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How Startups Can Use Metrics to Drive Success

Both Sides of the Table

How many through affiliate deals? How many through SEM? Usually you have a catch-all bucket for “direct” or similar that often came through PR or word-of-mouth. per click on an SEM basis this is NOT your cost to acquire a customer – you need to add conversion rate. How many adds came through organic SEO?

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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. For example, its always nice to have someone constantly optimizing your SEM accounts, driving down your CPA. How to listen to customers, and not just the loud.

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Why Every Company Needs a Growth Manager

Seeing Both Sides

Paid: Ads (Mobile, Web, Video, TV, Radio, SEM, Affiliate), Sponsorships. Earned Media: SEO, PR, Word of Mouth. James Currier, founder of Ooga Labs, identifies three general types of acquisition channels: Owned Media: Email, Facebook, Craigslist, Twitter, Pinterest, Apps.

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Why Every Company Needs a Growth Manager

Seeing Both Sides

Paid: Ads (Mobile, Web, Video, TV, Radio, SEM, Affiliate), Sponsorships. Earned Media: SEO, PR, Word of Mouth. James Currier, founder of Ooga Labs, identifies three general types of acquisition channels: Owned Media: Email, Facebook, Craigslist, Twitter, Pinterest, Apps.

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Web Analytics: An Hour A Day

Occam's Razor

If you have fifteen years of experience you'll still learn loads from chapters that cover holistic search analytics (internal, SEO, SEM/PPC) and Statistical Significance and Multi Channel Marketing Analytics and Advanced Conversion Rate measurement and more. That's a redirect that goes to amazon and contains my amazon affiliate id.