ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2022

Bootstrapped startup Omnisend carved out a $19 million niche in an already saturated vertical. Without a focused, integrated demand generation strategy, lead generation delivers disinterested leads that frustrate sales reps and result in low conversion rates. SEO should lead with intent.

Lead Generation 107

Lead Generation Demand Audience eCommerce 107

ConversionXL

JANUARY 14, 2020

In-house SEOs and consultants alike are routinely challenged to find new opportunities to expand organic traffic. In fact, new product features are the most underrated driver of SEO growth for large sites. SEO growth works differently for sites that scale with content (e.g., No conversation in SEO can exclude user intent.

SEO 159

SEO Framework SCRUM Search 159

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

Depending how you’re benchmarking and with what metrics, it could be beneficial or it could be a waste of time. Conversion Rates are Misleading; Comparing Them is Worthless. Let’s start by debunking one method of competitive benchmarking: comparing your conversion rate to that of your competitors is pretty irrelevant.

Conversion 48

Conversion eCommerce Database Vertical 48

Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 14, 2014

Outcomes of the conversations with your Finance team and Sr. Conversion rate is one of those metrics that I strongly encourage you only create benchmarks for from your own data. Even if they give you conversion rate benchmarks. Any big shifts in investment (marketing, customer experience, team sizes, tools).

Analytics 133

Analytics Vertical Metrics Web 133

The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 22, 2013

If you pick one vertical and do it well, other folks will find you. It took us 10 months and conversations with 70+ VC firms to raise our Series A round. This is the flip-side of the above advice, but when you start seeing your metrics turn positive, be prepared to invest and grow rapidly. Find your niche. Scale rapidly.

Cofounder 164

Cofounder Founder Startup Bootstrapping 164

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Prospect trial to conversion rates fell with the longer trials. They work to improve top-of-funnel metrics like brand awareness and identify opportunities to improve customer activation, retention, and referral efforts. If your campaign works and your brand awareness metrics improve, you win. What are “pirate metrics?”.

Framework 102

Framework Marketing Acquisition Retention 102

Steve Blank

APRIL 30, 2009

And the final lesson was that we were keeping score on our packaging with the wrong metrics – it wasn’t about awards, it was about sales in the retail channel. If you look at the top 3 online retailers by conversion rate, none of these are award-winning designs : [link] [link] [link] However, they convert ~25% of visitors to customers.

Sales 120

Sales Silicon Valley RSS Las Vegas 120

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JANUARY 13, 2015

Often your best estimate of any metric or market behavior or business model component is at best accurate within a power of ten, for example “expected conversion rate between 0.5% But if not that, then SEO or blog posts or tweets or word of mouth and so on, so it’s still going to take 10s of millions of impressions.

Business Model 120

Business Model Affiliate Startup Bootstrapping 120

This is going to be BIG.

JULY 26, 2011

Show that you know how to target, acquire, and profitably build up a subscription customer base, all while tracking the right metrics, and *boom* you're hired. People have gotten so specialized, that we have people doing nothing but community management, SEO/SEM, PR, etc. In New York City, that just shouldn't happen.

New York City 113

New York City Marketing SEM Acquisition 113

ReadWriteStart

APRIL 14, 2011

Daily Accountability Marketing Metrics. Traction Verticals. Fox reveals sensitive information such as traffic, metrics from marketing campaigns, even site conversion rates. Our Low Conversion Rates. How ThatHigh.com Solved the Chicken and Egg Problem and Grew to 1 Million Pageviews a Month with No SEO.

Entrepreneur 134

Entrepreneur Marketing Cofounder Campaign 134

Occam's Razor

APRIL 25, 2011

That means I get to spend loads and loads of time across many industry verticals, see many many campaigns, translate many many foreign websites (thanks Google Chrome for auto-translate!) If you can't initiate or participate in conversations, close your account. Your SEO strategy is buying links, expired domains, et.

Marketing 126

Marketing Flash Analytics Web 126

Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 7, 2022

Look, if you're tired of slowing down your teams with clunky software processes and marketing that is difficult to scale, HubSpot is here to help you and your business grow better with collaboration tools and built in SEO optimizations. So if you can imagine you have a vertical access on that access, you have high value at the top.

