CourseScaling & Budget StrategyWhen Performance Marketing Becomes Self-Sustaining
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    When Performance Marketing Becomes Self-Sustaining

    The flywheel of profitable user acquisition

    The long-term goal is performance marketing that can fund continued growth through user revenue.

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    Flywheel example
    1. Spend $50K on user acquisition
    2. Acquire 1,000 users at $50 CAC
    3. Users generate $100K in revenue over an initial period
    4. Net profit: $50K
    5. Reinvest a portion of returns into the next cycle
    6. Repeat with disciplined measurement
    Reality Check

    This is not guaranteed and does not happen overnight. It requires:

    • CAC materially below expected LTV (often <50%)
    • Revenue realization within a reasonable time horizon
    • Strong retention (users staying active)
    • Ability to scale spend without collapsing unit economics
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    When these conditions are met, performance marketing begins to function less like discretionary spend and more like growth infrastructure — where budgets are set based on expected returns, not intuition.

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    Congratulations! You've completed the Web3 Performance Marketing course. You now have a comprehensive understanding of targeting, attribution, incrementality, creative, testing, publisher dynamics, and scaling strategies for web3 advertising.

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