Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 2, 2017

How to minimize customer acquisition costs written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. If it costs too much to bring in customers, you’re quickly going to find yourself treading water. First, it helps to determine what you can afford to spend on customer acquisition. Determining your spend.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

If we can’t determine where the traffic comes from, we can neither attribute conversions to their original sources of traffic, nor can we find out the true cost per acquisition (CPA) or return on ad spend (ROAS) for each marketing activity. If there’s a cost associated with running a campaign (i.e.

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Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

Now that Google’s acquisition of ITA is closed, following lenghty FTC review, it would appear Kayak is poised to proceed with their IPO in the coming months. =. Financial Snapshot: 2010 Revenue: $170 million. Revenue growth: 51% YoY (2010), 1% YoY (2009), 131% YoY (2008). Distribution revenue is CPC and CPA. .

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Berkonomics

JUNE 25, 2020

The old measures, including return on investment, percentage of profit against revenue or employee count, and more, obviously are still relevant. CMRR (Contracted Monthly recurring Revenue). Revenues are recorded as earned, not paid, especially when paid in advance. CACR (Customer Acquisition Cost Ratio).

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venturedig.com

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

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). Total Estimated Revenue For Year: $200 million. Total Estimated Revenue For Year: $75 million.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 19, 2015

YouTube takes too high of a revenue split (45% vs. 30% that Apple and many other distribution companies take – FWIW, YouTube argues this is because their costs are much higher since they host and stream the video). It just happens to be large, dominant and willing to share revenue with you. But think of this.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 18, 2015

Hire a CPA. Many business owners forego the advice of an expert accountant because they have financial/accounting experience or are cutting costs by taking responsibility into their own hands. First off, a CPA will save you time by doing the same work faster than you while providing a valuable third party perspective.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 10, 2015

One of the most popular and least successful models I see in new business plans for startups is the so-called Facebook model, providing free services to users while collecting revenue from ads to offset costs and grow the business. For the advertiser, this is the cost-per-click (CPC) model.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

Macro conversions are the primary goal of your website, to convert user traffic into revenue. On the other side of the coin, micro conversions are actions a user completes that are either on the path to revenue-generating macro conversions or not directly related to revenue-generation at all. 1) Revenue per visitor.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 6, 2015

Customer Acquisition Cost. The important thing is to understand how much it costs you to acquire a single customer. The result of this simple is your CPA, or Cost per Acquisition and this is the key to understanding whether your marketing tactics are working for you or not. Why, you ask? Life Time Value.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 1, 2013

The old measures, including return on investment, percentage of profit against revenue or employee count, and more, obviously are still relevant. CMRR (Contracted Monthly recurring Revenue). Revenues are recorded as earned, not paid, especially when paid in advance. CACR (Customer Acquisition Cost Ratio).

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

But in the worst-case scenario, they become a branding liability and an actual cost center if margins and fraud aren’t properly managed.” (via Carefully analyze your customer and revenue data. Are you aware of your cost per acquisition on other channels? CPA / Sub-Affiliate. Are you aware of lifetime value?

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

Three, I’m a book keeper, accountant or CPA and other. Three, I’m a bookkeeper, accountant or CPA or other. The DIY mentality can really bog you down and become a burden eventually, plus it can really cost you more time and money in the grand scheme of things. Two, revenue. I’ll say that one more time.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 25, 2013

The technique, although controversial in some quarters, has given the energy industry a huge boost of productivity, revenue, and profit as they learn to make the most of their existing assets and extract the most from their existing fields. The first important data-set to extract is the acquisition cost.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

MARCH 10, 2011

I spend a mere $10 a month on it, mainly because I haven’t found anyone else in the niche and therefore am able to generate a relatively high revenue to expense ratio or return on investment (ROI). Credit card processing costs money per transaction, whether it is a purchase or a refund. Not to mention an unhappy customer.

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Increased investment in Facebook as an engagement/acquisition channel has translated into requests from CEOs, CMOs and other CxOs about the return on that investment. Compute ROI: (cost of Facebook campaigns + salary of people running campaigns + agency creative costs) vs. profit from incremental product sales.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 26, 2011

This is where the subjects of revenue enhancement and customer lifetime value arise. But once you have been successful at converting healthy percentages of your traffic , it is essential that you turn your focus to supplementing revenue, increasing shopping cart value, and maximizing the lifetime value of your new customers.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

A business that strives for something like this should absolutely be charging money from day one, in order to establish baselines for their two key metrics: CPA (the cost to acquire a new customer) and LTV (the lifetime value of each acquired customer). This is the simplest ecosystem and simplest driver of growth.

