Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Website Grader – A free online tool that grades your site against key metrics like performance, mobile readiness, SEO, and security. It is imperative that you have lead generation opportunities throughout your website. Are you present on all relevant social channels? Helpful tools. Local SEO – When relevant.

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ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2022

Marketing teams capitalize on this fact with lead generation campaigns. More than half allocate most of their budget to securing leads. The problem with lead generation is that, as Brian Gleeson notes , “we’ve mislabeled user actions like forms-fills as ‘leads.’”. And they put a lot of stock in them.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 24, 2022

In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I’m doing a solo show, and I’m going to talk about the topic of analytics — specifically tracking results, either for your own business or clients you may work with. 2:58] What metrics to look at throughout the different levels of the marketing funnel. [3:32]

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ConversionXL

APRIL 18, 2017

Today, there are so many ways, and the channel isn’t the important part. Though, blogging has the benefit of SEO, which lasts a lot longer than other channels. My advice: referrals are great, but have another lead generation channel as well. Lead quantity can be a vanity metric.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 24, 2021

A content marketing manager’s role may focus on overseeing the production and execution of content across social media, the company’s website, email, and other channels. A digital product marketing manager’s role will focus on a tech product, ensuring all channel communications are optimized and aligned with its positioning strategy.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

In liquid markets, most of the calories expended on technology and analytics are focused on trade selection, or “ origination ”. I walk through below how progressive investors are using technology and analytics throughout all of their operations. The 11 Steps of Investing in Private Companies. 1) Manage the firm . 3) Raise capital.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 24, 2017

Everyone has railed against these practices ( including us , many times), but it still seems that much of the industry is focused on short term metrics and surface level changes. Will all businesses be able to configure their testing tool to their analytics and ensure the data they are recording is correct?

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 31, 2014

Some of you out there may find this Google Analytics feature overview to be mostly review. From the time you set up your account and put your tracking code on your site, Google Analytics, starts to capture and display a lot of data. The rest are based on data points that are part of standard Google Analytics collection processes.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 30, 2013

Wrong metric. The problem is with the metrics used – direct sales are a very bad metric to use for social. Blasting “buy my crap” on social media will not lead to anything. So direct sales numbers are not a good metric to look at when it comes to social media, but what is then? Lead generation.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 26, 2016

The Hierarchy of Metrics written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. I spent this past weekend with a group of Duct Tape Marketing Consultants determined to gain a better understanding of how to use metrics to guide our own business and increase the value we bring to client engagements. There’s no shortage of candidates.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Generate more leads and use scoring to identify who is most qualified. Gather customer data across various channels and devices to have a more comprehensive profile. Align better with your sales team to define what a qualified lead looks like. Lead scoring and nurturing capabilities. Image courtesy of Listrak. .

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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.

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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.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 21, 2014

Watching the growth of digital analytics over the last several years has been both exciting and disturbing. Disturbing, because many people & organizations want to compete on analytics, but are not doing the right things or adopting the right thinking about analytics. 15% of companies don’t track ROI (Return on Investment).

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ConversionXL

JUNE 20, 2019

The best video hosting platform varies business by business, depending on factors like: How often you’re uploading; How you plan to use the video; The viewing experience you want to give your audience; The analytics you need; The cash you have to spend. Simply sign up using your Google account, create a channel , and upload your video files.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 25, 2018

But demand generation isn’t a pile of tactics. It’s hard to do, which is why most demand generation advice merely advocates adding another channel or tool to the heap. Instead, it identifies the fault lines within tactics and between tactics that keep demand generation campaigns from amounting to more than their component parts.

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Occam's Razor

JULY 1, 2008

This post bravely attempts to: 1 ] Highlight the importance of holistic multichannel analytics. That's why multichannel analytics is so important. The effort you invest in measuring offline impact will finally help your company understand how valuable the online channel is (or not!). Not impossible. Two words: Primary Key.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

If you are using social media marketing as a channel to grow your business, awesome! There are so many metrics you could be measuring on social media, so let’s cull down the list and make sure that the most important ones are at least being eyeballed. Reach is used as the denominator for the engagement rate metric (see below).

