ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Instead, we’re comparing Mixpanel and Google Analytics in the terms that drive business growth—identifying the core use cases for each tool and the business problems they solve, while highlighting the features that make it possible. That’s as useful as analytics without analysts: troves of data but no actionable insights.

Analytics 119

Analytics Technical Review Acquisition Retention 119

ConversionXL

AUGUST 13, 2019

SaaS sales and marketing teams can get overwhelmed by metrics. But without any metrics, it’s impossible to track growth. If growth is the best way to get out alive, marketing metrics do little unless they correlate with sales. According to Gartner , three metrics form the foundation for those growth levers: (Image source).

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Metrics SQL Retention Churn Rate 117

ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Dave McClure’s conversion metrics visualize where different conversion optimization opportunities lie—including those for acquisition. Acquisition focuses on how to grab attention in a very crowded content environment. 7 Ways that Predictive Analytics Is Transforming Ecommerce. Image source ). By Gagan Mehra. Get it now.

Acquisition 111

Acquisition Software Review PPC Analytics 111

Occam's Razor

MAY 2, 2017

There is no golden metric for everyone, we are all unique snowflakes! :). and tell you what are the best key performance indicators (metrics) for them. In the past I’ve shared a cluster of metrics that small, medium and large businesses can use as a springboard…. If you want to play along. Don’t read what I’ve chosen.

Metrics 141

Metrics Acquisition eCommerce Analytics 141

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 4, 2011

Having a set of metrics that you watch & that you feel are the key drivers of your success helps keep clarity. And the more public you can make your goals for these key metrics the better. You will likely have multiple sets of metrics you keep depending on the company’s stage, one’s function in the company and level.

Metrics 346

Metrics Startup Acquisition SEM 346

Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

We'll start with digital at the highest strategic level, which leads us into content marketing, from there it is a quick hop over to the challenge of metrics and silos, followed by a recommendation to optimize for the global maxima, and we end with the last two visuals that cover social investment and social content strategy.

Analytics 154

Analytics Marketing Social Media Technical Review 154

Occam's Razor

JULY 24, 2018

The universe of digital analytics is massive and can seem as complex as the cosmic universe. Even simple questions like “ How effective is our analytics strategy? Soon, your digital analytics strategic framework that you hoped would provide a true north to the analytics strategy question looks like this ….

Analytics 93

Analytics Framework Metrics Algorithm 93

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Customer acquisition cost (CAC) is an important metric for any ecommerce business. Put simply, you need a healthy customer acquisition cost for your business to succeed. It’s up to every ecommerce business to find the middle ground between investing too little in customer acquisition and spending beyond your means.

Acquisition 22

Acquisition eCommerce Cost Customer 22

Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Progress in digital marketing and analytics in either scenario becomes painful (the organization / systems / thinking is simply not in the optimal position). In this post I want to arm you with the evolution you should undertake in your companies when it comes to marketing and analytics. It is a part of multi-channel analytics chapter.

Analytics 165

Analytics Marketing Channel Metrics 165

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

They work to improve top-of-funnel metrics like brand awareness and identify opportunities to improve customer activation, retention, and referral efforts. If your campaign works and your brand awareness metrics improve, you win. Then, compare any change in the awareness metrics you’re measuring in that region with other markets.

Framework 102

Framework Marketing Acquisition Retention 102

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

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. FBe's recommendation was (paraphrasing a 35 min talk): Don't invent new metrics, use online versions of Reach and GRPs to measure success. Let's go!

Metrics 165

Metrics Advertising Marketing Social Media 165

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 11, 2015

by Jeff Sauro, author of “ Customer Analytics For Dummies “. That’s why every leader needs a good working knowledge of customer analytics. That’s why every leader needs a good working knowledge of customer analytics. Here are eight things customer analytics can help you and your company do: 1. The bottom line?

Analytics 100

Analytics Customer Acquisition Metrics 100

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

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

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Our company, Smartlook , provides qualitative analytics solutions for websites and mobile apps. Our conversion metrics didn’t connect to more important ones: activation rate and, of course, revenue. More accounts created but not activated incurred unjustifiable costs on AWS, Intercom, Mailchimp, etc. The original sign-up flow.

Acquisition 67

Acquisition Software Review Technical Review Mobile 67

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Everything they do is scrutinized by its potential impact on scalable growth… An effective growth hacker also needs to be disciplined to follow a growth hacking process of prioritizing ideas (their own and others in the company), testing the ideas, and being analytical enough to know which tested growth drivers to keep and which ones to cut.

Retention 113

Retention Marketing Acquisition Channel 113

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

The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

With over three decades of experience in private equity investments, acquisitions and mergers, Mark Hauser has developed a keen ability to recognize trends and do his due diligence. In tandem with these efforts toward organic growth, they will also explore opportunities for inorganic growth through acquisitions. Manufacturing.

Private Equity 128

Private Equity Equity Technical Review Software Review 128

Up and Running

AUGUST 21, 2014

In this webinar, we take time to discuss the different metrics that startups—and established businesses—should be tracking. It’s hard to understand how many people will you actually attract, what is it going to cost, what’s your conversion rate, how long will people stay. Those things are all really hard to just get.

