Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

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. further down the sales funnel from CPC advertising where you pay for a click but still need to convert on your own).

Advertising 284

Advertising Las Vegas Affiliate RSS 284

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

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).

Analytics 118

Analytics Campaign Email Channel 118

Occam's Razor

APRIL 5, 2010

Acquiring new customers isn't getting any easier: We've picked off the low-hanging SEO fruit, we're paying more for quality clicks in AdWords and the going rate for affiliate deals just keeps getting higher. Using Life Time Value might be a much better idea. Life Time Value (LTV) will help us answer 3 fundamental questions: 1.

Analytics 135

Analytics Customer CPA Acquisition 135

Occam's Razor

MARCH 22, 2011

Today when we measure our Cost Per Acquisition (CPA) for our campaigns (Search, Email, Affiliate, whatever), we just think of the macro-conversion and, perhaps worse, we think only of that session / visit. CPA might sound huge (or not depending on your margin), but on the surface it seems a lot. Sales, of course.

Web 87

Web CPA Analytics Affiliate 87

Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 12, 2011

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.

Metrics 151

Metrics Web Analytics CPA 151

Occam's Razor

AUGUST 9, 2016

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!

Analytics 60

Analytics Metrics eCommerce PPC 60

Occam's Razor

JULY 26, 2010

If today you are a content site that is only focused on measuring content consumed try to go deeper to understanding CPA of the ads or Visitor Loyalty. Consider doing quarterly analysis that focuses on calculating customer lifetime value. Up a notch. Once again going one step deeper, up a notch. And so on and so forth. Broaden your view!

Web 96

Web Metrics Analytics eCommerce 96

ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

They know there are affiliate links. When people share your content with like-minded groups on social media, it helps build affiliation and keeps you top-of-mind. The content Gong posts to its Instagram feed is a mix of sales tips, social proof, themed-based content (e.g., They know there’s pay-to-play stuff.

Social Media 145

Social Media Audience Media Marketing 145