Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 13, 2009

I am absolutely thrilled that my book Web Analytics 2.0 I only had one job, at Intuit, when I wrote my first web analytics book. The Pitch: I invite you to consider buying my second web analytics book. It is not just a business book, though every dna strand in this book is more about online marketing than online analytics.

Analytics 71

Analytics Web Technical Review Metrics 71

Up and Running

APRIL 17, 2018

B2B ecommerce sales , (businesses selling directly to other businesses) generate three times as much revenue as B2C, at $7.7 Implement SEO best practices. Using SEO best practices is like putting a bright, flashing neon sign on your storefront. Check out the video below for an easy-to-understand definition of SEO.

SEO 80

SEO eCommerce Analytics Software Review 80

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Everything they do is scrutinized by its potential impact on scalable growth… An effective growth hacker also needs to be disciplined to follow a growth hacking process of prioritizing ideas (their own and others in the company), testing the ideas, and being analytical enough to know which tested growth drivers to keep and which ones to cut.

Retention 113

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Marketing metrics are a competitive advantage. You have to track metrics you can act on. In this article, you’ll learn which metrics to measure to understand and improve marketing performance. Table of contents What are digital marketing metrics? KPIs vs. digital marketing metrics 1. – Seth Godin.

Metrics 105

Metrics Analytics Marketing Acquisition 105

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 6, 2010

As we spring to action full of passion I wanted to share with you all a short list of things that will expand your little world of online marketing & web analytics. Change is hard, even if we know that we should be executing a multiplicity strategy to win in the web analytics 2.0 That's sucking. That's sucking.

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Analytics Web Campaign PPC 99

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 20, 2010

End of a minor web analytics lesson on going beyond obvious metrics and never, ever, never forgetting context. How do you measure SEO performance on a page level? I'd like to know how well my seo efforts for a particular pages have performed. Log into the Advanced Segmentation tool in your web analytics tool.

Analytics 90

Analytics Search SEO Metrics 90

ConversionXL

MARCH 25, 2020

A B2B website that educates potential buyers isn’t a personal “weblog.” If I need to find an article on creating a custom dimension in Google Analytics, I don’t care if you published it five years ago. I ran a full technical SEO audit (based on Annie Cushing’s wonderful template ) to ensure there wasn’t an underlying issue.

Analytics 68

Analytics Metrics Technical Review Search 68

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?

Analytics 85

Analytics Aggregator SQL Cloud 85

ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2022

The average B2B buyer has 27 brand interactions before deciding. For example, a marketing agency creating an ebook on “SEO for beginners” may attract 500 leads, a win for marketing. But how many of these leads are marketing qualified leads (MQLs) and how many are people with no buying authority looking to learn a bit about SEO?

Demand 95

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Are there use cases for voice search in B2B? Notably, Dean continued, “the growth in voice isn’t coming 100% from smart speakers like Google Home, which aren’t super relevant for B2B companies anyway. Instead, a good chunk of all searches are becoming voice searches on mobile phones and—important for B2B—desktops.”.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Talk to any B2B marketer about attribution and they’ll either roll their eyes or rant about how it’s important but hard to get right—long lead cycles, multiple contacts from a single organization, etc. As a group, we’ve gotten a firmer grasp on top-of-the-funnel metrics. This is specific to Google Analytics.

B2B 131

B2B Marketing Analytics Campaign 131

Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Progress in digital marketing and analytics in either scenario becomes painful (the organization / systems / thinking is simply not in the optimal position). In this post I want to arm you with the evolution you should undertake in your companies when it comes to marketing and analytics. It is a part of multi-channel analytics chapter.

Analytics 165

Analytics Marketing Channel Metrics 165

Occam's Razor

APRIL 21, 2014

about digital marketing and analytics. We will cover questions in four areas: business/strategy challenges, analytics/technical challenges, career/self-development questions and rampant speculation. Even the worst analytics configuration in the world will most likely allow you to measure cart and checkout abandonment rate.

