# retargeting-funnel

Designs multi-stage retargeting sequences from site conversion data. Sets recency windows and audience exclusion rules.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 19800 installs · ★ 2
- Author: Maya-Beth Finotti
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/mbfinotti/advertising-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/retargeting-funnel/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-09-14
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/retargeting-funnel

## What it does

The skill interviews you about funnel metrics and visitor behavior. It identifies the 80% conversion percentile from your time-to-conversion data to mark hot audience windows. High-intent steps receive short windows, while shallow visits get longer ones.

This skill plans strategy rather than setting up ad accounts or writing copy. Working event tracking is an absolute prerequisite. The skill refuses to invent window boundaries without conversion-lag reports, flagging unbacked numbers as provisional.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add mbfinotti/advertising-skills --skill retargeting-funnel -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/retargeting-funnel/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/retargeting-funnel/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add mbfinotti/advertising-skills --skill retargeting-funnel -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/retargeting-funnel/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add mbfinotti/advertising-skills --skill retargeting-funnel -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/retargeting-funnel/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install mbfinotti/advertising-skills retargeting-funnel
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/retargeting-funnel/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add mbfinotti/advertising-skills --skill retargeting-funnel -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/mbfinotti/advertising-skills --path skills/retargeting-funnel
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/retargeting-funnel/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add mbfinotti/advertising-skills --skill retargeting-funnel -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/mbfinotti/advertising-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/retargeting-funnel/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- calculate retargeting recency windows from conversion-lag data
- set exclusion rules for past converters
- build a two-axis grid for recency and behavioral depth
- assign per-stage frequency caps across paid channels

## Example prompts
- Design a multi-stage retargeting sequence for an e-commerce store with a 5-day cycle
- Ads are still showing to people who already bought, set up exclusion logic
- Help me calculate recency windows and frequency caps for our B2B funnel

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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name: retargeting-funnel
description: "Design a multi-stage retargeting sequence from a site's own funnel data - recency windows and behavioural-depth tiers per stage, a message and offer ladder for each stage, mutually exclusive audiences with exclusion logic, and per-stage frequency caps. Use whenever the user mentions retargeting or remarketing, cart or form abandonment, how long a retargeting window should be, frequency caps, a retargeting audience that is too small, or ads still showing to people who already bought - even if they never say 'funnel'. Covers B2B and B2C, and produces a stage-by-stage plan rather than campaigns built inside an ad platform. Do NOT use to design cold prospecting audience tiers - use mbfinotti/advertising-skills@ad-audience-targeting instead."
license: MIT
metadata:
  author: Maya-Beth Finotti
  version: "1.4.9"
---

# Retargeting Funnel

Design a multi-stage retargeting sequence from the client's own conversion data: stage boundaries, per-stage message intent, exclusion logic, frequency caps, and a measurement plan.

## Scope and handoffs

This skill decides stage boundaries, per-stage message intent, exclusion logic, caps, and the measurement plan. It does not build campaigns inside any ad platform, and it hands off neighbouring work:

- Working event tracking is a hard prerequisite - retargeting audiences cannot be built without it. Verify first via `mbfinotti/advertising-skills@ad-conversion-tracking`.
- The broader targeting plan across interest/lookalike/retargeting layers → `mbfinotti/advertising-skills@ad-audience-targeting`.
- Ongoing creative-decay monitoring after launch → `mbfinotti/advertising-skills@ad-creative-fatigue`.
- Writing the per-stage ads themselves → `mbfinotti/advertising-skills@ad-copy-variants` and `mbfinotti/advertising-skills@ad-creative-brief`.
- Splitting the total budget across campaigns and channels → `mbfinotti/advertising-skills@ad-spend-allocation`.

If you draft any customer-facing copy while illustrating a stage, route it through your preferred humanizer skill before the user ships it - this is not a copywriting skill.

## Interview

Ask these questions one at a time, multiple-choice where possible. Stop asking as soon as you have enough to design; do not batch all of them into one wall of questions.

1. Business model: (a) B2C / e-commerce, (b) B2B, (c) hybrid (e.g. PLG SaaS with self-serve and sales-assisted tiers)?
2. Typical time from first visit to conversion: (a) under 3 days, (b) 3-14 days, (c) 2-8 weeks, (d) 2 months or more, (e) unknown?
3. Monthly site traffic and monthly conversions, roughly? (Order of magnitude is enough.)
4. Which behavioural events are actually tracked today: page views only, product/feature views, pricing views, cart or checkout starts, trial starts, purchases, CRM stages?
5. Which paid channels are in use or planned?
6. Offer type: (a) transactional purchase, (b) free trial, (c) demo request, (d) lead form / gated content?
7. Is a discount ever available as an incentive? (Many B2B businesses: no - that removes a rung of the ladder, not the ladder.)
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