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How to Optimize an Affiliate Marketing Program for Profitability

ConversionXL

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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Advertising Wants to be Measurable – An Investment Thesis

Both Sides of the Table

We have run very successful campaigns by brands such as Sony, NBC, Microsoft, Universal, Clicker and others. We have an analytics platform that helps advertisers discover information about the demographics of the follower base and the effectiveness of their campaigns. This form of advertising is know at CPA (cost per action).

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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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UTM Parameters: A Complete Guide for Traffic Attribution

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If we’re not tracking from which websites, which campaigns, or which channels they visit, how could we know how much of that conversion to attribute to each source? You may run, for example, several Facebook campaigns. Which email campaign was this link in? It does not happen automatically. What keyword exactly?

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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!

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

Occam's Razor

I am going to attempt to significantly simply your life by recommending the critical few metrics you should use to analyze performance of your digital marketing campaigns and website. Oh, and everything has a CPA (not just your paid search or display/banner ads). Kill things that don't have an optimum CPA. Where is it?

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Excellent Analytics Tip #17: Calculate Customer Lifetime Value

Occam's Razor

Some Marketers / Analysts use Click-thru Rate (CTR) to measure success of their acquisition campaigns. A fraction of those Marketers / Directors will calculate Conversion Rates for those marketing campaigns. There is a better way to analyze your acquisition strategy than simply using Conversion Rates or Cost Per Acquisition (CPA).

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