Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Thats the conclusion Ive come to after watching tons of online products fail for a complete lack of customers. Our goal is to find out whether customers are interested in your product by offering to give (or even sell) it to them, and then failing to deliver on that promise. Enable Google Analytics tracking.

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Occam's Razor

JUNE 4, 2012

Custom reports on the other hand are, well, hand crafted by you for a specific purpose with a set of guiding principles (" Acquisition, Behavior, Outcomes! ") In this post I want to share with you three insightful custom reports for effective paid search (PPC) analysis. One of the hallmarks of our course (my course!)

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 27, 2015

But now your conversion rate looks the same as when you started. Another scenario: you’ve been optimizing for 12 months and your revenue per customer has increased by 2%. How can you tell what caused that – optimization, SEM, seasonality, word-of-mouth, or something else? Conversion Rates Are Non-Stationary Data.

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Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 6, 2010

To share with you three custom reports that I find to be super valuable when I am doing web data analysis. I love custom reports. With that motivational speech, :), below are three custom reports that are of incredible value. Web Analytics or Site Catalyst or WebTrends.]. #1: It will open in Google Analytics.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Or you might actually see some early benefits and more conversions (i.e. If your revenue model is the sale of a service or product, your goal could be to get your cost per conversion below a certain amount after 90 days. Define Conversions Properly. A conversion is an action that a user performs on your site.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2015

Startups should begin by selecting just a few of the vast array of social media offerings out there, and customize based on results. Ask yourself where are the influencers in your market, the majority of your target customers, and what type of interaction will be most productive to your business? Don’t forget the metrics and analytics.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 13, 2022

For conversion optimization , the main difference is the variability of Internet traffic. Results compare conversion rates among the variations based on a single change. Some 74% of optimizers with a structured approach to conversion also claim improved sales. Bugs—if they’re around—are a conversion killer. Probably not.

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Seeing Both Sides

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

The Growth Manager function typically lives at the intersection of marketing and product development, and is focused on customer and user acquisition, activation, retention, and upsell. They work cross-functionally with engineering, design, analytics, product management, operations, and marketing to design and execute growth initiatives.

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Seeing Both Sides

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

The Growth Manager function typically lives at the intersection of marketing and product development, and is focused on customer and user acquisition, activation, retention, and upsell. They work cross-functionally with engineering, design, analytics, product management, operations, and marketing to design and execute growth initiatives.

Management 20

Management Analytics Technical Review Framework 20

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Prospect trial to conversion rates fell with the longer trials. WordStream confirmed that seven days was plenty of trial time, and they didn’t need to waste resources chasing customers down a longer funnel. No changes were made to the customer journey, and it had nothing to do with revenue lift. The results?

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Occam's Razor

JULY 1, 2008

This post bravely attempts to: 1 ] Highlight the importance of holistic multichannel analytics. conversion rate (average as reported by shop.org) and you are dutifully reporting our revenue of $1 million as a result. That's why multichannel analytics is so important. Not impossible. Well just assume. :).

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 22, 2011

Here you'll find all my blog posts categorized into a structure that will hopefully make it easy for you to discover new content, find answers to your questions, or simply wallow in some excellent analytics narratives. " ~ Digital Analytics: "Am I thinking right? Qualitative Analysis: "What's Voice of Customer?

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Eric Friedman

APRIL 23, 2014

I have been interviewing a number of candidates for different roles within Foursquare which have resulted in some very interesting conversations. I have gotten into some great conversations around my answer and I thought it was worth writing about here. that all use this dashboard information to speak to customers.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 13, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, September 13, 2008 SEM on five dollars a day How do you build a new product with constant customer feedback while simultaneously staying under the radar? SEM is a simple idea. Slowly, over time, we optimized (or eliminated) each step in the process of becoming a customer by giving us money.

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Occam's Razor

JUNE 6, 2007

I am thrilled to say that my book Web Analytics: An Hour A Day has been published and is now widely available. Five Reasons Why You Should Buy Web Analytics: An Hour A Day: Web Analytics: An Hour A Day for the first time provides a Practitioner's in the trenches perspective on web analytics. There I said it.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 17, 2011

If you have a website, your potential customers can find you. If you don’t have a website, your potential customers will find your competitors. A website is the hub of a small business’s marketing efforts through other channels (print, SEO, SEM, email, direct, mobile, etc.). Implement Simple e-Commerce Tools.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2013

Finally your customers. Lots of ways great and small and the ideas are endless: for companies with a relatively smaller customer base, you might shoot them a card, send them a small gift, or even invite them down to your company party. Hey, even a company-branded Gulfstream may be appropriate for some od you out there! Ah yes, them.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 17, 2011

If you have a website, your potential customers can find you. If you don’t have a website, your potential customers will find your competitors. A website is the hub of a small business’s marketing efforts through other channels (print, SEO, SEM, email, direct, mobile, etc.). Implement Simple e-Commerce Tools.

