Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 21, 2013

Following revelations of NSA activities via Mr. Snowden, Google has now switched almost all users to secure search, resulting in even more user search queries showing up as not provided in all web analytics tools. No keyword data in analytics tools. Aggregated search engine level analysis. Implications of Secure Search Decision.

Search 154

Search SEO Analytics Engineer 154

ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

I use a more restrictive definition: A growth team is a product tech team that’s focused on acquisition instead of core product features. I joined as employee 14 and spent a few years at this analytics startup, which was founded by Hiten Shah and Neil Patel. A properly scaled marketing channel can 10X your business.

Conversion 133

Conversion Technical Review Channel Engineer 133

Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Increased investment in Facebook as an engagement/acquisition channel has translated into requests from CEOs, CMOs and other CxOs about the return on that investment. As Facebook is a very young channel, it is not surprising that everyone's struggling with the answer. Lesson 1: Correlations don't imply causality.

Metrics 165

Metrics Advertising Marketing Social Media 165

ConversionXL

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Instead, they were shared in company Slack channels, emailed between VPs and investors, and featured in industry newsletters. Articles, case studies, and eGuides, like this analytics whitepaper written by, you guessed it, a company offering call-center analytics software. It created powerful network effects. Conclusion.

B2B 133

B2B Marketing SEO Search 133

Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

In fact I've gone so far as to say: "All data in aggregate is crap." " That's certainly a bit melodramatic, but beyond the most bare bones "ahh, I see something is happening" you are unable to get anywhere with aggregate data. Google Analytics: New Segmentation User Experience.

Analytics 145

Analytics Green Metrics Web 145

ConversionXL

APRIL 1, 2020

Until this point, everything is trackable through your Google Analytics setup (assuming you’ve set up cross-domain tracking ). Here’s another Google Analytics screenshot: Although 19% of the traffic comes from paid search, none of the ecommerce transactions are attributed to it. Aggregates lie. Customer completes first purchase.

eCommerce 74

eCommerce Analytics Aggregator Differentiation 74

Occam's Razor

AUGUST 12, 2013

There are few things more complicated in analytics (all analytics, big data and huge data!) than multi-channel attribution modeling. Here's the outline of our incredible multi-channel attribution modeling adventure: ~ Three Unique Attribution Challenges. ~ Multi-Channel Attribution Models. Grab a Red Bull.

Channel 161

Channel Analytics Campaign Conversion 161

ConversionXL

AUGUST 19, 2016

Marketers should also be looking at acquisition (visits, unique visitors, pageviews), behavior (pages per visit, time on site, bounce rate), and revenue (if you’re eCommerce). To start, both parties need to look at mobile usage separately and develop a more detailed variety of analytics for their mobile campaigns. Image Source.

Mobile 48

Mobile Technical Review Software Review Metrics 48

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Twitter is always a highly recommended social media channel to promote your brand online. Check aggregator sites that feature tweets. Step 2: Set up a Twitter-friendly conversion channel. Set up a Twitter-friendly conversion channel. But it’s not easy to build a following. But there are other options. Who needs this step?

Conversion 68

Conversion Social Media Search Campaign 68

ConversionXL

AUGUST 21, 2014

Here are funnel analytics for the Bingo Card Creator new user experience: image source. Using an aggregated set of over 15 billion actions analyzed by Mixpanel each month during August, September, and October 2013, they were able to establish new, industry specific benchmarks for retention. The Research. The Research. image source.

Retention 106

Retention Churn Rate Metrics Software Review 106

Occam's Razor

APRIL 13, 2015

The 80/20 rule applies to our use of web analytics tools as well. I recommend that periodically you gather folks around you for lunch, pull up Adobe Analytics on the big screen in the conference room, let each person expose one hidden report or feature. Google Analytics Shortcuts: Save Your Complex Views. This hurts my feelings!

