Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 21, 2013

If the tools continue to display data, it will be increasingly distorted because it will reflect only traffic from the small audience of visitors who are not yet using secure search or are using other non-secure search engines. This in turn mandates new SEO (and PPC) strategies, if we don't want to fail. See Page Value there?

Search 154

Search SEO Analytics Engineer 154

Up and Running

MARCH 14, 2017

You must conduct client interviews, website usage tests, and maybe even set up a small PPC campaign to figure out whether or not the market is interested in you offering. Startup validation tactic 3: PPC (pay-per-click) test campaigns. In the Lean Startup methodology, one of the most important elements is getting out of the building.

Business Plan 94

Business Plan PPC Lean Campaign 94

Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 14, 2014

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., Conversion rate is one of those metrics that I strongly encourage you only create benchmarks for from your own data. Direct Traffic (I get a lot of it!)

Analytics 133

Analytics Vertical Metrics Web 133

Occam's Razor

AUGUST 9, 2016

Along the way I'll share some of my favourite metrics and analytics best practices that should accelerate your path to becoming a true Analysis Ninja. SEO & PPC, Because You Should! Develop a Smarter Understanding of Your Audiences. At this point you'll be a little confused about some metric or the other.

Analytics 60

Analytics Metrics eCommerce PPC 60

Occam's Razor

JULY 22, 2013

My solution to these problems was to create a simple framework we can use to put our customers first, evaluate our marketing programs, and right-align our view of success (metrics). The foundational elements of the framework are the consideration stages and the audience in each stage. There are some audiences who exhibit that behavior.

Framework 163

Framework Marketing Metrics Audience 163

ConversionXL

MARCH 3, 2021

When launching a digital brand, PPC can be a great way to immediately break into a new market and start generating website traffic. But with rising CPCs and unmitigated click fraud, PPC can also get really expensive quickly. Why PPC is an effective short term strategy, but SEO is the long game. 1) Take an iterative approach.

PPC 146

PPC SEO Campaign Analytics 146

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Prescriptive analytics The digital analytics metrics you need to know How to use analytics to improve marketing campaigns Define your mission, goals, and KPIs Set key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure marketing performance What to look for in a digital analytics product 9 tools for your digital analytics stack 1. Conversion rate.

Analytics 106

Analytics Metrics Channel Campaign 106

ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2022

For 90% of companies , the top goal for ABM is new business generation— new clients, new contracts, new logo acquisition, etc. Does your company clearly understand current CAC , LTV, CAC payback period, and other core growth metrics? For example, if one new acquisition is worth $10K, a pilot win could be 20 new acquisitions for $200K.

Customer 98

Customer Marketing Channel Acquisition 98

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Over a third of email marketers struggle with acquisition and close to a half say increasing engagement is their number one challenge. For example, you can partner with social media and PPC teams to create content that encourages subscribers to sign up to receive something of value. However, it’s not without challenges.

Email 136

Email Customer Marketing Software Review 136

Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 14, 2016

As a brand, counting followers is a ‘vanity metric’ that is not always reflective of success. Social media is a marketing channel that requires as much time, effort and often as much spend as the likes of SEO, PPC and email marketing. This is of particular importance as audiences can differ greatly from channel to channel.

Social Media 28

Social Media Media Channel Analytics 28

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). The include single custom reports that replace all/most current standard reports in GA on Mobile, Content, Paid Search and Acquisition. Key Metrics: Map Overlay Visualization. Seven more!

Analytics 60

Analytics Customer Metrics eCommerce 60

ConversionXL

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Define your target metrics. With copy testing , you learn how your actual target audience perceives the copy, what clear or unclear, what arguments they care about or not. Maybe you’re at a startup whose acquisition engine is fueled by SEO. We’ll measure this using (data metric). Define your website goals.

Analytics 127

Analytics Technical Review Software Review Framework 127

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

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Audience A + Audience B. Next, you segment your audience into two groups. Audiences: Who do you want to see your ad and why? Not sure which image resonates the best with audiences? Split testing works like a poll as the audience votes with clicks and reactions. Plan how many ads to run per audience.

Utah 246

Utah Campaign Audience PPC 246

The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

With the proper strategy, digital marketing can catapult your firm to new heights by drawing in a wider audience, raising brand awareness, and boosting sales. Do extensive keyword research to discover what your target audience wants. Communicate with your audience using content that they will find useful and interesting.

Channel 139

Channel Social Media Marketing PPC 139

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.

Analytics 125

Analytics Web Customer SEM 125

Hearpreneur

JULY 20, 2018

As a group, we thought about a play on words and eventually settled on MissHeard, which highlighted our youth audience, and a feeling that I wanted to combat: the feeling that girls often have of being misheard or misunderstood. Ebooks4fashion was a very short name, easy to remember and it works perfectly for my audience.

Naming 78

Naming OTC Entrepreneur PPC 78

crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 24, 2018

Although Google AdWords offers a wide range of diverse ad formats, text-based PPC ads form the core of AdWords. Using Custom Audiences and you can import an existing list of user emails and then hone in on a very specific subsection of people using Facebook Audience Insights. The price of placing an ad on Facebook varies.

