Up and Running

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Customer acquisition drives sales and profit margins and it needs to be measured and balanced together with the customers’ lifetime value (LTV). This article explains how businesses can resist one of the top startup killers known as high customer acquisition costs (CAC). We will go through 5 key strategies for lowering CAC.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 19, 2020

PPC has a role. Ask the following six questions to help SEO and PPC teams collaborate—and achieve better results than either could on their own. Are SEO and PPC teams communicating effectively and sharing insights? SEO and PPC teams that don’t communicate effectively (or at all) achieve less. SEO has a role.

PPC 69

PPC SEO Channel Analytics 69

ConversionXL

DECEMBER 7, 2016

If you’ve ever thought about running a PPC campaign for the first time, there’s a good chance you were wondering which PPC channel to use. The PPC targeting options that Facebook has available are different from Google AdWords, LinkedIn, Twitter, and the abundance of other PPC marketing networks you have available.

PPC 48

PPC B2C B2B Sales Cycle 48

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

When WordStream began receiving complaints that the seven-day free trial of their PPC management software wasn’t long enough, the brand decided to A/B test 14-day and 30-day trials. You’ll also learn how to apply growth marketing to five key channels and how to plan and execute experimentation. The results? What is growth marketing?

Framework 102

Framework Marketing Acquisition Retention 102

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Click-Through Rate Definition The Conversion Rate Formula: How to Calculate Conversion Rate Bounce Rate: Everything You Want to Know and More How To Calculate and Increase Customer Lifetime Value PPC Click-Through-Rate: What it Means and How to Use It (and Improve It) How to Track and Improve Ecommerce Customer Acquisition Effectiveness.

Metrics 105

Metrics Analytics Marketing Acquisition 105

ConversionXL

MARCH 3, 2016

You should have acquisition metrics, behavioral metrics and result metrics no matter what. Acquisition Custom Reports. Visitor Acquisition Efficiency Analysis Report. For example, Alex is responsible for paid channel and Shanelle is responsible for social media, but they rarely speak or share insights.

Analytics 48

Analytics Customer PPC Metrics 48

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 13, 2015

How does retention differ among different acquisition channels? Acquisition Efficiency. Notably, you can look at your customers on the highest pricing tear and distinguish their characteristics, such as the marketing channel that brought them in, their time to purchase, and other information.

Conversion 48

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

How do you balance traffic acquisition with conversion optimization? You can usually tell this is the case when your SEO traffic converts well below other acquisition channels. Also note that often, organic traffic is one of the highest converting channels. CRO and SEO: The Perfect Couple? There shouldn’t be a conflict.

SEO 48

SEO Technical Review Algorithm Software Review 48

ConversionXL

JUNE 24, 2020

Competing businesses may click on each other’s PPC ads to waste money. Loads of PPC platforms ( Google Ads included) allow you to blacklist IP addresses. . Ad Age estimates that $1 out of every $3 spent on PPC is subject to click fraud. PPC Protect uses AI to help clients hide ads from botnets and other vicious online robots.

PPC 121

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 12, 2013

than multi-channel attribution modeling. Here's the outline of our incredible multi-channel attribution modeling adventure: ~ Three Unique Attribution Challenges. ~ Multi-Channel Attribution Models. Multi-Channel Attribution Analysis. ~ Multi-channel attribution across digital channels. Grab a Red Bull.

Channel 161

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2018

According to Larry Kim, founder and CEO of MobileMonkey, “Facebook Messenger chatbots are the #1 growth marketing channel for the next +5-10 years.” For example, here’s an interesting case study describing how MobileMonkey cut the cost of lead acquisition from $150 to $5 per lead using Facebook Messenger.

Marketing 87

Marketing Software Review Campaign Widget 87

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Find a New Sales Channel to Grow Your Customer Base. If you want to increase your annual revenue and grow your customer base, you might need to find a new sales channel. If you want to drive users to your site every day, you would be wise to turn to pay-per-click (PPC) advertising.

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Version One Ventures

DECEMBER 6, 2012

After all, other marketing channels often either hit a ceiling (i.e. inbound marketing, PPC, etc.) However, managing an inside sales team is tough and you need a well-oiled machine in order to get customer acquisition costs inline with other marketing channels. or simply aren’t efficient enough (i.e.

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Sales Management HTML PPC 142

Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 21, 2013

A lot of the keywords I used to add to my campaigns came from the long, long tail I saw in my organic search data (I would take the best performers there and use PPC to get more traffic) and from competitive intelligence research. This in turn mandates new SEO (and PPC) strategies, if we don't want to fail. See Page Value there?

Search 154

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Google Analytics’ Cohort Analysis report is limited to one cohort type (Date of Acquisition). JavaScript for SEO, PPC, CRO, and analytics. Specialists in PPC, SEO, CRO, and product marketing benefit heavily from learning JavaScript. Use Google Ads scripts to automate PPC campaigns. Cohort Analysis.

Marketing 117

Marketing PPC Framework Artificial Inteligence 117

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.)

Analytics 99

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Up and Running

MARCH 14, 2017

You must conduct client interviews, website usage tests, and maybe even set up a small PPC campaign to figure out whether or not the market is interested in you offering. Startup validation tactic 3: PPC (pay-per-click) test campaigns. In the Lean Startup methodology, one of the most important elements is getting out of the building.

