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How Can a CFO Impact Your Customer Acquisition Cost and Lifetime Value?

CFO Simplified

As a business owner, you need to understand what your total cost of marketing and sales is. Base salaries and commissions for your sales team. Administrative staff salaries (supporting your sales department). Now, you can do the math when you add all of this together, sit down and ask, “How many customers did we get this year?”.

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TikTokInvestors

Barry Ritholtz

It is a massive Dunning Kruger : exercise in inexperienced but overly confident “ Finfluencers ” reducing complex issues involving money to a slick but misleading sales pitch. I doubt he’s run the real numbers of being invested in the stock market tax deferred with an additional company match.

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50% Risk-free Annual Returns

Barry Ritholtz

emphasis added) The red flags were there for anyone who could put their greed aside and simply focus on the math. Let’s assume this Ponzi scheme was more akin to MBS – a legitimate investment whose risk was discounted by aggressive sales, but one that eventually went bust. Never confuse risk-free returns with return-free risks.

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Pokémon’s New Retail Customer Acquisition Math

PYMNTS

PYMNTS sat down with Revel’s CTO Chris Ciabarra to get the inside skinny about the Pokémon Go retail’s effect -which has been undeniably profound by the numbers. What we’re seeing online here is that 63 percent of our customers that have Pokestops increase weekly gross sales by 12 percent. By The Numbers.

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10 Weekend Reads

Barry Ritholtz

To be a successful investor you need to possess a number of different traits. You need to understand how math, statistics and probabilities work. New York Times ) • From Dylan to Bieber, catalogue sales are the megadeals taking over music : Some call it song management, others royalty acquisition. What happens if they fail?

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Improving Conversions While Navigating The Great Digital Shift

PYMNTS

As PYMNTS found in a study published earlier this month, 42 percent of consumers are engaging in even the most routine activities online, and as much as $158 billion in brick-and-mortar sales are moving to digital channels. Getting Ready – And Getting Onto Platforms. There’s a ton of upside and opportunity there,” he said.

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Debit Surge Has Ripple Effects On Networks And Issuers

PYMNTS

Morgan management said in its commentary that debit was being used for “everyday spend,” while credit sales have been negatively impacted by slumps in travel and entertainment-related activity. As reported in July, Visa Installments, a new point-of-sale (POS) credit solution, debuted in pilot markets across the U.S.

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