Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 21, 2013

No keyword-level conversion analysis. Bounce Rates, % New Visits, Visit Duration, Goal Conversions, Average Order Value. Aggregated search engine level analysis. The Multi-Channel Funnels folder in Google Analytics contains the Top Conversion Paths report. How is this in Google's interest?

Search 154

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Occam's Razor

MAY 2, 2017

There is no golden metric for everyone, we are all unique snowflakes! :). and tell you what are the best key performance indicators (metrics) for them. In the past I’ve shared a cluster of metrics that small, medium and large businesses can use as a springboard…. If you want to play along. Don’t read what I’ve chosen.

Metrics 141

Metrics Acquisition eCommerce Analytics 141

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.

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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. In the same vein, consider a metric like ‘time on site.’. Image Source.

Chad 112

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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

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 2, 2014

As marketers, we create and curate engaging content, broadcast it to all the right channels and measure how it performs. The Uberflip platform starts with aggregating all the content you create and curate. But marketers today still struggle with tapping into the potential that exists in content marketing.

Marketing 162

Marketing Curation B2C Audience 162

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 ideal metrics for this desired outcome are Visitor Loyalty & Visitor Recency. Another thing people forget is to measure the overall impact, beyond simple conversions.

Campaign 128

Campaign Analytics Metrics Search 128

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?

Analytics 85

Analytics Aggregator SQL Cloud 85

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 5, 2009

She has a separate team, with its own culture and office, and a mandate straight from top management to innovate without regard to the company’s historic products, channels, or supply chain. In a startup context, numbers like gross revenue are actually vanity metrics, not actionable metrics. So far, so good.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

So I generally feel right at home in these conversations. Mass blasts of information are ineffective, because the broadcast channels are suffering from information overload (even in social media). Test-marketing is now easier than ever before, thanks to leveraged distribution channels like AdWords and Facebook. Is that a lot?

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San Francisco Lean Technical Review Distribution 113

Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Overall Conversion Rate. It shows the distribution of the pages people see on your site (not the "silly" metric, average page views per session). Only one of the above goals is connected to a "hard" conversion (leads generated, Goal 2). Remember the goals are a mix of hard and soft conversions (see above)!

Analytics 118

Analytics Web Social Media Search 118

Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 14, 2014

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. Even if they give you conversion rate benchmarks. Any big shifts in investment (marketing, customer experience, team sizes, tools).

Analytics 133

Analytics Vertical Metrics Web 133

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.

Analytics 145

Analytics Green Metrics Web 145

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.

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Metrics Campaign Email Marketing 137

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 4, 2022

We can all use head fake metrics to calling out useless activity metrics. [ None of them are KPIs, most barely qualify to be a metric because of the profoundly questionable measurement behind them. ]. Conversion Rate, IVT Rate (invalid traffic rate), etc. Conversion Rate obviously is a fine metric.

Conversion 127

Conversion Analytics .Net Metrics 127

crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 2, 2016

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. A landing page, for instance, can be analyzed relative to conversions. Even when metrics are not tied to dollar amounts, collect, organize, and analyze trends in performance.

Marketing 48

Marketing Metrics Aggregator Social Media 48

ConversionXL

AUGUST 19, 2020

The first step is to establish communication channels between teams and set expectations about when and how to use them. In pre-COVID days, our SEO and PPC teams sat in close proximity, so conversations could naturally flow between them. Not sure who needs to be included in each conversation? Focus less on the tools (e.g.,

PPC 69

PPC SEO Channel Analytics 69

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Every board meeting, the metrics of success change. Because they have no presence in the market, they have to find distribution channels to bring in customers. First of all, it means that most aggregate measures of success, like total revenue, are not very useful. Whats the right set of materials, conversations, etc.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 25, 2017

In order to achieve 20x growth, Snap needs grow both of those metrics 4–5x. Had Facebook not purchased Instagram, Facebook’s aggregate numbers likely would have dipped as millennials have largely abandoned Facebook for Instagram and Snapchat. Let’s look at each figure. 2 years ago my grandmother didn’t have Facebook.

Valuation 48

Valuation Technical Review Forecast Social Network 48

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 16, 2010

Early this year, SlideShare launched custom channels. Designed for large businesses, the channels let a company share several types of documents, brand the channel with their own design elements, and then include display advertising, contest promotions, blog aggregation, social media integration and metrics reporting.

