy account that was not paying its way. The attribution was wrong, and no one could see where the average order value sat across product categories. Reading it properly showed that wine carried a far higher AOV, so the advertising was pointed at it, and the new revenue followed.

NZ$330k
in new revenue, after the data showed which categories actually paid and the spend followed.
+87%more conversions once the account measured real sales
easytiger.co.nz
Easy Tiger homepage
01 / The challenge

A busy account with no read on which categories actually paid.

Easy Tiger sells spirits online across New Zealand. The account was active and looked busy, but the economics underneath were soft, and no one could say which part of the range was really carrying the business.

Two things were in the way. The attribution was wrong, so the numbers guiding every decision did not reflect what was actually selling. And there was no read on average order value by product category, so the store could not see that some categories were worth far more per order than others.

Without that, spend was spread across the range by habit rather than by value, and a lot of the budget was working hard for orders that were smaller than they needed to be.

02 / The approach

Fix the attribution, read AOV by category, then back the winner.

The work went into the account's own data to answer two questions it had never had answered: are the numbers even right, and which categories are actually worth the most per order.

Fixed the attribution

The tracking was rebuilt so the account counted real purchases and real revenue. Every reported number tied back to what actually landed in the till, which is the foundation every decision after it stands on.

Read average order value by category

With clean data, the range was broken down by average order value per product category, a view the store had never had. It made plain that not every category was worth the same, and that the budget was not going where the value was.

Backed wine, the high-AOV category

The data showed wine carried a far higher average order value than the rest of the range. So the advertising was retargeted toward wine, putting spend behind the orders that were worth the most. Selling more of what actually paid is what drove the new revenue.

Average order value by category
WineHighest
Spirits
Gin
RTD & other
Relative average order value by category. Illustrative of the finding: wine carried the highest AOV by a clear margin, so the spend was pointed at it.
After the retarget
+87%
more conversions, once the account measured real sales
2x
conversion value over the same window
With the attribution fixed and the spend on the high-AOV category, both the number of orders and their value climbed together.
03 / The results

NZ$330k in new revenue, from backing the category that paid.

Clean attribution and a clear read on AOV by category reset where the money went. Pointing the spend at wine, the highest-value category, lifted both the volume of orders and their value, and generated NZ$330k in new revenue on the same store and team.

NZ$330k
New revenue on the same store and team.
+87%
Conversions once the account measured real sales.
2x
Conversion value over the same window.
-24%
Cost to acquire a customer, a fall to NZ$3.67.
Cumulative new revenue over the engagement NZ$0 NZ$100k NZ$200k NZ$300k spend moved onto wine NZ$330k Start End
New revenue compounded once the attribution was honest and the spend moved onto the high-AOV category. The marked point is where the budget shifted to wine. Curve modelled from the real anchor.

The gain came from selling the right thing, not spending more. Honest attribution plus a clear read on AOV by category showed that wine was worth far more per order, so the spend moved to it, and NZ$330k in new revenue followed on the same store and team.

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