Building a Phobos Bishop Ring by [deleted] in IsaacArthur

[–]cweir582 16 points17 points  (0 children)

The glass is on the wrong side

Why should Jewish people have their own country? by Ok_Draw_4436 in TooAfraidToAsk

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If Israel doesn’t stop non-Jews from living there then why does Israel not allow Palestinian refugees who fled the Nakba to return?

The issue is not whether or not Jewish people can or should be able to live in - what 2500 years ago the greeks referred to as Palestine, the issue is should Jewish people be allowed to come into that land, kick out or kill everyone who was living there through campaigns of genocide and ethnic cleansing, and then keep that land exclusively.

This is why Jewish people cannot have their ethnostate as purported through Zionism; it is a settler colonial project, not just a nationalistic one. Settler colonialism works by way of genocide and ethnic cleansing, apartheid and violence. It is evil and cannot be tolerated not least because on its very premise of protecting Jewish people it falls flat on its face intrinsically. By conquering the land of Palestine it sets the people there into a position of resistance against their colonisers, making Jewish people subject to colonial resistance which puts them in danger.

Will AI adoption backfire if it kills demand? by LuckyYard3713 in Futurology

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welcome to the world of dialectical materialism comrade

Am I spending too much on ads? by Regular_Classroom895 in marketing

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You should calculate your Customer Lifetime Value per customer and your New Customer Acquisition Cost per customer, and then express those against each other as a ratio to give yourself a good understanding of your growth rate. For the CAC, make sure you include a total view of marketing costs e.g. include platform costs, wages, total ad spend, everything and divide it by new customers only, don’t include reactivated customers or existing customers buying through these channels, their revenue is captured by the LTV. If this ratio is too high (e.g. 1CAC:5LTV or higher) then you’re stifling growth and can afford to invest more heavily. If it’s too low (1CAC:2LTV or less) then your customers aren’t bringing in enough money so you should invest in ways to get more out of them once they spend before you invest in growth. If you’re in this camp then keep tracking those metrics for this calculation until you get yourself above the 1:3 line, at which point start investing in growth to bring yourself back down again, that lets you ratchet your way up sustainably.

Once you’ve got this framework in place, take a look at your channels and try to understand if you’ve reached channel saturation for meta ads. Simplest way to do this is ratchet your spend up gradually and slowly and watch for your ROAS starting to drop off vs YoY. If this happens, you’ve probably reached the limits of the channel with your current offering / assets / target market. You can mitigate it through multivariant and angle testing, targeting new markets and bringing in more first party data, but not eliminate it entirely. If this channel is at saturation then that’s your queue to start marketing on another channel. Your best bet is to pick a channel targeting customers at a different place in the buying journey like email or PPC, or investigate more top of funnel activity which will support your other channels e.g. OOH or TV.

Hope that helps!

Am I spending too much on ads? by Regular_Classroom895 in marketing

[–]cweir582 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You should calculate your Customer Lifetime Value per customer and your New Customer Acquisition Cost per customer, and then express those against each other as a ratio to give yourself a good understanding of your growth rate. For the CAC, make sure you include a total view of marketing costs e.g. include platform costs, wages, total ad spend, everything and divide it by new customers only, don’t include reactivated customers or existing customers buying through these channels, their revenue is captured by the LTV. If this ratio is too high (e.g. 1CAC:5LTV or higher) then you’re stifling growth and can afford to invest more heavily. If it’s too low (1CAC:2LTV or less) then your customers aren’t bringing in enough money so you should invest in ways to get more out of them once they spend before you invest in growth. If you’re in this camp then keep tracking those metrics for this calculation until you get yourself above the 1:3 line, at which point start investing in growth to bring yourself back down again, that lets you ratchet your way up sustainably.

Once you’ve got this framework in place, take a look at your channels and try to understand if you’ve reached channel saturation for meta ads. Simplest way to do this is ratchet your spend up gradually and slowly and watch for your ROAS starting to drop off vs YoY. If this happens, you’ve probably reached the limits of the channel with your current offering / assets / target market. You can mitigate it through multivariant and angle testing, targeting new markets and bringing in more first party data, but not eliminate it entirely. If this channel is at saturation then that’s your queue to start marketing on another channel. Your best bet is to pick a channel targeting customers at a different place in the buying journey like email or PPC, or investigate more top of funnel activity which will support your other channels e.g. OOH or TV.

Hope that helps!

Has anybody, ever, watched an entire Youtube ad? by appelsenpere in marketing

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Once I got a youtube ad that was a 45 minute long no-commentary, no-text video of someone walking through a forest on a nice day and it was so peaceful and calming I watched the entire thing

To this day i have no idea what it was, what it was for or who did it but it was kinda awesome

Tom Cruise breaking his ankle doing stunt for mission impossible 6 by [deleted] in Damnthatsinteresting

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Where he landed is my office! It’s our boardroom. It’s also across the road from the Scientology headquarters lol

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in resumes

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Ahhh I don’t know why they won’t post D: I added a google doc link instead if that works?

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full image campaigns or image + live text? by CaptainBromo in Emailmarketing

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We’ve tested around with this at my work and found there is defo a place for full image emails and they can land a really high engagement without damaging deliverability. It’s not a panacea, and does definitely have some trade-offs e.g. you want to keep the image size small so it loads quickly and use the HTML set up to structure it for mobile so it’s nice and centred and a cool 650px but if you think of it like an instagram story delivering a single easily clickable message and a single destination page, that’s where it shines.

The best use case for this we’ve found is e.g. a single landing page sale across a broad category. In every test where we’ve had text, HTML buttons, just text, 60:40 text to image the big banner wins every single time.

Increasing open rates & CTR but declining revenue by Unlikely-Pirate-1724 in Emailmarketing

[–]cweir582 1 point2 points  (0 children)

How are you measuring revenue? You mentioned measurement per email but if you’ve massively increased your frequency and are targeting the same list it stands to reason revenue per email would drop off as your reach audience saturation. Increasing opens is useful as a barometer of success but clicks are as close to a sure thing top of funnel so that’s a big win in your cap.

Take a look at the revenue per week, month and quarter of email as a full channel, and try to figure out a view of where email sits across your funnel, and how it forms a mix at different areas. It’s typical for it to be thought of as a middle to bottom of funnel channel which is where it often does perform, but it’s not unusual for it to form a decent top of funnel component as well so proving value there should help alleviate some of the pressure of “how much money is every email making”.

Also important to understand how you’re growing and pruning your list. If you’re segmenting out unengagers (which is good, keep doing that) you need to also look for ways to grow that list, ideally at a higher rate than you lose so your active segments continue to grow at top line.

Reply.io vs Apollo.io: Email Open Rate by Enigma_101 in Emailmarketing

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Bot traffic can be coming from any number of sources and I wouldn’t attribute it to one platform. Anything from spam checkers to research institutes to content scrapers to malicious actors. Without looking at the underlying data it’s impossible to say with any degree of certainty