Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

So if Direct traffic is so important and often the metrics show very positive results then why don't we all obsess about it a lot more? Here is a simple example: You are the Acquisition manager for a company called Omniture. You are using Google Analytics to track all you display campaigns. The Problem: Unfortunately.

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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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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Done right, ASO can reduce user acquisition costs, increase app downloads, and improve your app’s value. But ASO, like search engine optimization, fails when worshipped like a false god. We can’t rely on install metrics alone to substantiate success. Lowering your customer acquisition costs (CAC).

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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. That of course will mean more referring keyword data will disappear.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

I simply needed to ignore the perfection impulse and focus on the business engines that were really important. When I say business engines, I mean components that keep a machine working. So instead of focusing on the designs and themes (the aesthetic), I should have focused on the sales engines (ways to improve my sales funnels).

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Up and Running

APRIL 17, 2018

SEO, or search engine optimization, makes your website and its content more visible to search engines. The closer you are to the top of the search engine results page (SERP), the more likely it is that searchers will click onto your site. How will you know if your website is working for you if you never look at your metrics?

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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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ConversionXL

APRIL 13, 2017

A growth team, however, is largely overlapped with product, engineering, and design as well. Anyone who figured out how to game Google’s algorithm (aka SEO) was leveraging both creativity and analytics to rapidly grow their company. There’s lot of overlap, but what it comes down to is metrics and goals. Software Engineer.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 25, 2020

If the philosophical argument doesn’t motivate you, search engines will. If I need to find an article on creating a custom dimension in Google Analytics, I don’t care if you published it five years ago. Search engines seem to be getting a bit smarter—elevating short, efficient articles—but long articles still dominate.).

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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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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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ConversionXL

JUNE 8, 2017

According to the same study, 80% of its customers’ video plays comes from its personalized recommendation engine. You can check the Web Marketing and Measurement Model by Avinash Kaushik (who is an analytics legend): Image Source. Acquisition segments. Acquisition segments. Contextual segments. Behavioral segments.

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Occam's Razor

JUNE 4, 2012

Custom reports on the other hand are, well, hand crafted by you for a specific purpose with a set of guiding principles (" Acquisition, Behavior, Outcomes! ") These insightful reports are from the six I'd created for my latest video for the Market Motive Web Analytics Master Certification course. Criminal behavior.

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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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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Hard skills such as data analytics are essential to being successful as a product manager, but equally-valued are soft skills such as communication, collaboration and leadership. I usually ask an interview candidate a series of analytical questions to gauge intelligence and problem-solving ability.” invest time into your customers.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 3, 2018

But if you want a wider choice for keyword planning outside of the Google search engine, there are other tools that can help. It primarily gives you expanded keyword choices by digging deep into real-time suggestion data of the popular search engine. Google Analytics. You get email notifications whenever a user opens your email.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

Our team includes 12 top-notch engineers from NVidia, Microsoft, Stanford, Berkeley and Cornell. On top of that throw in a bunch of web servers and SQL databases, cross-platform 3D graphics code and a highly scalable physics engine and you get the idea. We are also one of the stickiest sites on the internet.

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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.

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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

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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Seeing Both Sides

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

The Growth Manager function typically lives at the intersection of marketing and product development, and is focused on customer and user acquisition, activation, retention, and upsell. They work cross-functionally with engineering, design, analytics, product management, operations, and marketing to design and execute growth initiatives.

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Seeing Both Sides

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

The Growth Manager function typically lives at the intersection of marketing and product development, and is focused on customer and user acquisition, activation, retention, and upsell. They work cross-functionally with engineering, design, analytics, product management, operations, and marketing to design and execute growth initiatives.

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Up and Running

JULY 6, 2021

Check what’s available on Amazon, Etsy, Wish, eBay, and other websites by checking search engines. The best way to do this effectively is to create a customer acquisition plan that takes into account your budget for marketing spend. Pay-per-click adverts on search engines, such as Google and Bing. Competitors.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 23, 2021

The metrics from the dashboard are the key inputs for collective decisions. You can always instrument your business and gather metrics, but that doesn’t mean the data you gather will be useful. For example, if you haven’t achieved product-market fit, instrumenting every aspect of customer acquisition is overkill.

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Occam's Razor

JULY 23, 2012

What metrics should I use? and in this post I want to share a really, really simple framework for structuring web analytics consulting contracts. The Web Analytics Consultant Quandary. From what I understand, I would be creating a Web Analytic Report and giving my recommendations. Use BR & CV. Definitely Y, do that.

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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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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.

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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. Those keywords are very, very expensive.

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Metrics Startup Churn Rate Forecast 84

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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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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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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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.

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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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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.

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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.

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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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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

The 5 Types of Metrics Every Small Business Must Track written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. I guess I should add you can grow a business without metrics a lot like you can win at roulette from time to time. Below are the five types of metrics every small business must rely on to navigate growth and profit.

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