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New Secrets of the CPA Referral

Hinge Marketing

Firms cited a litany of challenges, including a shortage of top talent, increased competition, downward price pressures and the havoc introduced by automation and artificial intelligence. And in the face of all this change, firms like yours rely on that old standby — the CPA referral — to survive. They must be doing something right.

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Long sales cycles, the #1 enemy of SEO attribution

Kevin Indig

Companies with long sales cycles often either sell B2B enterprise software (SaaS), high-priced products (e-commerce) or long-term commitments (consumer). CPA (cost per acquisition) is easy to see in Google Analytics, but for organic traffic and other organic channels, it's zero because there is no direct spend.

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How to control Performance Max campaigns

Martech

On the other hand, though, a mediocre ad shown to the right audience at the right price could still do quite well. Set Conversion Value Rules to better represent your conversion values, or use offline conversion imports for even more precise data. But now, with Performance Max, advertisers choose neither keywords nor bids.

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A/B Testing: The ABCs of Paid Social Media

Anyword

For example, if you have a target CPA of $8, you can use that as your benchmark. Doing the math ($8 CPA x 50 conversions) gives you a test budget of $400. The objective was to optimize an audience development campaign for loyal visitors with clicks coming in under a specified price.

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The New Ecommerce Growth Playbook: Scale Your Shopify Store to 9 Figures & Beyond

Convert

While unprofitable companies can become profitable given time, these tend to be the exception rather than the rule. For example, you might identify that certain clothing lines have a very slim margin, but there’s little room to optimize costs or increase prices. How does bundled pricing compare to individual product sales?

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Why is My PPC Performance Bad? Part I: How to Identify Root Cause

QuanticMind

More often than not, you’ll find your campaign structure follows some variation of the 80/20 rule; 80% of spend will come from 20% of campaigns. For example, a change to item pricing could potentially hurt your performance. Remember, Not all Campaigns Are Created Equal.

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24 Favorite Inbound Marketing & Digital Media Buying Tools That Don’t Include Google

NuSpark Consulting

I’m 51, so as a former media buyer in a past life, I remember the days of typewriters, graph paper, Arbitron and Nielsen rating books (I still have an old reach/frequency slide rule!), I use it to buy display, video, social ads, and mobile ads, amny times on a CPA basis. Act-On is a very moderately priced solution but is quite robust.