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ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2022

It’s not a channel, campaign, or tactic. ABM is a full-court press to build powerful engagement with contacts on the channels that they’re most active. ABM doesn’t stop at lead generation or new opportunities. Does your company clearly understand current CAC , LTV, CAC payback period, and other core growth metrics?

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ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2022

The channels. email nurturing, retargeting) require specific channels. Others span multiple channels. Which channels have the best engagement? The metrics. B2B demand generation focuses on ROI. Vanity metrics are less important. 7 demand generation tactics to grow your pipeline.

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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 even if you work for a multi-channel company you are likely in the "web," "interactive," "internet," or "digital" division. That data is not in Google Analytics.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

In the tactics section, list your sales channels and describe how you will be selling your products. You might also get immediate access to channels that might have otherwise taken years to break into. In terms of marketing, you should try to stretch your budget to a few different advertising channels. Do it yourself.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Email generates as much as $42 for every dollar spent , and is a top-three marketing channel for 87% of B2B and 76% of B2C marketers. Children’s education company Talu Tales uses its social channels to do just that—in this case, promoting free activity sheets: . This can be through subscriber-only discounts: Image source.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 15, 2016

To begin with, let’s illustrate the sales process with a simple graphic of the funnel that comes from an excellent post on Stratechery about marketing channels. An easy integration with Google Analytics will let you see which customers ended up converting and you will soon be able to write your own success formula. Lead Generation.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 30, 2018

The key is to connect user research to an improved user experience and, in turn, an increase in customer retention, leads, or any other metric for which C-suite members are accountable. Lead generation sites can expect to double their conversion rates. User research is the foundation for those gains.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 8, 2018

In Learning Analytics: Measurement Innovations to Support Employee Development , authors John Maddox, Jean Martin, and Mark Van Buren reveal that, when it comes to training, some 96% of CEOs want to measure one aspect more than any other: impact. Sales and marketing tend to have the same metrics,” explained Phillips. Trend analysis.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

I joined as employee 14 and spent a few years at this analytics startup, which was founded by Hiten Shah and Neil Patel. 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.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2022

Snowflake decides which channels to use according to industry verticals and where their buyers are likely to be. Using predictive analytics, modeling tools, and SDR feedback, Invoca drafted a 600-person contact list for their pre-show outreach. Schneider Electric (SE) had several ABM campaigns spread across multiple siloed channels.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 15, 2017

That is, you need to know which channels cause clicks to which articles, which articles convert visitors into leads, and which leads convert into customers. You can do it with nothing more than Google Analytics, a spreadsheet, and some simple math. Leads generated. First, let’s define ROI. Conversion rate.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 15, 2017

That is, you need to know which channels cause clicks to which articles, which articles convert visitors into leads, and which leads convert into customers. You can do it with nothing more than Google Analytics, a spreadsheet, and some simple math. Leads generated. First, let’s define ROI. Conversion rate.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 4, 2016

When most people hear “web analytics,” they tend to think about counting visitors, transactions, and conversion rate on a transactional site, such as an eCommerce store. The typical end goal for businesses with informational sites is to use the site to generate more leads. Measuring the Performance of Informational Sites.

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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.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 19, 2010

For example, you’ve probably done searches in Google to find what websites rank well for the search terms you want to bring leads to your business. That’s a great way to get in front of that traffic, throw whatever lead generation process you have in front of that traffic, and convert those people to customers. Increase traffic.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

The point is that in an age when even the kid selling lemonade on a street corner has his own YouTube channel, you had better believe that you need to be producing good content—and lots of it—if you want to stand out. Let’s start with the most obvious metric—traffic to your website. 7: Media-specific metrics. 1: Website traffic.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 3, 2017

There are a lot of metrics you must dig into. Thus, we have compiled a list of key metrics (in no particular order of importance) that you should pay heed to while evaluating the overall performance of your content marketing program. You can find these answers about the consumption of your content by evaluating the following 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. You end up paying substantial amounts of money to your analytics/big data vendor – for questionable value.

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