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Monetizing Social Networks: The Four Dominant Business Models and How You Should Implement Them in 2010

venturedig.com

The business models within the social media realm are much different than traditional businesses. In social networking, they’re ever-changing, backed by eye-opening revenue and have very little documentation. The two major forms of this are CPC (cost per click) and CPA (cost per action or acquisition).

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Advertising Wants to be Measurable – An Investment Thesis

Both Sides of the Table

By now we all know that the largest part of the online spend has been SEM (search engine marketing) where people buy CPC (cost per click) links to display alongside the “organic&# search results in the search engine. I believe that many social networks confused this idea. Not necessarily in the shopping mindset.

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Facebook Advertising / Marketing: Best Metrics, ROI, Business Value

Occam's Razor

Compute ROI: (cost of Facebook campaigns + salary of people running campaigns + agency creative costs) vs. profit from incremental product sales. An additional prove value scope can also be: Cost savings. The reduction in customer service costs – no more phone calls! Attribute it all to the Facebook campaigns.

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7 Retargeting Case Studies That’ll Boost Your Current Campaigns

ConversionXL

Lowered the average campaign CPA to 72% below average. As a lot of people use tools like AdRoll and Perfect Audience for social retargeting on Facebook and Twitter, Chubbies took advantage of AdRoll’s beautiful Liquid Ads to retarget beyond the social networks. above average conversions within 12 hours of campaign launch.

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Episode 50: Video Content and Profitability with Seth David

Mike Michalowicz

Seth makes extensive use of social networking tools, and web videos to maximize the impact of his training. CPA’s. Seth makes extensive use of social networking tools, and web videos to maximize the impact of his training. Nerd Enterprises, Inc. Nerd Enterprises, Inc.

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The Data-Driven Marketer’s Guide to Influencer Marketing

ConversionXL

Social media has risen like a phoenix from these ashes and represents a unique opportunity for smart marketers to reach customers in different ways. As social media use has become ubiquitous, influencers and celebrities have come to prominence on each new social network. Cost per Engagement. Cost per Engagement.

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12 Questions: Meet Pamela Harvey (USA)

crowdSPRING Blog

I also like the work I did (on cS) for a social networking site, where the brand name of the site was a pun on the name of an historical figure. This is not a comment on health professionals or on CPA practitioners. At least it doesn’t cost me money. Ah yes, that’s an all-too-common problem.