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Lessons Learned: The three drivers of growth for your business.

Startup Lessons Learned

is an elegant way to model any service-oriented business: Acquisition Activation Retention Referral Revenue We used a very similar scheme at IMVU, although we werent lucky enough to have started with this framework, and so had to derive a lot of it ourselves via trial and error. The AARRR model (hence pirates, get it?)

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How to Optimize an Affiliate Marketing Program for Profitability

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Bo Bennett once said, “Affiliate marketing has made businesses millions and ordinary people millionaires.”. Of course, affiliate marketing has this mysterious aura about it. What Is Affiliate Marketing? Some people confuse affiliate marketing with referral marketing. You start with two affiliates: Kim and Jim.

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Monetizing Social Networks: The Four Dominant Business Models and How You Should Implement Them in 2010

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The two major forms of this are CPC (cost per click) and CPA (cost per action or acquisition). With Banner Ads, specifically CPA-based ads, I believe it’s only a matter of time before the revenue stream becomes less dominant. Allocate about 20% of of your ad space to CPA-based Ad Networks. Mobsters 2-3.5M.

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Advertising Wants to be Measurable – An Investment Thesis

Both Sides of the Table

They already had a completed product and a distribution deal with the largest affiliate network company, Commission Junction. The affiliate networking market alone is about a $2 billion industry now. This form of advertising is know at CPA (cost per action). It should lead to higher conversion rates and happier customers.

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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? Apply the right model and you will not only distribute conversions across multiple touch points, but you can also look at the impact on the CPA (this really is OMG, I peed in my pants a little cool). 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. Affiliates! A lousy 17%.

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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. organic post on Facebook, tweet, video on a brand’s YouTube channel, affiliate link).

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