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Lessons Learned: The three drivers of growth for your business.

Startup Lessons Learned

In this model, you take some fraction of the lifetime value of each customer and plow that back into paid acquisition through SEM, banner ads, PR, affiliates, etc. The spread between your LTV and blended CPA determines either your profitability or your rate of growth, and a high valuation depends on balancing these two factors.

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7 Social Media Tactics Your 2013 Budget Needs to Succeed

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SEO Paid Search Search Marketing. CPM Calculator CPA Calculator Website Optimization ROI Calculator. Affiliate Marketing: What Marketers Need to Know From 4 Experts. Media Planning Media Buying Publishing Display Advertising Video Mobile. Social Media Community Management Social Commerce Social Integration Social Media Smarts.

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How to Optimize an Affiliate Marketing Program for Profitability

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

Occam's Razor

SEO & PPC, Because You Should! 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.

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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). If you are doing SEO then you are likely paying for someone. 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.

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Excellent Analytics Tip #17: Calculate Customer Lifetime Value

Occam's Razor

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. Solve tomorrow's problems today – introducing Life Time Value. Or hang around for a few years?

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How to Build an Audience with Social Media Brand Marketing

ConversionXL

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. Since users discover content through search and social sharing, you’ll need to have both an SEO-focused strategy and a social strategy. Formats are also widely varied.