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Software By Rob

JULY 21, 2011

But we rarely think about the specifics of how we are going to reach prospects, and how much that’s going to cost. A Look at One Acquisition Approach – Google AdWords. Since this will be easier to explain with an example, let’s start by looking at the cost of acquiring a customer using Google AdWords.

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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. They are detail oriented, cost focused, quality obsessed and chasing a big market opportunity.

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www.readwriteweb.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

CMRR Definition : CMRR is "Contracted Monthly Recurring Revenue." Calculation : See the Google Spreadsheet Carson admits this is a "pretty tricky number to compute," adding that "essentially this helps you understand how much profit each customer brings you, after all your costs." CPA Definition : CPA is "Cost per Acquisition."

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andrewchenblog.com

JANUARY 28, 2010

To become profitable using a freemium business model, this simple equation must hold true: Lifetime value > Cost per acquisition + Cost of service (paying & free) Said in plain english, the lifetime value of your paying customers needs to be greater than the cost it took to acquire them, plus, the cost servicing all users (free or paying).

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www.readwriteweb.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

CMRR Definition : CMRR is "Contracted Monthly Recurring Revenue." Calculation : See the Google Spreadsheet Carson admits this is a "pretty tricky number to compute," adding that "essentially this helps you understand how much profit each customer brings you, after all your costs." CPA Definition : CPA is "Cost per Acquisition."

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ConversionXL

APRIL 6, 2016

Example: “Do you know what a good night’s sleep costs you? Underlines improve clickthrough on Bing for both algorithmic results and ads (so more revenue) and improve time to successful click (better UX). Revenue is usually a good metric to use to evaluate effectiveness of test. Increase LTV –> higher CPA.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 26, 2015

With customer acquisition, every business has a new customer “funnel”, a process that customers go through to sign up. Finding the choke points in your funnel can help convert more customers and lead to a much smoother acquisition process. Cost Per Acquisition. The Funnel. Lifetime Value. Customer Satisfaction.

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The Next Web

JUNE 15, 2015

Take Airbnb’s expansion into Europe as an example, a market that now generates over half of the company’s revenue. For the areas that the company found harder to crack, Airbnb employed a hands-on strategy by sending in small teams at a relatively low cost to generate grassroots interest in their service. Talent-Driven Expansion.

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infochachkie.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

For instance, many a BDC CEO has initiated a consultant to study cost cutting issues before announcing a significant layoff. For instance, if a consultant proposes to help you with public relations, pay them a commission equivalent to the greater of a flat fee per story placed or a percentage of revenue generated from the PR coverage.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 13, 2013

Total revenue – Yes total revenue is generally a vanity metric. Great you’ve got revenue. Get more revenue? What about costs? From there start looking at how much it’s costing you to get your customers vs how much they are worth to you long term. Great, what action do you take now? Where from?

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JANUARY 21, 2011

Professionally, I am a Certified Public Accountant (CPA), may also be called a Chartered Accountant (CA) on your side of the globe, a Finance Charter-holder and a Certified Financial Planner. Right out of Graduate School, I started my career with one of the big four accounting firms in their M&A (Mergers and Acquisitions) practice.

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 12, 2013

MCA-O2S covers the challenge of attributing the offline impact (revenue/brand value/butts in seats/phone calls/etc) driven by online marketing and advertising. And you are telling me that the Cost Per Acquisition for my display campaigns is not $201 but rather a lowly $155? Notice above I only have two CPA values.

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infochachkie.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Once GoToMyPC became a highly successful product, we renamed DesktopStreaming “GoToMeeting,” but not before DesktopStreaming had generated over $30 million dollars of revenue. If we had named the product BuddyHelp, we probably would have generated a comparable amount of revenue. John is a CPA and holds an M.B.A. startupcto

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Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 9, 2013

The cool part about display advertising is that we can build our brands cost effectively, introduce our products to a new audience, and create demand based on a number of intent signals (this last part is often missing from offline media). Focus on optimizing your Cost per Acquisition (CPA).

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Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 12, 2011

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). Oh, and everything has a CPA (not just your paid search or display/banner ads).

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