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Excellent Analytics Tip #26: Every Critical Metric Should Have A BFF!

Occam's Razor

The examples cover elements we optimize for in our acquisition ( what are we doing to attract traffic ), behavior ( what happens once they land on our website ) and outcomes ( did we end up making money, were the customers satisfied ) strategies. Now you might see 60 secs and 5 PVV, 150 secs and 20 PVV, 98 secs and 5 PVV.

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Your Market is Smaller Than You Think

Software By Rob

“ But hold on a sec. Maybe we can’t rely on our freemium, advertising-based, viral revenue model, though. It could be small because the customers are too hard to reach, or because customer acquisition costs are higher than unit profit. This is precisely our target market. Cash in your chips and move on to #4.

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Transcript And MP3 Of My $180,000 Website Flipping Presentation

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

It made this site very sticky and it grew organically through viral word-of-mouth as a result of doing that. If you decide to follow a blog acquisition strategy, you’re not going to write the blog yourself, not very likely. In the Magic site’s case it was a forum that would grow virally by itself. Buy sites in your market.

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Customers Love Free Stuff … But That’s Not Your Problem

abovethecrowd.com

Paypal famously offered customers $5 to invite a friend, who would then also get $5 as part of a highly successful viral marketing campaign (they actually started at $20, and then reduced it to $10 and then ended at $5). That said, the NYSE and NASDAQ have SEC approval for “Direct Listing with a Primary Raise.” Interestingly, the 7.5X

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