This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

Knewton's Online Marketing Director is the key partner to the VP, Online Marketing and is responsible for helping the team drive customer acquisition and revenue growth through SEM (paid search), SEO, Affiliate Marketing, and Email. This person is also creative, curious and always looking for new ways to engage our customers.

San Francisco 92

San Francisco CTO Hire Developer EC2 92

Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

If not, now is the perfect time to get in on this effective and easy-to-implement user acquisition channel. Referral marketing is a user acquisition channel that allows you to leverage your existing user base for growth by incentivizing them with rewards. Like any other user acquisition channel, your efforts need to be cost-efficient.

Programming 141

Programming Churn Rate Design Campaign 141

Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

If you don't have goals, you are not doing digital analytics. We were brain storming about the next cluster of coolness for Analytics, the conversation quickly went to what Analysts need to look at on a daily, weekly and monthly basis. Now, all those other metrics suddenly have a purpose and context. Let's back up.

Analytics 60

Analytics eCommerce Metrics Acquisition 60

ConversionXL

MAY 19, 2020

But if you happen to have exceptional staff or facilities, or if you’re active in your community—whether that means your local area, networks within your industry, or other affiliate groups—use it to fuel content efforts that celebrate these differentiating factors. What objections do your customers have, and how do you respond?

Differentiation 129

Differentiation Sales Email Metrics 129

Seeing Both Sides

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

The Growth Manager function typically lives at the intersection of marketing and product development, and is focused on customer and user acquisition, activation, retention, and upsell. They work cross-functionally with engineering, design, analytics, product management, operations, and marketing to design and execute growth initiatives.

Management 20

Management Analytics Technical Review Framework 20

Seeing Both Sides

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

The Growth Manager function typically lives at the intersection of marketing and product development, and is focused on customer and user acquisition, activation, retention, and upsell. They work cross-functionally with engineering, design, analytics, product management, operations, and marketing to design and execute growth initiatives.

Management 20

Management Analytics Technical Review Framework 20

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

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.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

Occam's Razor

AUGUST 11, 2015

Custom reports allow you to deeply focus (by eliminating the rif-raf metrics and dimensions, they save time and show just what you want). You can download them into your Google Analytics account via one click (along with some lovely Advanced Segments and a Dashboard). We mis-align metrics and dimensions across Users, Session, Hits.

Analytics 60

Analytics Customer Metrics eCommerce 60

Occam's Razor

AUGUST 9, 2016

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.

Analytics 60

Analytics Metrics eCommerce PPC 60

Occam's Razor

APRIL 21, 2014

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.

Analytics 131

Analytics Marketing Campaign Metrics 131

Occam's Razor

JULY 18, 2011

You must use metrics that are unique to the medium. Ready for the best email marketing campaign metrics? For everything you do it is important to measure your effectiveness of all three phases of your effort: Acquisition. So for our email campaign analysis let’s look at metrics using that framework.

Metrics 137

Metrics Campaign Email Marketing 137

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 21, 2009

Or Affiliate programs? If you buy into measuring Visitor Behavior then another fantastic metric to measure your campaign "conversions" is Visitor Loyalty. More marching orders: If you are a Social Media website (with no discernable outcomes) don't use "membership acquisition" as a measure of success.

Analytics 75

Analytics Conversion Campaign Metrics 75

ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2022

The metrics. Vanity metrics are less important. Look instead at measuring KPIs like close rate, cost per acquisition, cost per lead, conversion rates, average contract value, and lifetime customer value. They used this to their advantage, hosting webinars with affiliate partners and using their influence to drive sales.

Demand 115

Demand Affiliate Audience Leadership 115

Occam's Razor

APRIL 25, 2011

Why not keep sending emails / spending on AdWords / running affiliate programs / buying display only on MSN. Have a balance in your spend between acquisition and website. Spend loads on acquisition, but also spend loads on creating websites that deliver on your promises. We hate change. Super lame! The 10/90 rule. People matter.

Marketing 126

Marketing Flash Analytics Web 126

ConversionXL

APRIL 14, 2021

I love to use SEMRush On Page SEO Checker (no affiliations). Now that you know which terms you are missing in your copy that would describe your topic more concisely, it’s time to read the report, understand the metrics and start implementing. Next you’ll need to choose a TF-IDF tool to use with your website. The results?

SEO 140

SEO Marketing Algorithm Search 140

Occam's Razor

MARCH 23, 2010

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.

Analytics 118

Analytics Web Metrics Channel 118

Occam's Razor

AUGUST 12, 2013

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.

Channel 161

Channel Analytics Campaign Conversion 161

Occam's Razor

JULY 1, 2008

This post bravely attempts to: 1 ] Highlight the importance of holistic multichannel analytics. That's why multichannel analytics is so important. Here's your online data: You are capturing the above information using your web log based or javascript tag based web analytics tool. Not impossible. Well just assume. :).

Analytics 116

Analytics Conversion Campaign Redemption 116

Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

No touching Google Analytics. No going to web analytics conferences. The result will be an astonishingly high level of focus for your digital analytics work (even on day one) and hyper-relevant insights to the business. Disclosure: I'm not affiliated with nor do I know anyone at Credit Karma.]. No tweeting for help.

Web 138

Web Analytics Technical Review Affiliate 138

Occam's Razor

JULY 22, 2013

My solution to these problems was to create a simple framework we can use to put our customers first, evaluate our marketing programs, and right-align our view of success (metrics). Ditto for PPC, your affiliate links (all likely in the Do stage), and your email marketing programs. What consideration state might someone be in?

Framework 163

Framework Marketing Metrics Audience 163

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 17, 2011

As a preamble to the metrics, it’s useful to know what you’re measuring and why it’s vital. Beyond the analytical breakdown, I have an emotional attachment to this number , because whenever someone cancels I think about what had to happen to get them to this point, and it kills me.

