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The Book Is the Funnel · Part 9 · $4.95

Four steps that decide whether any of the other fifty-six can be evaluated at all.

Track first-party events, run the pixel and server-side events against a product-scoped conversion, tag every ad so the payment record names it, and filter phantom sessions at read time.

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Instant PDF download. One payment. 4,500 words.
The problem this part solves

This is the most valuable part of the book, and it's the least read. It's also the part almost every competitor skips. That isn't laziness. Instrumentation produces evidence, evidence produces accountability, and a business built on selling insight has no particular use for either.

Nothing has to exist yet for this part to make sense on its own: it describes how to build the measurement layer underneath any funnel, including one you haven't launched. If you're arriving with ads already running, the gap between what a platform dashboard says and what your bank account says is the reason to read this part before booking or improvement-loop work.

A whiteboard sketch of two boxes labelled Ads Dashboard and Bank Account with a jagged gap between them being closed by a tag icon and a checkmark.
Part 9 closes the gap between what the ad dashboard says and what the bank account says.
What's inside

The steps, and what you walk away with.

The steps
51. Track first-party events
52. Run the pixel, server-side events, and a product-scoped conversion
53. Tag every ad so the payment record names it
54. Filter phantom sessions at read time
What you produce
First-party event tracking
Server-side events alongside the pixel, with a product-scoped conversion
Ad tagging that survives into the payment record
A phantom-session filter applied at read time
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Excerpt, verbatim from Part 9

This is the most valuable part of the book, and it's the least read. Instrumentation produces evidence, evidence produces accountability, and a business built on selling insight has no particular use for either.

The gap between what a platform dashboard says and what your bank account says is the reason to read this part first.

Buy this if
You're running ads and the platform dashboard doesn't match your bank account.
You haven't launched yet and want the measurement layer built before you need it.
You want every ad tagged so the payment record itself names what produced it.
Skip it if
You already have server-side events, a product-scoped conversion and ad tagging reconciled to settled payments. This part won't tell you anything new.
You want campaign or creative strategy, not measurement.
Ryan Richardson
A note from Ryan

I built analytics models for banks and miners before this. Every step in The Book Is the Funnel is one we ran on our own funnel first, failures included. This part is sold on its own because most people need one piece of it, not all sixty at once.

Ryan RichardsonFounder, Onwards Analytics
Before you buy

Three questions people ask first.

Do I need the rest of the book?
No. This part stands on its own and describes the measurement layer underneath any funnel, including one you haven't launched yet. Nothing earlier in the book has to exist first.
What format is it?
A PDF, delivered by email within minutes of payment. No app, no login, no subscription.
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