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

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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. 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!

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ConversionXL

JUNE 27, 2016

Web analytics analysis is a big part of that. Why Web Analytics Analysis Is Important. Web analytics analysis is a key part of the ResearchXL model. Now, there are four main reasons you want to include web analytics analysis in your conversion research process… Ensure your data is reliable and accurate.

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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. In Google Analytics, the Cohort Analysis Report is time-based, though you can apply a segment to a cohort.

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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!].

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

That little bit of extra intent, when compared to other visitor segments, is the reason that conversion numbers (on ecommerce or non-ecommerce sites) for clean direct traffic usually look like these. Here is a simple example: You are the Acquisition manager for a company called Omniture. The Problem: Unfortunately.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 12, 2015

The world of digital analytics seems to be insanely complicated. I led a discussion the other day with a collection of people who were brand new to the space and some who were jaded long-term residents of Camp Web Analytics. Digital Analytics Ecosystem: The Inputs. Digital Analytics Ecosystem: The Outputs. Averages this.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Marketing metrics are a competitive advantage. You have to track metrics you can act on. In this article, you’ll learn which metrics to measure to understand and improve marketing performance. Table of contents What are digital marketing metrics? KPIs vs. digital marketing metrics 1. – Seth Godin.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 19, 2022

Especially during challenging times, retention is significantly more crucial than acquisition. 6- Stepped up eCommerce. Although our in-person services were put on hold, our eCommerce products, including virtual services tripled in revenue. 11- Paying attention to metrics. Thanks to Gavin Johnson, Evking ! #3-

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Up and Running

APRIL 17, 2018

In fact, according to Shopify , global retail ecommerce sales are on track to reach $4.5 B2B ecommerce sales , (businesses selling directly to other businesses) generate three times as much revenue as B2C, at $7.7 Below, I’ve listed some of the SEO basics for ecommerce to get you started. trillion in 2021, up from $1.3

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JULY 3, 2020

From where they’re standing, they’ve already spent a ton of money buying analytics and dashboarding tools, each of which promised to be the holy grail. You also need metrics on cart abandonment and purchase rates of those who saw your test idea and those who didn’t. Someone will need to track additional metrics. Dependencies.

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Up and Running

JULY 15, 2015

Here are is the type of data that you should be tracking: General Google Analytics statistics—like unique visitors, time on the site, bounce rate, and source. Ecommerce statistics—money generated by source, by campaign, by ad, and so on. Acquisition Cost of a New Customer. This is the key number that is often overlooked.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 6, 2010

As we spring to action full of passion I wanted to share with you all a short list of things that will expand your little world of online marketing & web analytics. Change is hard, even if we know that we should be executing a multiplicity strategy to win in the web analytics 2.0 That's sucking. That's sucking.

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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…. Ecommerce: Betabrand. Then, read on to see what I picked.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 8, 2017

You can check the Web Marketing and Measurement Model by Avinash Kaushik (who is an analytics legend): Image Source. You are certainly already familiar with Google Analytics, but if you need to brush up your skills, there is a course by CXL Institute that can take you to the next level (or if you’re a total beginner try this one ).

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

They will need two different implementations, it is quite likely that you will end up with two sets of metrics (more people focused for mobile apps, more visit focused for sites). Remember, when someone says mobile analytics, first ask the clarifying question: Do you mean mobile application or mobile website ? So, be a dear.

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

To assist your quest for faster, smarter insights, I've defined the Segmentation Selector Framework (Acquisition, Behavior, Outcomes), shared downloadable versions of my favorite segments, Non-Flirts, Social, Long Tail , and recommended the mating of custom reports with advanced segments (downloads provided there too!).

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Up and Running

JULY 6, 2021

eCommerce has become a major business , so it’s no surprise you’re considering joining the 7.9 Research published by Statista in March 2021 showed revenue from eCommerce in the United States reached $431.6 Dropshipping is an incredibly popular business model for those looking to start an eCommerce business. billion by 2025. .

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 19, 2016

Inspired by the movie ‘Moneyball,’ MoneyBall syndrome refers to the fact that companies aren’t looking into the right metrics when measuring the effectiveness of their mobile website. Some marketers try looking at conversion as a solo metric of determining how their CTAs perform on mobile. Revamp Mobile Metrics to Combat Moneyball.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Combining these goals and objectives will give you meaningful metrics to track. Objective Goal Metrics Grow the business Increase awareness and perceived value Followers, fans, shares, retweets, etc. Continuously monitoring metrics via social media analytics tools gives you insight into how campaigns are performing.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

With digital analytics , you have access to all the data you need to make smart decisions without solely relying on feelings. In this guide, you’ll learn how digital analytics can benefit your business and how to use it to communicate with stakeholders. Table of contents What is digital analytics and what can you gain from it?

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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.

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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.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 12, 2013

One of the key things Google Analytics helps us do when optimizing a website is identify conversion uplift opportunities. Google Analytics won’t tell us what the problems are, we need to interpret the data ourselves. The first thing I check in Google Analytics. B) specific page issues. B) specific page issues.

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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.

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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!

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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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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. You need to track pre-purchase, post-purchase, and then overall business analytics. In terms of pre-purchase, traffic and content metrics. All you can do is fix it going forward.

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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. Faith rules.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 25, 2016

Note that I’m recommending Google products since we’re using Google Analytics throughout this article, but there are many measurement alternatives, like Mixpanel or Localytics. The developers can use Google Analytics goals to track when users collect a certain number of cards, upgrade a card, advance to a new level, etc.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 24, 2017

Everyone has railed against these practices ( including us , many times), but it still seems that much of the industry is focused on short term metrics and surface level changes. Similarly, growth marketers, digital analysts, email marketing specialists, and customer acquisition specialists all do some form of conversion optimization.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 26, 2022

For ecommerce business owners and marketers, jumping on this bandwagon is different to jumping on Facebook and Instagram. In this article, you’ll learn how to gain traction on TikTok to grow awareness, traffic, and acquisition. The benefits of TikTok for ecommerce brands don’t start and end with a sale. Conclusion.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 8, 2018

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is one of the biggest levers that a business can use within their acquisition strategy as part of their Growth goals. You’re likely familiar with the different Growth frameworks like AARRR (Acquisition, Activation, Retention, Referral, Revenue). It all start with Acquisition.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 14, 2021

When it comes to collecting user data, we’ve found that nothing beats Google Analytics. The analytics platform from Google allows you to collect demographic data (age, gender location) as well as behavioral data (which pages they visit and how long they stay on them) on your audience. The first metric is video views.

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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. How does retention differ among different acquisition channels? Acquisition Efficiency. Will this cohort help me improve that metric?”.

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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. Maybe not yet.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

More specifically, you asked the hard questions, like: How can ecommerce companies compete with Alexa? For many ecommerce companies, however, competing in voice search on Google is secondary to competing with Amazon Alexa. How can ecommerce companies compete with Alexa? Are there use cases for voice search in B2B?

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