Where every click is a journey and every impression counts.
The amount you pay each time someone clicks your ad, a fee structure designed to reward quantity over quality.
A prospect that sales has deemed worthy of their time, achieved through either genuine purchasing intent or sheer luck.
Traditional marketing where you push messages to audiences uninvited (ads, cold calls, emails), the kind that makes everyone uncomfortable but somehow still works.
The words in your advertisement—text trying to convince people they need something they didn't know existed.
A rectangular advertisement displayed on a webpage, usually ignored by 99.95% of viewers but somehow still a multi-billion dollar industry.
The collection of discontinued products, abandoned campaigns, or failed rebrands that haunt a company's history. Where marketing dreams go to die and become cautionary tales.
Marketing Qualified Lead—a prospect deemed worthy of sales attention based on arbitrary criteria marketing invented to prove they're doing their job. May or may not actually want to buy anything.
The merciful button that lets you escape marketing emails, data collection, or programs you never wanted to join in the first place—usually hidden in 8-point font at the bottom of a page. This mechanism allows individuals to withdraw from services or agreements, though companies make it about as easy as canceling a gym membership. The corporate world's version of 'you can leave, but we're going to make you work for it.'
The soul-crushing weariness viewers experience from excessive unskippable video ads before content. Usually measured by the desire to throw devices across rooms.
The percentage of your audience that actually interacts with your content, serving as a ruthless reality check on how much people care about your brand's musings. It's the difference between shouting into the void and having an actual conversation.
The cost to deliver 1,000 ad impressions, abbreviated as CPM where 'M' is the Roman numeral for 1,000 because marketing loves needlessly confusing acronyms. It's the pricing model that treats eyeballs as commodities.
Marketing strategies targeting your competitors' customers directly, often by bidding on their brand names in search ads or comparing products head-to-head. The polite term for poaching.
The percentage of a customer's total spending in a category that goes to your brand, measuring loyalty in dollars rather than sentiment. The ultimate relationship status metric.
In marketing, the practice of dividing your audience into smaller groups based on demographics, behavior, or psychographics so you can target them with laser precision. It's like organizing your contacts into friend groups, except way more invasive and profitable. The more segments you have, the more you can pretend you understand human behavior.
Structured data file containing your product catalog information that feeds into shopping platforms and dynamic ads. The spreadsheet that launches a thousand SKUs into the digital marketplace, assuming you formatted everything correctly.
When someone explicitly gives permission to receive marketing communications, theoretically because they actually want them. A legal requirement dressed up as customer courtesy.
Suggesting complementary products to customers based on what they're already purchasing. It's the retail equivalent of being a helpful friend, if that friend worked on commission.
In business contexts, a hierarchical structure that's theoretically stable but often resembles a financial house of cards. Most famous for the multi-level marketing version, where enthusiastic salespeople discover they're actually the ones being sold to. The Egyptian kind at least has the decency to last 4,500 years.
Shifting something from one position to another, or in music, moving a piece to a different key while maintaining its structure. In business and strategy, transposition means rearranging elements to achieve better results or adapt to new contexts.
Data about users purchased from data brokers who got it from... someone (unclear), which is increasingly worthless as privacy regulations destroy tracking.
The practice of systematically improving the percentage of visitors who complete a desired action. It's where you obsess over pixels and sentences until your users finally comply.
Those passive-aggressive digital nudges designed to make you remember your unpaid invoices, missed deadlines, or forgotten dentist appointments. Basically anxiety formatted as a notification, strategically timed to ruin your coffee break.
A narrow, elevated stage where models strut their stuff to prove that walking in a straight line is apparently a learned skill. The fashion industry's answer to a balance beam, but with more attitude and significantly higher heels.
The revenue generated for every dollar spent on advertising, assuming your attribution model isn't complete fiction.