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Excellent Analytics Tips #19: Identify Website Goal [Economic] Values

Occam's Razor

The way OOD manifests itself is that in every website and web business I work with I am obnoxiously persistent in helping identify the desired outcomes of the site / business before I ever log into their web analytics data. Without goals and goal values you are not doing web analytics, you are doing web iamwastingyourlifeandminelytics.

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Web Analytics 2.0 Book: In Stores Now!!

Occam's Razor

I am absolutely thrilled that my book Web Analytics 2.0 I only had one job, at Intuit, when I wrote my first web analytics book. The Pitch: I invite you to consider buying my second web analytics book. It is not just a business book, though every dna strand in this book is more about online marketing than online analytics.

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Increase Repeat Purchases with Cohort Analysis

ConversionXL

Overall acquisition costs for both B2C and B2B have gone up by 50% in the past five years. In Google Analytics, the Cohort Analysis Report is time-based, though you can apply a segment to a cohort. Segments include any “ subset of your Analytics data ” (e.g. Segments include any “ subset of your Analytics data ” (e.g.

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Acquire New Users by Adding Growth Hacking to your Marketing Strategy

ConversionXL

Everything they do is scrutinized by its potential impact on scalable growth… An effective growth hacker also needs to be disciplined to follow a growth hacking process of prioritizing ideas (their own and others in the company), testing the ideas, and being analytical enough to know which tested growth drivers to keep and which ones to cut.

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Five Sweet Web Analytics Resolutions To Kick It Up A Notch

Occam's Razor

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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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

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. Many tools designed for B2B marketing in general are also relevant to investors.

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Rock Analytics More: Obsess About Goals And Goal Values!

Occam's Razor

If you don't have goals, you are not doing digital analytics. We were brain storming about the next cluster of coolness for Analytics, the conversation quickly went to what Analysts need to look at on a daily, weekly and monthly basis. Let's say you work at www.adobe.com and you've just started to use Google Analytics.