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Advertising Wants to be Measurable – An Investment Thesis

Both Sides of the Table

By now we all know that the largest part of the online spend has been SEM (search engine marketing) where people buy CPC (cost per click) links to display alongside the “organic&# search results in the search engine. Not necessarily in the shopping mindset. In my mind “the stream&# changes that equation.

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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. Many of the top search results for the term are focused on what it is and whether you can make money from it. What Is Affiliate Marketing?

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

Occam's Razor

MCA-ADC covers the challenge of attributing credit to all digital marketing channels (Social, Display, YouTube, Referral, Email, Search, others) that contributed to a particular conversion (or multiple conversions). And you are telling me that the Cost Per Acquisition for my display campaigns is not $201 but rather a lowly $155?

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UTM Parameters: A Complete Guide for Traffic Attribution

ConversionXL

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? Which social media post was this link a part of? What keyword exactly?

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

Occam's Razor

You can also search for other stuff, like custom reports or attribution models. Now scroll just a bit back up, stare at that column, what would your strategy be for Organic Search if it is at 0.46? Where you have CPA, it is is an even more valuable signal. Affiliates! Another tip. Very nicely summarized above.

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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.

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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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