Occam's Razor

JANUARY 6, 2010

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. I mean count them.

Analytics 99

Analytics Web Campaign PPC 99

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Master of 500 Hats: Startup Metrics for Pirates (SeedCamp 2008, London) This presentation should be required reading for anyone creating a startup with an online service component. He also has a discussion of how your choice of business model determines which of these metric areas you want to focus on. Choose one.

San Francisco 167

San Francisco CPA SEM CTO Hire 167

Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

So if Direct traffic is so important and often the metrics show very positive results then why don't we all obsess about it a lot more? Direct traffic is a fantastic segment to analyze because it contains desirable Visitors and yet because it is often polluted (due to our own inability to implement web analytics tools correctly).

Analytics 122

Analytics Software Review Campaign Flash 122

ConversionXL

MAY 19, 2020

Or maybe it’s your keyword well that’s reaching its limits, leaving you with plenty of ideas, but no clear path forward about how to prioritize them or the distribution channels for which they’re best suited. But even in these cases, opportunities likely exist to set expectations for new customers via pre-purchase blog, web, or video content.

Differentiation 129

Differentiation Sales Email Metrics 129

Occam's Razor

AUGUST 12, 2013

than multi-channel attribution modeling. Here's the outline of our incredible multi-channel attribution modeling adventure: ~ Three Unique Attribution Challenges. ~ Multi-Channel Attribution Models. Multi-Channel Attribution Analysis. ~ Multi-channel attribution across digital channels. Grab a Red Bull.

Channel 161

Channel Analytics Campaign Conversion 161

Occam's Razor

MARCH 26, 2008

Part of me is glad because my book and the Trinity strategy and the Web Analytics 2.0 Identify what they should be using 4Q and then using your Web Analytics tools to measure success. You'll measure multi-channel impact, well beyond your website. Most people who do web analytics are sad and/or frustrated.

Analytics 121

Analytics Conversion RSS Metrics 121

Up and Running

JULY 26, 2016

These may range from joining an affiliate marketing platform to trying new Google AdWords keywords. This is when metrics come into play. Cost of Acquisition (CAC): The total cost of acquiring a user through a given channel. If the CAC is above the LTV, but not too much—there’s some potential in this channel.

Revenue 60

Revenue Acquisition Channel Campaign 60

Up and Running

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Our skills and expertise go well beyond that, encompassing brand management, the art of persuasion, understanding nuanced audiences and channels, a genuine flair for language crafting and creative writing, and borderline-obsessive grammar knowledge.”. Furthermore, metrics help you continually refine and improve your marketing over time.

Small Business 153

Small Business Marketing Software Review Technical Review 153

Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

Paid Search or affiliates or email or display or YouTube or whatever channel you end up choosing. [ Remember: Engagement is not a metric, its an excuse. ]. The web rocks!]. The ideal metrics for this desired outcome are Visitor Loyalty & Visitor Recency. Click on image for a higher resolution version.).

Campaign 128

Campaign Analytics Metrics Search 128

Up and Running

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

For these queries, you have to choose your data source and date range as well as what metrics and dimensions you want to include. As an in-house Affiliate Marketing Manager, I’m part of the affiliate marketing team that’s running the affiliate partner program at Supermetrics. Image source: Supermetrics for Google Sheets.

Acquisition 127

Acquisition Cost Affiliate Customer 127

Seeing Both Sides

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

This task is accomplished through the selection of key performance indicators, and the development of reports on these metrics for consumption across the organization. Growth Managers also need to be fluent in the full spectrum of acquisition channels at their disposal. Earned Media: SEO, PR, Word of Mouth.

Management 20

Management Analytics Technical Review Framework 20

Seeing Both Sides

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

This task is accomplished through the selection of key performance indicators, and the development of reports on these metrics for consumption across the organization. Growth Managers also need to be fluent in the full spectrum of acquisition channels at their disposal. Earned Media: SEO, PR, Word of Mouth.

