Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 21, 2013

Aggregated search engine level analysis. This is a simple custom report I use to look at the aggregated view: As the report above demonstrates, you can still report on your other metrics, like Unique Visitors, Bounce Rates, Per Visit Value and many others, at an aggregated level. Organic landing pages report. Ditto for Clicks.

Search 154

Search SEO Analytics Engineer 154

VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Creators decouple their non-standardised skills from the aggregator and hope to become themselves a brand. Trend to watch : an equivalent to MCNs (Multi Channel Networks) on the early days of YouTube where creators band together to generate economies of scale (and share revenue). Gen Z and the 1% rule. Creators Platform Dependency.

Aggregator 207

Aggregator Vertical Audience Seed Stage 207

Occam's Razor

MAY 2, 2017

Outcomes: Revenue | Ideas Funded Behavior: Path Length | Cart Abandonment Rate Acquisition: Assisted Conversions | Share of Search. Every ecommerce site has to obsess about Revenue. Remember: All data in aggregate is crap, segment or suck. With advertising revenue in a tailspin, it is more important than ever.

Metrics 141

Metrics Acquisition eCommerce Analytics 141

Occam's Razor

JULY 18, 2011

Measure retention rate over time in aggregate – or for optimal health, segment retention rate – and measure it for the various objectives you have set for your email marketing program. Not revenue. Profitability = (revenue generated – campaign cost – cost of goods sold) / # of emails sent.

Metrics 137

Metrics Campaign Email Marketing 137

Agile VC

JUNE 5, 2011

They’ve grown from nothing to >$2B in revenue in 30 months time, making the company among the fastest growing businesses in the histroy of the world. How They Make Money: Groupon keeps a share of the coupon value (typically 40-50%) as its net revenue (1). Financial Snapshot: 2010 Revenue: $713M. to the merchant.

North America 100

North America Chicago Boston Silicon Valley 100

Hunter Walker

OCTOBER 13, 2022

What “deep integration” benefits does a partner get for working through Substack: ability to make use of the data about the publication, its subscribers in aggregate, and even the individual reader in order to maximize the performance of the specific ‘app.’ Books, music, and other content downloads. Branded creator merchandise.

Semantic 72

Semantic API Aggregator Partner 72

Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

A good business analyst will measure how many clicks came through from Facebook, and she/he will also measure the conversion rate, revenue, etc., Revenue per Facebook-referred visitor (staying with last click attribution for now). Number of downloads of our latest mobile app from Facebook visitors. But not, ever, in aggregate.].

Metrics 165

Metrics Advertising Marketing Social Media 165

Occam's Razor

JULY 1, 2013

More revenue! #2: Extra work for you to download the data and aggregate it, but it is very valuable data so put in the extra effort. The Ad Groups view is pretty helpful from an aggregated perspective. The data is aggregated, but remember you are not trying to pinpoint the last click here. You can't.

Search 135

Search Analytics PPC Green 135

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

ConversionXL

APRIL 29, 2013

If you’re respectful of that, the longer you keep in contact with them and provide value, research shows ”Companies that automate lead management see a 10% or greater increase in revenue in 6-9 months.” In the span of four months, SeoMoz increased conversions by 170% and generated over $1 Million in additional revenue.

Campaign 130

Campaign Email Framework Clickthrough 130

VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

Content providers and owners facing diminishing revenues from their SD sales, due to increasing demand for HD content, can now restore the full economic value of their vast archives, by transforming them to True HD. Unlike other companies, we are a true digital record label, not aggregators.

Securities and Exchange Commission 133

Securities and Exchange Commission Technical Review Software Review 133

Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 14, 2012

In aggregate, the various revenue streams would continue to support the creation and distribution of high production value content. Interestingly enough, a key theme resonant throughout the evening was the eventual consolidation of the industry.

Business Model 159

Business Model Distribution Aggregator Channel 159

Occam's Razor

AUGUST 9, 2016

You can start with all the standard reports, but perhaps the fastest way for you to start exploring the best features is to download some of the wonderful solutions in the Google Analytics Solutions Gallery. It has been a great way to immediately influence revenue for my ecommerce engagements. Jump-Start Your Learning. Take a break.

