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Multi-Channel Attribution Modeling: The Good, Bad and Ugly Models

Occam's Razor

And you are telling me that the Cost Per Acquisition for my display campaigns is not $201 but rather a lowly $155? Apply the right model and you will not only distribute conversions across multiple touch points, but you can also look at the impact on the CPA (this really is OMG, I peed in my pants a little cool). That is so cool.

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Monetizing Social Networks: The Four Dominant Business Models and How You Should Implement Them in 2010

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The business models within the social media realm are much different than traditional businesses. In social networking, they’re ever-changing, backed by eye-opening revenue and have very little documentation. The two major forms of this are CPC (cost per click) and CPA (cost per action or acquisition).

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How to Optimize an Affiliate Marketing Program for Profitability

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Bo Bennett once said, “Affiliate marketing has made businesses millions and ordinary people millionaires.”. Of course, affiliate marketing has this mysterious aura about it. What Is Affiliate Marketing? Some people confuse affiliate marketing with referral marketing. You start with two affiliates: Kim and Jim.

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Best Web Metrics / KPIs for a Small, Medium or Large Sized Business

Occam's Razor

Use my Acquisition, Behavior and Outcomes framework to ensure an end-to-end view of important activity and 2. Acquisition: Clicks? Cost Per Acquisition. Oh, and everything has a CPA (not just your paid search or display/banner ads). Kill things that don't have an optimum CPA. Cost Per Acquisition.

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Advertising Wants to be Measurable – An Investment Thesis

Both Sides of the Table

They already had a completed product and a distribution deal with the largest affiliate network company, Commission Junction. The affiliate networking market alone is about a $2 billion industry now. This form of advertising is know at CPA (cost per action). It should lead to higher conversion rates and happier customers.

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Excellent Analytics Tip #17: Calculate Customer Lifetime Value

Occam's Razor

Some Marketers / Analysts use Click-thru Rate (CTR) to measure success of their acquisition campaigns. In this post David covers: Why Life Time Value is important (especially in context of Acquisition). There is a better way to analyze your acquisition strategy than simply using Conversion Rates or Cost Per Acquisition (CPA).

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Three Amazing Web Data Analyses Techniques For Analysis Ninjas

Occam's Razor

Compute Actual Cost Per Acquisition Post-Facto Including Micro-Conversions. Today when we measure our Cost Per Acquisition (CPA) for our campaigns (Search, Email, Affiliate, whatever), we just think of the macro-conversion and, perhaps worse, we think only of that session / visit. Let's go. I know that is confusing.

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