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How to Calculate Social Marketing ROI

Paul Gillin

According to Wikipedia, ROI is “the ratio of money gained or lost (whether realized or unrealized) on an investment relative to the amount of money invested.” Return is payoff as measured in revenue generated or costs avoided. ROI ((net profit – cost )/ cost ). We can apply the same type of analysis to cost avoidance.

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60 Marketing Acronyms Every Industry Pro Should Know

Hubspot

But some acronyms have multiple meanings, even industry-specific ones, and sometimes Wikipedia doesn''t do them justice. Examples: Salesforce.com, Google. CAC: Customer Acquisition Cost. This is your total Sales and Marketing cost. CoCA: Cost of Customer Acquisition (See CAC). CPA: Cost-per-Action.

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Top 37 B2B Marketing Posts and Hot Topics August 2010

B2B Marketing Zone Posts

Wikipedia and a handful of open-source software developers were the pioneers. Genius.com Offers Free Edition: How Much Does It Lower True Cost of Entry? LoopFuse also provides automated Salesforce.com integration, but doesn’t have Genius’s Web tracking technology. Here are some highlights from this excellent report: 1.