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Maximizing Your Digital Marketing Channel Mix

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Or, do you want to motivate your current consumers to buy more of your product (higher net per sales)? PPC can be expensive, as you typically pay every time the target clicks on your link (whether or not it turns into a sale). Are you simply looking for more people to buy your product (raw traffic)? Display Advertising.

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Startup Killer: the Cost of Customer Acquisition | For Entrepreneurs

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To compute the cost to acquire a customer, CAC, you would take your entire cost of sales and marketing over a given period, including salaries and other headcount related expenses, and divide it by the number of customers that you acquired in that period. (In SolidWorks 2: The best VAR management program in the world?

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Cracking The Code: The Bessemer 10 laws of SaaS - Fall 2008.

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Only after reaching $1M in CMRR should you consider hiring European sales and services execs behind customer demand. Be prepared to cross the desert - SaaS requires R&D and sales expense up front for a multi-year stream of revenue, so it demands enough investment capital to fund 4+ years of runway. Posted by Philippe Botteri.