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Small Business SEM SEO Social Network 84

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

By now we all know that the largest part of the online spend has been SEM (search engine marketing) where people buy CPC (cost per click) links to display alongside the “organic&# search results in the search engine. It should lead to higher conversion rates and happier customers.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Advertising with AdWords allows you to reach new customers at the precise moment when they are searching for your type of products and services. The Center has useful free guides on writing strong text ads, choosing good keywords, adjusting your budgets, tracking your results, and improving your conversions. Google Analytics.

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 28, 2006

It measures the customer interaction in a very small number of web pages, probably one for cart and two to three for checkout. Inspite of its absolutely adorable qualities it is surprising that this metric does not get as much prominence as, say, conversion rate ( stop obsessing post , best practices post ).

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Customer personas are often talked about in marketing and product design, but they’re almost never done well. A research-based archetypal representative of your customer based on various attributes, attitudes, and characteristics. They can be utilized across teams— UX , CRO, social media, SEM, SEO , etc.,

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ConversionXL

MARCH 7, 2017

A research-based archetypal representative of your customer based on various attributes, attitudes, and characteristics. They’re also known as buyer personas, customer personas, customer profiles, or just personas depending who is selling the idea to you. can all benefit from a better idea of the customer.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 24, 2018

Ahrefs is one of the best Search Engine Optimization ( SEO ) and Search Engine Marketing ( SEM ) tools available for anyone who prefers to make data-based decisions in their marketing strategies. Want to use a real powerhouse tool to reach new customers and monumentally grow your business? Search marketing. Google Adwords.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 24, 2018

Ahrefs is one of the best Search Engine Optimization ( SEO ) and Search Engine Marketing ( SEM ) tools available for anyone who prefers to make data-based decisions in their marketing strategies. Want to use a real powerhouse tool to reach new customers and monumentally grow your business? Search marketing. Google Adwords.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 14, 2022

Many of the webinar platforms aren’t created with the customer in mind first. So you can imagine sales, demos, pitches, onboarding, training, product updates, customer interviews, you know, things like that. But what I care about and what gives my business longevity is if your customer likes you, not, if you like me.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 2, 2015

A/B/n tests are controlled experiments run on 1 or more variations + the original page that directly compare conversion rate means based on the changes made between variations. Web Analytics Analysis. Bugs – if they’re around – are your main conversion killer. Web analytics analysis is next. Technical Analysis.

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 26, 2008

You know exactly what is necessary in order for your company to achieve Web Analytics 2.0 " Or sometimes " My manager simply does not get it / Analytics / Web / Me / Anything." Senior Managers are biased towards themselves, but they bow to customer data and competitive opportunities. 2: Capture Voice of Customer.

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Brandanew

JANUARY 8, 2016

Social analytics and video marketing are likely to be the key marketing trends for 2016. The pace of technology has altered the way we view digital and connect with our customers. We talked to global social media experts and influencers to share with us their top social analytics tools for the coming year.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

Cutting out noise and creating a PPC strategy that drives business: It’s the goal of SEM professionals everywhere. This time I’m going to do a deep dive on a particular pair of keyword-specific tactics that I’ve found can really drive higher conversions, both short term & long term. site analytics data.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 4, 2016

Now, before you go into a click-induced coma, understand that my belief is you should be going as deep as possible in one or two channels and looking towards new channels as a way to amplify where most of your awareness and customers come from today. Extole – SaaS platform w/optimized sharing & custom codes.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

If you’ve worked in web analytics for a while, you’ve suffered the pain of building graphs and tables in spreadsheets and then, once a “decent” dashboard has been set up, trying to automate it. Or, perhaps, you’ve relied on in-product Google Analytics reports, with all their limitations. Our eyes are how we intake most analytics data.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 22, 2015

You can’t rely on web analytics data – and just compare time periods – as everything changes. During the first 6 months of the project, I focused on the most critical steps in the conversion funnel – in this case, the main product landing pages and the checkout funnel. Now 3, 6 or 12 months go by. How would you know?

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 6, 2007

It is quite likely that your company is spending tons of time, energy, and dollars on web marketing efforts yet conversion rates (or ROI) are stuck in the two to three percent range. It is almost instantly accessible in any web analytics tool. Web Analytics, CoreMetrics etc etc etc. So what is this mysterious metric?

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