Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 10, 2015

One of the most popular and least successful models I see in new business plans for startups is the so-called Facebook model, providing free services to users while collecting revenue from ads to offset costs and grow the business. This model, called pay per click (PPC), is the one most commonly offered to entrepreneurs.

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CPA Advertising Revenue PPC 120

Gust

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Second – timely, cost-effective customer acquisition is a matter of life-or-death to most startups. Whether you need it to actually fund your operations or to hit milestones for investors and other stakeholders, acquisition and CPA are the things that keep most marketing people awake at night. It’s almost counter-intuitive.

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Acquisition Marketing CPA PPC 87

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

MARCH 10, 2011

This article picks up from that point onward, discussing the challenges we ran into once we went into operation mode, the invaluable lessons that only first-hand experience can teach, the exit strategy which was the $250,000 sale of the website, and finally my overall concluding thoughts on the entire experience.

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Technical Review PPC Due Diligence Exit Strategy 71

Occam's Razor

AUGUST 12, 2013

Even if, and this is not possible, I said to you that the path is Direct, Social, PPC, Organic, Referral for 5% of the site traffic … what would you do? And you are telling me that the Cost Per Acquisition for my display campaigns is not $201 but rather a lowly $155? Notice above I only have two CPA values. You do too. #3.

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Channel Analytics Campaign Conversion 161

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

But in the worst-case scenario, they become a branding liability and an actual cost center if margins and fraud aren’t properly managed.” (via Are you aware of your cost per acquisition on other channels? Affiliates can share their learnings with you, which can help you guide other affiliates and in-house operations. Mobile App.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 6, 2015

Most small businesses and startups follow some version of this rational approach to operating and marketing a business. Customer Acquisition Cost. The important thing is to understand how much it costs you to acquire a single customer. The second half of CPA is known as CLTV, or Customer Lifetime Value. And fourth?

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Metrics CPA Lean Marketing 48