crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 2, 2018

Marketing is the bridge between your business and your customers. Marketing covers a wide range of activities. From traditional advertising to social media, online review management to blogging, search engine optimization to direct mail – it’s all marketing. There are many ways to market with a small budget.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 7, 2007

So to make up for that this post covers some of the “technical” best practices around tracking with your web analytics tools, especially if you are using JavaScript tags. Often the job of implementation is left to the friendly neighborhood IT person and your web analytics vendor. This is sub optimal.

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Occam's Razor

JUNE 4, 2012

In this post I want to share with you three insightful custom reports for effective paid search (PPC) analysis. These insightful reports are from the six I'd created for my latest video for the Market Motive Web Analytics Master Certification course. Criminal behavior. You decide what the keyword is.

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searchengineland.com

MAY 30, 2012

Search Week Newsletter. Search Month Newsletter. B2B Search Marketing. Enterprise SEM. In House Search Marketing. Local Search. Mobile Search. Multinational Search. Paid Search. Search & Analytics. Search & Analytics. Search & Retail.

SEO 54

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Enable Google Analytics tracking. You just have to sign up for Google Analytics, get your account number, and plug it into your site. Dont worry about selecting particularly good keywords, if youre new to SEM. Use Googles built-in Analytics/AdWords integration, to track the effectiveness of each ad you run.

Demand 167

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 4, 2011

How many through SEM? per click on an SEM basis this is NOT your cost to acquire a customer – you need to add conversion rate. You can find out how to more cost effectively buy search terms (i.e. If you can break this down by channel that you’ve acquired them from this is obviously better. How many adds came through organic SEO?

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Yet, this was a successful growth marketing campaign. In this article, you will learn how growth marketing compares to traditional marketing and its key components. You’ll also learn how to apply growth marketing to five key channels and how to plan and execute experimentation. What is growth marketing?

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 23, 2017

Customer journey mapping is a widely used and impactful technique that can help you make better product, marketing, UX, and merchandising decisions. Like user personas, funnels, or any other marketing heuristics we’ve come up with, they aren’t 100% true to reality. As such, no two journey maps are exactly the same.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

Online Marketing Director, Knewton - New York, NY "I am 15. Knewton's Online Marketing Director is the key partner to the VP, Online Marketing and is responsible for helping the team drive customer acquisition and revenue growth through SEM (paid search), SEO, Affiliate Marketing, and Email.

San Francisco 92

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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. Create an integrated conventional marketing and social media strategy. Don’t forget the metrics and analytics. Marty Zwilling.

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Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 6, 2010

While I am using Google Analytics here, you can do custom reporting in pretty much any tool you have access to, be it Yahoo! Web Analytics or Site Catalyst or WebTrends.]. #1: Here's how you can get this report: Log into Google Analytics. It will open in Google Analytics. 1: Page Efficiency Analysis Report.

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Eric Friedman

APRIL 23, 2014

It was during this time that I actually started this blog (when it was all about Marketing). It was amazing to see under the hood at a startup, and begin to understand the world of search advertising. It was amazing to see under the hood at a startup, and begin to understand the world of search advertising. It was (and is?)

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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? Digital Marketing: "What is amazing out there?

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mashable.com

MAY 28, 2010

Johnson also says that search engine issues have affected the style of names. People consciously try to create names with unique keywords so theirs will be the only result in targeted Google searches. Amidst all the search engine and domain name drama, consider that names are memorable when they sound good. Is It Sticky?

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Naming Technical Review Social Media Startup 94

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? Trying to answer that question at IMVU led me to discover Google AdWords and the world of search engine marketing. SEM is a simple idea.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

One of the investment themes I’ve been focused on in the past 3 years has been Performance-Based Marketing. When I started investing the US advertising market was $300 billion with only 10% of it ($30 billion) of it being online and measurable. I believe that many social networks confused this idea.

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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

crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 24, 2018

Most small businesses and young startups can’t afford to hire marketers. That leaves those companies in a tough situation: they need to market to grow their business but they need to grow their business to hire marketers. Search marketing. Google Adwords. Not impressed?

Social Media 51

Social Media Marketing Analytics Audience 51

crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 17, 2011

A website is the hub of a small business’s marketing efforts through other channels (print, SEO, SEM, email, direct, mobile, etc.). Options range from low cost sites through GoDaddy , to sophisticated sites, with analytics, A/B testing, blogging tools, SEO,and other value-adds from Hubspot.

Small Business 93

Small Business SEM SEO Social Network 93

crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 24, 2018

Most small businesses and young startups can’t afford to hire marketers. That leaves those companies in a tough situation: they need to market to grow their business but they need to grow their business to be hire marketers. Search marketing. Google Adwords. Not impressed?