Social Media 51

Social Media Marketing Analytics Audience 51

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. Strategies span a range of methods, but we’re going to focus on PPC, social media, and search.

Acquisition 111

Acquisition Software Review PPC Analytics 111

crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 24, 2018

Although Google AdWords offers a wide range of diverse ad formats, text-based PPC ads form the core of AdWords. Using Custom Audiences and you can import an existing list of user emails and then hone in on a very specific subsection of people using Facebook Audience Insights. The price of placing an ad on Facebook varies.

Social Media 48

Social Media Marketing Analytics Audience 48

ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

But, until recently, many of the purported benefits—especially in paid acquisition—have been discussed but remain largely unrealized. Google’s machine learning–based metrics, for example, give you access to insights and audience segments you can put to work immediately in your campaigns. Why machine learning for retargeting?

Artificial Inteligence 131

Artificial Inteligence CPA Campaign Metrics 131

ConversionXL

MAY 14, 2019

This post shows you: How to set up your YouTube account and Ads campaign; How to identify your target audience for YouTube Ads; Keys to successful YouTube Ads campaigns; Measurement and attribution for YouTube Ads. Maximum CPV is used mostly for bottom-of-funnel ads and a narrowly defined target audience. Custom intent audiences.

Campaign 133

Campaign Audience Channel Metrics 133

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 30, 2012

When it comes to data analysis, you are usually more likely to see me share guidance on advanced segmentation or custom reports or advanced social metrics or controlled experiments or economic value or competitive intelligence or web analytics maturity or one of an infinite number of difficult, if hugely rewarding, things. Not today.

Analytics 145

Analytics Metrics API Web 145

ConversionXL

JULY 29, 2014

In addition to this major AdWords benefit, age, gender, and categorical interest data becomes visible through two sets of reports located under the Audience tab. Connecting these gives you four additional reports under the Behavior section of GA’s reports, and 8 metrics to use in Segments or Custom Reports.

Analytics 132

Analytics Software Review eCommerce Search 132

Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 12, 2015

Top 4 Content Marketing Metrics written by Alex Boyer read more at Duct Tape Marketing. There are a handful of metrics you can use to get an idea about whether or not your content marketing strategy is working. Here are the top 4 content marketing metrics to follow. These are the folks you draw in without any PPC advertising.

Metrics 28

Metrics PPC Marketing Analytics 28

ConversionXL

JUNE 16, 2016

Here’s a look at pirate metrics (AARRR) as designed by Dave McClure of 500 Startups … Image Source. For optimizers, those descriptions are a bit different… Acquisition: Optimizing emails, PPC ads, etc. See, a test doesn’t need to win for you to learn something about your audience or site.

Framework 48

Framework Programming Metrics Engineer 48

maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

Written By Dan Martell on February 2nd, 2012 | Category: Hiring LeanStartup Marketing Metrics Startup Life | 6 Comments. Building Metrics / Usage Reports / KPI 3. Product/Metrics (70%/30% time) * Get your product activation (sign-up + meaningful action) to 60% * then, Get your product retention to 20% weekly. 10) Metrics.

Technical Review 44

Technical Review Startup Cofounder Software Review 44

ConversionXL

MARCH 14, 2017

Depending on your current stage in the customer research process, your buyer persona knowledge can vary from a few scribbled notes about your target customers’ desires to complete persona cards built with quantitative and qualitative data from a large sample size: Landing pages should be designed with your target audience in mind.

Matching 99

Matching Conversion Audience Analytics 99

ConversionXL

MAY 22, 2014

To guide the discussion, we’re going to be using Dave McClure’s Conversion Metrics as a framework to see where different conversion optimization opportunities lie. For Acquisition, we’re primarily asking how do first time visitors & potential customers find you? Acquisition – Getting Visitors At Top Of The Funnel.

Software Review 116

Software Review PPC Analytics Search 116

Occam's Razor

APRIL 23, 2012

While there is a great deal of appreciation for the power of metrics/data, I've come to realize that Sr. Leaders don't quite appreciate the deep, and often corrosive, consequences of choosing metric x over metric y as a key performance indicator (KPI). It is a standard metric. It really is that stark.

Metrics 152

Metrics Analytics Search Channel 152

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 30, 2021

Specific marketing tactics differ depending on your offer, audiences, and touchpoints. Focus instead on providing value to audiences with the potential to become customers. Generating awareness through PPC. To raise awareness on social media, show up where your audience is. Generating awareness through social media.

Customer 140

Customer Marketing Social Media CPA 140

Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

. + Traffic Trends Key Metrics Analysis. Visitor/Audience Type Profile Analysis. Onsite Behavior Key Metrics Analysis. I tend to use Hitwise a lot less, or not at all, because it is a very hard to use, it is slow, the UX/UI, metrics and reports have not really evolved over the years. Traffic Trends Key Metrics Analysis.

Metrics 60

Metrics Analytics Non-Compete Search 60