Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Here is a simple example: You are the Acquisition manager for a company called Omniture. On behalf of your company you are spending precious budget on acquisition, not ensuring your campaigns are tagged properly is near criminal behavior. If they are like every other company that obsesses with PPC and Yahoo! Oh one more thing.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 6, 2010

One was extolling the wonderfulness of their multi channel campaign tracking. No amount of great multi channel tracking will save this company, they suck at the basics. They did have PPC ads, which I click on the ad for specific product they land me on generic nonsense pages. That's sucking. That's sucking.)

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ConversionXL

MAY 11, 2013

For example, if your marketing campaign consists of PPC, Tradeshows, and Radio Ads, each marketing channel is assigned a different phone number so you could measure both volume and quality of phone conversation. Doing this decreased their Cost Per Acquisition by 30% and tripled their mobile acquisition within the first year.

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 9, 2016

SEO & PPC, Because You Should! You'll see in an instant the very cool things you can track and analyze… With a little bit of smart tagging you can track your internal promotions ( buy one Make America Great Again hat and get one Stronger Together hat free! ), transactions with coupon codes, affiliate sales and more.

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Occam's Razor

JULY 22, 2013

Identify gaps in our content/engagement/channel strategy on the web, 2. Ditto for PPC, your affiliate links (all likely in the Do stage), and your email marketing programs. At the end of this exercise, you'll end up with a really great understanding of what each of your marketing/acquisition strategy is solving for.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Over a third of email marketers struggle with acquisition and close to a half say increasing engagement is their number one challenge. Email generates as much as $42 for every dollar spent , and is a top-three marketing channel for 87% of B2B and 76% of B2C marketers. However, it’s not without challenges.

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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. At the moment you will have to go to the Acquisition folder, and at the very minimum look through all these reports to pick out the best bits… That's a lot of stuff, right? Seven more!

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

results) to the correct traffic source to compare the performance of marketing activities across various channels. 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? How are they arriving at our website? utm_medium.

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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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Occam's Razor

APRIL 21, 2014

Find campaigns where they are spending most money, lower the bounce rate and reduce acquisition cost. Yes, yes, yes, with GA you can dive into Multi-Channel Funnels reports to move beyond last-click.) They still tend to think of digital as a fulfillment channel. Earn more affection. Who is to blame? strategies). Justin Dux.

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Occam's Razor

JULY 1, 2008

The effort you invest in measuring offline impact will finally help your company understand how valuable the online channel is (or not!). Tips for measuring offline impact ("conversions) of your online channel: Some of these you might have heard of before, others might be new to you. Two words: Primary Key. Really not a big deal.

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Occam's Razor

MAY 18, 2010

The multi-channel strategy you are executing is unique. Acquisition. Segment Category #1: Acquisition. Acquisition refers to the activity you undertake to attract people (or robots!) Acquisition also includes search engine optimization (SEO), because it is an activity on which you spend time and money.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 5, 2014

The origins of this myth can be traced back to the 1980′s when the Technical Assistance Research Project published research that stated the cost of customer acquisition vs the cost of customer retention was significantly higher. In David Skok’s post, he says: “Life Time Value > Cost of Acquisition. (It

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Site-centric analysis is primarily focused on looking at direct competitors, or adjacent ones, and learning from what is happening with Acquisition, Behavior and Outcomes on their website (desktop and/or mobile). Hence, a lot of your time will be spent in acquisition analysis to improve your digital advertising and marketing strategy.

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