Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

One of the ultimate excuses for not measuring impact of Marketing campaigns is: "Oh, that's just a branding campaign." Before we go any further I must clarify that I love branding campaigns just as much as the next guy. I love campaigns that Visa runs. Remember: Engagement is not a metric, its an excuse. ].

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 19, 2020

PPC has a role. Ask the following six questions to help SEO and PPC teams collaborate—and achieve better results than either could on their own. Are SEO and PPC teams communicating effectively and sharing insights? SEO and PPC teams that don’t communicate effectively (or at all) achieve less. SEO has a role.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

When WordStream began receiving complaints that the seven-day free trial of their PPC management software wasn’t long enough, the brand decided to A/B test 14-day and 30-day trials. Yet, this was a successful growth marketing campaign. If your campaign works and your brand awareness metrics improve, you win. The results?

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

People driven by your offline campaigns. If you were really smart you would use campaign tagged vanity url so you can segment them!]. Free, non-campaign, traffic. In a nutshell these are people show up without invitation (email, display, social campaigns) or they are people who already know you.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

To craft a PPC ad that’s so compelling people are happy to click it. If PPC has been around since 1996 , why doesn’t it happen more often? The Current State of PPC. Not only 78% of marketers feeling “really good” about their PPC success in 2015, but 60% believe the PPC market has improved over 2014.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 9, 2020

Improve traffic figures, metrics and digital performance. Help create New Sales channels and Revenue generating models. Reach out to Consumers and Leads through digital campaigns. Any great digital marketing agency will tell you that one of the best ways to reach out to potential consumers is through an Email Marketing campaign.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 6, 2010

One was extolling the wonderfulness of their multi channel campaign tracking. No amount of great multi channel tracking will save this company, they suck at the basics. They did have PPC ads, which I click on the ad for specific product they land me on generic nonsense pages. That's sucking. That's sucking.)

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 13, 2015

Some things cohorts can answer: How did customers who came in from the Christmas campaign behave differently than those at other times of the year? How does retention differ among different acquisition channels? Customers that converted in the last year that came in through a bottom-of-the-funnel marketing campaign.

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 12, 2013

than multi-channel attribution modeling. Here's the outline of our incredible multi-channel attribution modeling adventure: ~ Three Unique Attribution Challenges. ~ Multi-Channel Attribution Models. Multi-Channel Attribution Analysis. ~ Multi-channel attribution across digital channels. Grab a Red Bull.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, November 7, 2008 Using AdWords to assess demand for your new online service, step-by-step If you want to build an online service, and you dont test it with a fake AdWords campaign ahead of time, youre crazy. Start an AdWords campaign. Adword is a PPC method to promote your website.

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 21, 2013

A lot of the keywords I used to add to my campaigns came from the long, long tail I saw in my organic search data (I would take the best performers there and use PPC to get more traffic) and from competitive intelligence research. This in turn mandates new SEO (and PPC) strategies, if we don't want to fail.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Customer acquisition cost (CAC) is an important metric for any ecommerce business. Understanding CAC by each channel helps you identify areas of opportunity and streamline operations for better ROI. For example, if your customer acquisition costs are high for PPC ads , you can move budget to a marketing strategy with a lower CAC.

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Up and Running

MARCH 14, 2017

You must conduct client interviews, website usage tests, and maybe even set up a small PPC campaign to figure out whether or not the market is interested in you offering. Startup validation tactic 3: PPC (pay-per-click) test campaigns. Startup validation tactic 2: Social media surveys.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 7, 2020

Just because it’s an established marketing channel, though, doesn’t mean it’s lost any of its relevance. And what can you do to get the most out of your campaigns? But if you’ve never run a Google Ads campaign before, you may feel overwhelmed. Do you research on PPC firms. Focus on Purchase Intent.

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Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 13, 2009

Chapter 3 The Awesome World of Clickstream Analysis: Metrics. The second half shows exactly how to pick the best metrics for your org and, my absolute favorite (Page 64), how to diagnose the root cause of a metrics performance. No metrics, data pukes, guidance on creating every more reports. A good thing.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Here’s what you can test with this approach: Landing pages (especially recommended before you invest in PPC ). For one, you’re optimizing for micro-conversions—user engagement metrics that, you’re assuming, will translate into improvements at the macrolevel (i.e. Seasonality and other marketing campaigns will affect your results.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

For these queries, you have to choose your data source and date range as well as what metrics and dimensions you want to include. Finally, we can create ad campaigns that target those trial users who didn’t convert but whose purchase prediction score makes them promising candidates for purchasing the product later on. A/B testing.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 19, 2013

Online advertising such as keyword search, CPC/PPC, and display ad placement is, quite simply, a waste of money. As a result of more and more small businesses have sought alternative channels for their marketing strategies, such as value-add partnerships, inbound marketing campaigns, search engine optimization and social media marketing.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Prescriptive analytics The digital analytics metrics you need to know How to use analytics to improve marketing campaigns Define your mission, goals, and KPIs Set key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure marketing performance What to look for in a digital analytics product 9 tools for your digital analytics stack 1.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2022

It’s not a channel, campaign, or tactic. ABM is a full-court press to build powerful engagement with contacts on the channels that they’re most active. How you approach it will depend on your business model and ideal accounts and how (or if) you plan to expand campaigns. ABM isn’t a quick and easy win. Do they get along?