Business Plan 94

Business Plan PPC Lean Campaign 94

The Next Web

JANUARY 26, 2014

Getting your app’s content posted through a major distribution channel exposes more people to your app and results in more users trying your app out. But compared to other paid acquisition channels such as PPC, a referral program like this can require less ongoing maintenance and result in more high quality users.

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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.

Analytics 122

Analytics Software Review Campaign Flash 122

ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2022

It’s not a channel, campaign, or tactic. ABM is a full-court press to build powerful engagement with contacts on the channels that they’re most active. For 90% of companies , the top goal for ABM is new business generation— new clients, new contracts, new logo acquisition, etc. ABM isn’t a quick and easy win. Do they get along?

Customer 98

Customer Marketing Channel Acquisition 98

Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 30, 2012

Pay-per-click advertising (PPC), when used correctly, is a very powerful way to drive traffic and conversions. With the YouTube Video Targeting Tool you can put your ads in specific video channels or even specific videos. Savvy PPC bidders can find some real bargains here for long tail kinds of terms.

Advertising 68

Advertising PPC Social Media B2B 68

The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Here are the most effective digital marketing channels to skyrocket your business’s success. Pay-Per-Click Advertising (PPC) Pay-per-click (PPC) advertising ensures that your message reaches the right people. The ROI from your pay-per-click (PPC) advertising campaigns will increase with consistent monitoring and tweaking.

Channel 126

Channel Social Media PPC Marketing 126

ConversionXL

APRIL 10, 2019

PPC campaigns continue to become increasingly well-targeted. One way to stand out is to go beyond keyword targeting and create PPC campaigns for specific targets—an account-based marketing (ABM) strategy. This post gives you six tactics to help execute PPC campaigns as part of an ABM strategy. PPC for ABM) begin.

PPC 131

PPC Campaign Marketing Sales Cycle 131

ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Google PPC is a key channel for customer acquisition for many e-commerce and online businesses, yet keywords have become quite competitive, and the costs of campaigns for certain keywords tend to be extremely high. So what would you do in that situation? Kimbra Studios.

Entrepreneur 114

Entrepreneur PPC Silicon Valley Incubator 114

ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 6, 2011

This curriculum is based on the various questions entrepreneurs have asked me over these 64 sessions, spanning financing, positioning, customer acquisition, marketing, sales, channel, and various other early stage, startup-related issues. As usual, then, I worked with three entrepreneurs working on specific businesses.

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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.

Analytics 116

Analytics PPC Phoenix Campaign 116

ConversionXL

JULY 10, 2014

Another thing I like to do is get away from their branded channels and see what conversation is being had in “unmonitored” communities. (competitors, window-gazers, people doing research, etc). Improve on in your own business or. Highlight your strengths where they’re weak to snipe customers from the competition.

Software Review 72

Software Review Lead Generation Design Campaign 72

Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 14, 2022

They can keep doubling down on advertising with the digital goliaths of today or begin to diversify and invest in other marketing channels, with an eye toward the future. What makes it scalable and more of a marketing channel is that it's managed using software. John Jantsch (05:42): Is, is as opposed to just another channel.

Marketing 89

Marketing Affiliate Channel Seattle 89

Occam's Razor

AUGUST 9, 2016

SEO & PPC, Because You Should! 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. You spend money on SEO and PPC. Gain Attribution Modeling Savvy.

Analytics 60

Analytics Metrics eCommerce PPC 60

Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 14, 2014

Any big changes in your marketing/customer acquisition strategy over the last time period (more money doing Search, less money in Email, elimination Facebook as it does not work, etc., And you also have, perhaps more useful, the industry wide acquisition strategy distribution. Clicking on Channels shows you the first report.

Analytics 133

Analytics Vertical Metrics Web 133

Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 14, 2016

But as social media has evolved to become a core marketing channel, the way we interpret these numbers has changed. Social media is a marketing channel that requires as much time, effort and often as much spend as the likes of SEO, PPC and email marketing. How To Measure Social Media Success – 4 Steps.

Social Media 28

Social Media Media Channel Analytics 28

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

It involves collecting and measuring data from interactions with your website, ecommerce store, social media channels, and mobile apps to make decisions based on audience or user behavior. For example, which channels drive the most traffic to your product page? The amount you pay for each click on a PPC ad. Cost per click (CPC).

Analytics 106

Analytics Metrics Channel Campaign 106

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.

Email 136

Email Customer Marketing Software Review 136

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

It’s nothing more than another marketing channel for you to experiment with, analyze, optimize and grow. Are you aware of your cost per acquisition on other channels? Share top performing channels. PPC – 29.88%. For example, the offer can’t be promoted via email or PPC.

Affiliate 48

Affiliate Programming Marketing PPC 48

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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Framework Marketing Metrics Audience 163

ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Dave McClure’s conversion metrics visualize where different conversion optimization opportunities lie—including those for acquisition. Acquisition focuses on how to grab attention in a very crowded content environment. Strategies span a range of methods, but we’re going to focus on PPC, social media, and search. Image source ).

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Acquisition Software Review PPC Analytics 111

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!

Analytics 60

Analytics Customer Metrics eCommerce 60