Social Media 48

Social Media Marketing Analytics Audience 48

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2010

Business schools teach aspiring executives a variety of courses around the execution of known business models, (accounting, organizational behavior, managerial skills, marketing, operations, etc.). In contrast, startups search for a business model. (Or to optimize this search. to optimize this search. What is market size?

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

When people search on Google.com and partner sites, Google displays text ads (at the top of the search results and to the right of the search results). Advertising with AdWords allows you to reach new customers at the precise moment when they are searching for your type of products and services. Google Analytics.

Small Business 102

Small Business Analytics Social Media Search 102

crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 17, 2011

A website is the hub of a small business’s marketing efforts through other channels (print, SEO, SEM, email, direct, mobile, etc.). Options range from low cost sites through GoDaddy , to sophisticated sites, with analytics, A/B testing, blogging tools, SEO,and other value-adds from Hubspot.

Small Business 84

Small Business SEM SEO Social Network 84

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

At Facebook we never did testing or looked at analytics. SEM on five dollars a day Andrew Chen: Growing renewable audiences Marc Prensky's Weblog: Cell Phones in Class A new version of the Joel Test (draft) Smarticus — 10 things you could be doing to your c. We did surveys, user testing and psychological profiles.

San Francisco 60

San Francisco Continuous Deployment Lean DC 60

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. You struggle to get budget to hire Analysts or Marketers. You have already identified these two buckets (location, directions) in Omniture (or in Google Analytics !),

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2013

You can easily add tags such that data can be tracked using Google Analytics ; you can A/B split your mailing to test different subject lines or different customer segments to gauge performance; and you can better understand your customers and what maked them tick. Pay-per-click. purchase whether that takes place on-line or off.

Small Business 85

Small Business Startup Campaign SEM 85

Seeing Both Sides

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

With a nod to my friends at Hubspot , I'll refer to this future phenomenon as "inbound marketing comes to health care". As the process gets cheaper and the data and analytics gets better, that will change. And that gets me to the concept of inbound marketing. Inbound marketing. First, some background.

Marketing 38

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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. New tools aimed at making analytics for small business owners and marketing a snap come to life seemingly daily. In Google Analytics, you can find this report through Acquisition > Overview.

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Metrics Small Business Analytics SEM 28

Occam's Razor

AUGUST 28, 2006

Segmentation examples would include: By “campaigns” (this would include PPC, Pay Per Click, / SEM, Search Engine Marketing, and direct marketing and other campaigns you run). Excellent Analytics Tip #7: The Adorable Site Abandonment Rate Metric is a post from: Occam's Razor by Avinash Kaushik.

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Eric Friedman

JULY 28, 2008

I had the chance to interview Randy Peterson of P&G for his upcoming participation in Search Engine Strategies 2008: San Jose where he will be speaking on the Keynote Roundtable: “Why Does Search Get the Credit for Everything?” Sometimes it’s the only marketing vehicle creating the value. ” panel.

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Brandanew

JANUARY 8, 2016

2015 was a great year for Content marketers and brand owners. Social analytics and video marketing are likely to be the key marketing trends for 2016. 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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Analytics Social Media Marketing Media 100

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 4, 2016

113 of the Best Lead Generation Tools and Resources written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Referral Marketing– This includes intentional word of mouth activities, viral tactics as well as intentional referral generation. Referral Marketing Category on Duct Tape Marketing. Further Reading.

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Lead Generation Social Media Public Relations Channel 28

ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

Cutting out noise and creating a PPC strategy that drives business: It’s the goal of SEM professionals everywhere. Relevance of Keywords to Search Queries. Do your keywords match what people are typing in the search box ? Does the user’s search query appear in the landing page?

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PPC Matching Technical Review Search 114

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." Not Marketing. It can be amazing to step outside your own web analytics tool data, your little silo, and look outside and compare.

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Management Analytics San Diego Web 68

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.

Analytics 117

Analytics Metrics Affiliate Aggregator 117

Occam's Razor

APRIL 6, 2009

The Search Based Keyword Tool (SbKT) was that for me. I can tell you know that you'll never think of Paid Search the same way! UPDATE: Recently Google has folded the Search Based Keyword Tool into the core AdWords Interface. One of the most common phenomenon is the long tail of search. Astonishing is that not?

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2013

Many small business owners are devoting a significant chunk of their capacity to social media marketing, albeit sometimes with limited results. Studies have shown over 60% of small business marketers devote as much as 10 hours per week to SM campaigns and tactics. Search is personalized. Outsourcing social media.

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