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How Startups Can Use Metrics to Drive Success

Both Sides of the Table

How many through affiliate deals? How many through SEM? per click on an SEM basis this is NOT your cost to acquire a customer – you need to add conversion rate. How many social networks, picture sharing sites, new aggregators or blogs can we really spend time on? How many adds came through organic SEO? In 6 months?

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How to Use Google Data Studio to Build Better Dashboards

ConversionXL

I’ll cover: How to avoid “blank page panic” by using templates; How to turn disparate data points into an intuitive flow; How to save time with data manipulation (and get cleaner data); How to aggregate data from different sources in the same dashboard. SEM and SEO templates. Cool dashboards matter—whether or not you want them to.

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Advertising Wants to be Measurable – An Investment Thesis

Both Sides of the Table

By now we all know that the largest part of the online spend has been SEM (search engine marketing) where people buy CPC (cost per click) links to display alongside the “organic&# search results in the search engine. The affiliate networking market alone is about a $2 billion industry now.

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Standard Metrics Revisited: #3: Bounce Rate

Occam's Razor

Are your email, affiliate, other marketing campaigns yielding low bounce rates? In addition to looking at just the aggregate levels (the row marked Total in below report) also look at each key phrase…… In this ClickTracks report notice that each key word / key phrase performs differently, and it also differs by search engine.

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