abovethecrowd.com

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Internet analytics can be roughly broken down into two simple activities – customer acquisition and customer optimization. Nearly every Internet company on the planet has invested in some form of the first activity, customer acquisition. Customer acquisition efforts are pervasive in our industry.

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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.

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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 the data you to which you have access narrows your worldview – "Hey, all I have is Google Analytics, so all I'll look at is Google Analytics data!" Sounds like fun? Not too shabby, right?

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Occam's Razor

JULY 18, 2011

For everything you do it is important to measure your effectiveness of all three phases of your effort: Acquisition. Optimal Acquisition Email Metrics. Most good email providers will do this automatically for whatever web analytics tool you use. So for our email campaign analysis let’s look at metrics using that framework.

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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. Compute ROI: (cost of Facebook campaigns + salary of people running campaigns + agency creative costs) vs. profit from incremental product sales. Let's go!

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 7, 2019

My professional areas of interest cover Customer Service, User Experience and Finance, though here on Occam’s Razor my focus is on influencing incredible Marketing through the use of innovative Analytics. Each chosen obsession is very much in the spirit of my beloved principle of the aggregation of marginal gains.

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SVPG

MARCH 10, 2014

So in this article I thought I would do the same thing by highlighting the main flavors of analytics. They think of just one type of analytics (usually web analytics) and can miss the bigger picture and larger benefit. User Analytics. We usually look at this data in aggregate, but we can also view individual journeys.

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David Teten

JULY 25, 2017

the “TOPSCAN” framework from my research study on value creation by VCs ): T eam-Building – We aggregate openings across our portfolio on our jobs page. – Aggregation, ranking, and discounts from service providers. – A database of accurate costs for financial models: salary, rent, IT, etc.

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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.

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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.

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Occam's Razor

JULY 13, 2017

By design none of them from the world of digital analytics, though I’ll stay connected to that world from a how could you use this idea perspective. The sixteen examples neatly fall into nine strategies I hope you’ll cultivate in your analytics practice as you create data visualizations: 1: The Simplicity Obsession.

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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.

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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.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 8, 2020

It evolved into a Swiss Army knife for data science and analytics—one that can help data professionals, including data-driven marketers, elevate their analytics game. After the acquisition, it started branching out into more areas of data science and analytics. What is Kaggle? Kaggle launched in 2010. Image source ).

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Analytics Artificial Inteligence Software Review Technical Review 94

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.

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Analytics Metrics API Web 145

Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Half-way through this post, you'll seriously wonder why you've spent so much time obsessing with Adobe/Google Analytics/Chartbeat or other web analytics tool. CIA also formed one of five foundational elements in my best-selling book Web Analytics 2.0. My first blog post on the topic of CIA was on 14th Aug 2006!

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 3, 2010

We got everything from price comparison engines to aggregated user reviews to one-click checkout. Competition shifts from user acquisition to user retention. They are taking advantage of cheap media to cost effectively acquire new customers. However, in some categories (e.g.

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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. That's the cost. Tip: Remember this is just cost, not profit. For Search it is in your Google Analytics or Omniture Site Catalyst reports.

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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.

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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?

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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. :).

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Analytics Vertical Metrics Web 133

Occam's Razor

AUGUST 8, 2011

99.9996253% of Web Analytics reports produced are utterly useless. partly because they are out of the box standard reports that web analytics vendors create for “average” people (and we both know that you are not average!), Here’s a blog post: 3 Awesome, Downloadable, Custom Web Analytics Reports. do visitors value more?

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Occam's Razor

JULY 15, 2014

Just imagine how useful it would be in a non-analytical environment like a museum. And I don't want you to think that the problem is that the above is a dashboard in a digital analytics tool and has just two graphs. Here's another example: Those of you who've read Web Analytics 2.0 They are data pukes.

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Analytics Metrics Web Ohio 159

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. 11: Close to zero aggregated analysis exists, everything's segmented. #10: You know what your Return on Analytics is! Consulting.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 13, 2013

Analytics should guide your decisions – they should be actionable. What about costs? They are often much harder to track than just switching on Google Analytics. From there start looking at how much it’s costing you to get your customers vs how much they are worth to you long term. I use Google Analytics a lot.

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Metrics Analytics Aggregator Revenue 111

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 17, 2011

Creativity in our business lives – The average tech startup these days spends time talking with colleagues & investors about a multitude of things: customer acquisition, viral adoption, raising capital, hiring / firing employees, product features, technology trends, marketing / branding, and on and on. So I thought I would.

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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.

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Software Review Technical Review Startup 53

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

By now we all know that the largest part of the online spend has been SEM (search engine marketing) where people buy CPC (cost per click) links to display alongside the “organic&# search results in the search engine. They are detail oriented, cost focused, quality obsessed and chasing a big market opportunity.

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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.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2011

Think of DataSift as turning the fire-hose into a cost-effective and manageable tap of running water. Finally, DataSift has an enormous about of historical data already stored we we can help you go back and retrieve some older data for analytical purposes. has now made these analytics available to the public. million followers).

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

For companies that build their analytics on Google products, purchasing Google Analytics 360 is a symbol of maturity. . As a business grows, it inevitably runs up against limitations of analytics tools. It’s one of many potential business needs that could affect your decision to upgrade to a Google Analytics 360 license.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 19, 2020

Search ads may be extremely competitive, with cost-prohibitive CPCs. Your analysis should include media spend, creative production costs, software/technology costs, staffing, and agency fees. If your cost per acquisition from PPC is well inside your target range, why wouldn’t you invest more if there’s room to grow?

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

This post details the role that UTM parameters play in traffic attribution in Google Analytics. Here’s what I’ll cover: Why conversion attribution starts with traffic attribution How Google Analytics understands traffic sources What are UTM parameters? How Google Analytics understands traffic sources. HTTP Referrer.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

This one is also an acronym, which stands for: Impact – could be measured in sales growth, cost savings, etc. Cost – straightforward, how much does this idea cost to implement? You then add up all the numbers and you have an aggregate score. Is it addressing insights found via digital analytics?

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ConversionXL

JUNE 21, 2015

Use minimal viable (low-cost) campaigns to test assumptions. Cost of customer acquisition = cost of visitor acquisition * conversion rate, if it is profitable: Increase the volume for the same traffic. Matt Gershoff ( Conductrics ): AB Testing, Predictive Analytics, and Behavioral Targeting.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2011

Mobile analytics – measuring the impact of mobile and increasing customer engagement (Check out G-Stat). Our solutions provide peace of mind, improve quality of life and save costs to users and service providers. Free roaming technology – unique roaming solution which eliminates roaming costs in more than 150 countries.

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 29, 2013

You end up paying substantial amounts of money to your analytics/big data vendor – for questionable value. Zero squared economic value or cost savings to the business. Measuring Visits and Conversions in aggregate first and segmented by keywords (or even key word clusters) will get you on the path to showing real impact.

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