ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

And it’s impossible to credit a conversion to the correct source without first knowing how a visitor got to a website. In other words, the foundation of conversion attribution is traffic attribution. This post details the role that UTM parameters play in traffic attribution in Google Analytics. It does not happen automatically.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

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. The 11 Steps of Investing in Private Companies. 1) Manage the firm . 3) Raise capital.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 8, 2016

The ability to slice and dice your Google Analytics data is the difference between mediocre, surface-level insights and meaningful, useful analysis. As Avinash Kaushik famously wrote, “All data in aggregate is crap.” Setting Up Your Google Analytics. ” [Tweet It!]. You can read a more in-depth guide here.).

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ConversionXL

MARCH 20, 2019

The analytics portal syncs with independent CRMs to wed engagement and sales data. The analytics data, in turn, prompts sales staff to follow-up with accounts that show increased interest based on browsing behavior, ad clicks, email opens, etc. MRP’s offering is a single platform, MRP Prelytics, that serves several marketing channels.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 20, 2019

The best video hosting platform varies business by business, depending on factors like: How often you’re uploading; How you plan to use the video; The viewing experience you want to give your audience; The analytics you need; The cash you have to spend. Simply sign up using your Google account, create a channel , and upload your video files.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Leveraging the power of ML or Machine Learning, AI can help channelize your marketing spending in proper directions leading to a higher return on investment (ROI). If you plan to seek out funding , you’ll need to outline your marketing spend, as well as the channels and campaigns you intend to run. Pitch to investors. Do it yourself.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

For companies that build their analytics on Google products, purchasing Google Analytics 360 is a symbol of maturity. . As a business grows, it inevitably runs up against limitations of analytics tools. It’s one of many potential business needs that could affect your decision to upgrade to a Google Analytics 360 license.

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Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 20, 2010

The last blog post shared custom analytics reports that you can use to find amazing insights faster, enabling you to create a focused, truly data driven organization. I am an unabashed segmentation fan: Web Analytics Segmentation: Do Or Die! Overall Conversion Rate. Web Analytics or WebTrends or. Total Visits.

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ConversionXL

MAY 13, 2020

For a long time, I considered standard Google Analytics reports to be the best way to get useful insights. From time to time, I struggled with sampling, limitations, and weird results, but I didn’t see a way around it—until I discovered Google Analytics 360 and raw data exports into Google BigQuery. Where do my users come from?

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

I joined as employee 14 and spent a few years at this analytics startup, which was founded by Hiten Shah and Neil Patel. We ran A/B tests around the clock on our free-trial funnel for nine months and got these wins: Quadrupled monthly lead volume in one year; Tripled the conversion rate from visitor-to-trial signups on our homepage.

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Increased investment in Facebook as an engagement/acquisition channel has translated into requests from CEOs, CMOs and other CxOs about the return on that investment. As Facebook is a very young channel, it is not surprising that everyone's struggling with the answer. Lesson 1: Correlations don't imply causality. That is ok.

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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. No keyword data in analytics tools. No keyword-level conversion analysis. Aggregated search engine level analysis.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 13, 2015

In Lean Analytics , Alistair Croll and Benjamin Yoskovitz gave a great example of the value of cohorts, using data from a hypothetical online retailer: January. So by segmenting your data, you can learn things you couldn’t from the aggregate data. How does retention differ among different acquisition channels?

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

In fact I've gone so far as to say: "All data in aggregate is crap." " That's certainly a bit melodramatic, but beyond the most bare bones "ahh, I see something is happening" you are unable to get anywhere with aggregate data. Google Analytics: New Segmentation User Experience.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Instead, they were shared in company Slack channels, emailed between VPs and investors, and featured in industry newsletters. Articles, case studies, and eGuides, like this analytics whitepaper written by, you guessed it, a company offering call-center analytics software. Conversion rates will drop through the floor.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 4, 2011

If you can break this down by channel that you’ve acquired them from this is obviously better. The next step after measuring the customers you’re adding is to add the “cost to acquire” by channel. per click on an SEM basis this is NOT your cost to acquire a customer – you need to add conversion rate. How many through SEM?

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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. Or, perhaps, you’ve relied on in-product Google Analytics reports, with all their limitations. Our eyes are how we intake most analytics data.

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 12, 2013

There are few things more complicated in analytics (all analytics, big data and huge data!) 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. Grab a Red Bull.

