The Multiplicative Funnel
🧮 Why fixing one broken step beats 100 new creatives.
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🧮 The Multiplicative Funnel: Why fixing one broken step beats 100 new creatives.
Most brands treat growth like a content problem: more ads, more offers, more creators.
But if you zoom out, growth is actually a math problem, a compounding equation. And in that equation, the biggest leaks don’t just reduce performance, they erase everything that came before.
This is the truth no one wants to face: Your $20K ad budget means nothing if your PDP kills 80% of the clicks.
🔗 Why Your Funnel Isn’t Linear, It’s Multiplicative
Let’s say your funnel looks like this:
- Ad Clickthrough Rate: 2%
- Landing Page → Add to Cart: 5%
- ATC → Checkout Start: 40%
- Checkout Start → Purchase: 60%
That’s not 60% of 40%. That’s 0.02 × 0.05 × 0.40 × 0.60 = 0.00024 → or 0.024% conversion.
Which means you’re getting 2.4 purchases per 10,000 impressions. Now imagine you only fix your landing page to increase ATC from 5% → 10%. You’ve just 2×’d your entire funnel, without touching a single ad.
🎯 The High-Leverage Funnel Audit
Most growth teams audit ads. The best growth teams audit funnel multipliers. Here’s how they find the leak:
When ATC is your lowest multiple, you don’t need more traffic, you need a better transition.
What Fixes the Leak?
This is where asset precision beats volume. Instead of creating new ads, the top 1% of brands insert:
- Message-matching headlines that mirror ad language
- Stage-aligned creator content (not just “UGC”) placed at the exact drop-off point
- Benefit-resurfacing before price or technical details
And that’s where tools like Modash come in handy, not to run your funnel, but to fill it with content assets that match specific belief gaps. One of the best ways to patch a high-bounce PDP is by dropping in hyper-relevant creator proof, Modash makes this fast and scalable. You can start a free trial with Modash to see how it works!
Funnels don’t break all at once. They die silently at one weak multiplier, and fixing that one unlocks everything else. You don’t need more ideas. You need to stop compounding losses.
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