crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Why This Is Important: If you don’t establish specific goals, you will not be able to evaluate the opportunity costs of your SEO efforts or you might give up too quickly. 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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2015

Social media is now one of the key marketing tools, but not the only one, so the challenge is to manage the resource tradeoffs effectively by constantly assessing payback versus cost. Your plan should include a well-designed web site, events, press releases, and search engine marketing (SEM). Don’t forget the metrics and analytics.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

They work to improve top-of-funnel metrics like brand awareness and identify opportunities to improve customer activation, retention, and referral efforts. If your campaign works and your brand awareness metrics improve, you win. Then, compare any change in the awareness metrics you’re measuring in that region with other markets.

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Seeing Both Sides

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

They work cross-functionally with engineering, design, analytics, product management, operations, and marketing to design and execute growth initiatives. These include everything from analytics tools like Adobe Analytics and Google Analytics, to A/B testing tools like Oracle’s Maxymiser and Optimizely.

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Seeing Both Sides

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

They work cross-functionally with engineering, design, analytics, product management, operations, and marketing to design and execute growth initiatives. These include everything from analytics tools like Adobe Analytics and Google Analytics, to A/B testing tools like Oracle’s Maxymiser and Optimizely.

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Management Analytics Technical Review Framework 20

Occam's Razor

AUGUST 28, 2006

How many metrics can you call adorable? Site abandonment rate is an adorable metric, to me : ), for these reasons: Money, money, money baby. IMHO there isn't a metric out there that can tell you a lot so quickly and any improvement you make to it will directly and immediately impact the bottom-line. My hypothesis is that.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

The 5 Types of Metrics Every Small Business Must Track written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. I guess I should add you can grow a business without metrics a lot like you can win at roulette from time to time. The question is what is not measuring costing you in terms of wasted money and lost opportunity?

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Occam's Razor

MAY 19, 2006

Numerous studies have pointed out that while almost all Fortune 500 companies have great investments in "Web Analytics" they still struggle to make any meaningful business decisions. Here it what it says…… Our Goal: Highest value from Web Analytics implementation. The rule works quite simply.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2010

What are your hypotheses around customer acquisition costs? Actually engage in “search engine marketing” (SEM)spend $20 as a team to test customer acquisition cost. use Google Analytics to measure the success of your campaign. Get real costs from suppliers. Dave McClure, “Startup Metrics for Pirates”, [link].

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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. In the process, we had also built a simple cohort-based analytics system. I just came across this post.

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Occam's Razor

JULY 1, 2008

This post bravely attempts to: 1 ] Highlight the importance of holistic multichannel analytics. Or there are people who will get their tech support question answered and as a result not call you on the phone (saving you $50 it costs you to answer the phone). That's why multichannel analytics is so important. Not impossible.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

If you want to learn more about search engine marketing, I suggest you read 10 Practical Small Business SEO and SEM marketing tips. Google Analytics. What it is: Google Analytics is a free tool from Google that provides detailed and very useful information about your website traffic and the effectiveness of your marketing efforts.

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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. Cost: Pricing ranges from $99/month up to $999/month for Ahrefs’ “agency” package. Cost: Free for the tool but ads are paid.

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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. Cost: Pricing ranges from $99/month up to $999/month for Ahrefs’ “agency” package. Cost: Free for the tool but ads are paid.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

They can be utilized across teams— UX , CRO, social media, SEM, SEO , etc., running regression analyses against success metrics), but we knew what our “ideal customer profile” looked like for the most part, and we knew which customer profiles were worth the most money to us generally. can all benefit from a better idea of the customer.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 7, 2017

They can be utilized across teams – UX, CRO, Social Media, SEM, SEO, etc., running regression analyses against success metrics), but we knew what our “ideal customer profile” looked like for the most part, and we knew which customer profiles were worth the most money to us generally. In fact, it was fun!

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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. site analytics data. Themes Improve Quality Score and Ad Rank Metrics. None of those metrics are magic bullets to real ROI, but they can be used to improve performance. webmaster tools query 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. Testing something is an opportunity cost – means you can’t test something else. Fortunately it didn’t take much digging in analytics to spot the cause of the drop. Now 3, 6 or 12 months go by.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Effectively measuring and understanding your CAC and CLTV metrics are key to future success. Ultimately, finding a low-cost, repeatable way to show customers how to be successful with your solution is as important as the solution itself. You put into words what we were thinking for our cost of client. Brian, Paglo www.paglo.com.

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