We get this question a lot from online merchants. Before we can answer, we need to get one thing straight: ROI is a term from finance that a lot of marketers use to mean something a little different. Read our blog post on How Digital Marketers Misunderstand...
Direct response advertising through Google Ads probably has an ROI greater than any other investment opportunity available to an ecommerce merchant. It’s far greater than most people realize. The real return on investment is obscured by the way traditional cost...
Presented by David DeppnerMeet Magento New York, October 17, 2017 Competition for online advertising is driving up your costs, and it’s not going to get any easier. What can you do to improve your PPC advertising and get even more profitable? This presentation covers...
Would you rather have a 10% return on $100 or a 5% return on $1000? \[ \begin{align} $100 \times 10\%_{ROI} &= $10 \\ $1000 \times 5\%_{ROI} &= $50 \end{align}\] If you have to pick one or the other, you’d pick the $1000 investment at the lower ROI. In the...
I recently had the “pleasure” of working with a marketing consultant who tried to improve performance for a mutual client by focusing intensely on achieving a high ROI across every one of their marketing channels. This type of thinking is very common in...