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Conversion Rate Formulas to Accurately Calculate Growth

ConversionXL

The magic of a conversion rate formula lies in gleaning marketing insights. The method for calculating conversion rate varies by channel, sales cycle, and stage of the marketing funnel. For example, if you’re investing in Facebook Ads—where CPA is on the rise —you’ll need healthy conversion rates to ensure a positive ROAS.

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Entrepreneurial Profile #2: The Expert

Up and Running

Sue originally went to school to be a CPA. She even took out yellow page ads and followed industry standard protocols for marketing and advertising. But, ultimately Sue found herself facing a somewhat uncomfortable business reality – lead generation. That’s not who we are” she said to the marketing firm.

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5 Tips For Startups To Avoid A Financial Disaster

YoungUpstarts

Whether it’s hiring a full staff of employees you don’t need yet or running multiple marketing campaigns left and right without any obvious branding objectives, spending cash unwisely can eventually lead to the death of your business. David Johnson is a CPA and holds an MBA from Columbia.

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Advertising Wants to be Measurable – An Investment Thesis

Both Sides of the Table

One of the investment themes I’ve been focused on in the past 3 years has been Performance-Based Marketing. When I started investing the US advertising market was $300 billion with only 10% of it ($30 billion) of it being online and measurable. I believe that many social networks confused this idea. Early evidence is good.

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Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for Optimization

ConversionXL

it’s a lead generation website, nothing is sold), conversion rate is the next best thing. At their $39/month price point, this means that a customer generates about $1,800 in lifetime revenue, allowing Constant Contact to make money at a CPA (cost-per-acquisition) of $450.” 2) Conversion rate.

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Digital Marketing And Analytics: Two Ladders For Magnificent Success

Occam's Razor

Progress in digital marketing and analytics in either scenario becomes painful (the organization / systems / thinking is simply not in the optimal position). In this post I want to arm you with the evolution you should undertake in your companies when it comes to marketing and analytics. Owning audiences, instead of just renting them.

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Lean Marketing: Basic Metrics You Should be Watching. Now.

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Marketing is an analytical process. Most small businesses and startups follow some version of this rational approach to operating and marketing a business. 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.

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