Internet Marketing - Some Calculations To Be Made
Written by Ronald Lewis   
Saturday, 11 July 2009 11:16
Are you aware that you should always measure something if you want to improve it, otherwise managing it or improving wouldnt be possible. If you are determined to earn money online, you better learn how to do it.

Are you aware that you should always measure something if you want to improve it, otherwise managing it or improving wouldnt be possible. If you are determined to earn money online, you better learn how to do it.

Being able to measure your business progress and understand the results of it is a skill you definitely need to obtain. The following tips will help you to learn how to do it right.

First of all, you have to determine what is your average client worth at the moment. Just add all your initial investments you have made to get a client and subtract it from your initial income from him.

In other words, if you know that you have to pay for 100 hits at 0.24 cents each in order to generate two sales at 47 dollars each, then each of those customers costs about 12 dollars to generate. Each of those customers is worth about 35 dollars.

Then you have to take into consideration the cost of processing the payment and other kinds of overhead. Once you are through with this process, you have a true idea of how much you are making from each customer. Then you are ready to move on to the second principle, which is measuring the lifetime value of each customer.

This takes time, but when you find it out, you will be able to figure out what you have to do - attract new clients or increase the lifetime value of existing ones. If you have other products and services your clients can benefit from, you factor the profits of those back into the equation.

Imagine you have got 1000 clients in your client list and 100 of them buy your language study package at 100 dollars. This means you add 10 dollars to the value of those clients, and this increases your value to 45 dollars.

Now as you are doing this, you will find that there are other variables involved, but this should give you an idea of the process. Once you know the worth of each customer, you can put together a plan for using the third measurement key. The third key is measuring the buying motivation of your established customers by asking them questions and sending them surveys. This is the most valuable way to measure your marketing process, because it will tell you exactly what to do next.

When it comes to marketing, you can come up with all of the great ideas that you want, but in the end the customers are going to be the ones who decide what really works. Why not find out from them, before you create a new product? Once you understand the worth of gaining a new customer and what their lifetime worth to you is, as well as understanding what will make them buy, you can save a ton of money on marketing and really rake in the profits.

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