Up and Running

MARCH 3, 2021

47% of small business owners execute marketing campaigns entirely on their own. The general goal with PPC advertising is to target the right keywords and organize them into effective campaigns and ad groups to make the cost of clicks trivial. Finally, with PPC marketing — you have fewer barriers to entry when setting up a campaign.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 9, 2023

It’s definitely the most useful for finding pillar content topics when onboarding a new client, finding blog topics, and writing an outline for blogs. The way we run SEO and PPC marketing campaigns is already changing because of new technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning. Thanks to Jeremy Dawes, Jezweb ! #26-

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 15, 2023

Her book Marketing Metrics: Leverage Analytics and Data to Optimize Marketing Strategies , is a practical guide to creating efficient future-focused marketing strategies powered by data-driven techniques that can develop stronger brands and products. [17:45] Is this email campaign? What do you see that businesses need to be doing? [21:35]

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Ignore this if your target market is definitely outside this demographic segment, but do keep in mind that the largest generational spend is shifting right now. . Marketing is an expense, so finding someone who can attach real success metrics to their campaigns will help you stay focused on what’s going to work best for your target market. .

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

What I’m talking about here is a level of discipline and skill necessary to collect and analyze the relevant business data, known as metrics. Here is my selection of ten key metrics that every six-sigma joint like GE tracks without thinking, but too many small businesses only monitor haphazardly, if at all: Sales revenue.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 21, 2018

You’ll be thinking about sales, marketing, the team you might need, and any partners or outside resources you’ll need to leverage. Key partners and resources. Or, make sure that you get the kind of funding that’s needed for large marketing and PR campaigns. Your sales strategy. Start by thinking through your sales strategy.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Plenty of us have witnessed a marketing campaign gone wrong. In stark contrast to Pepsi, Nike’s Colin Kaepernick campaign will likely go down as one of the most impactful pieces of marketing in recent history. Recently, I designed a strategic marketing campaign for a company called Help Scout —a helpdesk software tool.

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Blog About Log in Register Designing startup metrics to drive successful behavior Great companies are almost always run by great management teams. Good metrics should also be actionable, and drive successful behavior. In a follow up post, I will use this technique to walk through the design of a set of metrics for a SaaS company.

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Occam's Razor

JULY 24, 2018

work (collection, processing, reporting, analysis), processes, org structure, governance models, last-mile gaps , metrics ladders of awesomeness , and… so… much… more. Remember, tools, work, processes, org structure, governance models, last-mile gaps, metrics ladders of awesomeness, and… so… much… more. The Implications of Complexity.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2022

Because every business adapts ABM to suit their own growth model, the definition changes to fit. In his account-based marketing course , Watt goes on to unpack each of the adjectives in his definition: Sustained. It’s not a channel, campaign, or tactic. ABM isn’t a quick and easy win.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 5, 2020

We have a campaign to make consumers more aware of how their products are made, which will in turn dictate how producers are going to create these products. This will lead to a lot of opportunities for insurance companies willing to blaze that trail and for SaaS companies and other partners who can help them do it.

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Occam's Razor

MAY 19, 2014

But the problem is that single golden metrics hide valuable insights and, more often than not, drive bad behavior. Here's my proposal: If you are pushed to have a single golden metric, give it a partner. The BFF metric you find should not be one that is very far away. So, great metric. Give CTR a BFF.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 3, 2019

Conversion teams: 6–8 week experiment cycles; Marketing teams: Prepare, campaign, prepare, campaign; Product teams: 2-week sprints. Media treats single findings as definitive; no single study can say much on its own; additional variables could negate/reverse effect. Ton Wesseling: “Validation in Every Organization”.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Instead, it identifies the fault lines within tactics and between tactics that keep demand generation campaigns from amounting to more than their component parts. Standardized, clean data is critical to deploying great campaigns.”. Bad data affects demand generation campaigns in other ways, too. This post doesn’t do that.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 23, 2023

Lloyed Lobo (03:13): Definitely. It had oversight from the president, and that community organized the Save Harley campaign. Today they organize breast cancer awareness campaigns. Lloyed Lobo (11:48): Definitely. It's as simple as that, and that is what metrics are to me. Lloyed Lobo (25:16): Definitely.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

List key partners and resources you will need, and then list your core team as well as their roles. List key partners and resources you will need, and then list your core team as well as their roles. This will make mixed messaging much less likely, and make it that much easier for your partners to help you spread your message.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 8, 2017

Quantitative research with digital analytics tools like Google Analytics , Mixpanel, Amplitude or RJ Metrics will inform you about where your users are coming from, what they are doing during their sessions and where they are dropping off from your conversion funnel or when they churn. Marketing campaigns. Which campaigns specifically?

