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APRIL 4, 2011

Customer Acquisition. How many through SEM? per click on an SEM basis this is NOT your cost to acquire a customer – you need to add conversion rate. Those two things together would lower your acquisition costs nearly in half to $6.11. How many adds came through organic SEO? How many through affiliate deals? per customer!

Metrics 346

Metrics Startup SEO Custom 346

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JANUARY 19, 2015

Best is if you have a combination of ad revenue, sponsorships and some forms of non ad revenue (subscriptions, merch, music sales, etc.). But you don’t need to spend money on SEM. Summary : YouTube as a customer acquisition tool to building great online businesses is unrivaled today. Take for example, an eCommerce company.

SEM 150

SEM Content Platform Acquisition 150

InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 2, 2009

Decreasing Your Customer Acquisition Costs. Ultimately, your overall customer acquisition costs should calculated as an average of a variety of marketing channels. Thus, include these unattributed customers in your overall calculation of customer acquisition costs. However, you are only paid for ads that generate sales.

Customer 164

Customer Custom Advertising SEM 164

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FEBRUARY 21, 2010

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. further down the sales funnel from CPC advertising where you pay for a click but still need to convert on your own).

Advertising 284

Advertising Invest RSS CPC 284

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APRIL 26, 2016

profitable and companies like Amazon who chose to focus on growth > profitability were not losing money on each book sale (ie they were gross margin positive). CAC is often measured incorrectly and doesn’t often doesn’t capture the true costs of acquisition. Customer acquisition cost. Gross margin positive !=

Metrics 150

Metrics Startup SaaS Course 150

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 24, 2013

For about 50 years, (…cough M) Ad Men, or marketing and sales individuals, have been the kings of organizational hierarchy … and then came the Internet of things and engineers took over the throne. Thus, you need to enable new ways to create a scalable customer acquisition process. It’s the whole conversion flow.

Hulu 111

Hulu Startup Social Media Organization 111

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MARCH 25, 2016

billion in sales and thus controls less than 10% of the market. After a year in the market, MakeSpace was growing rapidly and our biggest issue was CAC (customer acquisition costs) relative to payback period (when we get our marketing investment back) and relative to LTV (lifetime value).

Startup 150

Startup Marketing Study SEO 150