Occam's Razor

APRIL 5, 2010

Some Marketers / Analysts use Click-thru Rate (CTR) to measure success of their acquisition campaigns. In this post David covers: Why Life Time Value is important (especially in context of Acquisition). There is a better way to analyze your acquisition strategy than simply using Conversion Rates or Cost Per Acquisition (CPA).

Analytics 135

Analytics Customer CPA Acquisition 135

andrewchenblog.com

JANUARY 28, 2010

Comments Click to download Freemium spreadsheet Background on this discussion Last year, the stupendous Daniel James co-hosted a talk with me on Lifetime Value metrics for subscription and virtual goods-based items. CPM/CPA/CPC) What do the intermediate metrics look like? impressions/CTR/etc) How does your signup funnel perform?

CPA 51

CPA Retention Viral Acquisition 51

Occam's Razor

MARCH 22, 2011

Compute Actual Cost Per Acquisition Post-Facto Including Micro-Conversions. Today when we measure our Cost Per Acquisition (CPA) for our campaigns (Search, Email, Affiliate, whatever), we just think of the macro-conversion and, perhaps worse, we think only of that session / visit. What was the acquisition cost of each sign-up?

Web 87

Web CPA Analytics Affiliate 87

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 30, 2021

Marketing can be used to address these problems by creating a content database of guides, troubleshooting techniques, and FAQs to help customers overcome basic issues. You can do this by tracking metrics and user behavior. Cost per acquisition (CPA). Total media spend / new customers acquired via media = CPA.

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Customer Marketing Social Media CPA 140