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How Startups Can Use Metrics to Drive Success

Both Sides of the Table

Having a set of metrics that you watch & that you feel are the key drivers of your success helps keep clarity. And the more public you can make your goals for these key metrics the better. You will likely have multiple sets of metrics you keep depending on the company’s stage, one’s function in the company and level.

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Facebook Advertising / Marketing: Best Metrics, ROI, Business Value

Occam's Razor

FBe's recommendation was (paraphrasing a 35 min talk): Don't invent new metrics, use online versions of Reach and GRPs to measure success. Because we don't understand the uniqueness, we fall back on profoundly sub-optimal old world metrics like Reach or Online GRP equivalents. Metrics are a problem. Let's go!

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How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood

David Teten

However, about 5% of the VCs in our database, mostly younger ones, are trying to build a competitive advantage by crawling large amounts of publicly available data and building analytical functions to flag companies with accelerating traction to them. ” Historically, investing was a manual, artisan process. Two Sigma Ventures.

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Brand Measurement: Analytics & Metrics for Branding Campaigns

Occam's Razor

Remember: Engagement is not a metric, its an excuse. ]. 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). The ideal metrics for this desired outcome are Visitor Loyalty & Visitor Recency.

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Scaling lessons learned at Dropbox, part 1

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App-specific metrics. Another thing that became increasingly useful was to have thousands of custom stats aggregated over thousands of servers graphed. Poor man’s analytics with bash. have serious security problems and seem to be able to weather a small PR storm. Better than switching off features! 5:46pm |.

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5 Ways to Tackle the Tricky Business of Measuring Branding and Marketing ROI

crowdSPRING Blog

One of the major benefits of the digital age is that marketers now have far more meaningful metrics by which to evaluate the success of their initiatives. Even when metrics are not tied to dollar amounts, collect, organize, and analyze trends in performance. Contextualize all available data relative to aggregate spend.

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Lean Marketing tips: not-for-profit edition

crowdSPRING Blog

A market merely defines the aggregate of demand for a product or service and every organization, whether for profit or not participates in one. Just as businesses large and small use analytics tools to understand their traffic, their customers, and their conversion metrics, NFPs can also benefit from the tools used for this.

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