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How to Measure Ecommerce Customer Acquisition Cost (+ Tips to Reduce it)

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Customer acquisition cost (CAC) is an important metric for any ecommerce business. It’s up to every ecommerce business to find the middle ground between investing too little in customer acquisition and spending beyond your means. Table of contents What is ecommerce customer acquisition cost? customer retention ).

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Using Cohort Analysis for Conversion Optimization

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How does retention differ among different acquisition channels? Customers that converted in the last year that had a sales cycle of less than x weeks. When optimizing for retention , it’s important to look at customers that spend the most over time via upsells. How did that effect their average order value?

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Why Linear Funnels Are a Simplified Reality (and What to Do About It)

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Both Harvard Business Review and Practical Ecommerce have reported the death of the linear funnel. The biggest shortcoming being that it considers the sales cycle to be a linear process where a customer passes sequentially through sales steps and where he/she is the only one involved in the decision making process.

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Ecommerce Content Marketing: Attract, Engage, Close, and Delight Buyers

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Ecommerce marketing often focuses on the bottom of the funnel—remarketing ads for abandoned carts, time-limited email discounts, etc. Yet the average ecommerce conversion rate is between 1 and 3%. The overwhelming majority of ecommerce site visitors are non-purchasers. calls to action and sales-focused product pages alone.

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What 15 CEOs Learned Building Top Agencies

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Client retention hinges on relationships—and the people who maintain them. This one guy, let’s call him Lars, was an ecommerce manager at a small sports store. We got a great reference, so the sales cycle was extremely short, maybe one call and one email. The familiar name of an agency CEO is a proxy for trust.

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What 15 CEOs Learned Building Top Agencies

ConversionXL

Client retention hinges on relationships—and the people who maintain them. This one guy, let’s call him Lars, was an ecommerce manager at a small sports store. We got a great reference, so the sales cycle was extremely short, maybe one call and one email. The familiar name of an agency CEO is a proxy for trust.

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