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ConversionXL

MAY 14, 2019

If you’re not running YouTube Ads campaigns , you’re missing out on key advertising opportunities. Although YouTube Ads campaigns run via Google Ads, YouTube advertising is different from other online ad options. The first step to set up YouTube Ads is to create a YouTube channel. Creating a YouTube Ads campaign.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Here are the most effective digital marketing channels to skyrocket your business’s success. Pay-Per-Click Advertising (PPC) Pay-per-click (PPC) advertising ensures that your message reaches the right people. The ROI from your pay-per-click (PPC) advertising campaigns will increase with consistent monitoring and tweaking.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 20, 2010

End of a minor web analytics lesson on going beyond obvious metrics and never, ever, never forgetting context. Of course look at our favorite metric bounce rate by keyword (that tells you if you can get people to give you one solitary click , the most primitive measure of SEO success). Use it to time your campaigns. "When

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 9, 2016

Along the way I'll share some of my favourite metrics and analytics best practices that should accelerate your path to becoming a true Analysis Ninja. SEO & PPC, Because You Should! At this point you'll be a little confused about some metric or the other. Awesome, right? Play with Enhanced Ecommerce Reports.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Email generates as much as $42 for every dollar spent , and is a top-three marketing channel for 87% of B2B and 76% of B2C marketers. We’ll also break down the main elements of high-performing emails to show you how to drive action from your campaigns. Strategy is the big picture thinking that drives email marketing campaigns.

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Occam's Razor

JULY 22, 2013

My solution to these problems was to create a simple framework we can use to put our customers first, evaluate our marketing programs, and right-align our view of success (metrics). Identify gaps in our content/engagement/channel strategy on the web, 2. What consideration state might someone be in? You want sales, yes. It is also rude.

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 11, 2015

Custom reports allow you to deeply focus (by eliminating the rif-raf metrics and dimensions, they save time and show just what you want). We mis-align metrics and dimensions across Users, Session, Hits. Campaign Cost Analysis. Key Metrics: Map Overlay Visualization. Explore here: Dimensions & Metrics Explorer.

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Occam's Razor

MAY 14, 2012

Bonus One: Read: Brand Measurement: Analytics & Metrics for Branding Campaigns ]. There are many different tools, both online and offline, that measure the elusive metric called brand strength. No eBay PPC ad or SEO listing showed up. Sometimes it all works together. Recently I saw a TV ad by eBay for designer jeans.

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Venture Chronicles

DECEMBER 20, 2011

What that will be I do not have a clue but sponsored tweets and ad campaigns simply cannot be anything more than a starting point. Brand Marketing Meets PPC: In most companies marketing exists in two forms, brand management and promotional marketing.

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 21, 2014

Find campaigns where they are spending most money, lower the bounce rate and reduce acquisition cost. But if you would like a quick collection of tips: Multichannel Analytics- Tracking Online Impact Of Offline Campaigns The enabler of tying offline activity to online is ensuring you have a weak or strong primary key. Who is to blame?

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ConversionXL

MAY 19, 2016

There are many different channels now – attribution is the real b h. Different channels make it harder, sure, but it’s table stakes to compete at a high level these days.”. Unfortunately, it’s not that easy because, as Ed points out, having so many different acquisition channels, devices, purchase influences, etc.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 28, 2021

When e-commerce first took off in the 1990s, web traffic was regarded as the most critical metric for measuring a website’s popularity. Other metrics to measure online performance did not yet exist. So, you’re missing out if you’re not using them in your paid search or SEO campaigns. Ways to Increase Traffic.

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Occam's Razor

JULY 1, 2008

There is perhaps no challenge greater than tracking offline impact of your online presence (campaigns or other activity). Your hair is thinning from repeatedly trying to get funding for online campaigns. It is perhaps one of the last few complex nuts left to crack. Because it is hard. Not impossible. that took ten seconds.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

Those strategies included Google Adwords campaign, social media, blogs, e-mail newsletters, forums, videos, SEO and the like (for full list of their chosen strategies take a look here ). If you run an e-commerce site, you want to see which channels are performing the best. The act of conversion was opt-in to their email list.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Creating a tailored, personalized campaign is often done with micro-triggers: Did the user spend more than X minutes on the site? All of these data points personalize the messaging for retargeting campaigns. But even a talented campaign manager can juggle only so many variables. Did they view more than Y pages?

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

and specialized PPC tools and email or other software. Let's say the analytics team does analysis of current email marketing metrics and identifies improvements to how your company structures the emails that go out. The recommendations are implemented and that drives an additional 100k clicks from the email campaigns.

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Step 1: Optimal Metrics. You'll find it here: Digital Metrics Ladder of Awesomeness. The metrics ladder lays out a path that will get you there, step by step while ensure your org is coming along with you. Attribution analysis will help you understand how to value Social Network AND the Direct channel AND Organic Search.

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