ConversionXL

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Even in this obscure niche, their napkin-math suggested that improper moisture management cost companies $1 billion in repair and replacement costs each year. Their typical buyers—facilities managers, architects, and commercial designers—rarely used social media. Create movement-first content to build credibility.

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Your digital performance dashboard has 16 metrics along 9 dimensions, and you know that the font-size 6 text and sparkline sized charts make them incomprehensible. Focus only on KPIs, eliminate metrics. Here are the definitions you'll find in my books: Metric : A metric is a number. Time on Page is a metric.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 7, 2023

The discussion extends to the evolving role of leadership, with a focus on empathy as a crucial competency. And that kind of notion, think back 30 years ago, that would've been impossible, but now it's a leadership competency we're talking about. We know that diverse teams are better performing than non-diverse teams.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, September 11, 2009 The cardinal sin of community management Once you have a product launched, you will the face the joys – and the despair – of a community that grows up around it. Nothing worked, until we finally had one of our community managers start talking to real customers on the phone.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 19, 2019

Alexa Hubley: “How to Compete in a Saturated Market”. Set targets: metrics to tackle the overarching goal for your product lifecycle. We need a metric or KPI that shows how good we are at increasing the likelihood that someone will convert in the future. As marketers, we compete for revenue and conversions.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

Honeywell CEO Dave Cote also cautions against shortsightedness during economic downturns: I’ve been a leader during three recessions and I’ve never heard a management team talk about how the choices they make during a downturn will affect performance during a recovery. Managing the means of production to fit the circumstances.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 21, 2014

To my mind, it’s fear of the unknown that holds most of us back and not the thought of whether we’re competent enough or intelligent enough or whatever else we feel is needed to run a business. As with anything, learning to manage, learning to be the boss and learning to run a business, are just things that happen over time and with practice.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 13, 2016

Even A/B tests with well-conceived test concepts can lead to non-significant results and erroneous interpretations. If the risk is low and traffic overlap between the tests is manageable, two tests can absolutely be allowed to run in parallel, so that one and the same user can be in multiple tests. Don’t measure too many metrics.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 21, 2014

Disturbing, because many people & organizations want to compete on analytics, but are not doing the right things or adopting the right thinking about analytics. 15% Of CMO’s Don’t Measure Marketing ROI, 27% Rely On Manager Judgements. Here are the highlights: Only 2% of companies are tracking lead generation to sales metrics.

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

Explain why, hopefully you'll have rules you can apply and check if your Web Metrics are indeed KPI's! Update] Here are two recent posts that dive deeper into the topic of Key Performance Indicators and provide latest thinking (as well as real world examples): ~ Best Web Metrics / KPIs for a Small, Medium or Large Sized Business.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 26, 2019

I’ve made a few grammatical and non-substantive updates for clarity. It’s my hope that some of it can be useful to others, specifically other under-represented founders or non-traditional markets. (I If you’re a founder/product manager/business owner, I encourage you to find that out! outside of a vacuum. and the outcomes. “If

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 13, 2012

That means: All of these metrics are off. The credit distribution is proportional to content consumption (I like page count and not time) and finally apply the rules based on position in the path. This is exactly why the Page Value metric (in the past called $index value) was created. Pretty cool right? Hopefully soon!

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www.joelonsoftware.com

MARCH 24, 2010

Fog Creek explicitly recognizes that many good software engineers have no desire whatsoever to do "management" or to take on a formal personnel management role. One of the purposes of the Fog Creek Professional Ladder is to create a career path with promotions for engineers who simply do not want to do management stuff at all.

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Occam's Razor

JULY 1, 2013

But sometimes going outside our analytics tools can yield non-normal insights that can deliver a competitive advantage. Management does not get it, they have no online products so why care, they are doing Facebook ads and really what else does anyone else need, yada, yada, yada. Perhaps you are skeptical. I understand. Not a problem.

