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How Startups Can Use Metrics to Drive Success

Both Sides of the Table

Customer Acquisition. How many through affiliate deals? Those two things together would lower your acquisition costs nearly in half to $6.11. Ironically, there are times where it may actually pay to INCREASE your customer acquisition costs. How many adds came through organic SEO? How many through SEM? lowering $1.50

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

In liquid markets, most of the calories expended on technology and analytics are focused on trade selection, or “ origination ”. I walk through below how progressive investors are using technology and analytics throughout all of their operations. The 11 Steps of Investing in Private Companies. 1) Manage the firm . 3) Raise capital.

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Be Real-World Smart: A Beginner's Advanced Google Analytics Guide

Occam's Razor

The outcome of book smart is rarely better for analytics practitioners then folks trying to learn how to fly an airplane from how-to books. This is all the way from Aug 2009: Web Analytics Career Advice: Play In The Real World! And, happily, it has almost all of the Google Analytics features implemented correctly.

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Advertising Wants to be Measurable – An Investment Thesis

Both Sides of the Table

We have an analytics platform that helps advertisers discover information about the demographics of the follower base and the effectiveness of their campaigns. They already had a completed product and a distribution deal with the largest affiliate network company, Commission Junction. And what we love is that everybody is happy.

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Dear Avinash: Your Digital Marketing + Analytics Challenges Answered

Occam's Razor

about digital marketing and analytics. We will cover questions in four areas: business/strategy challenges, analytics/technical challenges, career/self-development questions and rampant speculation. Even the worst analytics configuration in the world will most likely allow you to measure cart and checkout abandonment rate.

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Multi-Channel Attribution Modeling: The Good, Bad and Ugly Models

Occam's Razor

There are few things more complicated in analytics (all analytics, big data and huge data!) I normally ask people to look at the Path Length report in the Multi-Channel Funnels standard report in Google Analytics (or equivalent tool if you are using SiteCatalyst or WebTrends or other web analytics tools). It is sweet.

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10 Fundamental Web Analytics Truths: Embrace 'Em & Win Big

Occam's Razor

There are more mistruths and F U D about Web analytics out there than I think is reasonable. Web Analytics, this beautiful child, was born just the other day in the midst of tumultuous times, quite literally, when everything changes every day. Here are ten web analytics ground truths… 1. Part of it fueled by Vendors.

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