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

AUGUST 9, 2016

The outcome of book smart is rarely better for analytics practitioners then folks trying to learn how to fly an airplane from how-to books. This is all the way from Aug 2009: Web Analytics Career Advice: Play In The Real World! And, happily, it has almost all of the Google Analytics features implemented correctly.

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www.readwriteweb.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Along those lines, last week, Ryan Carson, co-founder of Carsonified offered a list of six key metrics for your web app and how to track them. CPA Definition : CPA is "Cost per Acquisition." Are there any additional metrics you think SaaS companies should track? If its too low, then youre not making enough profit.

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www.readwriteweb.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Along those lines, last week, Ryan Carson, co-founder of Carsonified offered a list of six key metrics for your web app and how to track them. CPA Definition : CPA is "Cost per Acquisition." Are there any additional metrics you think SaaS companies should track? If its too low, then youre not making enough profit.

Metrics 58

Metrics CPA Illinois Acquisition 58

ConversionXL

JANUARY 29, 2016

Just like Mazda improved their retargeting ads with proximity, Watchfinder did so with audience granularity from Google Analytics. Inside your Google Analytics account, you can slice and dice your audiences in different ways with the data there. Lowered the average campaign CPA to 72% below average. Key Takeaways.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 13, 2013

Traffic volume is a vanity metric. So I was a bit too caught up in vanity metrics like traffic volume and I was happy to say I was getting 10-15K visits a month but is that even good? Look I’m not going to tell you that vanity metrics are useless and you shouldn’t look at your traffic stats. What are vanity metrics?

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Google’s machine learning–based metrics, for example, give you access to insights and audience segments you can put to work immediately in your campaigns. Identifying other indicators for intent will help you reach more ready-to-buy people with a CPA that’s similar to your best-performing audiences. The features are similar.

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 12, 2013

There are few things more complicated in analytics (all analytics, big data and huge data!) I normally ask people to look at the Path Length report in the Multi-Channel Funnels standard report in Google Analytics (or equivalent tool if you are using SiteCatalyst or WebTrends or other web analytics tools). It is sweet.

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Occam's Razor

MARCH 25, 2014

In a world of infinite choice, the ability to pick critical few metrics to focus on is, well…, critical. In this post I want to share that one-page list of the best metrics for digital content, marketing and business success with you. Focus on all three with everything you do with digital analytics. Can you feel my pain?

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Up and Running

MARCH 14, 2017

This validation tactic helps you shed a glaringly honest light on your client acquisition cost, distilling from CPC (cost-per-click), to CPA (cost-per-action), and the various other conversion steps. As you keep an eye on user engagement analytics, perhaps testing two to three different headlines, eventually leads should start dribbling in.

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Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 12, 2011

I am going to attempt to significantly simply your life by recommending the critical few metrics you should use to analyze performance of your digital marketing campaigns and website. Recommend metrics / KPIs you can use based on the size of your company. Best Metrics / KPIs for Small Business Websites. Obsess about this metric.

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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." Be it for in vogue metrics like Conversion Rates or for metrics that should be in vogue like Abandonment Rates. Here is a example.

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 5, 2010

There is a better way to analyze your acquisition strategy than simply using Conversion Rates or Cost Per Acquisition (CPA). For some of your campaigns this data might not be easily available in your web analytics tool (it is also quite likely you are doing all of this analysis in Excel). " they'll all be wondering).

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Why You Should Link AdWords and Google Analytics. If we’re talking about optimization, we’re talking about digital analytics. Measuring the right metrics when you’re experimenting with PPC is important. What you need is the “why” Investigate through segmentation and Google Analytics.

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Occam's Razor

JULY 26, 2010

The data is easily available in the web analytics tool so why not. But for most other types of businesses the final success does not exist in web analytics tool. If today you are a content site that is only focused on measuring content consumed try to go deeper to understanding CPA of the ads or Visitor Loyalty. You betcha!

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 26, 2015

The 5 Top Customer Metrics You Need To Track written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Metrics are the lifeblood of almost every successful business. Fortunately, the Internet makes collecting metrics remarkably simple. Fortunately, the Internet makes collecting metrics remarkably simple. The Funnel.

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Occam's Razor

MARCH 22, 2011

Today when we measure our Cost Per Acquisition (CPA) for our campaigns (Search, Email, Affiliate, whatever), we just think of the macro-conversion and, perhaps worse, we think only of that session / visit. CPA might sound huge (or not depending on your margin), but on the surface it seems a lot. David's idea is simple and genius.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

After the iPhone launched in 2007 to mass adoption, analytics were never the same. Even on one device, a cross-browser experience completely ruins web and marketing analytics as we know it now. You can test this via “model evaluation ,” which uses ROC/AUC metrics. If a decent percentage of users weren’t authenticated (i.e.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 21, 2017

As Mavrck outlined , there are 5 metrics used to track the ROI of influencer marketing: Cost per Impression. The first 3 are micro-metrics at best, and the 4th doesn’t tell the whole story. But on the 5th metric, Cost per Acquisition, we can see that industry-wide, influencer marketing does really well compared to other channels.

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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.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

When someone shares your YouTube video on Twitter, you can track that metric. What signifies meaningful engagement is somewhat of a sticking point: headline metrics given by social media platforms are not usually as valuable as they appear. What you can’t track as easily are “dark social” shares that increase your brand awareness.

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Occam's Razor

MARCH 7, 2016

I want you to sign up for something very, very special I'm doing: Writing short stories from the intersection of marketing and analytics. My newsletter is called The Marketing < > Analytics Intersect. Of course, measure that using the four best social media metrics !) Please do sign up. Should you own or rent?

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ConversionXL

APRIL 6, 2016

Claire Vo: CRO Metrics for Performance and Insight. Wrong Success Metric (OEC). Revenue is usually a good metric to use to evaluate effectiveness of test. Stephen Pavlovich: SaaS Optimization – Effective Metrics, Process and Hacks. Day 3 – Analytics, Personalization and Retention. Welcome mat.

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