Occam's Razor

AUGUST 9, 2016

For our Market Motive Analytics training course , we provide students with access to one ecommerce and one non-ecommerce site because they simply can't learn well enough from my magnificent videos. Play with Enhanced Ecommerce Reports. SEO & PPC, Because You Should! Play with Enhanced Ecommerce Reports.

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 11, 2015

Campaign Cost Analysis. It should not matter that my insights and guidance above are for a content site and you have an ecommerce website. You can use the same process, for your hardcore ecommerce money making venture, to identify actionable insights. All you people (like me) with non-ecommerce websites, hang in there.

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

and specialized PPC tools and email or other software. The recommendations are implemented and that drives an additional 100k clicks from the email campaigns. Or maybe nothing was changed in the campaigns, but conversion rate was improved from 2% to 5% by changing the checkout conversion process for email campaigns.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

So yes – companies spend ALL that money to get traffic to their site via SEO, PPC, social media and what not. What about PPC? So no wonder 59% of businesses have figured out that they should fix their conversion machine before pumping any more dollars into their PPC or SEO campaigns. Still not convinced?

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 2, 2015

In general, bandits are great for: Headlines and Short-Term Campaigns. To do this, we recommend the ResearchXL Framework. ( to really understand the framework, read this post ). So humility is crucial, but it also helps to have a framework. Read about WiderFunnel’s LIFT Model for a good heuristic framework.

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

Frameworks, because if I can teach someone a new mental model, a different way of thinking, they can be incredibly successful. Companies have an Email team and a SEO team and a PPC team and a Social Media team and a Display team and. The average conversion rate for a typical top ecommerce site is around 2%.

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

Bonus: Identifying Macro and Micro Conversions also gives you a list of Ecommerce Tracking to set up on the site, and Goals to set up in the Admin interface. If you are a regular reader of this blog you know how deeply fond I am of the Acquisition, Behavior, Outcomes framework. Will I analyze Search first or Campaigns?

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ConversionXL

JULY 19, 2013

When you’ve got each of these strategies running, you should turn on search retargeting, which is a display technique that enables you to show display ads for people who have been searching for relevant keywords – even if you haven’t seen them on your site or on your search campaign.” On site, this improved sales by 23%.

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Or, if you have a savvy digital strategy powered by my ultra-awesome See-Think-Do-Care business framework , you can use my recommendations in the framework to judge how optimal your current metrics strategy is… Using these metrics, vs. the basic activity metrics like Visits and Time, is hard, taking advantage of them requires smarter people.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 30, 2012

Matched Query Type, Keyword Position, Day Parts: Sexier PPC Analytics. #7. Pro Tip: Always, always, always let the Acquisition, Behavior and Outcomes framework be your guide. And it is not all social media, it is just the money made from the company's own social media efforts by using the right campaign parameter.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 20, 2015

Zalando has seen huge growth in Europe, overtaking many established, big ecommerce companies. Never start a marketing campaign without a dedicated landing page. ecommerce site) – the order in which the search results are presented is typically far more important than the search itself. They have ~80 optimizers on staff.

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Occam's Razor

MAY 18, 2010

And as recently as two weeks ago I stressed the importance of effective segmentation as the cornerstone of the Web Analytics Measurement Framework. Key elements of the Web Analytics Measurement Framework.]. The Segmentation Selector Framework. Television campaigns. "Social media campaigns" ( context ).

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ConversionXL

MAY 22, 2014

To guide the discussion, we’re going to be using Dave McClure’s Conversion Metrics as a framework to see where different conversion optimization opportunities lie. This could cover a range of methods, but for the sake of this article, we’re going to focus on PPC, Social Media & Search. So Where Exactly Does “Conversion” Happen?

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 19, 2010

Most outcomes analysis you will do in identifying your macro and micro conversions (for profit or non profit sites, government or ecommerce) will happen inside other tools mentioned in this blog post. For example you'll configure goals and ecommerce tracking in Yahoo! AdWords Campaign Experiments by Google. LivePerson.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 12, 2017

E.g. Message match / headline match from PPC ad to landing page. The same audiences you create remarketing campaigns for can be created and used for targeting in GO. PAS framework: problem, agitation, solution. Framework for framing the discipline. Joel Harvey: Essential Ecommerce Optimization Techniques.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 7, 2014

An example is: "We should add these 80 keywords to our PPC portfolio with a max bid of $14." Or, which campaigns cause the type of repeat visits that deliver 250% higher average order value? A Framework For Critical Thinking. #2. You can create a DMMM for a non-ecommerce (with goals and goal value!)

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