ConversionXL

AUGUST 27, 2015

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? Time Period Comparison in Analytics (and Why It’s Wrong). How do you explain this to the boss/client?

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2016

For most businesses, success translates to more revenue (and profits). For example, if your revenue model is driven by advertising on your site, one interim goal could be to drive a certain amount of additional traffic to your site. Tip: One of the most important tools for any effective SEO strategy is website analytics.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 2, 2018

Marketing is the bridge between your business and your customers. Almost any form of communication with your customers falls under its umbrella. Without marketing, your business may as well exist in an unlit locked vault – no customers are coming in and no sales are going out. Customers will beg to differ.

Small Business 73

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Seeing Both Sides

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

Growing revenue and profits is a core objective of most companies, and it is the responsibility of every function to contribute to the pursuit of this goal. 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.

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Seeing Both Sides

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

Growing revenue and profits is a core objective of most companies, and it is the responsibility of every function to contribute to the pursuit of this goal. 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.

Management 20

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

Our revenues have increased every quarter for the past two years. " Knewton ( www.knewton.com ) has developed the industry's first adaptive learning engine, customizing educational content to meet the individual needs of each student. We are one of the fastest growing game and kid sites in 2009, according to comScore.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

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. It isn’t about finding quick hacks to boost short-term revenue.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Here’s the executive summary of the process we use at CXL: Heuristic analysis ; Technical analysis; Web analytics analysis ; Mouse-tracking analysis ; Qualitative surveys ; User testing and copy testing. Web analytics analysis is next. You’d be surprised by how many analytics setups are broken.). Doing a speed analysis.

Analytics 127

Analytics Technical Review Software Review Framework 127

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2010

There are few courses which teach aspiring entrepreneurs the skills (business models, customer and agile development, design thinking, etc.) If you’ve read any of my previous posts, you know I believe that: 1) a product is just a part of a startup, but understanding customers, channel, pricing, etc. to optimize this search.

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Eric Friedman

APRIL 23, 2014

In early 2006 I heard from an in house recruiter at a company called Reprise Media that worked specifically in Search Engine Marketing (SEM) which was a nascent advertising space dedicated to delivering targeted advertising solely based on someones intent. 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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Analytics Web Affiliate Metrics 60

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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Analytics Conversion Campaign Redemption 116

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.

Advertising 284

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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. Hence at its highest level the metric helps you understand how much money is left on the table by your customers. You can test these to prove if they move the right levers for your customers.

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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.,

Software Review 115

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 14, 2022

As a revenue-driven founder specializing in sales and business development, Melissa has learned how to build companies with very few resources — by automating what she could, outsourcing wherever possible, and inspiring talented people to join her team with shared focus and enthusiasm. So E webinar, the concept is simple.

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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.

Software Review 102

Software Review Design Agile Analytics 102

crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 24, 2018

We’ve collected some of the essential marketing tools and services that can help you improve your marketing and grow your company’s revenues, even if you know little about marketing. Want to use a real powerhouse tool to reach new customers and monumentally grow your business? Search marketing. Google Adwords.

Social Media 51

Social Media Marketing Analytics Audience 51

crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 24, 2018

We’ve collected some of the essential marketing tools and services that can help you improve your marketing and grow your company’s revenues, even if you know little about marketing. Want to use a real powerhouse tool to reach new customers and monumentally grow your business? Search marketing. Google Adwords.

Social Media 48

Social Media Marketing Analytics Audience 48

BeyondVC

MAY 18, 2007

What is interesting is that 24/7, AQuantive, and Doubleclick make most of their money from the boring stuff like SEM and display ads. I would go small and focus on building its publisher base where Google gets over 1/3 of its revenue.

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Internet RSS SEM Advertising 60

ConversionXL

DECEMBER 2, 2015

Web Analytics Analysis. Web analytics analysis is next. You’d be surprised how many analytics setups are broken. Google Analytics (and other analytics setups) are a course in themselves, so I’ll leave you with some helpful links to read: Google Analytics 101: How To Configure Google Analytics To Get Actionable Data.

Technical Review 48

Technical Review Analytics Framework Software Review 48

Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 6, 2021

Marketing mistakes can cost your business a lot of lost revenue. They understand that the customer journey isn’t linear. Critical thinking —they’re inquisitive and analytical. Demonstrable experience with social media marketing, email marketing, advertising campaigns, marketing databases and analytics, and SEO/SEM.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 22, 2015

You can’t rely on web analytics data – and just compare time periods – as everything changes. In addition to this, we tracked everything closely in Google Analytics and we could verify that conversions, revenue and sales were up and that the combined effect of all my work was a 21% lift in the overall conversion rate.

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Analytics SEM Metrics Conversion 48

Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Only after reaching $1M in CMRR should you consider hiring European sales and services execs behind customer demand. Be prepared to cross the desert - SaaS requires R&D and sales expense up front for a multi-year stream of revenue, so it demands enough investment capital to fund 4+ years of runway. 16 comments: BdH. Great list!

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 6, 2007

It is almost instantly accessible in any web analytics tool. In a nutshell bounce rate measures the percentage of people who come to your website and leave "instantly" Thought about from a customer perspective rather than I came, I saw, I conquered, the action is I came, I saw, Yuck, I am out of here. Instantly useful!

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