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Why Misunderstanding Startup Metrics Can Cost You Your Business

Both Sides of the Table

There has been a lot of public debate over the past several weeks about whether it’s a good thing to be “gross margin positive” or not and commentary always reminds me that some people at startups don’t quite understand financial metrics or even how to think about which ones are healthy. The first input is CAC. Customer acquisition cost.

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How to Use Growth Hacking to Increase Revenue 20x in Just 12 Months

Up and Running

This is when metrics come into play. For ecommerce, this is based on transaction size, commission, and chances of the user returning. See Also: The Top 10 Tools for Tracking Your Web Metrics. Google AdWords or SEM (expensive). Our budget for most experiments is $500 to $1K, and we try to run two experiments per month.

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The Growth Marketing Process: How to Shake Your Growth Hack Addiction

ConversionXL

Rob Sobers of Varonis confirms… Rob Sobers , Varonis : “While traditional marketing teams might appear to operate like growth teams in terms of the channels they use (SEM, content marketing, email, etc.), via Ecommerce Growth Masterclass). The metrics you’ll be using. It’s the first step of the G.R.O.W.S.

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Knowledge

Occam's Razor

" ~ Web Metrics: "What is a KPI? " + Standard Metrics Revisited Series. "Engagement" Is Not A Metric, It's An Excuse. I Got No Ecommerce. Defining a "Master Metric", + a Framework to Gain a Competitive Advantage in Web Analytics. How do I choose well? How to focus?"

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Excellent Analytics Tip #7: The Adorable Site Abandonment Rate Metric

Occam's Razor

How many metrics can you call adorable? Site abandonment rate is an adorable metric, to me : ), for these reasons: Money, money, money baby. IMHO there isn't a metric out there that can tell you a lot so quickly and any improvement you make to it will directly and immediately impact the bottom-line. My hypothesis is that.

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3 Awesome, Downloadable, Custom Web Analytics Reports

Occam's Razor

In a world where we are overwhelmed with data and metrics and key performance indicators and reports and dashboards and. I must forewarn you that my hidden agenda is also to expose to you metrics you might not be using, views of data that you might be ignoring, best practices that are of value and teach you how to fish. Faith rules.

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What is A/B Testing? The Complete Guide: From Beginner to Pro

ConversionXL

Define your target metrics. Here’s an example from an ecommerce site: First couple of days: Blue (variation #3) is winning big—like $16 per visitor vs. $12.50 We’ll measure this using (data metric). We expect to see (data metric[s] change) over a period of (X business cycles). Define your website goals. for Control.

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