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Advertising Wants to be Measurable – An Investment Thesis

Both Sides of the Table

I sometimes refer to this field as “intent-based advertising&# because the reason it has been so successful is that the person who typed in the search term has expressed an “intent&# to find information on that category. The affiliate networking market alone is about a $2 billion industry now.

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Multi-Channel Attribution Modeling: The Good, Bad and Ugly Models

Occam's Razor

And you are telling me that the Cost Per Acquisition for my display campaigns is not $201 but rather a lowly $155? Just so we have a visual guide through this learning process, let's use the above image as a reference. You don't have to do attribution analysis for all your conversions in aggregate. That is so cool.

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

Occam's Razor

You'll see in an instant the very cool things you can track and analyze… With a little bit of smart tagging you can track your internal promotions ( buy one Make America Great Again hat and get one Stronger Together hat free! ), transactions with coupon codes, affiliate sales and more. Very nicely summarized above. A lousy 17%.

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Email Marketing: Campaign Analysis, Metrics, Best Practices

Occam's Razor

For everything you do it is important to measure your effectiveness of all three phases of your effort: Acquisition. Optimal Acquisition Email Metrics. here are the metrics I’d recommend to analyze your acquisition greatness: Delivery rate = (# of emails sent – # of bounce backs) / # of emails sent. But there is more….

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UTM Parameters: A Complete Guide for Traffic Attribution

ConversionXL

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. HTTP Referrer. that runs on the destination page. that runs on the destination page.

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Dear Avinash: Your Digital Marketing + Analytics Challenges Answered

Occam's Razor

Find campaigns where they are spending most money, lower the bounce rate and reduce acquisition cost. If there is nothing in the referring string, that visit is marked as Direct. It will put that data in Campaigns section of the Acquisition report. If you have a lot of them, aggregate them up. Earn more affection.

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Web Analytics Segmentation: Do Or Die, There Is No Try!

Occam's Razor

I have said: All data in aggregate is "crap" Because it is. You can imagine then how absolutely heartbreaking it is for me to note that nearly all reporting that I see is data in aggregate. Tons of data "puking", all just aggregates. Acquisition. Segment Category #1: Acquisition. All visits.

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