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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

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). So, the campaign could be Social, Organic Search, Email, Display, Affiliate, Referring Site … anything really. You do too. #3.

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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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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! Take a break.

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Best Web Metrics / KPIs for a Small, Medium or Large Sized Business

Occam's Razor

Oh, and everything has a CPA (not just your paid search or display/banner ads). Kill things that don't have an optimum CPA. But for most other programs (Affiliate, Email, Social, Display) your Cost is likely sitting outside your web analytics tool. Acquisition: CPA. You need to know, obsessively, what you get for it.

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