Search 135

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

Remember: Engagement is not a metric, its an excuse. ]. You are a news site like The New York Times or you are a non-profit like Idealist or you are the team running Google Maps. The ideal metrics for this desired outcome are Visitor Loyalty & Visitor Recency. are you doing the "branding campaign"? Share of Search.

Campaign 128

Campaign Analytics Metrics Search 128

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Every board meeting, the metrics of success change. This approach is fundamentally non-scalable. These founders have not managed, to borrow a phrase from Steve Blank , to create a scalable and repeatable sales process. Because they have no presence in the market, they have to find distribution channels to bring in customers.

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Tim Keane

JANUARY 12, 2010

Good investors use the valuation discussions to gauge the business savvy of the management team and to understand their ability to appreciate and deal with economic market forces that set values.   For individual angels and others investing their own money, this may be more fluid than for someone with responsibility for a managed fund.

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Transformify

JULY 30, 2019

In partnership with the executive team, Lorie designed MassMutual’s first diversity and inclusion strategy, focused on Leadership, Marketplace & Distribution, and Workforce & Workplace. Now, these benefits include previously non-covered procedures such as facial feminization surgery, thyrochondroplasty, electrolysis and more.

Hawaii 56

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 21, 2013

If you're working on the Sticky Engine of Growth , you're focused on very different metrics from those that you care about in the Viral Engine of Growth. Finding your One Metric That Matters But it's not enough just to know "normal". It's also vital to know what the most important metric is to your business right now.

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Growthink Blog

MAY 23, 2011

For most companies, it is simply a non-starter. Management has the wrong pedigree, is geographically undesirable, competes in the wrong industry, and/or has a business model that lacks "scalability credibility" with the venture community. It is driven by the following: • The Best Metric for the Health of a Company is Cash Flow.

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www.women2.org

MARCH 8, 2012

Opportunity Management: Now that I had a few people of interest, the courtship began. Learn how to create, launch, and manage your start-up over complimentary beer and wine. The Alchemist Series: Customer Development and Metrics. Youll hear from speakers like Floodgate Funds Managing Partner Mike Maples Jr., San Jose, CA.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2011

I would say my wife & I are on the “non neurotic&# side of parents. Starting with exclusive rights to sell celebrity chef, Tyler Florence’s, line of baby food online, SproutBaby began seeing initial traction from customer interest as physical distribution spread. EcoMom Makes a Breakthrough in its Search for Funding.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Task Management. Project Management Tools. Subscription Payments / Management. Managing APIs. Customer Relationship Management. Contractor Management. Private beta invitations & management: Prefinery. Scanning / Document Management. Project Management tools. Part 4- Closing.

Software Review 53

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

Written By Dan Martell on February 2nd, 2012 | Category: Hiring LeanStartup Marketing Metrics Startup Life | 6 Comments. Building Metrics / Usage Reports / KPI 3. Product/Metrics (70%/30% time) * Get your product activation (sign-up + meaningful action) to 60% * then, Get your product retention to 20% weekly. Why do I do it?

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andrewchenblog.com

MARCH 10, 2010

This technical debt is the non-strategic result of doing a poor job. If all of those buildings were to power down, it may be that the relative distribution of business would remain the same, but we’ll never know since that will never happen Important navigational areas like homepages, inboxes, notifications, etc are all the same way.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Free often wins versus buying a competing product. Account managers can tier customers. ” Adobe Target is an enterprise testing tool that does a great job of leveraging a visitor based metric system. ” Adobe Target is an enterprise testing tool that does a great job of leveraging a visitor based metric system.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2011

Its i-nigma solution comprises of a mobile multi-barcode reader application and an integrated platform for managing barcode services. This allows customers to create, manage and track processes that include tagging of physical objects using barcodes. Established back in 2003, Comarcom Ltd.

Mobile 103

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Also, yesterday the winner of the latest Crunchies was GitHub and #2 was Palantir, both non-consumer, big data organizer companies. It’s called Enterprise Performance Management, which is kind of a weird term. Some of these next big startups are in L.A., So jump on this next rain now, more postings on this to come. ALEXIA TSOTSIS.

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