Analytics 60

Analytics Web eCommerce Metrics 60

ConversionXL

JULY 11, 2016

“Umbrella terms” are when you aggregate multiple features and benefits under one vague term, like “powerful” or “easy-to-use.” Build acquisition into your product (LinkedIn, TransferWise). Report tangibly and make content marketing comparable to direct marketing channels. Retarget and measure!

PPC 48

PPC Analytics Video Non-Compete 48

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 13, 2015

In Lean Analytics , Alistair Croll and Benjamin Yoskovitz gave a great example of the value of cohorts, using data from a hypothetical online retailer: January. So by segmenting your data, you can learn things you couldn’t from the aggregate data. How does retention differ among different acquisition channels?

Conversion 48

Conversion Retention Acquisition Metrics 48

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

The Next Web

MARCH 2, 2014

To measure the return on investment – or ROI – of your SEO campaigns, utilize the information aggregated from Positionly and Google Analytics to pull through the data and analyze patterns in traffic, increases in links, sustainable traffic and above all, increases in revenue. Rising non-branded organic traffic.

SEO 159

SEO Analytics Social Media Metrics 159

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

MAY 2, 2017

#tearsofpain One way of removing silos and focusing on the entire business is to leverage Acquisition, Behavior and Outcome metrics. A small change I’ll make in this post is that when I recommend the metrics, I’ll follow the Outcomes | Behavior | Acquisition structure throughout this post. Hence that’s the macro-outcome.

Metrics 141

Metrics Acquisition eCommerce Analytics 141

Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 14, 2014

If you've read my first book Web Analytics: An Hour A Day, you know that I've advocated this strategy since 2008! Any big changes in your marketing/customer acquisition strategy over the last time period (more money doing Search, less money in Email, elimination Facebook as it does not work, etc., See Page 269. :).

Analytics 133

Analytics Vertical Metrics Web 133

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

These three tools allow startups to focus on the parts of an early stage venture that matter the most: the product, product/market fit, customer acquisition, revenue and cost model, channels and partners. Teams use the Lean Startup toolkit: the Business Model Canvas + Customer Development process + Agile Engineering.

Oakland 326

Oakland Incubator Lean Metrics 326

Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 3, 2010

We got everything from price comparison engines to aggregated user reviews to one-click checkout. While perhaps only 10% of online ad revenue is currently flowing through these channels , the trend here is clear. Competition shifts from user acquisition to user retention. Yet these platforms are only two to three years old.

Internet 113

Internet eCommerce Advertising Flash 113

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 17, 2011

The key is channeling what you learn when you drive onto paper for retention purposes so you have to write it down soon afterward. Underpinning it all I wrote: sales, asset management, analytics & talent management. Solitude & creativity go hand-in-hand. I use tools to invoke my creative self. So I thought I would.

Technical Review 356

Technical Review Framework Audience Media 356

Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Nose to the grind "How do I" questions: David Walizer: How do you sell the value of web analytics to a skeptical client in 30 seconds or less? By doing multichannel analytics! More detail on those techniques, and three more, are in this blog post: Multichannel Analytics: Tracking Offline Conversions. Let's go!

Analytics 94

Analytics Web Non-Compete Metrics 94

Occam's Razor

MAY 20, 2013

" comfort zone, and out of your Google Analytics, Site Catalyst, WebTrends worldview silo. Part of the reason is that even if you work for a multi-channel company you are likely in the "web," "interactive," "internet," or "digital" division. Sounds like fun? Not too shabby, right?

Analytics 139

Analytics Aggregator Channel B2B 139

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Google Analytics. Site Pulse – Live Web Traffic Monitor and Analytics. SEO and Analytics Tutorials. Analytics review â?? mixpanel vs kissmetric vs google analytics review. Analytics blog â?? good analytics tutorials. great web customer acquisition tutorials. Analytics Tools.

Software Review 53

Software Review Technical Review Startup 53

Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

In my case (LucidEra -- a SaaS analytics provider focusing on sales, marketing, and financial analytics), weve found that success requires not only building some best practices for analytics into our solution, but also coming up with a repeatable and scalable way to show the customer how to use the analytics and how to interpret the results.