Metrics 84

Metrics Startup Churn Rate Forecast 84

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 7, 2018

Buzzwords like data science, artificial intelligence, and predictive analytics are being used by big companies with the ability to invest. SMBs no longer have to choose between hiring an in-house data science team or off the shelf enterprise analytics software. Predictive Analytics. In 2016, SMBs used an average of 4.8

Artificial Inteligence 164

Artificial Inteligence Analytics SCRUM Cofounder 164

abovethecrowd.com

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Over 13 years ago, in March of 2000, I wrote a blog post titled “ The Most Powerful Internet Metric of All. ” The key thesis was this: if an Internet company could obsess about only one metric, it should be conversion. As such, it is time to pound the table again – conversion is by far the most powerful Internet metric of all.

Metrics 93

Metrics Conversion Internet Acquisition 93

Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 6, 2010

In a world where we are overwhelmed with data and metrics and key performance indicators and reports and dashboards and. I must forewarn you that my hidden agenda is also to expose to you metrics you might not be using, views of data that you might be ignoring, best practices that are of value and teach you how to fish. Come back here.

Analytics 125

Analytics Web Customer SEM 125

ConversionXL

JUNE 16, 2022

It should include primary and secondary KPIs and metrics related to marketing goals , as well as the platforms (e.g., Google Analytics and CRM) used to track them. When teams know what to track and how metrics relate to the overall objective, they can transform data into actionable insights to improve the play. Usage policies.

Campaign 149

Campaign CTO Marketing Social Media 149

ConversionXL

MARCH 3, 2016

The same is true of your data in Google Analytics. Many Google Analytics custom reports are configured incorrectly. More often, Google Analytics configurations are broken, rendering custom reports even less effective. Before you begin experimenting with custom reports, conduct a Google Analytics Health Check. Tweet It!].

Analytics 48

Analytics Customer PPC Metrics 48

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?

PPC 69

PPC SEO Channel Analytics 69

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 2, 2013

In the coming year, based on current announcements , Google Analytics is set to go through an almost unprecedented amount of evolution. My favorite is Visitor Analytics, and visitor level segmentation that will be pervasive throughout the product. My postulation is that by this time next year the tool will be almost unrecognizable. [My

Analytics 159

Analytics Search Campaign eCommerce 159

ConversionXL

JULY 8, 2021

If audience building is a priority, email subscribers should be an important metric. This doesn’t factor the costs of email marketing and retargeting into overall profitability. Conversion rates aren’t simply a metric for you to beat (although there’s no doubting it’s enjoyable). But which of these metrics makes a real impact?

Conversion 156

Conversion CPA Metrics Analytics 156

David Teten

DECEMBER 16, 2015

I review a lot of board decks with a beautifully hand-crafted page with metrics for the company. Good metrics are comparable across industries; comparative ; readily understandable; and help drive decisions. Comparative means that you can compare a metric across time periods, groups of users, or competitors. So how do you do it?

Metrics 60

Metrics Analytics Balance Sheet .Net 60

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

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

In my daily work with ecommerce brands, I see two types of companies: The first type focuses on acquisition and conversion. Overall acquisition costs for both B2C and B2B have gone up by 50% in the past five years. To offset these costs, you need to earn more repeat purchases from existing customers. mobile purchasers).

Retention 126

Retention Analytics Campaign eCommerce 126

ConversionXL

AUGUST 5, 2020

You had to go to each advertising account and export statistics on advertising campaigns, such as ad impressions, clicks, and costs, then export data from the web analytics system, and, finally, combine all the data manually. Create a Data Set in Google Analytics. First, create a Data Set to load with advertising cost data.

Analytics 113

Analytics Metrics Campaign Advertising 113

ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Done right, ASO can reduce user acquisition costs, increase app downloads, and improve your app’s value. We can’t rely on install metrics alone to substantiate success. Otherwise, you’ll live in an inflated metrics loop that doesn’t reflect true, long-term value. Lowering your customer acquisition costs (CAC).

Metadata 121

Metadata Technical Review Retention Metrics 121

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. Traffic Trends Key Metrics Analysis. Tools used in this post.

Metrics 60

Metrics Analytics Non-Compete Search 60

Occam's Razor

MAY 19, 2014

But the problem is that single golden metrics hide valuable insights and, more often than not, drive bad behavior. Here's my proposal: If you are pushed to have a single golden metric, give it a partner. The BFF metric you find should not be one that is very far away. So, great metric. Honestly, who can blame them.

Metrics 159

Metrics Analytics SEC Acquisition 159

Up and Running

OCTOBER 7, 2019

A data-driven approach can help you make accurate and timely business decisions to meet market demands and improve cost-efficiency. You need to use your time and resources productively by focusing on the right metrics so you can use data to help you implement improvements that matter. How To Successfully Use KPIs In Your Business.

Founder 71

Founder Retention Metrics Technical Review 71

Occam's Razor

MARCH 18, 2013

Web Analytics tools have become pretty feature rich, and the future promises to bring even more goodies ( Universal Analytics anyone?). This particular problem exists primarily because Analytics allows us to create custom reports. It will be critical that you are familiar with what a metric is and what a dimension is.

Metrics 144

Metrics Analytics Matching Green 144