Analytics 60

Analytics Metrics eCommerce PPC 60

Up and Running

JANUARY 14, 2022

That said, failing companies are often less aware of the amount of revenue generated by sales of products or services. Allowing financial data from individual sources to be captured and displayed in one place saves the manual tasks of having to download transactions from each source and importing them into the software individually.

Small Business 91

Small Business Software Balance Sheet API 91

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 11, 2020

You can listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts , Google podcasts , or wherever else you like to download podcasts. All the other things that matter, aggregating talent, getting people to care, all of that stuff that's hard in a boom and easier now. Many of you who read my podcast launch post requested full transcripts as well.

Silicon Valley 68

Silicon Valley Technical Review Government .Net 68

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

After a somewhat disappointing congress in 2009, in which companies showcased products from previous years, this year is expected to be faster, greener and ‘cloudier’ Looking at the conference agenda , it’s not hard to spot the trends for 2010: Mobile Clouds – additional storage and new revenue streams to operators.

Mobile 109

Mobile IP SMS Networking 109

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

Another pro-tip – Keep everything short – small up-front capital requirement, short sales cycles, short payment terms and recurring revenue cycles. Similarly, to the way, we at Vista Rooms went ahead and created our mobile app on Instagram, no need to worry about downloads, or upgrades or coding. Barters and Associations.

Bootstrapping 100

Bootstrapping Cofounder Startup Sales Cycle 100

Start Up Blog

AUGUST 13, 2020

The laws of nature tell us much about piracy and lost revenue. When we send or download or even stream something, we are literally sending a bunch of computer code to the other computers, which then re-build it at the other end. If we don’t distribute the output, it goes bad. The longer we wait to use any resource, the more we lose.

Distribution 48

Distribution Channel Aggregator Global 48

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. We are going to continue our quest today. Pretty cool, right?

Analytics 145

Analytics Green Metrics Web 145

Mike Michalowicz

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Be sure you understand how to make every aspect of the business repeatable and scalable: aggregation, ingredient purchasing, production, fulfillment, customer experience and customer retention. Bringing in revenue is the hardest part of any business. I think more important to focus on revenue than simply cutting costs.

Balance Sheet 60

Balance Sheet Incubator Cofounder Salary 60

pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

But the angels who’ve staked their funds on spreading bits of money all over the Valley are increasingly anxious that only 20 percent of their deals — in aggregate — will get the chance to keep going. iOS App Store revenue still dwarfs Google Play’s, but the challenger is catching up fast. November 29, 2012.

Technical Review 93

Technical Review Silicon Valley Incubator Syria 93

Up and Running

AUGUST 12, 2015

What is revenue going to look like? A persona is an aggregate of all the traits that your customers have, so that it becomes your most common customer. I want to have enough revenue to hire a manager. We’ve got our ‘Forecast’ tab, and within the ‘Forecast’ tab, we’ve got our Revenue Forecast.

Forecast 60

Forecast Video Business Plan United States 60

Up and Running

MAY 1, 2014

Instead, they prefer to buy through large distribution companies that aggregate products from lots of suppliers and then make that inventory available to retailers to purchase. A typical P&L will be a spreadsheet that includes the following: Sales (or Income or Revenue). Business Planning Tools and Downloads.

Business Plan 163

Business Plan Forecast Balance Sheet Distribution 163

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 7, 2014

11: Close to zero aggregated analysis exists, everything's segmented. #10: If the company has the revenues or size, it is important to hire for both roles to ensure the ROA will be positive. Bonus : Download: Three awesome analytics custom reports. 11: Close to zero aggregated analysis exists, everything's segmented.

Analytics 140

Analytics Web Metrics DC 140

Occam's Razor

AUGUST 12, 2013

MCA-O2S covers the challenge of attributing the offline impact (revenue/brand value/butts in seats/phone calls/etc) driven by online marketing and advertising. You don't have to do attribution analysis for all your conversions in aggregate. You do too. #3. Choose any conversion you consider to be important.

