Tag: media planning

  • DMA-CPA: a proposed margin-based acquisition budget heuristic

    The DMA-CPA approach is a proposed budgeting heuristic: estimate the contribution available from a customer, reserve part of it, and use the remainder as an acquisition-spend ceiling. I find that more useful than chasing the lowest possible CPA without asking what a customer is worth. It is not a validated forecasting model or a guarantee…