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The secret culprit behind Solo Brands' 13.2% sales decline isn't bad marketing. It's bad data. ?? TLDR on their Q4 earnings: - Revenue: $143.5M (DOWN 13.2% YoY) - Cash position: $12.0M (down from $19.8M prev. year) - "Going concern" warning issued due to $152M debt - Solo Stove sales declined while Chubbies Shorts grew 12.2% Their interim CEO John Larson couldn't have been clearer: "We're creating a metric-based culture to track performance in real time." What does this tell us? It's not that performance marketing failed them—it's that they couldn't accurately measure its impact. ?? The CFO, Laura Coffey, revealed they're implementing "real-time performance tracking—think dashboards and KPIs—to measure everything from campaign effectiveness to product sell-through." They're targeting $20-25M in cost savings for 2025. This hits close to home. At Resident Home, we scaled profitably to 9 figures mainly thru performance marketing channels. The difference? We built rock-solid reporting & attribution systems first. Even today at $1B+ in sales, performance marketing remains Resident's core growth engine—because they can measure it accurately. ?? Solo Brands isn't abandoning performance marketing. They're rebuilding the business to make it measurable: "Historically, our marketing has been heavily reliant on steep discounts... In 2025, we're shifting to a full-funnel strategy." This isn't a retreat from performance—it's finally getting the complete picture. ?? The most valuable insight from their earnings call: they hired "external financial advisers to help us go through every line item of the business." This signals a fundamental rebuilding of their decision-making framework. At SourceMedium.com, we've seen this pattern repeatedly. Brands don't fail at performance marketing—they fail at measuring it correctly. ?? When you build a unified data ecosystem where marketing, inventory, operations, and finance all speak the same language, you get a 360° view of true marketing impact. #ecommerce #data