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Marketing Beyond Acquisition

Gust

In my conversations with people in the startup world – from angel investors through entrepreneurs and employees with vast startup experience – I often hear about their perceptions of the marketing role as being pretty limited to acquisition. Second – timely, cost-effective customer acquisition is a matter of life-or-death to most startups.

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PPC Automation: Is the Future of Paid Search Already Here?

ConversionXL

Will PPC look like this in 2020? Nonetheless, there are some amazing automation opportunities that make the life of Marketing Managers, CMOs, and PPC experts quicker and more efficient—especially for fast-growing companies that need to scale their campaigns. PPC automation is a massive topic. Probably not. Ad Testing.

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How To Make Money Like Facebook With Online Ads

Startup Professionals Musings

This model, called pay per click (PPC), is the one most commonly offered to entrepreneurs. The advertiser sees it as cost per acquisition (CPA) or pay per performance (PPP). For the advertiser, this is the cost-per-click (CPC) model. The goal is for your visitor to be redirected to the site or product being advertised.

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6 Business Idea Validation Tactics to Improve Your Business Planning

Up and Running

You must conduct client interviews, website usage tests, and maybe even set up a small PPC campaign to figure out whether or not the market is interested in you offering. Startup validation tactic 3: PPC (pay-per-click) test campaigns. In the Lean Startup methodology, one of the most important elements is getting out of the building.

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Want to Reduce CPA? Try Machine Learning–Driven Retargeting.

ConversionXL

But, until recently, many of the purported benefits—especially in paid acquisition—have been discussed but remain largely unrealized. From Google’s Session Quality and Conversion Probability reports to related smart retargeting platforms, machine-learning segments users like no PPC manager can. Why machine learning for retargeting?

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

Occam's Razor

SEO & PPC, Because You Should! We rarely hold people responsible for Traffic Acquisition accountable, we rarely hold people responsible for Site Design and Merchandizing accountable. Question time for your Acquisition, Design and Merchandizing team. You spend money on SEO and PPC. Gain Attribution Modeling Savvy.

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

Occam's Razor

Even if, and this is not possible, I said to you that the path is Direct, Social, PPC, Organic, Referral for 5% of the site traffic … what would you do? And you are telling me that the Cost Per Acquisition for my display campaigns is not $201 but rather a lowly $155? Notice above I only have two CPA values.

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