Analytics 131

Analytics Marketing Campaign Metrics 131

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 1, 2022

95% of B2B buyers are not ready to buy your product right now. When B2B buyers are considering a purchase, they spend only 17% of their time meeting with potential suppliers. According to Walker: “B2B buyers are discovering, researching, and evaluating products in places companies can’t track.”. via Revenue Champions].

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

We'll start with digital at the highest strategic level, which leads us into content marketing, from there it is a quick hop over to the challenge of metrics and silos, followed by a recommendation to optimize for the global maxima, and we end with the last two visuals that cover social investment and social content strategy.

Analytics 154

Analytics Marketing Social Media Technical Review 154

Occam's Razor

APRIL 25, 2011

Your SEO strategy is buying links, expired domains, et. It irritates me to no end when I hear perfectly smart SEOs stuck in the 1940s. Now switching to something a bit more near and dear to my heart, analytics "crimes against humanity" 8. Doing anything on the web without a Web Analytics Measurement Model.

Marketing 126

Marketing Flash Analytics Web 126

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

This is where Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) comes into place. SEO is essentially the process of improving a website’s ranking on search engine results page. Let’s say your company is in the B2B Software as a Service (SaaS) space. Website tracking and analytics can also identify when prospects return to your website.

Sales 100

Sales Technical Review SEO B2B 100

ConversionXL

MAY 1, 2019

Trend lines aren’t impressive if they track metrics that appear distant from business goals. That’s true even among B2B customers who are supposedly more rational than their B2C counterparts. Similarly, for B2B sellers, most consideration takes place away from your site, in meeting rooms with decision-makers you’ll never meet.

Marketing 124

Marketing Sales Cycle Retention Differentiation 124

ConversionXL

MARCH 3, 2021

For this reason, getting more out of your PPC spend is not just about properly optimizing; it’s about using all of that PPC data to shape a smarter SEO strategy. In this article, I’ll break down how to use your Google Ads campaigns as prospecting tools for SEO. Why PPC is an effective short term strategy, but SEO is the long game.

PPC 146

PPC SEO Campaign Analytics 146

Up and Running

MARCH 14, 2017

Make sure you track opens and click-throughs, either using integrated plugins such as Yesware or built-in analytics of your chosen email marketing provider. If you’re good with the phone and your solution is B2B, nothing keeps you from going through some industry association’s directory or trade fair floor plan and look for ideal clients.

Business Plan 94

Business Plan PPC Lean Campaign 94

YoungUpstarts

JULY 9, 2014

But before you pass “Go,” it’s important to make sure you haven’t overlooked anything that will embarrass your company, damage your SEO or cost you money to fix. The title of your page is the most important element for SEO, and it lets users know what they are reading. Analytics tracking. Titles and metadata. Page load speed.

Metadata 173

Metadata SEO Software Review Web Development 173

Occam's Razor

JULY 22, 2013

My solution to these problems was to create a simple framework we can use to put our customers first, evaluate our marketing programs, and right-align our view of success (metrics). If I'm doing SEO for keyword cluster xyz, what am I really solving for? Oh, and what is that small SEO effort at the very top?

Framework 163

Framework Marketing Metrics Audience 163

Occam's Razor

MAY 20, 2013

" comfort zone, and out of your Google Analytics, Site Catalyst, WebTrends worldview silo. Part of the reason is that the data you to which you have access narrows your worldview – "Hey, all I have is Google Analytics, so all I'll look at is Google Analytics data!" That data is not in Google Analytics.

Analytics 139

Analytics Aggregator Channel B2B 139

Occam's Razor

JULY 1, 2013

Would you believe me when I say that your digital analytics data, from Google Analytics or WebTrends et. We do have A LOT of data in our analytics tools. But sometimes going outside our analytics tools can yield non-normal insights that can deliver a competitive advantage. Neither is an example of just site analytics.

Search 135

Search Analytics PPC Green 135

VC Cafe

MARCH 15, 2016

It works both in a B2B and B2C context, as some studies show that 44% of online consumers say that having questions answered by a live person while in the middle of an online purchase is one of the most important features a Web site can offer. Establish the discipline of tracking metrics weekly and set incentives wisely .