Software Review 48

Software Review North America Europe Metrics 48

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. In fact smarter than you would be through any other channel on the planet!

Analytics 118

Analytics Web Metrics Channel 118

ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

If viewed holistically, this data is just a generalized aggregation of disparate data points. Google’s Customer Journey to Online Purchase tool shows how different marketing channels lead to online purchases. One reason this doesn’t happen is that customer acquisition often takes precedent. Dissecting the Customer Journey.

eCommerce 78

eCommerce Analytics Revenue Customer 78

Occam's Razor

AUGUST 13, 2012

A couple weeks back I'd requested the nice folks following me on Google+ and Facebook to submit their most important digital marketing and analytics questions. Some tools do pan-session analysis better than others, and there are a number of relatively new analytics solutions on the market today. What's possible to measure.

Analytics 124

Analytics Channel Metrics Web 124

Venture Chronicles

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Social Media Monitoring evolved out of the explosion of non-traditional media channels developed in the last decade combined with the increased velocity of information flow as a consequence of viral information sharing. In its most pure form social media monitoring is both listening and responding to social channels.

Social Media 60

Social Media Media Viral Channel 60

ConversionXL

JANUARY 14, 2016

Stage 2: Optimize Your User Acquisition Campaigns. Now that you’ve singled out the segments that matter most to your business, you can use mobile measurement companies ( here are the ones vetted by Facebook) to pinpoint the exact marketing channels, networks, campaigns and even creative variations that delivered those users.

Mobile 48

Mobile Conversion Retention Campaign 48

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 30, 2012

It is painfully heartbreaking to realize that a very small tiny number of people who have access to web analytics tools actually use them. In-Page Analytics – Re-imagine Traveling Through Data. #5. Matched Query Type, Keyword Position, Day Parts: Sexier PPC Analytics. #7. I mean really use the tools. Ravage all the features.

Analytics 145

Analytics Metrics API Web 145

Occam's Razor

JULY 18, 2011

Email remains an immensely credible and profitable channel, with an immense reach to boot. Your company cross-channel outcomes data. Multi-channel customer purchase behavior, customer lifetime value. For everything you do it is important to measure your effectiveness of all three phases of your effort: Acquisition.

Metrics 137

Metrics Campaign Email Marketing 137

VC Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2011

Mobile analytics – measuring the impact of mobile and increasing customer engagement (Check out G-Stat). Data mining-based Customer analytics. Logia offers Mobile Operators a range of solution for their Apps Stores starting from Content Aggregation, Billing aggregation to full white labeled Apps Store. Mce Systems.

Mobile 103

Mobile Securities and Exchange Commission Flash IP 103

Occam's Razor

MAY 19, 2014

The examples cover elements we optimize for in our acquisition ( what are we doing to attract traffic ), behavior ( what happens once they land on our website ) and outcomes ( did we end up making money, were the customers satisfied ) strategies. None of the digital analytics tools make it easy to measure true profitability.

Metrics 159

Metrics Analytics SEC Acquisition 159

Occam's Razor

APRIL 19, 2010

" "What is a dimension in analytics?" There seems to be genuine confusion about the simplest, most foundational, parts of web metrics / analytics. The post will end with a Web Analytics Measurement Framework. It is possible that some Analytics Tool Goals directly measure your business objectives or goals.

Analytics 138

Analytics Metrics Web Framework 138

Occam's Razor

MAY 18, 2010

I have said: All data in aggregate is "crap" Because it is. 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 (!), Acquisition. Of course Yahoo! All visits.

Analytics 123

Analytics Web Acquisition Metrics 123

Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 12, 2011

Use my Acquisition, Behavior and Outcomes framework to ensure an end-to-end view of important activity and 2. Acquisition: Clicks? Cost Per Acquisition. For Search it is in your Google Analytics or Omniture Site Catalyst reports. Standard metric in every web analytics tool worth anything. But not to worry.

Metrics 151

Metrics Web Analytics CPA 151