Your CEO asks you to double marketing spend, but you have no idea what that will do to CPA... how do you forecast realistic goals?
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How do you answer the question "How much more can we spend?" – learn how Diminishing Returns can help you find the answer!
Diminishing Returns
If you double your marketing budget, will you get double the customers? You won't, because of the law of diminishing returns, which states that as you scale your spend, you should expect worse efficiency. Read More
This Course Includes:
5 Chapters
34 Sections
7 Exercises
Completed in:
48 minutes
Course curriculum
Chapter
Description
Sections
Exercises
1. Whatever we're spending now... let's double it.
It's goal-setting time, and you need to be realistic. If you double your ads budget you won't double your sales, but how much of an uplift would you expect? What would that do to your ROI?
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2. Plotting spend and sales over time
Graphs are easier to read than numbers, so let's start with a chart. If we plot spend and sales by day, do we see any patterns in performance on high spend days versus low spend days?
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3. Do spend and conversions have a relationship?
We're reached the point where a little statistics is unavoidable. Is there a correlation between spend and conversions? Can we establish a linear relationship between the two?
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4. The path to progress is rarely a straight line
Fast forward to a few weeks in the future – turns out our prediction was wrong. How do we transform the data to account for a non-linear relationship in the data, i..e diminishing returns.
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5. Setting realistic goals by making the future happen
You can't always predict tomorrow with yesterday's data. Luckily you can make the future happen today with a controlled experiment, and use that data for your forecasts.
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