Marketing Hackers / 2026 edition
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Issue № 14 / 2026
Season · Spring
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12.05.2026
E-commerceAleksejs B.9 min

Black Friday playbook for Shopify stores — 14 sprints over 90 days.

Peak season isn't about 'figure out the creative the day before'. Our annual 90-day plan with specific deadlines, deliverables, and KPI measurement moments.

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08.05.2026
EmailMadara D.6 min

Six Klaviyo flows that generate 40% of e-commerce revenue.

Welcome, browse abandonment, cart recovery, post-purchase, win-back, VIP. And why the seventh ("birthday") usually doesn't perform the way you'd hope.

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02.05.2026
AnalyticsJānis K.11 min

How to read GA4 attribution without losing your mind — or your budget.

Default channel grouping, custom models, and why data-driven attribution sometimes shows absurd things. An exercise with real dashboard screenshots.

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25.04.2026
SEOAleksejs B.8 min

Local SEO for small businesses in Riga — a complete GBP optimisation guide.

Google Business Profile audit, citation cleanup, review strategy, and what happens when you respond to negative reviews badly.

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18.04.2026
Paid adsMadara D.7 min

TikTok creative testing — why 90% of your UGC won't work.

Rhythmic structure, a hook patent inventory, and what happens when you confuse brand ads with performance creative. Three frameworks we use for every new campaign.

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11.04.2026
AnalyticsJānis K.10 min

Server-side GTM — when it's worth it and when it isn't.

iOS 17, third-party cookie sunset, signal recovery — why half our clients don't need it, and why for the other half it pays off within a month.

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04.04.2026
E-commerceAleksejs B.13 min

Headless commerce: when it's worth it, and when it isn't.

Next.js + Sanity + Shopify Hydrogen — the modern e-commerce stack for smaller brands too. But does the SEO gain justify tripling the dev budget? A comparison across 3 real projects.

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28.03.2026
B2BMadara D.9 min

LinkedIn ABM campaigns in Latvian B2B — five experimental decisions.

Small audience size, high deal value, long sales cycle. Why the classic ABM playbook doesn't work here, and how we adapted it for real clients.

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21.03.2026
CROJānis K.5 min

CRO audit — seven things we check in the first hour.

Before heatmaps, before A/B tests, before session recordings. Let's figure out whether your website is fundamentally broken.

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14.03.2026
AI & GEOAleksejs B.14 min

llms.txt — does it actually work? An experiment across 12 client websites.

We measured whether LLM citation frequency changed over 3 months. We found an answer, but not the one we expected. Full dataset and methodology in the appendix.

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07.03.2026
NotesAleksejs B.3 min

A short note on agency work rhythm — why we don't work Friday afternoons.

A simple experiment we ran in August 2024 that changed how we plan sprints, client calls, and, paradoxically, execution quality.

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