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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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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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AUGUST 18, 2020

In this article, I walk you through a framework—the SEO pyramid—and how to think about keyword research for B2B SaaS businesses. The SEO Pyramid categorizes search term types for B2B SaaS businesses. Upstream and downstream products : Deputy (employee time tracking software), BigCommerce (ecommerce software), etc. Problem terms.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

More specifically, you asked the hard questions, like: How can ecommerce companies compete with Alexa? Are there use cases for voice search in B2B? Notably, Dean continued, “the growth in voice isn’t coming 100% from smart speakers like Google Home, which aren’t super relevant for B2B companies anyway.

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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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ConversionXL

JUNE 8, 2017

Quantitative research with digital analytics tools like Google Analytics , Mixpanel, Amplitude or RJ Metrics will inform you about where your users are coming from, what they are doing during their sessions and where they are dropping off from your conversion funnel or when they churn. Acquisition segments. Acquisition segments.

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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). The team at Google has done a great job of having the end-to-end view there across Acquisition, Behavior and Outcomes. What do you learn from this report?

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View from Seed

AUGUST 30, 2016

Acquisitions are happening more and more, while companies like PillPack, Actifio, CarGurus, OnShape, Acquia, Applause, and others continue to march forward. These companies are all over the map: B2B, B2C, SaaS, ecommerce, healthcare, SMB-focused, enterprise-focused, etc. Doesn’t look all that compelling.

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AUGUST 10, 2021

This article assumes you: Already deeply know your audience and have conducted research to understand what types of posts will resonate with them Have a solid brand messaging strategy in play, so you can emulate relevant, customer-centric content on social Have clearly defined goals tied to measurable metrics (e.g.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 6, 2010

I hope that before you go for massive web analytics glory that your use your wonderful powers first to make sure your site and customer acquisition strategy does not suck. No longer can tools or "analysts" just puke 15 metrics on a report and hope to survive. Got a creative use of statistics in your web metrics practice?

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

I can report on pageviews and bounce rates and sessions and all the other lovely metrics we normally obsess about. Now, all those other metrics suddenly have a purpose and context. Most Analysts for ecommerce entities spend all their time with ecommerce data. They should obsess like crazy about ecommerce conversion rates.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

It’s one of many ecommerce software platforms on the market but only the fifth most popular by market share. It’s also not the cheapest ecommerce platform: Squarespace plans start at $12 per month, Woocommerce has a completely free plan, and Shopify’s plans start at $30 per month. Customer acquisition cost. Take Shopify.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

After all, the goal is to systematically improve the success of a business, whatever that means metric-wise. The differences, much like the differences of B2B optimization in general, mostly come down to differing business cycles, purchasing decisions, and success metrics. The metrics in SaaS sound a little different as well.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Based on unique metrics and behaviours, you can identify when and where the user is most likely to upgrade, and tailor your marketing accordingly. If you know that a particular cohort of users work in ecommerce but haven’t signed up for the paid plan yet—show them testimonials and case studies of your successful ecommerce customers.

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 11, 2014

Each shows a unique facet of digital performance, and I've attempted to choose the best dimensions and, for those dimensions, the best possible metrics. I've done the hard work on your behalf to pick the dimensions and critical few metrics that will illuminate your complete business performance. I suppose that is a bonus. :).

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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. Email generates as much as $42 for every dollar spent , and is a top-three marketing channel for 87% of B2B and 76% of B2C marketers. via B2B Marketing Alliance ]. total revenue / total spend).

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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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ConversionXL

MAY 19, 2016

Both Harvard Business Review and Practical Ecommerce have reported the death of the linear funnel. Unfortunately, it’s not that easy because, as Ed points out, having so many different acquisition channels, devices, purchase influences, etc. You’re likely familiar with Facebook’s 7 friends in 10 days metric, right?

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Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 9, 2013

A good example, for e-commerce and non-ecommerce sites, is [link]. Bonus: Facebook Marketing: Best Metrics, ROI, Business Value ]. If you open your copy of Google/Adobe Analytics or CoreMetrics or Webtrekk you'll notice that every single report has a gigantic number of metrics in it. Look at the colors. Look at the icons.

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 21, 2014

Find campaigns where they are spending most money, lower the bounce rate and reduce acquisition cost. I believe these two posts with a collection of some of my favorite metrics will inspire you: 1. Best Metrics For Digital Marketing: Rock Your Own And Rent Strategies 2. Earn more affection. The post provides more detail.

