Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Thanks to John’s generous promotion of my content over the years, many of you probably know I’ve spent most of my career in search engine optimization. Address acquisition products like Privy and MailMunch make it incredibly easy to tie your website, landing pages, and social campaigns directly to your email lists at your ESP.

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Up and Running

JULY 26, 2016

These may range from joining an affiliate marketing platform to trying new Google AdWords keywords. Your customer acquisition cost and lifetime value are the two magical numbers you need to calculate for each one of your campaigns. Cost of Acquisition (CAC): The total cost of acquiring a user through a given channel.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

Knewton's Online Marketing Director is the key partner to the VP, Online Marketing and is responsible for helping the team drive customer acquisition and revenue growth through SEM (paid search), SEO, Affiliate Marketing, and Email. This person is also creative, curious and always looking for new ways to engage our customers.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 4, 2017

Spend some time forming campaigns that include the use of television ads, magazines, the search engine optimization and many others. The venture requires a massive financial investment due to the numerous expenses that include marketing, payment services, license acquisition alongside an early license fee.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

By now we all know that the largest part of the online spend has been SEM (search engine marketing) where people buy CPC (cost per click) links to display alongside the “organic&# search results in the search engine. Not necessarily in the shopping mindset. In my mind “the stream&# changes that equation.

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ConversionXL

MAY 19, 2020

Potential questions can come from plenty of sources, including: Search queries driving organic traffic; Internal search queries ; Your sales team; Your customer service team; Your R&D team. Ask around. Here’s an example of the kind of content this prompt can lead to: ( Image source ).

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

They allow you to create and optimize campaigns based on actionable evidence rather than intuition. Customer acquisition cost: Prevent reckless spending Where to track CAC 13. Digital marketing metrics are values that are used to track and measure campaign performance. Marketing metrics are a competitive advantage.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

Bo Bennett once said, “Affiliate marketing has made businesses millions and ordinary people millionaires.”. Of course, affiliate marketing has this mysterious aura about it. Many of the top search results for the term are focused on what it is and whether you can make money from it. What Is Affiliate Marketing?

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SVPG

APRIL 28, 2012

Marketing communications and campaigns – advertising, email, interactive, search-engine, events etc. Vertical/affiliate/evangelist programs. In consumer companies, product marketers focus on enabling activities driving acquisition, activation, retention, and referral. when to use each and to what end).

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 6, 2010

One was extolling the wonderfulness of their multi channel campaign tracking. I did a search on some of their products and they did not have page one search listings (on Google or Bing) for what should be their head terms. Not your api driven integrated massively multi channel attribution analyzed campaign lifetime databases.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 28, 2010

Feel like you need some meat on the bones the customer acquisition strategy investors have been asking about? How do you run a keyword campaign? What’s an affiliate network? How do I improve my conversion funnels?

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ConversionXL

JUNE 24, 2020

However, it continues to poison marketing campaigns—and find its way into more and more courtrooms. This article explains what click fraud is, shows how it can impact your campaigns, and shares ways to reduce its impact on your marketing. Loyal buyers of other brands don’t care about your ad budget or your search terms.

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 27, 2014

Make your public profile as sexy, comprehensive and enticing as possible, adding a short, well done, elevator pitch video (think “the kind of video you see on great Kickstarter campaigns”) and listing your full management team. This added exposure can result in indications of interest (investment, acquisition, partnership, etc.)

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ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2022

The information needed to make decisions is all around them: in their communities, at events, and at the end of a Google search. Each marketing campaign should have one specific message based on a single idea. Search Google for SparkToro and the results focus primarily on Rand. Today’s buyers are more empowered than ever.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 14, 2022

So yeah, I, there there's some confusion around these terms, partner, marketing partnership, marketing affiliate market, and you have influencer and B2B. I, I think there is this convert urgents where affiliate marketing was a model that used technology to, to work with partners at scale. You say you'll pay me 10 bucks. I'll promote.

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Occam's Razor

JULY 18, 2011

I dare say even more than Search (and without a shred of doubt, more than Social Media). Analyzing email campaigns requires three important insights: 1. Your campaign data. Ready for the best email marketing campaign metrics? So for our email campaign analysis let’s look at metrics using that framework.

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

We have to do Search Engine Optimization. We have to do Paid Search. We have to have a robust Affiliate network. Maybe it is Search, Email and Facebook. Maybe it is Affiliate and Paid Search. A little army in your company runs the TV campaigns. A lone intern is your email campaign people cost.

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ConversionXL

MAY 11, 2013

Call tracking is a method of generating unique phone numbers to track the overall effectiveness of a campaign where the primary call to action involves your customer calling the business. Doing this decreased their Cost Per Acquisition by 30% and tripled their mobile acquisition within the first year. What is Call Tracking.

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 12, 2013

MCA-ADC covers the challenge of attributing credit to all digital marketing channels (Social, Display, YouTube, Referral, Email, Search, others) that contributed to a particular conversion (or multiple conversions). And you are telling me that the Cost Per Acquisition for my display campaigns is not $201 but rather a lowly $155?

