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5 Effective Ways for Startups to Lower Customer Acquisition Costs

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Customer acquisition drives sales and profit margins and it needs to be measured and balanced together with the customers’ lifetime value (LTV). It’s where you reach out and collaborate with influencers, brands, and other companies to drive traffic and ultimately sales to your business. Benefits of having a partner program.

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How to Measure Small Business Website Performance

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To get this type of information, you need to use an analytics tool. Google Analytics is a free and popular tool that any business can connect to. It can be complicated to use which is why someone without much technical expertise would do well to use an analytics plugin that automatically creates reports that you can use.

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Google Analytics Health Check: Is Your Configuration Broken?

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The fact is that a lot of the people relying on Google Analytics are relying on bad data. No, not because Google Analytics is awful. What’s a Google Analytics Health Check? In the past, we’ve covered setting up and using Google Analytics fairly extensively. Is PPC data showing in Google Analytics?

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Dear Avinash: Your Digital Marketing + Analytics Challenges Answered

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about digital marketing and analytics. We will cover questions in four areas: business/strategy challenges, analytics/technical challenges, career/self-development questions and rampant speculation. Even the worst analytics configuration in the world will most likely allow you to measure cart and checkout abandonment rate.

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Be Real-World Smart: A Beginner's Advanced Google Analytics Guide

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The outcome of book smart is rarely better for analytics practitioners then folks trying to learn how to fly an airplane from how-to books. This is all the way from Aug 2009: Web Analytics Career Advice: Play In The Real World! And, happily, it has almost all of the Google Analytics features implemented correctly. Let's go!

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Speed, Focus, Smart Insights: 5 Google Analytics Custom Reports FTW!

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You can download them into your Google Analytics account via one click (along with some lovely Advanced Segments and a Dashboard). Many custom reports are wrong because we mess up the fundamental data model in analytics. This report demonstrates the power of getting something out of Google Analytics that you might know exists there.

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Multichannel Analytics: Tracking Offline Conversions. 7 Best Practices, Bonus Tips

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This post bravely attempts to: 1 ] Highlight the importance of holistic multichannel analytics. That's why multichannel analytics is so important. Here's your online data: You are capturing the above information using your web log based or javascript tag based web analytics tool. Not impossible. Well just assume. :).

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