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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). At the end of this exercise, you'll end up with a really great understanding of what each of your marketing/acquisition strategy is solving for.

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

Bonus: Identifying Macro and Micro Conversions also gives you a list of Ecommerce Tracking to set up on the site, and Goals to set up in the Admin interface. If you are a regular reader of this blog you know how deeply fond I am of the Acquisition, Behavior, Outcomes framework. Now it's time for acquisition. Good context.

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 12, 2013

And you are telling me that the Cost Per Acquisition for my display campaigns is not $201 but rather a lowly $155? " In this case it was a B2B client, long conversion cycle that lasted around 65 days, ignoring the outliers, so I picked 75. That is so cool. Just to be conservative. Tag your Social campaigns.

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Occam's Razor

JUNE 28, 2011

Web Analysts are blessed with an immense amount of data, and an amazing amount of valuable, even sexy, metrics to understand business performance. Yet our heroic efforts to report the aforementioned sexy metrics lead to little business action. Since crappy sounds bad, let's just say you are reporting super lame metrics.

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Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Go to the B2B dancing monkey video (what!). Go read some customer reviews (if a ecommerce site) or visitor comments (if a blog). Remember those terms apply to ecommerce and non-ecommerce websites. Step #2: How good is the acquisition strategy? See how it looks. Go to the product pages. Go to the donation pages.

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Occam's Razor

MARCH 23, 2010

Because every tool uses its own sweet metrics definitions, cookie rules, session start and end rules and so much more. If you don't kill 25% of your metrics each year, you are doing something wrong. Business priorities (no we are not doing ecommerce, we want leads!). Bigamy is vastly overrated. Usually for free.

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Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 12, 2016

What one critical metric will help you clearly measure performance for each strategy above? How will you know if the performance was a success or failure, what's the target for each critical metric? They only want to throw up a one page lead-gen form if they are B2B. For most of us, you plus the CMO/equivalent.].

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ConversionXL

MARCH 3, 2021

Google Ads cost-per-conversion metrics. SEO has a wonderful way of drastically lowering cost-per-acquisition over time. Here are some of the Google Analytics metrics that provide insight into the quality of your PPC clicks. Exit Rate: This metric represents the rate at which people leave your website on specific pages.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Here’s a review from Judah Phillips ,, an analytics expert, consultant, and author who wrote Building a Digital Analytics Organization , Digital Analytics Primer , and Ecommerce Analytics : Judah Phillips : “Adobe offers a selection of analytics products named “Adobe Analytics” as part of the “Adobe Marketing Cloud.”

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

As a B2B business, we’ve struggled with this problem for a long time. deterministic) and predictive attribution scenarios for the following case: A user clicks on a Google search ad and opens a mobile version of a fashion ecommerce website. You can test this via “model evaluation ,” which uses ROC/AUC metrics.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 4, 2016

When most people hear “web analytics,” they tend to think about counting visitors, transactions, and conversion rate on a transactional site, such as an eCommerce store. From an online perspective, the lead acquisition funnel has three major steps – brand awareness, prospects acquisition, and lead generation. Acquire prospects.

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MARCH 26, 2014

What I find most useful about this report is the ability for B2B companies to gain insights with regards to their leads or prospects (could be applied to lead scoring within a CRM). Notice that bounce rate is significantly higher (and ecommerce conversion significantly lower) via tablet than desktop and mobile. page load time.

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AUGUST 1, 2017

In larger and more complex purchases (think B2B here), there’s a whole lot more reflection and contemplation. It’s products like these that really need to invest in optimizing for customer loyalty, not just acquisition. But in more traditional retail as well as ecommerce, you may be more familiar with loyalty programs.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 1, 2017

In larger and more complex purchases (think B2B here), there’s a whole lot more reflection and contemplation. It’s products like these that really need to invest in optimizing for customer loyalty, not just acquisition. But in more traditional retail as well as ecommerce, you may be more familiar with loyalty programs.

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Customer Retention B2C Programming 91

Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

So with that, and that’s at all levels of the organization, that’s consumers, that’s B2B clients, they don’t know where to look, they don’t know who to trust. Ron Tite: So one of the things that REI did was they closed their store and all eCommerce channels on Black Friday. Just kill a puppy.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Startups for startups – the top B2B tools used by Startups – Includes the list of top 50 startup vendors in 2012 by Vendorstack , a reviews and Q&A platform on enterprise vendors for startups and mid-market companies. Startup Metrics for Pirates â?? SaaS Metrics Tutorial â?? SEO and Analytics Tutorials.

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