Sales 60

Sales Marketing Sales Cycle B2C 60

Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

No touching Google Analytics. No going to web analytics conferences. The result will be an astonishingly high level of focus for your digital analytics work (even on day one) and hyper-relevant insights to the business. Don't open Google Analytics or Yahoo Web Analytics yet! No tweeting for help.

Web 138

Web Analytics Technical Review Affiliate 138

ConversionXL

APRIL 22, 2015

Let’s say you run a B2B site, and drive your visitors toward a quote request page. Conversion optimization is being SEO-fied more and more: rubbish content is starting to be more widespread than high quality content – and people looking get into CRO can’t tell the difference. B2B and B2C.

Analytics 48

Analytics Technical Review Conversion Framework 48

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.

Analytics 100

Analytics Social Media Marketing Media 100

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Adobe Analytics is part of Adobe’s Marketing Suite, and it’s a powerful platform. Formerly known as Adobe SiteCatalyst, the tool has pretty much everything you could want, including real-time analytics, mobile app analytics, funnel tracking, and Predictive Intelligence. It has the potential to be a fantastic tool.”.

Software Review 48

Software Review Technical Review Development Team Review Conversion 48

Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Web Analytics blog was to pull us up 10,000 feet to do something we do less than 1% of the time in the web analytics world – look at the bigger business picture. It was called: Secret To Winning With Web Analytics? Secret To Winning Web Analytics: 10 Starting Points For A Fabulous Start! Starting Right!

Web 139

Web Analytics eCommerce Campaign 139

ConversionXL

DECEMBER 3, 2018

The “classic” idea of content marketing—cranking out SEO-focused articles, ranking for hundreds of keywords, generating visitors, leads, and paying customers—doesn’t work in all industries. Many B2B companies run into the same problem, particularly those that are: Complex, with products that require deep expertise to understand and use.

B2B 133

B2B Marketing SEO Search 133

ConversionXL

APRIL 12, 2017

On day one, we heard from UX and digital analytics experts. Jared Spool: Is Design Metrically Opposed? Useless measures and silly metrics. Metric: A measure we track (usually over time). Analytic: A measure software can track. A metric should tell you what you will do differently. pic.twitter.com/T2OjzFm2U8.

San Antonio 86

San Antonio Metrics B2B Analytics 86

Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Effectively measuring and understanding your CAC and CLTV metrics are key to future success. Bessemer SaaS Law #1: Your key monthly business metrics are: CMRR (Committed Monthly Recurring Revenue), Churn, and Cash flow - “Bookings” is for suckers. Brian, Paglo www.paglo.com. Great list! Great list! Philippe Botteri.

Software Review 48

Software Review North America Europe Metrics 48

Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 3, 2012

Check out any B2B, B2Q, M2Z brand. Use those metrics to optimize your social existence. Bonus: Are you tracking all the goals in your web analytics tool? Bonus: Facebook Advertising / Marketing: Best Metrics, ROI, Business Value. Ranked #1 in Google was the product she was holding in her hand (yea, SEO!).

Framework 147

Framework Marketing Search Mobile 147

Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Ok, so perhaps as the author of two bestselling books on analytics I love it a little bit more! In each case the creator did something interesting that made me wonder how I can use their strategy in my daily efforts in service of digital marketing and analytics. You can hover over each box to get a sense of the key metrics.

Analytics 143

Analytics Sierra Leone Channel Conversion 143

marketingland.com

JULY 11, 2012

Analytics |. New On Google Analytics Pages Reports - Entrance Metric 48 people have tweeted this article. SEO for e-Commerce: Challenges and Solutions - July 31. Enterprise SEO Tools - The Marketers Guide. Whitepapers: The B2B Marketers Roadmap to SEO Success. Search Engine News, SEO & PPC Info.

Email 49

Email Mobile SEO Search 49

steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Poplytics – online surveys and analytics AskYourTargetMarket – market research surveys SurveyMonkey - granddaddy of on-line surveys Amazon Mechanical Turk – you can set up a question and get answers PickFu – A/B testing $5 for 50 opinions Collaboration Dropbox – store, sync, and, share files online.

Software Review 110

Software Review Startup Silicon Valley Analytics 110