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Interactive diagnostic · DVP Marketing

The Scale-Ready
Store Scorecard

Answer 20 quick questions about your store. You'll find out exactly where you're losing sales — and whether it's an ads problem, a website problem, or something else entirely.

By Dimitar Petrov · dpetroff.com · ~8 min interactive assessment

Most brands don’t just have an ads problem. The leak is usually somewhere between the click and the purchase.

This scorecard helps you find it in 8 minutes — so you know what to fix before spending another euro on ads.

1. Traffic & Attribution

If you can't trust your numbers, every decision you make about your ads is a guess.

The sales Meta reports actually match what your bank shows

Open Meta and open your Shopify or bank account. Are the numbers close? If Meta says €50k but your bank says €20k, you're making decisions on bad data.

Reporting truth
Your tracking actually works (not just installed — working)

If your tracking setup is broken or only half-configured, Meta can't tell which ads are actually working. You end up paying more for worse results.

Tracking health
Your ad reports show the truth, not a flattering version of it

Some settings make your ads look better than they really are. That feels good — until you realise you've been scaling something that doesn't actually work.

Decision quality
Your ad account is clean and simple, not a 40-campaign mess

Too many campaigns fighting each other means none of them gets enough data to actually work. Simpler is almost always better.

Structure
You know which ads bring new customers and which ones bring back old ones

Finding new customers and reminding existing ones to come back are two completely different jobs. They need different ads and different budgets.

Budget logic

2. Message Match & Landing Experience

Your ad got someone to click. Now the question is: does your page close the deal?

When someone clicks your ad, the page they land on matches what the ad said

If your ad promises 20% off and the page doesn't mention it, people leave. Sounds obvious — but almost everyone gets this wrong.

Message match
A first-time visitor understands what you sell within 5 seconds

Someone lands on your page for the first time. Can they immediately tell what the product is, who it's for, and why they should care?

Clarity
The page is built for mobile-first buying

Most paid social traffic is mobile. If the layout, speed, or CTA flow breaks on mobile, performance is capped before optimization even starts.

Mobile UX
Your CTA is obvious, repeated, and easy to act on

Weak CTA hierarchy quietly kills conversion rates, even when traffic quality is solid.

Action path

3. Product Page & Offer Strength

Scaling weak economics or a weak offer just burns more money faster.

Your product page answers the buyer’s main objections

Trust, proof, benefits, shipping, and guarantee logic should not be buried or unclear.

Objection handling
The offer gives a real reason to buy now

If there’s no meaningful incentive, bundle logic, urgency, or advantage, ads may get attention without creating purchase momentum.

Offer strength
Creative hooks and page messaging are aligned

If your ads sell one angle but the product page defaults to generic brand copy, conversion usually suffers.

Hook continuity
You refresh creative before fatigue forces performance down

Most accounts don’t lose because they lack effort. They lose because they let winning creative age out too long.

Creative rhythm

4. Checkout & Conversion Friction

People wanted to buy. They added to cart. And then something stopped them.

Your checkout is short, simple, and mobile-friendly

Long flows, forced account creation, and poor mobile usability drag down the conversion rate of otherwise qualified traffic.

Friction
Express payment options are visible early

Apple Pay, Shop Pay, Google Pay, and similar options remove drop-off for impulse and mobile purchases.

Payment ease
Shipping, returns, and surprises are handled cleanly

Unexpected fees or weak reassurance late in the process often destroy profitability more than the ad account does.

Buyer trust

5. Retention & Follow-Up

Getting a customer once is expensive. Getting them to come back is where the profit is.

Your email/SMS flows support conversion, not just retention

Welcome, browse abandonment, cart recovery, and post-purchase flows should increase total revenue per visitor, not sit half-built in the background.

Flow value
Retargeting creative is segmented by buyer stage

Recent visitors, product viewers, cart abandoners, and existing customers should not all see the same message.

Audience logic
You track repeat purchase and LTV, not just front-end ROAS

If you only judge performance on first-order metrics, you may underinvest in channels that are profitable over time.

Commercial view
Your weekly reporting ties marketing to actual business outcomes

The more your decisions are grounded in real revenue and margin, the more safely you can scale.

Business grounding
Results

Your scale-readiness result

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See your score and find out what to fix first

Answer all 20 questions, then enter your details below. You'll get your score and a clear list of what's costing you the most sales.

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Answer all 20 questions, then submit your details to unlock your score and recommendations.

Start scoring to see your result

Once you answer the scorecard, you’ll get a quick interpretation of how ready your store is to scale profitably.

Top areas to look at

  • Answer the prompts to reveal your likely bottlenecks.
  • Your lowest-scoring sections will surface here first.
  • Use this to decide whether the next fix is traffic, conversion, or retention.

Want help fixing what you found?

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