Your Customer Lifetime Value Is Fiction
Your customer lifetime value looks impressive. But are the assumptions real? Discover five mistakes that inflate CLV and lead to expensive marketing decisions.
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Your Marketing Budget Has a Sunk Cost Problem
Your marketing campaign isn’t working, but you’ve already spent $40,000. Should you invest more or cut your losses? Here’s how the sunk cost fallacy quietly drains marketing budgets.
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Digital vs. Traditional? Wrong Question
Trade shows aren’t outdated. Google Ads aren’t automatically better. If a $10K event generates $50K in worthwhile revenue, book it again. The real divide isn’t digital vs. traditional marketing. It’s measurable marketing vs. marketing we do because “we’re supposed to.”
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Your Reports Have Data. Where Are the Answers?
Congratulations, your marketing dashboard has 47 charts. But does it tell you what to do differently on Monday? Here are 5 questions every useful marketing report should answer.
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Are Your Cheap Leads Actually Good Leads?
Your CPL dropped from $80 to $35. Great result? Maybe. If the $80 leads were becoming customers and the $35 leads aren’t even qualified, your campaign may actually have gotten worse. Follow your leads beyond the form submission before deciding what’s working.
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Are Your Google Ads Conversions Wrong?
Google Ads says 20 conversions. Your CRM says 11 leads. Which one is right? Before increasing your budget or optimizing the campaign, check what Google Ads is actually counting. Duplicate tracking, secondary actions, and poorly configured conversion events can make performance look better than it really is.
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The 5 Marketing Numbers I’d Track If I Could Track Nothing Else
If I could track only 5 marketing numbers, these would be them: Qualified leads Conversion rate Cost per lead Customer acquisition cost Revenue generated Notice what’s missing? Followers. Likes. Impressions. Those numbers can be useful, but they don’t tell you whether your marketing is actually helping the business grow. Track the numbers that help you make better decisions, not just the numbers that make your report look good.
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