Channel 161

Channel Analytics Campaign Conversion 161

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 12, 2015

If you would like to, start by downloading three of my favourite custom reports , or these three paid search campaign analysis custom reports. All data in aggregate is crap. If you are just getting started, download three of my favourite segments and go from there. You, then, won't go on random fishing expeditions.

Analytics 60

Analytics Metrics Web Leadership 60

techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Respondents deemed between 12%-16% of companies generating revenues to be essentially “worthless” and deemed 20%-26% of their pre-revenue investments to be “worthless.” Spend the time raising money yourself, using oblique sources of revenue such as contract work or any one of a hundred others. Add to this that 72.7% Translation?

Venture Capital 62

Venture Capital Technical Review Sweat Equity Valuation 62

Occam's Razor

MAY 19, 2014

Conversion Rate is money, sometimes directly as revenue and other times indirectly via Leads collected. The purists amongst you might notice that I'm really using Revenue as the BFF. Revenue <-> Profitability. at a level of aggregation or granularity you need, and send it into your digital analytics tools.

Metrics 159

Metrics Analytics SEC Acquisition 159

VC Cafe

JUNE 22, 2010

The Discretix Downloadable Secure Player allows CSPs to overcome the dependency on pre-installed device applications. ForNova provides a B2B turnkey solution to enable building aggregation solutions for classifieds eCommerce, travel and many other specific content verticals.

Media 145

Media Social Network Flash 145

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!). Here’s a blog post: 3 Awesome, Downloadable, Custom Web Analytics Reports. Here’s my most recent blog post (with downloadable segments): 3 Advanced Web Analytics Visitor Segments: Non-Flirts, Social, Long Tail.

Customer 122

Customer Analytics Metrics SEO 122

www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

The company has just missed its quarterly revenue forecast. Lets take an example, and look at how they might do this: They will be able to tell you that revenue is composed of deals. To compute revenue, you multiply average deal size by number of deals. Bookings is the pre-cursor to Revenue. Obvious, isn’t it?

Metrics 55

Metrics Design Entrepreneur Startup 55

Occam's Razor

AUGUST 13, 2012

The central team is responsible for analytics frameworks, centralized contracts (tools, consultants), for aggregated company level analysis, complex project execution (experimentation, media mix models etc) and for setting standards. Examples: Improve the checkout process (small work, big revenue impact). Focus on doing analysis.

Analytics 124

Analytics Channel Metrics Web 124

www.kalzumeus.com

AUGUST 13, 2012

If you believe that cynical Internet-types would be less likely to download it if it were phrased that way, you could hypothetically A/B test that, and you would hypothetically lose.). Statistically speaking, you’re probably reading it either through a feedreader or on an aggregator like Hacker News. Kalzumeus Podcast Ep.

Email 54

Email Software Review Software Campaign 54

ConversionXL

MARCH 20, 2019

While it doesn’t publish prices publicly, an interview with the Demandbase CEO in 2017 claimed that the average revenue per customer per month was $20,000. Aggregate that data at an account level to know which accounts to target. The aggregation of individual behavior at a company level was the critical innovation.

Software Review 117

Software Review Software Marketing IP 117

Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Be prepared to cross the desert - SaaS requires R&D and sales expense up front for a multi-year stream of revenue, so it demands enough investment capital to fund 4+ years of runway. Farming is also often overlooked, but can help grow customer accounts and revenues from 30% upwards (if successful). Posted by Philippe Botteri.

Software Review 48

Software Review North America Europe Metrics 48

VC Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2011

This highest quality of the traffic information, never achieved before, together with the perfect applications generate significant revenues for the operator and maintain customers’ loyalty. It has been downloaded by 2 million time, requiring less CPU processing than competing text input apps. Craze Productions. GoNet Systems.

Mobile 103

Mobile Securities and Exchange Commission Flash IP 103

betashop.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

From the start we said that we would never make a decision as to what features to build or what products to sell based on revenue alone, rather we would focus on things that make our customers smile and by doing so lots and lots of revenue will fall out over time. Download on iTunes. But it should never be a surprise.

Technical Review 108

Technical Review Technology Software Review Valuation 108