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Austin Startup

JUNE 26, 2019

We tried, and opted out of, potentials for pivots; we pitched for game-changing partners and acquisitions that did not ultimately convert. Given my background in the data-driven world of political campaigns, I know it’s all about the #s (you win or lose on Election Day given your win #?—?you Lean into it. Step on the scale. We pitched.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

Your boss probably thinks so, but the truth is that a lot of sites that aren’t ready to go viral launch their campaigns too soon. Here are some non-video viral campaigns that have been successful in the last few years. But before you read on, consider the original question. Do you even want to go viral? What are some successes?

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

To ensure customer delight was delivered in a timely manner, it was also decided that Average Call Time (ACT) would now be The success metric. The success metric, ACT, did go down. What you deem as success creates an incentive for an individual employee, the group/division, your company’s partners, to behave in a certain way.

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Just when you thought you were finally getting more comfortable with website analytics and the metrics you report, here comes the massive explosion of mobile data! At one level it is the normal impressions and clicks data, but on another level we are getting new data and metrics we normally don't use. Couple of quick caveats: 1.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

You can spend on as a risk without putting you outside of the metric. And automated marketing tools allow, have you to create consistent multi-channel campaigns for clear, concise communications and less mixed messages. It actually is a part of their P and L it's part of the metrics. I'm gonna go hire 'em now they know.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 4, 2020

The work of Covid Act Now has made it the definitive resource for getting cities and states to take action against what he thinks of as our common enemy--the coronavirus. As he told me, "The cognitive load of just understanding what the heck is going on and where we stand and what's coming next is extremely, extremely difficult."

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Austin Startup

MARCH 26, 2019

Don’t be afraid to try completely new campaigns with different brand language and color schemes. For subscription businesses, you should definitely have a pre-cancellation intervention strategy in order to prevent churn. At Silverton Partners, I’ve been leading the charge on our investments in fast-growing DTC brands.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Metric examples: 30-day retention, 60-day retention, 90-day retention, 120-day retention, etc. Metric examples: Login frequency and consistency; Frequency of value experience; Product usage (e.g., At this stage, a HubSpot customer might have hired a HubSpot partner to boost their marketing. LTV is a complex, advanced metric.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2022

iRidium narrowed their audience into five segments: Best customers; Members of the target account buying community; Thought leaders ; Partners; Media and industry publications. ABM campaigns are only as strong as a company’s support for the departments involved. This allowed them to focus on one audience’s specific needs.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 11, 2014

How many employees would a medium-sized business have in your definition? Some people have different definitions of that. I mean they have these definitions. Meetings are definitely one of those places, but email is another primary way that that comes in. Jason: Okay. I’m just clarifying. Edwin: Yes.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 18, 2020

Before you kick off a link-building campaign or invest in creating quality content, you need to understand where the volume is, how competitive terms are, and the intent behind those queries. As you continue your research, start adding metrics like volume, competitiveness, etc. When it comes to SEO, it all starts with keyword research.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

Improving each of these areas might boost your customer retention – BUT it’s only by scrutinizing your customer facing metrics & direct customer feedback that will provide you with your top priorities. Retention, along with many of our usage metrics, have improved as a result of some of these changes.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Now let’s talk about what you came here for—the definition of the backlink gap and how to calculate it. All these metrics show whether a website you’re analyzing is following a shifty link building strategy or not. Theoretically, if you build a link on a website with DR 30, this metric has all the chances to reach 60-70 very soon.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 1, 2020

A network of friends and partners can also serve as a great assurance and reminder that you’re not walking. As an entrepreneur, it can sometimes be difficult to stay motivated because the traditional metrics of success– income, influence, etc.– Wanting to change the world is definitely motivating! Rochester, MD.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

Improving each of these areas might boost your customer retention – BUT it’s only by scrutinizing your customer facing metrics & direct customer feedback that will provide you with your top priorities. Retention, along with many of our usage metrics, have improved as a result of some of these changes.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Last week, my partners and I bore the sorrowful moment of sending an e-mail to the almost 800 customers we’ve accumulated these past 14 months to let them know this weekend was going to be our last delivery. It is interesting how the definition of success varies from person to person. Is it a company that manages to raise money?

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 27, 2019

These customer values are recorded as dimensions and metrics (as you can see in our tracking plan example below). Clearly naming the dimensions and metrics across your stack will help you integrate tools, train new team members, and analyze data without hiccups. Then set up the campaigns that’ll generate the data.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

Improving each of these areas might boost your customer retention – BUT it’s only by scrutinizing your customer facing metrics & direct customer feedback that will provide you with your top priorities. Retention, along with many of our usage metrics, have improved as a result of some of these changes.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 13, 2013

Targeting metrics. If you have specific targeting metrics, then you will have a lot closer chance to estimate your response from that target group. It is always good to keep this cost low, and if you have your own email list or partnering with someone with a good list, then this cost will go down too. Your content and offer.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2020

Ryan Sarver was a partner at venture capital firm Redpoint. We also talked about the future of Frontline Foods, which they believe lies in "expanding the definition of frontline" to include providing healthcare and other services for communities. Frontline Foods has now partnered with World Central Kitchen.

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