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Brandanew

JANUARY 8, 2016

Social analytics and video marketing are likely to be the key marketing trends for 2016. We talked to global social media experts and influencers to share with us their top social analytics tools for the coming year. 16 Top Social Analytics Tools For 2016. Tools 1 to 3: Native Analytics at Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

The more well-known your company becomes, the harder it gets to directly impact primary KPI’s at the aggregate level because the majority of customers who buy are going to do so irrespective of if your button color is red or blue. For example, Adobe Analytics (Omniture) only allows the use of historical data for personalization.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 19, 2016

To find what barriers your mobile website may face , let’s look at the limitations of mobile, how to compensate for them, and what improvements you can implement to ensure the best user experience, increase conversions, better retarget potential customers, and more. But conversion rate alone is not a success metric. Image Source.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 5, 2016

Multi-Channel-Network. The reason is that most people equate MCN with “YouTube aggregators” meaning people who sign up video creators, roll them up into a single content management system and then collect advertising revenue from YouTube. YouTube aggregation isn’t a business. What does that even mean?

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ConversionXL

APRIL 1, 2020

Until this point, everything is trackable through your Google Analytics setup (assuming you’ve set up cross-domain tracking ). Here’s another Google Analytics screenshot: Although 19% of the traffic comes from paid search, none of the ecommerce transactions are attributed to it. Aggregates lie. Customer completes first purchase.

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ConversionXL

JULY 11, 2016

Elite Camp is a 3-day traffic and (mainly) conversion event. “Umbrella terms” are when you aggregate multiple features and benefits under one vague term, like “powerful” or “easy-to-use.” Build a business case around conversion optimization. 7 Basic Plots on Wikipedia ). Why is it a problem?

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VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

Through the powerful management & analytic tools, Applicaster empowers broadcast operations to work more efficiently and swiftly deliver competitive experiences to viewers on very large scales with no investments in infrastructure. Unlike other companies, we are a true digital record label, not aggregators. How do we do this?

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 13, 2015

The 80/20 rule applies to our use of web analytics tools as well. I recommend that periodically you gather folks around you for lunch, pull up Adobe Analytics on the big screen in the conference room, let each person expose one hidden report or feature. Google Analytics Shortcuts: Save Your Complex Views. This hurts my feelings!

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The Next Web

MARCH 2, 2014

To measure the return on investment – or ROI – of your SEO campaigns, utilize the information aggregated from Positionly and Google Analytics to pull through the data and analyze patterns in traffic, increases in links, sustainable traffic and above all, increases in revenue. Rising non-branded organic traffic.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Time to Act With Analytics. Playing nice with predictive analytics: Businesses need to craft effective ads, select which customers to cross-sell to and address their customer churn. Since you have access to intelligent information, the question becomes — how will you aggregate and leverage all this data?

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

Paid Search or affiliates or email or display or YouTube or whatever channel you end up choosing. [ See if you were able to get more traffic to arrive at your site, and if they were Existing Visitors or New Visitors (hopefully measured with a first party cookie in your website analytics tool). In this case our Yahoo!

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 4, 2016

It follows that brand ambassadors add one more channel to your marketing strategy as well as a new dimension to it: personality. Listen to conversations. If you haven’t started already, start listening to conversations happening around your brand online. Look for the most engaged followers.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 15, 2019

But customer paths are non-linear and pretty complicated— sooo many things influence conversions. . When you’re working in a multichannel business and a big chunk of conversions happen offline, it gets even worse. Nearly a quarter of KPMG respondents had “limited trust or active distrust” in analytics data.

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 9, 2016

The outcome of book smart is rarely better for analytics practitioners then folks trying to learn how to fly an airplane from how-to books. This is all the way from Aug 2009: Web Analytics Career Advice: Play In The Real World! And, happily, it has almost all of the Google Analytics features implemented correctly.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 21, 2014

Here are funnel analytics for the Bingo Card Creator new user experience: image source. Even those with “good” conversions could be better, and small improvements add up over time. Having successfully used webinars as conversion tools in the past , the company also saw them as a potential candidate for reducing churn.

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 14, 2014

If you've read my first book Web Analytics: An Hour A Day, you know that I've advocated this strategy since 2008! Outcomes of the conversations with your Finance team and Sr. Conversion rate is one of those metrics that I strongly encourage you only create benchmarks for from your own data. See Page 269. :).

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 14, 2012

There has been a lot of conversation recently on the future of the media industry, specifically drawing comparisons between TV and film and the shrinking music industry. In aggregate, the various revenue streams would continue to support the creation and distribution of high production value content. Spotify, Rhapsody. Netflix, HBO Go.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 17, 2016

How To Determine Which Online Channels are Delivering Sales Online and Off written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. ” This allows advertisers to see how many conversions have been influenced by visits on multiple devices. Store visit conversions. photo credit: Ashleigh Brown. How does it work?

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 14, 2016

Conversion optimization for mobile apps is getting more sophisticated. Then we became more performance-oriented and measured click to install conversion rate. Which conversion rate should we measure to drive these goals and how can marketers squeeze the data lemon in our optimization efforts? But that’s just not enough today.

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