Business Model 245

Business Model Metrics Engineer Technical Review 245

Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 10, 2011

We have IT-minded people engaging in massive data puking (one report with 30 metrics anyone?) I want to propose a framework you can use to measure success using metrics that matter for one simple reason: They actually measure if you are participating in the channel in an optimal fashion. That is why I love this metric.

Social Media 165

Social Media Metrics Conversion Media 165

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Over a third of email marketers struggle with acquisition and close to a half say increasing engagement is their number one challenge. But that alone is too general, so it’s important to get specific by setting clear metric objectives. However, it’s not without challenges. How to develop an email marketing strategy.

Email 136

Email Customer Marketing Software Review 136

Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 12, 2011

I am going to attempt to significantly simply your life by recommending the critical few metrics you should use to analyze performance of your digital marketing campaigns and website. Use my Acquisition, Behavior and Outcomes framework to ensure an end-to-end view of important activity and 2. Acquisition: Clicks? Impressions?

Metrics 151

Metrics Web Analytics CPA 151

Occam's Razor

APRIL 5, 2010

Some Marketers / Analysts use Click-thru Rate (CTR) to measure success of their acquisition campaigns. In this post David covers: Why Life Time Value is important (especially in context of Acquisition). There is a better way to analyze your acquisition strategy than simply using Conversion Rates or Cost Per Acquisition (CPA).

Analytics 135

Analytics Customer CPA Acquisition 135

Occam's Razor

MAY 18, 2010

One of my earliest blog posts extolled the glorious virtues of segmentation: Excellent Analytics Tip#2: Segment Absolutely Everything. Many paid web analytics clickstream analytics tools, even today (!), Web Analytics , the other wonderful free WA tool, had advanced segmentation from day one. Acquisition.

Analytics 123

Analytics Web Acquisition Metrics 123

Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

The term KPI is one that I hear far more than any other in this nascent field we call Web Analytics. Explain why, hopefully you'll have rules you can apply and check if your Web Metrics are indeed KPI's! Your Web Metrics: Super Lame or Super Awesome? Key Performance Indicators! " and. well you've been there.

Metrics 123

Metrics Web Non-Compete Analytics 123

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 19, 2021

A lot of demographics data can be pulled from your market research, customer personas , and website analytics, such as: Target audience age Location Job Interests. For every goal you set, choose the most relevant metrics to track. . Here you can delve into metrics, trends, and visual reports. For example, a S.M.A.R.T.

Marketing 134

Marketing Audience Social Media Algorithm 134

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 19, 2010

If you decide to follow a blog acquisition strategy, you’re not going to write the blog yourself, not very likely. After I made some good money with the Small Business Branding site and the Magic site, I started to look for acquisition targets. I was able to jump on certain acquisitions quickly because I was watching that site.

Technical Review 76

Technical Review Software Review Prospectus Audience 76

Occam's Razor

JULY 31, 2006

Conversion rate is a very important metric, used properly. More importantly being a practitioner I feel metric definitions should incorporate on the ground reality and using Unique Visitors accommodates that reality. 5 : Understand exactly what the acquisition strategy of your website / company is. Then promptly forget about it.)

Analytics 115

Analytics Conversion PPC Metrics 115

The Next Web

MAY 5, 2013

Growth hackers utilize analytical thinking, product engineering and creativity to significantly increase their company’s core metric(s). Anyone who figured out how to game Google’s algorithm (aka SEO) was leveraging both creativity and analytics to rapidly grow their company. Paid Acquisition: There are many types.

Marketing 165

Marketing Viral SEO Analytics 165

Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

There is nothing particularly wrong with the standard 19,000 reports in your web analytics tool. Most of the time though your business is absolutely unique (even as it exists amongst hundreds of competitors) and it is absolutely important that you take your web analytics tool and mold it around you. Sometimes they even get it right.

Customer 98

Customer Analytics Metrics Acquisition 98

Occam's Razor

MARCH 22, 2011

Compute Actual Cost Per Acquisition Post-Facto Including Micro-Conversions. Today when we measure our Cost Per Acquisition (CPA) for our campaigns (Search, Email, Affiliate, whatever), we just think of the macro-conversion and, perhaps worse, we think only of that session / visit. What was the acquisition cost of each sign-up?

Web 87

Web CPA Analytics Affiliate 87

practicetrumpstheory.com

JULY 14, 2010

First, what is an actionable metric? An actionable metric is one that ties specific and repeatable actions to observed results. This distinction carries over to metrics too. So both Acquisition and Referral can be tabled for now. Of the 5, only 2 matter before Product/Market Fit – Activation and Retention.

Metrics 51

Metrics Lean Retention Startup 51

Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

JUNE 8, 2010

You also want to use Google Analytics to understand where people exit your website during the sales process. Set up your goals in Google Analytics You want to define what your funnel looks like in Google Analytics so that Google Analytics can show you a nice funnel visualization report.

Ruby 62

Ruby Analytics Australia Affiliate 62

Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

JUNE 8, 2010

You also want to use Google Analytics to understand where people exit your website during the sales process. Set up your goals in Google Analytics You want to define what your funnel looks like in Google Analytics so that Google Analytics can show you a nice funnel visualization report.

Ruby 56

Ruby Analytics Australia Affiliate 56

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 7, 2014

Every indicator we have is that companies are investing more in every facet of analytics. There is an analytics ladder of awesomeness each company needs to climb, and it just takes time. 7: 25% of all analytical effort is dedicated to data visualization/enhancing data's communicative power. #6: Consulting.

Analytics 140

Analytics Web Metrics DC 140