jeff brous

Business

Consulting and e-commerce analytics work, with client details redacted.

  • A Fresh Number Is a Wrong Number.
    A Fresh Number Is a Wrong Number.

    Amazon ad conversions keep attributing for about 9 days after a report is pulled, so every fresh pull understates sales by 15 to 19%.

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  • The Ad Budget Can't Overspend. It's Built That Way.
    The Ad Budget Can't Overspend. It's Built That Way.

    A hard daily ceiling with campaign caps summing exactly to it makes overspend structurally impossible, no platform spend cap required.

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  • Four Independent Forecasts, One Reconciled Plan
    Four Independent Forecasts, One Reconciled Plan

    An H2 revenue forecast built four separate ways (YoY momentum, re-seasonalized run rate, traffic x conversion x price, 9-year trend), ensembled with a low/high envelope, and reconciled across data sources within 0.4%.

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  • Growth Fell in a Clean Staircase. Price Increases Hid It.
    Growth Fell in a Clean Staircase. Price Increases Hid It.

    Monthly YoY for an Amazon 1P account fell from +15.3% to -2.7% in a straight line, and price masked the units decline for months.

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  • Wholesale Wasn't Falling Faster Than Demand. Amazon Was Selling Down Its Own Stock.
    Wholesale Wasn't Falling Faster Than Demand. Amazon Was Selling Down Its Own Stock.

    An 8 to 10 point gap between retail sell-through and wholesale sell-in traced to a one-time Amazon inventory correction, not to demand.

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