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Predict Your Customers' Buying Cycle : When They'll Buy
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HOW TO PREDICT YOUR CUSTOMERS' BUYING CYCLE: THE TIMING DATA THAT TELLS YOU WHEN TO SPEND
Most marketers obsess over which ad drove a sale. Far fewer ask a question that's just as valuable - how long does it take? The gap between a customer's first click and their purchase — their buying cycle — is one of the most useful and most ignored numbers in ecommerce. Get a handle on it and you stop killing campaigns too early, stop misjudging ROI and start timing your spend to how your customers actually buy. Here's how buying-cycle prediction works and what to do with it.
Topics: Wicked Reports Marketing Attribution Sales Velocity time to purchase buying cycle
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Leads Take Time to Buy : Why Your Measurement Window Matters
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Leads Take Time to Buy: Measure Over the Full Journey, Not the First Week
Two marketers run the same kind of campaign. One checks response every week, sees soft early numbers, and cancels what turns out to be his most profitable campaign. The other sticks with an offer whose leads take longer to convert, and it becomes a top performer. The only difference between them is that one understood how long his leads actually take to buy, and the other did not. That single piece of knowledge, your real time-to-convert, quietly determines whether you scale your winners or kill them by accident.