Management 20

Management Analytics Technical Review Framework 20

Occam's Razor

JULY 18, 2011

Email remains an immensely credible and profitable channel, with an immense reach to boot. You must use metrics that are unique to the medium. Your company cross-channel outcomes data. Multi-channel customer purchase behavior, customer lifetime value. Ready for the best email marketing campaign metrics? Outcomes.

Metrics 137

Metrics Campaign Email Marketing 137

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 20, 2010

End of a minor web analytics lesson on going beyond obvious metrics and never, ever, never forgetting context. Log into the Advanced Segmentation tool in your web analytics tool. If your web analytics tool requires you to call the vendor to set up advanced segments, or re-tag your site to get segments, then switch.

Analytics 90

Analytics Search SEO Metrics 90

Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

The single biggest mistake web analysts make is working without purpose. No going to web analytics conferences. Disclosure: I'm not affiliated with nor do I know anyone at Credit Karma.]. Affiliate links (Take Offer, Compare Rates) that link to other sites from which Credit Karma makes commissions. We work very hard.

Web 138

Web Analytics Technical Review Affiliate 138

Occam's Razor

JUNE 6, 2007

I am thrilled to say that my book Web Analytics: An Hour A Day has been published and is now widely available. Five Reasons Why You Should Buy Web Analytics: An Hour A Day: Web Analytics: An Hour A Day for the first time provides a Practitioner's in the trenches perspective on web analytics. There I said it.

Analytics 60

Analytics Web Affiliate Metrics 60

Occam's Razor

APRIL 25, 2011

Not spending 15% of your Marketing budget, every month, on experimenting with new techniques / channels / ideas. Why not keep sending emails / spending on AdWords / running affiliate programs / buying display only on MSN. Because you believe that the Web is essentially TV? We hate change. Super lame! Think of the puppy!

Marketing 126

Marketing Flash Analytics Web 126

Occam's Razor

MARCH 23, 2010

There are more mistruths and F U D about Web analytics out there than I think is reasonable. Web Analytics, this beautiful child, was born just the other day in the midst of tumultuous times, quite literally, when everything changes every day. The web is changing too fast. Here are ten web analytics ground truths… 1.

Analytics 118

Analytics Web Metrics Channel 118

Steve Blank

MAY 3, 2011

The concept of Partners , took some explanation as some teams confused partners with the Distribution Channel.). Their initial customer segment were upwardly mobile professionals with $2-10K discretionary purchases/year (excluding travel,) and their revenue model was affiliate program fees. The Nine Teams Present. Veritas turbines.

South Dakota 217

South Dakota Business Model Lean United States 217

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). We mis-align metrics and dimensions across Users, Session, Hits. Key Metrics: Map Overlay Visualization. Explore here: Dimensions & Metrics Explorer. Business Outcomes Analysis.

Analytics 60

Analytics Customer Metrics eCommerce 60

Occam's Razor

APRIL 21, 2014

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. Best Web Metrics / KPIs for a Small, Medium or Large Sized Business. They still tend to think of digital as a fulfillment channel. Who is to blame?

Analytics 131

Analytics Marketing Campaign Metrics 131

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. This the reason I love setting engagement goal types (remember though, don't call the metric Engagement, it's an excuse and not a metric).

Analytics 60

Analytics eCommerce Metrics Acquisition 60

Occam's Razor

AUGUST 9, 2016

This is all the way from Aug 2009: Web Analytics Career Advice: Play In The Real World! Or a subsequent post about how to build a successful career: Web Analytics Career Guide: From Zero To Hero In Five Steps. At this point you'll be a little confused about some metric or the other. Awesome, right? That's ok.

Analytics 60

Analytics Metrics eCommerce PPC 60

Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

In the tactics section, list your sales channels and describe how you will be selling your products. Eric Ries, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and author of The Lean Startup, popularized this strategy for web applications. I used a freelance web designer and I only created the core functions to create, send, and manage invoices.

Software Review 74

Software Review Software Delaware Forecast 74

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). Identify gaps in our content/engagement/channel strategy on the web, 2. I believe it has to do with choosing the wrong success metrics.

