Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

You see if you don't implement your links properly the person shows up to your site without any tracking parameters and thus fail to help your web analytics tool to put that visitor in the right source bucket. Here is a simple example: You are the Acquisition manager for a company called Omniture.

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 23, 2012

Choose the right metric and they'll create the most glorious digital experience in the universe, the perfect acquisition campaign, the most amazing customer service channel. This metric has been in every tool since we started torturing web server logs to measure hits (!). The web is littered with examples of this awfulness.

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Venture Chronicles

AUGUST 7, 2013

I really loved telling the story of GS for this reason alone, it is about what is possible by empowering people, customers and employees, rather than saving a few dollars here or picking up some extra revenue there. It also requires that people think outside of their comfort zone of campaigns, PPC, webinars, and landing pages.

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 12, 2013

MCA-O2S covers the challenge of attributing the offline impact (revenue/brand value/butts in seats/phone calls/etc) driven by online marketing and advertising. These channels are getting zero credit in last click attribution platforms (read that as: all standard reports in all web analytics tools). But show the actual report.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Since 2015, her company, Barney, has guided over 150 media, marketing & tech companies through acquisitions. 10:25] Are you seeing anybody selling parts of their companies rather than an entire acquisition? [11:19] They may just do PPC or just do SEO or just do creative, but they're all over the, the country.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 15, 2017

I started out working for various agencies and eventually I was recruited to work in-house for a Fortune 500 company doing SEO and PPC work. While I had previous experience with many various aspects of online marketing such as web design, email marketing, etc., increase not only brand share but also revenue. Thanks to Brad M.

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 11, 2015

The include single custom reports that replace all/most current standard reports in GA on Mobile, Content, Paid Search and Acquisition. At the moment you will have to go to the Acquisition folder, and at the very minimum look through all these reports to pick out the best bits… That's a lot of stuff, right? Seven more!

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ConversionXL

JUNE 24, 2020

Some businesses approach companies on the “dark web” to click on ads on their website. Competing businesses may click on each other’s PPC ads to waste money. Loads of PPC platforms ( Google Ads included) allow you to blacklist IP addresses. . Ad Age estimates that $1 out of every $3 spent on PPC is subject to click fraud.

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Occam's Razor

MAY 18, 2010

Many paid web analytics clickstream analytics tools, even today (!), Web Analytics , the other wonderful free WA tool, had advanced segmentation from day one. And as recently as two weeks ago I stressed the importance of effective segmentation as the cornerstone of the Web Analytics Measurement Framework. Total revenue.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 6, 2011

This curriculum is based on the various questions entrepreneurs have asked me over these 64 sessions, spanning financing, positioning, customer acquisition, marketing, sales, channel, and various other early stage, startup-related issues. John already has a couple of customers, and needs about 50 customers to get to $1M in annual revenue.

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Occam's Razor

JULY 22, 2013

Identify gaps in our content/engagement/channel strategy on the web, 2. Ditto for PPC, your affiliate links (all likely in the Do stage), and your email marketing programs. 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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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2018

If you want to supercharge your marketing and accelerate growth and revenue, you’ll love this guide. Before founding MobileMonkey, Kim founded WordStream , the world’s leading PPC (pay-per-click) marketing platform managing over a billion dollars of annualized ad spend for tens of thousands of businesses.

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Marketing Software Review Campaign Widget 87

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! ") In this post I want to share with you three insightful custom reports for effective paid search (PPC) analysis. Rewiring the brain Teaching is hard work. :).

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 11, 2021

For advertising opportunities, research PPC, print, and traditional media fees based on similar audiences and value the asset accordingly. An inventory of metrics: Click-through rates, newsletter subscribers, downloads, social engagement, revenue figures, etc. If all the pages got sponsored I’d stand to make $60,000.”. Source ).

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 24, 2018

We’ve collected some of the essential marketing tools and services that can help you improve your marketing and grow your company’s revenues, even if you know little about marketing. With “Content Explorer” you can easily explore the most shared content on the web. Search marketing. This is where Hootsuite comes in.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 24, 2018

We’ve collected some of the essential marketing tools and services that can help you improve your marketing and grow your company’s revenues, even if you know little about marketing. With “Content Explorer” you can easily explore the most shared content on the web. Search marketing. This is where Hootsuite comes in.

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Social Media Marketing Analytics Audience 48

Version One Ventures

DECEMBER 6, 2012

inbound marketing, PPC, etc.) However, managing an inside sales team is tough and you need a well-oiled machine in order to get customer acquisition costs inline with other marketing channels. After all, other marketing channels often either hit a ceiling (i.e. or simply aren’t efficient enough (i.e. all offline marketing activities).

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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. On the web we can infer a person's intent using their actual behavior.

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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. This in turn mandates new SEO (and PPC) strategies, if we don't want to fail. See Page Value there?

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Software By Rob

JANUARY 12, 2010

As I was looking at traffic stats I noticed a huge increase in mid-November due to a number of write-ups on startup and web-2.0 In other words, two-thirds of the traffic from the startup and web-2.0 Im a serial web entrepreneur here to share what Ive learned in my 11 years as a self-funded startup founder. Is this bad?