San Francisco 167

San Francisco Lean Analytics Continuous Deployment 167

Occam's Razor

APRIL 13, 2015

Assisted Conversions: Smarter Marketing Impact Attribution. 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.

Analytics 60

Analytics Web eCommerce Metrics 60

Occam's Razor

AUGUST 9, 2016

Along the way I'll share some of my favourite metrics and analytics best practices that should accelerate your path to becoming a true Analysis Ninja. At this point you'll be a little confused about some metric or the other. Go, read one of the best pages in the Analytics help center: Understanding Dimensions and Metrics.

Analytics 60

Analytics Metrics eCommerce PPC 60

Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 7, 2020

Just because it’s an established marketing channel, though, doesn’t mean it’s lost any of its relevance. And I discovered that the first page of results on Google was filled with paid search and aggregator results (things like Angie’s list and Yelp). Focus on Purchase Intent.

Search 71

Search PPC Kansas City B2C 71

ConversionXL

JUNE 20, 2019

Simply sign up using your Google account, create a channel , and upload your video files. Suggested videos encourage people to increase their watch time not just on your channel but on the platform as a whole. In comparison, Facebook Live shows overview metrics like minutes viewed, average percentage completion, and unique viewers.).

Hosting 127

Hosting Video Technical Review Software Review 127

ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

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. This thing crushed sign-up conversions. We never got the conversions back. I Will Teach You to Be Rich. Maybe not.

Conversion 133

Conversion Technical Review Channel Engineer 133

Occam's Razor

AUGUST 13, 2012

Finally there were questions we can always count on: setting goals and tracking conversions, justifying analytics and wanting to track the absolutely impossible ( why can't I track people across all devices and all websites? ). Web Analytics tools in the market are not the answer (especially across multi-channel and multi-devices).

Analytics 124

Analytics Channel Metrics Web 124

Occam's Razor

MAY 19, 2014

" And we oblige: "Conversion Rate, that's it." But the problem is that single golden metrics hide valuable insights and, more often than not, drive bad behavior. Here's my proposal: If you are pushed to have a single golden metric, give it a partner. So, great metric. Honestly, who can blame them.

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Metrics Analytics SEC Acquisition 159

Occam's Razor

MAY 20, 2013

Part of the reason is that even if you work for a multi-channel company you are likely in the "web," "interactive," "internet," or "digital" division. Digital advertising and marketing is a key part of ZQI's multi-channel acquisition portfolio. The answer is simple: Aggregators.

Analytics 139

Analytics Aggregator Channel B2B 139

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. Metric: A metric is a number. But not normal metrics. Dimensions.

Analytics 138

Analytics Metrics Web Framework 138

ConversionXL

AUGUST 21, 2014

That’s why you need to be simultaneously feeding your growth engine , while monitoring churn and your other startup metrics. They refer to these differences as “ Red Flag” Metrics (or RFMs). Total number of logins also proved to be an important metric, though not as much so as the former two. times per day on average.

Retention 106

Retention Churn Rate Metrics Software Review 106

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

A tool like Quuu identifies relevant, shareable content to keep your social media channels active. . Lean Case provides standard business models & metrics, so you can apply a standard approach to business planning, modeling, and profitability tracking. I used Ipreo heavily at one of my prior VC funds. .

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

More detail on those techniques, and three more, are in this blog post: Multichannel Analytics: Tracking Offline Conversions. But each keyword gets "credit" for other metrics. This way GA will show you both keywords while the aggregate for visits will not be skewed – as technically it is just one session. ].

Analytics 94

Analytics Web Non-Compete Metrics 94

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. content, channels, etc.) Use the Bar format to represent the metrics.

Analytics 117

Analytics Metrics Affiliate Aggregator 117

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.

Metrics 123

Metrics Web Non-Compete Analytics 123

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.

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Metrics Web Analytics CPA 151

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

For example, while the data aggregation process in Google Analytics seems like a “normal” feature, it might be a hurdle if your business needs to process data at the hit level instead of by sessions or campaigns. Remember that you have to feed this model with regular traffic and conversion data for the results to be representative.

Analytics 90

Analytics SQL Metrics Campaign 90

Occam's Razor

MARCH 23, 2010

In fact smarter than you would be through any other channel on the planet! Because every tool uses its own sweet metrics definitions, cookie rules, session start and end rules and so much more. If you don't kill 25% of your metrics each year, you are doing something wrong. Don't fall for the FUD. success measures.

Analytics 118

Analytics Web Metrics Channel 118