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Stop Wasting Your Marketing Budget: Master Attribution
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Stop Wasting Your Marketing Budget: How to Master Marketing Attribution
You have probably heard the old line: "Half my marketing is wasted, I just don't know which half." It was born in the age of newspaper and catalog ads, and you would think all our digital tools would have killed it off by now. Yes and no. The data is far richer, but most marketers still cannot say with confidence which of their efforts actually drive sales. Getting attribution right is still hard. The good news is that it comes down to four connected areas, and if you master all four, you stop guessing at which half is wasted and start knowing. Stumble on even one and the whole picture falls apart. The four are tracking, attribution, analysis, and action.
Topics: Wicked Reports attribution windows Attribution Health multi-touch attribution Marketing Attribution marketing ROI measurement
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The 3 Truths of Ecommerce Marketing Growth
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The 3 Truths of Ecommerce Marketing
In a perfect world, growing an ecommerce store would be simple. Run ads until one shows a positive return, pour more budget into that ad, repeat. If it actually worked that way, we would all be ecommerce millionaires and there would be no need for attribution software at all. In reality, growth is harder and stranger than that, because it runs on a few counterintuitive truths that take most store owners years to learn. Grasp them and you can build a growth strategy based on how ecommerce actually works, not how we all wish it worked. There are three, and each one changes how you should market.