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ConversionXL

JUNE 25, 2021

This plan is your go-to-market (GtM) strategy , which should be informed by: Market conditions and competitive positioning Ideal customers and target audience Product offer and pricing Lead generation and customer acquisition process. Then, answer the questions you come up with in your product launch campaign.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 2, 2016

We believe that traditional media buying – display and banner ads, PR, social media, search keywords, etc. – And for issuers, many have even less resources to dedicate to marketing and investor acquisition. But just wanting to raise and offering your opportunity to investors isn’t enough to guarantee a successful campaign.

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 25, 2011

That means I get to spend loads and loads of time across many industry verticals, see many many campaigns, translate many many foreign websites (thanks Google Chrome for auto-translate!) Why not keep sending emails / spending on AdWords / running affiliate programs / buying display only on MSN. We hate change. Super lame!

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 11, 2015

The include single custom reports that replace all/most current standard reports in GA on Mobile, Content, Paid Search and Acquisition. Campaign Cost Analysis. There's a Paid Search micro-ecosystem you can download at the end of this post.) and how often each User comes (acquisition metrics). Seven more!

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Analytics Customer Metrics eCommerce 60

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 21, 2009

For your Search campaigns. Or Affiliate programs? Success for campaigns (Search, Social Media, Display, TV and what not) is always measured based on that one visit or what happens when the campaign runs. When you look at campaigns not just from a "quickie" view (did they sign up?)

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

If we’re not tracking from which websites, which campaigns, or which channels they visit, how could we know how much of that conversion to attribute to each source? You may run, for example, several Facebook campaigns. Which email campaign was this link in? Which social media post was this link a part of? What keyword exactly?

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 9, 2016

You can also search for other stuff, like custom reports or attribution models. We rarely hold people responsible for Traffic Acquisition accountable, we rarely hold people responsible for Site Design and Merchandizing accountable. Question time for your Acquisition, Design and Merchandizing team. Another tip. A lousy 17%.

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

Disclosure: I'm not affiliated with nor do I know anyone at Credit Karma.]. Affiliate links (Take Offer, Compare Rates) that link to other sites from which Credit Karma makes commissions. If you are a regular reader of this blog you know how deeply fond I am of the Acquisition, Behavior, Outcomes framework. Sign up today!

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Web Analytics Technical Review Affiliate 138

Occam's Razor

APRIL 21, 2014

Find campaigns where they are spending most money, lower the bounce rate and reduce acquisition cost. But if you would like a quick collection of tips: Multichannel Analytics- Tracking Online Impact Of Offline Campaigns The enabler of tying offline activity to online is ensuring you have a weak or strong primary key.

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Occam's Razor

JULY 22, 2013

If you want to grow your business, you are going to need content/engagement points for the See stage (the widest possible addressable audience) and for the Think stage (fill up your funnel at the very top, convince people early, build relationships, convert higher at a cheaper acquisition cost). You want sales, yes. It is also rude.

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Occam's Razor

JULY 1, 2008

There is perhaps no challenge greater than tracking offline impact of your online presence (campaigns or other activity). Your hair is thinning from repeatedly trying to get funding for online campaigns. It is perhaps one of the last few complex nuts left to crack. Because it is hard. Not impossible.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 19, 2021

For example, a search for “ Adobe ” brings up a stream of public posts and related searches. Note: We recommend that group admins share any commercial or business affiliations in the group, as well as updating the group if affiliations change. via Facebook ]. The Facebook Pixel. via Social Media Examiner ].

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

We use Google Analytics, HubSpot, and LinkedIn Campaign Manager for the majority of our analytics. Coalesce address the more general problem of searching through large data sets for best fits. Pacer is useful to search prior litigation, bankruptcies, etc. 3) Raise capital.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

They should understand the different states of the user (Acquisition, Activation, Retention, Revenue) and focus on moving users from one state to the next. In a nutshell: Acquisition - Get people to hear about your product from press, blogs and social channels. You can do this very easily by running a Google Adwords campaign.

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ConversionXL

MAY 30, 2017

Using a service like Retargeter, you could run a campaign that leverages banner ads, video, and sidebar advertising, that highlights your customer satisfaction policies. Harris Interactive has found that 56% of customers would be willing to switch brands based on better customer service options.

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Analytics Conversion eCommerce Technical Review 126

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 19, 2010

I discovered blogging because I was told it was great for search engine rankings. If you decide to follow a blog acquisition strategy, you’re not going to write the blog yourself, not very likely. After I made some good money with the Small Business Branding site and the Magic site, I started to look for acquisition targets.

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Occam's Razor

MARCH 23, 2010

It is a bit silly to believe you can use one tool for purpose x (say search analysis) and another for purpose y (say everything else). When it comes to proving which campaigns are better and which numbers to report to the management what will you do? Do a Google search for the Consultant. Was that what you set out to buy?

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 5, 2010

Some Marketers / Analysts use Click-thru Rate (CTR) to measure success of their acquisition campaigns. A fraction of those Marketers / Directors will calculate Conversion Rates for those marketing campaigns. In this post David covers: Why Life Time Value is important (especially in context of Acquisition).

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