Kody Nordquist

Kody Nordquist

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Founder of Nord Media | Performance Marketing Agency for 7 & 8-figure eCom brands

Simplify Campaigns: Fewer Ads, Better ROI
SocialJun 10, 2026

Simplify Campaigns: Fewer Ads, Better ROI

Saw one of the most abysmal account structures I've seen in awhile yesterday. Audited a brand in the UK doing $75k/month in spend and they had 33 ads live and 13 campaigns.... Founder couldn't understand why they were bleeding money every month. Friendly...

By Kody Nordquist
Checkout Conversion: The Hidden Revenue Leak Brands Ignore
SocialJun 10, 2026

Checkout Conversion: The Hidden Revenue Leak Brands Ignore

One of the biggest revenue leaks I see when auditing potential clients has nothing to do with ads. It's the checkout. Global cart abandonment is 70.19%. Seven out of ten people who add to cart never finish buying. Most brands I talk to...

By Kody Nordquist
Meta Post-Click Performance Drops; Try New Account and Creative
SocialJun 8, 2026

Meta Post-Click Performance Drops; Try New Account and Creative

If your performance post click has been terrible on Meta recently, I promise you’re not alone. Chatting with 30+ brand and agency owners this morning and the last 7-10 days everything top-line is fine (CPM / CTR / CPLPV etc…)...

By Kody Nordquist
Fix Core Setup, Boost New Customer Rate to 93%
SocialJun 5, 2026

Fix Core Setup, Boost New Customer Rate to 93%

We're achieving a 93% new customer rate on Meta for one of our brands spending around $55k/day. When we onboarded with them they were at 43% What we fixed? > Poor exclusions > Broken Integrations > Launched a new customer purchase event > Added a top-line...

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Scale Ads by Treating Creative Like a Product
SocialJun 5, 2026

Scale Ads by Treating Creative Like a Product

Most brands launch creative like it's a one-time event. Brief it. Design it. Ship it. Move on. The brands we work with that are actually scaling treat creative like a product. It gets launched, tested, measured, and iterated on. We...

By Kody Nordquist
Stop Losing $100K+ to Friendly Fraud
SocialMay 29, 2026

Stop Losing $100K+ to Friendly Fraud

If you're doing $10M/year, you're losing $90K to $140K annually to chargebacks. Across the 7-8 figure brands I work with, friendly fraud is the biggest driver. The customer got the product, disputes anyway, and the brand eats the loss. Then...

By Kody Nordquist
Don't Kill Winning Ads After Short-Term Slumps
SocialMay 28, 2026

Don't Kill Winning Ads After Short-Term Slumps

Stop turning ads off because of 1-2 days of poor performance. Especially if that ad has historical data. Things happen - Meta has issues. If you have a historical winning ad - don’t turn it off unless you have a very valid...

By Kody Nordquist
ABO Testing Segregates Winners, Optimizes Bid Caps
SocialMay 27, 2026

ABO Testing Segregates Winners, Optimizes Bid Caps

A new format we're using for a few brands that is ripping right now. ABO (Testing Campaign with new creative tests) This is to test all new creative. Winning Bid Cap Campaign: - All winning ads from the ABO go...

By Kody Nordquist
Omnisend's ChatGPT Integration Brings AI to Real-Time Email Insights
SocialMay 25, 2026

Omnisend's ChatGPT Integration Brings AI to Real-Time Email Insights

Btw: the AI feature you want from your ESP isn’t going to be in your ESP. @omnisend just plugged their entire platform into ChatGPT through MCP - the protocol that lets AI read and act on your live account data. What this...

By Kody Nordquist
Patience Pays: 21-Day Test Saves Bad Ads
SocialMay 24, 2026

Patience Pays: 21-Day Test Saves Bad Ads

We wait around 21 days to kill an ad that's not getting spend when we're testing. No spend = usually a good sign that it's a bad ad. But waiting while we filter through other ads + giving Meta enough...

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Product First, Offer Beats Creative for Scale
SocialMay 20, 2026

Product First, Offer Beats Creative for Scale

The number of brands who don't truly understand that your Offer > Creative Is wild to me.... offer wins over creative 99% of the time. You have to convince people that to buy your product against everything else they're exposed...

By Kody Nordquist
Omnisend Cuts SMS Price, Brands Save up to 35%
SocialMay 19, 2026

Omnisend Cuts SMS Price, Brands Save up to 35%

Per-message rate is one of the few line items in the retention stack where a small change moves through the whole P&L for the brands I work with. @omnisend just dropped SMS pricing to $0.007/message. 2 things worth knowing before you write...

By Kody Nordquist
Meta Bug Halts 200+ Ads, No Quick Fix
SocialMay 19, 2026

Meta Bug Halts 200+ Ads, No Quick Fix

Meta is having one of the worst bugs I've ever seen. Currently on day 4 of 200+ ads (100k+ in daily spend) being turned off due to a "known platform-side regression on our ad-review pipeline". Once an ad is hit with this...

By Kody Nordquist
Boost Spend 100‑200% While Growing Profit Margins
SocialMay 19, 2026

Boost Spend 100‑200% While Growing Profit Margins

I’m taking on one more client for our growth program, we work directly with you everything from offer, creative, management and LTV growth. If you’re a brand spending more than $50k/month and are looking for rapid growth with a focus...

By Kody Nordquist
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