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

Occam's Razor

FBe's recommendation was (paraphrasing a 35 min talk): Don't invent new metrics, use online versions of Reach and GRPs to measure success. Because we don't understand the uniqueness, we fall back on profoundly sub-optimal old world metrics like Reach or Online GRP equivalents. Metrics are a problem.

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[INTERVIEW] Mark Attanasio, Toronto Financial Services Executive, Managing Partner Of Hillcrest Merchant Partners

YoungUpstarts

It’s taken the Toronto executive from the world of Big 3 Accounting (as a CPA with PricewaterhouseCoopers in his early career) to Investment Banking(National Bank Financial) and capital markets (co-founding Eight Capital after leading the management buyout of Dundee Capital Markets). You also talk about challenges to entrepreneurs.

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What a CFO Can Do For Your Agency

Duct Tape Marketing

Jason is a Co-founder of Thriveal, a firm that helps entrepreneurial CPA firms connect, learn and grow. He’s also the CEO of Blumer CPAs where they serve as an advisory firm for the design marketing and creative agency services niches. You can spend on as a risk without putting you outside of the metric. I appreciate it.

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Give Your Advertising ROI a Serious Boost by Maintaining Scent (11 examples)

ConversionXL

In other words, one of the best ways to improve landing page conversions is to maintain scent: make pre-click and post-click message + look & feel match. They match! Ad design (or email design etc) needs to match landing page design. 2 Filing by CPA. A metrics company! You have to maintain the scent.

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Entrepreneurs, Commit Not These 7 Deadly Sins

YoungUpstarts

Engage trusted service professionals (attorney and CPA) who have worked with startups before. To be successful, your business plan must match milestones to the sources of capital. Set out goals and metrics for your business. Manage to those metrics and use that as a framework to communicate. Ask questions. Seek advice.

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Don’t Want to Plan? Just Do a Sales Forecast

Up and Running

It doesn’t take an MBA or CPA or advanced mathematical modeling. You group your sales into a few strategic categories that match your accounting summaries. What makes one sales forecast better than another is how well it matches the categories that drive the business, and the reports you get from actual sales.

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Deep Dive: Analytics and Security on a Real Ecommerce Platform

The Startup Magazine

You’ll be able to better segment key metrics like COGS, eCPA, Churn Rate and more to better understand the history of your business. The platform’s security should be flexible, so you can customize risk levels for each campaign, product, or payment gateway to best match your needs.

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