ConversionXL

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Nowadays nearly every online shop utilizes some sort of product recommendation engine, which is no wonder, as these systems, if set up and configured properly can significantly boost revenues, CTRs, conversions, and other important metrics. This is a very important metric when evaluating a recommender system.

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 21, 2014

Find campaigns where they are spending most money, lower the bounce rate and reduce acquisition cost. But if you would like a quick collection of tips: Multichannel Analytics- Tracking Online Impact Of Offline Campaigns The enabler of tying offline activity to online is ensuring you have a weak or strong primary key. Alexander Velinov.

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

One of the ultimate excuses for not measuring impact of Marketing campaigns is: "Oh, that's just a branding campaign." Before we go any further I must clarify that I love branding campaigns just as much as the next guy. I love campaigns that Visa runs. Remember: Engagement is not a metric, its an excuse. ].

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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. But not to worry.

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 12, 2013

And you are telling me that the Cost Per Acquisition for my display campaigns is not $201 but rather a lowly $155? All standard reports in Google Analytics give 100% of conversion credit to the last "campaign" prior to the conversion. Campaign is defined as anything but Direct traffic. That is so cool.

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Occam's Razor

MARCH 23, 2010

Because every tool uses its own sweet metrics definitions, cookie rules, session start and end rules and so much more. When it comes to proving which campaigns are better and which numbers to report to the management what will you do? Never bother to sign up for their own email campaigns (to see how much they stink).

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 13, 2012

That means: All of these metrics are off. My perspective on this multi-channel multi-device multi-visit multi-campaign challenge is best summarized by the Serenity Prayer : “Lord grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.” :).

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 19, 2010

"What is the difference between a metric and a key performance indicator (KPI)?" " "Are goals metrics?" There seems to be genuine confusion about the simplest, most foundational, parts of web metrics / analytics. experiment with p type of campaigns. Metric: A metric is a number.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 3, 2010

The key driver of this renewed confidence from brand advertisers is better measurement of brand metrics that can show the impact of online advertising beyond clickthrough. Saving money online has been a real driver of ecommerce growth in 2010. Putting fun into ecommerce. Direct Response Advertising becomes ever more efficient.

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ConversionXL

MAY 13, 2020

After a few hours playing around with SQL , I was already able to deliver insights I never could have with aggregated Google Analytics reports. What’s the difference between raw and aggregated data in Google Analytics? Google Analytics, in the free version, provides only aggregated data. Do more and more people use Feature X?

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

Explain why, hopefully you'll have rules you can apply and check if your Web Metrics are indeed KPI's! Update] Here are two recent posts that dive deeper into the topic of Key Performance Indicators and provide latest thinking (as well as real world examples): ~ Best Web Metrics / KPIs for a Small, Medium or Large Sized Business.

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Occam's Razor

JULY 12, 2010

Please click on the above image for a higher resolution version , including all the other metrics.]. I love the data you saw in the very first screenshot, and I absolutely love this… [Please click on the above image for a higher resolution version , including all the other metrics.]. Say it ain't so! :). Why is this cool?

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 12, 2015

At the core of everything you will do in digital analytics is the concept of metrics. How do you define a metric: It is simply a number. Your digital analytics tools are full of metrics. Helpful post: Best Metrics For Digital Marketing: Rock Your Own And Rent Strategies.]. Now you have your foundation, metrics and KPIs.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 13, 2015

So by segmenting your data, you can learn things you couldn’t from the aggregate data. Some things cohorts can answer: How did customers who came in from the Christmas campaign behave differently than those at other times of the year? Will this cohort help me improve that metric?”. Their metric was revenue: Image Source.

Conversion 48

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Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 20, 2010

What campaigns? It shows the distribution of the pages people see on your site (not the "silly" metric, average page views per session). They might read 8 stories on your non-ecommerce content site, but you note that people who see three engage for a longer time. What campaigns have a higher percentage of these people?

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

When would you ever try to produce less sales in B2C eCommerce? What Are Your Goals, and What Are Your Metrics? What this means depends on the company, but it can take into account different metrics like pathing, time on site, video engagement, company size, role, etc. There you want to look at things in clumps and aggregates.

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

So use unique phone numbers (specific to campaigns if you want granular details)… leverage unique coupon / campaign / offer codes… get good at geographic targeting… become a God of controlled experiments. But each keyword gets "credit" for other metrics. By doing multichannel analytics! and finally 3.

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Analytics Web Non-Compete Metrics 94

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. Your effort will make this post 100x more valuable. Pretty cool, right?

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Analytics Green Metrics Web 145

ConversionXL

MARCH 13, 2013

Traffic volume is a vanity metric. So I was a bit too caught up in vanity metrics like traffic volume and I was happy to say I was getting 10-15K visits a month but is that even good? Look I’m not going to tell you that vanity metrics are useless and you shouldn’t look at your traffic stats. What are vanity metrics?

