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

Startup Lessons Learned

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. To the extent that you have good word-of-mouth, activation or retention, these factors tend to drive down your CPA or drive up your LTV, and so are nice bonuses.

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7 Social Media Tactics Your 2013 Budget Needs to Succeed

www.clickz.com

SEO Paid Search Search Marketing. CPM Calculator CPA Calculator Website Optimization ROI Calculator. Then distribute this content on YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter in addition to social sharing. Media Planning Media Buying Publishing Display Advertising Video Mobile. More Categories. Ad Industry Metrics. Audience/Traffic.

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The Most Misunderstood Facts About Building a Business on YouTube

Both Sides of the Table

YouTube takes too high of a revenue split (45% vs. 30% that Apple and many other distribution companies take – FWIW, YouTube argues this is because their costs are much higher since they host and stream the video). YouTube is a distribution and marketing channel like any other. You can’t build a brand on YouTube.

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

Occam's Razor

SEO & PPC, Because You Should! You spend money on SEO and PPC. If this were your data, start with questioning your PPC landing page strategy and then move to looking at your top SEO landing pages, and then look at bounce rates and next page analysis for those that stay. Your SEO team can do the begging, if required. :).

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28 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

Sinordo, Modern CPA Group ! #17- By being able to create freshly roasted coffee and being able to deliver it directly to people’s doorstep we are able to take out the middlemen and get that fresh taste without the hassle of sending our product to a distribution center and then having it wait on shelves for weeks on end.

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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 because you are running a bigger and more complex business you'll also measure… Acquisition: CPA. Acquisition: CPA.

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Why Leave A Six Figure Corporate Job For Internet Entrepreneurship?

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

Professionally, I am a Certified Public Accountant (CPA), may also be called a Chartered Accountant (CA) on your side of the globe, a Finance Charter-holder and a Certified Financial Planner. Not so much because of the chump change we made (my distribution partner and I), but more so because of the invaluable lessons learned in the process.