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Occam's Razor

JULY 1, 2008

conversion rate (average as reported by shop.org) and you are dutifully reporting our revenue of $1 million as a result. While you might be doing great in terms of direct revenue impact of your website, pause and consider what in God's name is happening to that other 98.3% "unconverted" traffic on your site?

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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Google PPC is a key channel for customer acquisition for many e-commerce and online businesses, yet keywords have become quite competitive, and the costs of campaigns for certain keywords tend to be extremely high. Web Method for a Remote Server. Kimbra Studios. Kimbra has just started some OEM relationships.

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Occam's Razor

MAY 20, 2013

Part of the reason is that even if you work for a multi-channel company you are likely in the "web," "interactive," "internet," or "digital" division. Digital advertising and marketing is a key part of ZQI's multi-channel acquisition portfolio. Macro Business Context: The Big Deal.

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Software By Rob

MAY 4, 2009

So I spent time honing PPC, SEO, a new design, a new cart, finding more dropshippers…and I finally hit on the big low price guarantee revelation I wrote about in my blog. And credit card processing fees took another 3%, which left me with a net profit of around 10% of my gross revenue. Digital Products — 11:02am via Google [.] #4

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 29, 2013

If it take ten days to make a decision to change bids on our PPC campaigns, let's go with that data cycle. " Universal search for example means that personalized results will not only look for information from web pages, they also look for YouTube/Vimoe videos, social listings, images of course, and so on and so forth.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 30, 2012

It is painfully heartbreaking to realize that a very small tiny number of people who have access to web analytics tools actually use them. Matched Query Type, Keyword Position, Day Parts: Sexier PPC Analytics. #7. Pledge to shift away from a one-size-fits-all data puke, and use your web analytics tool to create a customized dashboard.

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discuss.joelonsoftware.com

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

I dont control the companys valuation: if for example the company is privately-held, then the value of equity might be complicated and outside my control (you can dilute equity, reinvest any revenue instead of paying it in dividends, etc., where I can learn about how to build a sweat equity team? . *

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ConversionXL

JULY 29, 2020

They’re the primary way that search engines match user needs to web content. The lion’s share of clicks—and revenue—goes to those who show up near the top. Internal PPC traffic is less influential than it once was. PPC, in other words, is a paid tryout for the organic listings. Hardly anyone goes past Page 1.

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ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2022

It aims to fuel your sales pipeline , shorten the sales cycle, and generate revenue. In other words, it boosts revenue by delivering the right information to the right people at the right time so that they can make confident decisions. ROI on marketing-sourced revenue. Deciding between LBM and ABM. Key points. Call to action.

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Occam's Razor

JULY 31, 2006

Shopping / web surfing is a delicate dance of come to see who we (the company) are, go to another site read reviews, then come to see our benefits, then to ask you wife it is ok for you to buy and then come purchase. 5 : Understand exactly what the acquisition strategy of your website / company is. It is rather sub optimal.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Here’s the executive summary of the process we use at CXL: Heuristic analysis ; Technical analysis; Web analytics analysis ; Mouse-tracking analysis ; Qualitative surveys ; User testing and copy testing. Web analytics analysis is next. Maybe you’re at a startup whose acquisition engine is fueled by SEO. Probably not.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 7, 2014

An example is: "We should add these 80 keywords to our PPC portfolio with a max bid of $14." Most companies hire a Web Analyst, Sr. Digital Analyst, Web Analysis Guru, Digital Marketing Analyst, so on and so forth. Total revenue. For example, which countries contributed to total revenue. App Installs.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

I would focus on one product and set a goal to generate $1M in yearly revenue from it. Outsourcing is something a big company, with a known customer / problem (that has revenue & traction) does to save cost. I have a proposal written up including full cost and revenue projections. Once you’ve done that – then.

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Software By Rob

FEBRUARY 10, 2009

Always Be Testing The biggest lesson I learned while taking the site from a few hundred to a few thousand dollars a month (revenue, not profit), is that there are a lot of great theories about marketing, but no one can tell you the exact thing that’s going to lead to an uptick in sales. at 7:31 pm [.] 21 @sternalpr on 09.17.09

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

For overall web analytics: Google Analytics 2. In thinking about the bigger goal of digital transformation, 46% say they have been able to identify and create new product and revenue streams, and 45% of organizations are now using data and analytics to develop new business models. The amount you pay for each click on a PPC ad.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Traffic attribution identifies which sources drive visitors to a web property. If we can’t determine where the traffic comes from, we can neither attribute conversions to their original sources of traffic, nor can we find out the true cost per acquisition (CPA) or return on ad spend (ROAS) for each marketing activity.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Historically, CRO has taken a backseat to SEO, PPC, and other forms of digital marketing. The potential ROI of CRO also varies based on revenue. Peep Laja, CXL Founder, explains: If you increase sales by 1% for a company that makes $100 million, that’s $1 million of added revenue. But it’s on the rise— 60.8% CRO makes sense.

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