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60 Marketing Acronyms Every Industry Pro Should Know

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CAC: Customer Acquisition Cost. This is your total Sales and Marketing cost. CoCA: Cost of Customer Acquisition (See CAC). CPA: Cost-per-Action. CPC: Cost-per-Click (See PPC). CPL: Cost-per-Lead. The amount it costs for your marketing organization to acquire a lead. DNS: Domain Name Server.

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Top 40 Posts and Hot Topics of Inbound Marketing and Social Media

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Cost: Free trial, $50/month for Standard plan, $100 for Enterprise. Cost: Free. CK’s B2B Blog , June 8, 2010 I recently ran across a positively terrific article on WOM penned by McKinsey’s Jacques Bughin, Jonathan Doogan and Ole Jørgen Vetvik. My domain expertise is B2B Marketing and Sales, especially Demand Gen.

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The Ultimate Dictionary of Marketing Terms You Should Know

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Regardless of your monthly revenue, if your average customer does not stick around long enough for you to at least break even on your customer acquisition costs, you’re in trouble. 24) Cost-per-Lead (CPL). The amount it costs your marketing organization to acquire a lead. 26) Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC). 47) Keyword.