Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Master of 500 Hats: Startup Metrics for Pirates (SeedCamp 2008, London) This presentation should be required reading for anyone creating a startup with an online service component. He also has a discussion of how your choice of business model determines which of these metric areas you want to focus on. Choose one.

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San Francisco CPA SEM CTO Hire 167

Occam's Razor

AUGUST 9, 2016

Along the way I'll share some of my favourite metrics and analytics best practices that should accelerate your path to becoming a true Analysis Ninja. At this point you'll be a little confused about some metric or the other. Go, read one of the best pages in the Analytics help center: Understanding Dimensions and Metrics.

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Analytics Metrics eCommerce PPC 60

Occam's Razor

AUGUST 12, 2013

And you are telling me that the Cost Per Acquisition for my display campaigns is not $201 but rather a lowly $155? Apply the right model and you will not only distribute conversions across multiple touch points, but you can also look at the impact on the CPA (this really is OMG, I peed in my pants a little cool). That is so cool.

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Channel Analytics Campaign Conversion 161

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?

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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).

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Analytics Customer CPA Acquisition 135

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. Let's go. I know that is confusing.

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Web CPA Analytics Affiliate 87