Take luck out of the equation

Your ROAS looks great. Your P&L disagrees.

For multi-channel retailers doing £1m and up, where everyone is busy, the spend is going out, and the P&L still doesn't make sense.

Watch firstEvery marketing decision is either a guess or a system

Across the client set, the Luck Out System has delivered:

+40%Contribution margin growth, year on year
+33%Revenue growth on flat or reduced spend
-50%Savings on agency and software costs
15 minsIdea to briefed creative, down from 24 hours
The problem nobody says out loud

The reports look fine. The decisions underneath it are not.

Symptom 01

Nobody wrote down what was supposed to happen

Your marketing calendar is a collection of things that got done, not a plan for things that will. When the month ends well, nobody knows why. When it ends badly, nobody can agree on what to change. The team gets busier and no wiser.

Symptom 02

Your agency reports on the metric it is graded on

A 4x ROAS on a product with a 22% contribution margin is a business quietly losing money at speed. And nobody in that meeting is incentivised to say so.

Symptom 03

By the time anyone acts, the month is already lost

The gap between someone noticing a problem and the right person being able to fix it is measured in days, not hours. Three Slack messages, two meetings, and a brief later, you are optimising for last week's situation. That is the systems problem, we fix.

What you are actually buying

What a proactive operation actually looks like.

Built to make one question permanently answerable: is this spend making money after everything comes out of it.

A marketing calendar that earns its name

Not a record of what happened. A day-by-day plan of what actions will produce what revenue, with an expectation written down before the month starts. So when reality diverges, you know immediately and you know why.

One number that tells you if you're on track

Contribution margin after COGS, shipping, returns, discounts and spend. Scored daily against the plan. Not a monthly surprise from finance — a running answer to the question finance is actually asking.

The speed to act on it

The decision chain between noticing a gap and closing it, cut from days to minutes. Your head of growth sees the problem and can move on it without a chain of messages to people who are doing something else.

Execution, if you want it

The Translate Culture team runs paid, email and TikTok Shop to a standard I put my name to. Entirely optional. Plenty of brands keep their agency and use this to hold it to account, which works just as well.

“How much to get get more of you?”Asked by four different clients across seven years, which is how this model got built.
Two ways in

One of these is for you. The other almost certainly is not.

For retailers doing $1m+

The Luck Out System

You are selling across several channels, and you are not sure your marketing money is landing anywhere useful. I come in at management level and make that question permanently answerable.

  • Measurement that ties spend to profit, not to platform-reported ROAS
  • A marketing P&L you can defend internally
  • Written forecasts, scored quarterly, in front of the people who fund you
  • KPIs your team and your other partners are held to
  • LuckOut deployed against your accounts and your data
  • Optional: My team executes, at a standard I put my name to
For brands building the capability in house

LuckOut

Other agencies put their own operator at the centre of your business. We turn yours into one by providing them a set of tools and training that keeps the knowledge in-house and compounding.

  • Creative strategist: idea to briefed concept in 15 minutes, not 24 hours, built on live market and cultural context
  • Scored on profit: new customer profitability and contribution margin, not hook rate
  • Offer and landing page testing: the levers that move margin, not just the ones inside the ad platform
  • Replaces agency headcount, not yours: the learning stays in your building and compounds
  • The thinking compounds, so it does not leave when someone does
In private beta with a small group of clients. Places open in order.
Before you book anything

Worth being direct about who this works for.

This works if
  • You are doing £1m or more and have been trading at least two years
  • You are already selling or have ambitions to sell across more than one channel
  • You are willing to invest in growth, if the evidence is there
  • You are thinking in years, not in daily sales
  • You have a coachable company culture
  • You are willing to invest in an in-depth audit with actionable recommendations
This does not work if
  • You want a channel operator who reports ROAS and stays quiet
  • You need revenue to double this quarter and nothing else matters
  • Nobody internally has time to be involved in building the system
  • You want to complain about how bad your previous agency was
  • You are looking for a FREE audit
Take luck out of the equation

Bring me the number you cannot explain.

One hour, no deck. We will take your through step by step how we might be able to help.

LuckOut

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