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 29, 2013

Many used some data, but they unfortunately used silly data strategies/metrics. And silly simply because as soon as the strategy/success metric being obsessed about was mentioned, it was clear they would fail. If it take ten days to make a decision to change bids on our PPC campaigns, let's go with that data cycle. "

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 22, 2011

" ~ Web Metrics: "What is a KPI? " + Standard Metrics Revisited Series. Mobile Marketing and Analytics: Click-to-Call Mobile Ad Campaigns. Multichannel Analytics- Tracking Online Impact Of Offline Campaigns. "Engagement" Is Not A Metric, It's An Excuse. I Got No Ecommerce.

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Analytics Metrics SEM Web 124

Occam's Razor

AUGUST 8, 2011

and partly because all they do is present data in the aggregate (a punishable criminal offence if there ever was one!). As a cure to this malaise, I’ve encouraged y’all to switch to using only custom reports (bring just relevant metrics and dimensions into one place, and throw away 90% of web analytics data that does not apply to you).

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Occam's Razor

MAY 18, 2010

I have said: All data in aggregate is "crap" Because it is. You can imagine then how absolutely heartbreaking it is for me to note that nearly all reporting that I see is data in aggregate. Tons of data "puking", all just aggregates. Television campaigns. "Social media campaigns" ( context ).

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Occam's Razor

JULY 15, 2014

It also handy explanations of the metrics, with key context where necessary. These will sound like: Metric x is down because of our inability to take advantage of trend y and hence I recommend we do z. This is a nicely customized data puke for our Ecommerce and Customer Retention team. digital performance. But that is ok.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 7, 2014

11: Close to zero aggregated analysis exists, everything's segmented. #10: They are generic mash-ups that tailor to almost no one's needs, and more often than not contain awful things like nine not-really-thought out metrics for one dimension in a report. All data in aggregate is crap. " Kisses. Angels singing!

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 30, 2012

When it comes to data analysis, you are usually more likely to see me share guidance on advanced segmentation or custom reports or advanced social metrics or controlled experiments or economic value or competitive intelligence or web analytics maturity or one of an infinite number of difficult, if hugely rewarding, things.

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Analytics Metrics API Web 145

Occam's Razor

APRIL 13, 2015

Time Lag & Path Length: Pan-Session Ecommerce Analysis. You can simply click on either one of the two above and see the valuable-drilldown view… All the standard Acquisition, Behavior and Outcome metrics you are used to can be leveraged to identify valuable segments. Google Analytics Shortcuts: Save Your Complex Views.

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 22, 2008

Analyzing data in aggregate is a crime. When you look at all that in aggregate you get nothing. On you left are the Dimensions (customer & campaign attributes) and Metrics (numbers, key performance indicators) you can choose to create custom segments of your own. Why Segmentation? Take a breath. :). just kidding!).

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ConversionXL

APRIL 1, 2020

Research by McKinsey shows that 15% of online shoppers have subscribed to an ecommerce service: In general, the “subscription lifestyle” is good news for ecommerce stores. In this case, accurately measuring the holy grail of ecommerce metrics—customer lifetime value (LTV)—isn’t easy. You may already know that.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Campaign Monitor. Startup Metrics for Pirates â?? SaaS Metrics Tutorial â?? web analytics measure marketing campaigns. SEO and campaign management tool. Campaigner - email marketing suite. Campaign Monitor â?? aggregation. Login System. Social functionality. Crowdfactory. Google Geocoding API.

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

I have tried to find some metric that mixes Y/Y and M/M, but to no avail. Here's me comparing performance of this blog over two years for the Visitors metric: Overall happiness reigns, I think. . # In aggregate trends can hide insights and hence "dirty" the data. Or performance of email campaigns.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 21, 2015

Never start a marketing campaign without a dedicated landing page. Use minimal viable (low-cost) campaigns to test assumptions. Test secondary assumptions, with minimal viable campaigns to acquire even more visitors. Valentine’s Day campaign). Stay away from aggregate metrics – combine, segment, visualize, predict.

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

If you are analyzing data for your SEO or PPC campaigns and you find the search engine providing the data then you should instantly embrace it and immediately propose marriage! #5: Many vendors now aggregate this real customer data and present it in the form of benchmarks that you can use to index your own performance.

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Analytics Securities and Exchange Commission Search Engineer 123

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

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. This is quick, easy, and allows the dashboard viewer to see how campaigns (e.g.,

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 14, 2019

In this instance, you’d combine data from your ecommerce platform with Google Analytics data. Select dimensions and metrics you want to compare. The correlation wasn’t a surprise, but it confirmed the success of our SEO campaign. Combining Google Analytics with CRM and ecommerce platform data. Date was our join key.

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Bonus read: Four types of experiments you can run on Facebook: A/B, Holdout, Brand Survey, and Campaign Budget. ). One of the coolest things we’ve done over the last year is to ascertain how to get t rue incremental complete campaign brand lift for our large campaigns. Don’t test for a vanity metric. So delicious.

Analytics 101

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

If you’re an eCommerce site , switch “Enable Ecommerce” to “ON” under “Ecommerce Settings” After you’ve done that, you can return to the same settings and switch “ Enable Enhanced Ecommerce Reporting ” to “ON” as well. Sequence segments.

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