Cofounder 74

Cofounder Hosting Networking Software Review 74

ConversionXL

JUNE 20, 2019

Here’s an example for “how to tie shoelaces fast”: The basics of SEO (with some adjustments ) apply to YouTube videos as well, giving YouTube publishers a chance to drive more awareness on Google and within YouTube. In comparison, Facebook Live shows overview metrics like minutes viewed, average percentage completion, and unique viewers.).

Hosting 127

Hosting Video Technical Review Software Review 127

Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Transcript of What Local Businesses Need to Know About the State of Local SEO written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. John Jantsch: Perhaps one of the hottest things in marketing today is local SEO. We’re going to talk about their annual State of Local SEO , industry insights for a successful 2019.

SEO 54

SEO Vertical Non-Compete Search 54

ConversionXL

JANUARY 21, 2020

What about corporation-wide reporting for different brands, verticals, portals, or even companies within a multinational concern, all of which operate in different countries? You can track almost everything via GTM: events, custom dimensions, custom metrics, content grouping, etc. A boss who understands the importance of web analytics.

Technical Review 73

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Aggregator 73

Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 26, 2008

Use your customers and competitors to help you move the ball forward (buy a new tool, hire another analyst, kill hideous home pages, spend right amounts on SEM and SEO, publish rich media on your site, implement feedburner , or whatever else you want). Competitive Intelligence Analysis: Metrics, Tips & Best Practices.

Management 68

Management Analytics San Diego Web 68

ConversionXL

APRIL 22, 2015

While testing is a critical part of conversion optimization to make sure we actually made things better and by how much, it’s also the tip of the iceberg of the full CRO picture. This comes down to the most important thing about conversion optimization – the discovery of matters. This is not where the difficulty lies.

Analytics 48

Analytics Technical Review Conversion Framework 48

Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

If you are analyzing data for your SEO or PPC campaigns and you find the search engine providing the data then you should instantly embrace it and immediately propose marriage! #5: Both Fireclick and Coremetrics provide benchmarks related to conversion rates, cart abandonment, time on site, and so forth. numbers for various industries.

Analytics 123

Analytics Securities and Exchange Commission Search Engineer 123

Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 19, 2010

Most web analysts are not responsible for SEO Analytics , and it is such a shame. Besides that to me SEO is an important part of marketing. Mongoose Metrics ~ ifbyphone. I know Mongoose Metrics a bit more and have been impressed with their solution and evolution over the last couple of years. LivePerson.

Analytics 135

Analytics Web Non-Compete Campaign 135

ConversionXL

DECEMBER 3, 2018

The “classic” idea of content marketing—cranking out SEO-focused articles, ranking for hundreds of keywords, generating visitors, leads, and paying customers—doesn’t work in all industries. It looks and feels very different from content optimized for search since it isn’t beholden to any SEO tactics like word count and keyword density.

B2B 133

B2B Marketing SEO Search 133

Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

. + Traffic Trends Key Metrics Analysis. Onsite Behavior Key Metrics Analysis. The two exceptions are… I tend to dip in and out of my Raven subscription (primarily because I tend to dip in and out of SEO analysis needs). Traffic Trends Key Metrics Analysis. Visitor/Audience Type Profile Analysis.

Metrics 60

Metrics Analytics Non-Compete Search 60

steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

signup, upgrade, trial pricing Zuora – online subscription management FeeFighters – find the cheapest credit card processors HealPay – Collections made easy Customer Support Tender – support, knowledgebase tool for your site GetSatisfaction - conversations between companies / customers.

Software Review 110

Software Review Startup Silicon Valley Analytics 110

blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

It’s like arguing against vertical software. I run / wrote a site that serves approx 500,000 page requests a day, 5-10 complex SQL queries a page, god knows how much SEO related intelligence, 100,000s of users, external network comms. March 26, 2011 at 9:02 am. The reasoning behind this post is questionable. the list is long.

Java 107

Java PHP Software Review Coder 107