Framework 163

Framework Marketing Metrics Audience 163

Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 12, 2011

I am going to attempt to significantly simply your life by recommending the critical few metrics you should use to analyze performance of your digital marketing campaigns and website. Recommend metrics / KPIs you can use based on the size of your company. Best Metrics / KPIs for Small Business Websites. Obsess about this metric.

Metrics 151

Metrics Web Analytics CPA 151

Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 10, 2011

Most of us have no idea how to participate optimally in this unique channel – we are doing TV on Twitter (breaks my heart). We have IT-minded people engaging in massive data puking (one report with 30 metrics anyone?) And unlike all others, this channel has the word social in it! That is why I love this metric.

Social Media 165

Social Media Metrics Conversion Media 165

Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

The term KPI is one that I hear far more than any other in this nascent field we call Web Analytics. Explain why, hopefully you'll have rules you can apply and check if your Web Metrics are indeed KPI's! Your Web Metrics: Super Lame or Super Awesome? Key Performance Indicators! " and. Let's go.

Metrics 123

Metrics Web Non-Compete Analytics 123

Occam's Razor

JULY 1, 2008

The effort you invest in measuring offline impact will finally help your company understand how valuable the online channel is (or not!). Here's your online data: You are capturing the above information using your web log based or javascript tag based web analytics tool. Two words: Primary Key. Well just assume. :).

Analytics 116

Analytics Conversion Campaign Redemption 116

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

If you’ve worked in web analytics for a while, you’ve suffered the pain of building graphs and tables in spreadsheets and then, once a “decent” dashboard has been set up, trying to automate it. content, channels, etc.) Anyone can answer, “Which content or channels are most important for each step in the funnel?”.

Analytics 117

Analytics Metrics Affiliate Aggregator 117

mashable.com

JULY 10, 2012

What follows are five ecommerce trends that illustrate the direction that online shopping is headed, as well as some insight and strategies that will allow businesses and consumers to better navigate the uncertain seas of web-based retail. Mobile devices are fast becoming the preferred method of accessing the web. Web Video Roundup.

eCommerce 101

eCommerce Software Review Technical Review Social Media 101

VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

1) It all starts from the Growth Hacking Funnel - in the early stages, startups should not just focus on top/bottom line metric like unique users and revenue. In a nutshell: Acquisition - Get people to hear about your product from press, blogs and social channels. KISS Metrics – How to Run A/B Tests that Get REAL Results.

API 167

API Viral Startup Retention 167

ConversionXL

JUNE 16, 2015

billion to building testing some of the largest function on the web site from site search to navigation for headers to footers to check out, you name it. She’ll be conservative if you implement the winner, be it the AB testing tool, use your web analytics to continue watching. Affiliated. It’s a wonderful journey.

Video 48

Video Analytics SCRUM Metrics 48

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 19, 2021

For every goal you set, choose the most relevant metrics to track. . Here you can delve into metrics, trends, and visual reports. In both cases, however, video is used as part of a wider Rule of Thirds strategy that includes links to web content, shared insights from the community, and personal stories. For example, a S.M.A.R.T.

Marketing 134

Marketing Audience Social Media Algorithm 134

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. Of course Yahoo!

Analytics 123

Analytics Web Acquisition Metrics 123

Occam's Razor

JULY 26, 2010

I am focused on what the site does because that is what my job title says: Web Analyst. The data is easily available in the web analytics tool so why not. But for most other types of businesses the final success does not exist in web analytics tool. PALM: People Against Lonely Metrics]. So why not your metrics?

Web 96

Web Metrics Analytics eCommerce 96

Occam's Razor

APRIL 5, 2010

A smaller percent of those Marketers / Web Analysts will move beyond clicks and measure Visits / Visitors and Bounce Rates to measure success. Did you pay enough to acquire customers from each marketing channel? A simple segmentation by channel can easily help us answer these key questions. Or hang around for a few years?

Analytics 135

Analytics Customer CPA Acquisition 135