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The Best Programming Languages for Digital Marketers

ConversionXL

You may want to create a simple prediction—or automate a few repetitive tasks in your PPC campaigns. One of my former colleagues, Rob, is an SEM guru—with zero coding background. JavaScript is definitely more difficult than SQL. Connect inventory with ad campaigns. How SQL solves real-world marketing problems.

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Why Misunderstanding Startup Metrics Can Cost You Your Business

Both Sides of the Table

So if you paid $100 for a customer who converted via a Facebook ad or Google search ad (SEM) that is not your CAC. PR and non programmatic marketing often have a lagging affect so if you ran a big out-of-home marketing campaign that created brand awareness you may find that conversion actually takes place 60–90 days later.

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How to Use Growth Hacking to Increase Revenue 20x in Just 12 Months

Up and Running

Your customer acquisition cost and lifetime value are the two magical numbers you need to calculate for each one of your campaigns. Most campaigns can be optimized to increase conversion rates and lower costs. Intercom allows you to build drip email campaigns based on specific actions users take on your site.

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The Small Business Guide To SEO (Search Engine Optimization) in 2017

crowdSPRING Blog

SEO strategies, if done properly, can definitely help you do this. Tip: Do your best to keep conversions tied to the same outcome for the various SEO campaigns you’ll undertake. We made the mistake early on of regularly changing our definition of “conversion” and this created two problems. Define Conversions Properly.

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Web Analytics Technical Implementation Best Practices. (JavaScript Tags)

Occam's Razor

4: What’s your unique page definition? # 4: What’s your unique page definition? Source attributes : where do people come from (websites, campaigns, search engines etc etc). A final example of using redirects is as a part of campaigns (banner ads, search marketing, affiliates etc). 3: Tags should be inline. #

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The LeanLaunch Pad at Stanford – Class 5: Customer Relationship Hypotheses

Steve Blank

Many of the students had heard phrases that fall under Customer Relationships before; “customer acquisition, SEO/SEM, public relations, Social Network, Advertising, Loyalty programs, cross-sell and up-sell” etc., BTW, our definition of a Pivot: it’s when you significantly modify one or more of the business model building blocks.).

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Customer Acquisition is Oxygen to a Startup

This is going to be BIG.

That’s quite a stretch from what a skilled SEM expert would do—one who starts tinkering around with time of day, geolocation specific terms, buying hundreds of keywords at a time, etc. How good are you going to be on your first direct mail campaign compared to an agency who specializes in it. Same thing with direct mail.