crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 13, 2014

The Essential Email Marketing Metrics You Should Be Tracking | Hubspot blog – crowdspring.co/1gY786G. The Essential Email Marketing Metrics You Should Be Tracking | Hubspot blog – crowdspring.co/1gY786G. 4 Surprising SEM Stats Every E-Commerce Marketer Should Know | Search Engine Land – crowdspring.co/1kD9ZHH.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 2, 2009

Metrics – Mine is Bigger Than Yours The first thing SuperMac needed to do was to change how our potential color desktop publishing customers viewed our products versus our competitors’ products. As hokey as it is, when confronted with uncertainty or unknowns, human beings like to be reassured by comparative metrics.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 9, 2009

To do that we will create end-user demand and drive it into the sales channel, educate the channel and customers about why our products are superior, and help Engineering understand customer needs and desires. We will accomplish this through demand-creation activities (advertising, PR, tradeshows, seminars, web sites, etc.),

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Master of 500 Hats: Startup Metrics for Pirates (SeedCamp 2008, London) This presentation should be required reading for anyone creating a startup with an online service component. He also has a discussion of how your choice of business model determines which of these metric areas you want to focus on. Choose one.

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Hunter Walker

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Yes but Content Operations can sometimes be thought of as a “beginner” job for product managers, designers, engineers so it gets younger, less influential staffing which habitually rotates off after 1-2 years to a new project. Did I ever write about creating YouTube’s fetish video policy?

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Mucker Lab

AUGUST 9, 2023

Their significance in SEO is immense, acting as pathways that help search engines discover and prioritize content. Without links, attaining a high rank on search engine result pages becomes not just difficult, but often impossible. Vetting the Shows: Ensure the podcasts have good metrics and are worth the investment of time.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 8, 2013

Jesper Richter-Reichhelm is Head of Engineering at social games company Wooga. There are departmental heads, such as the Head of Engineering of which we have two who take care of different parts of that field, and others that look after their respective departments. All KPIs and metrics are available to everyone in the company.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 16, 2022

Basic metrics like deals completed and revenue generated don’t measure customer acquisition success. HubSpot research shows search engine optimization (SEO) as the second most effective marketing channel for acquiring new customers (behind social media), with organic search driving 17% of survey respondents’ web traffic.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

Good whitepaper on advertising measurement metrics | by Ben Kunz – crowdspring.co/HsVIMR. Good whitepaper on advertising measurement metrics | by Ben Kunz – crowdspring.co/HsVIMR. Uber — What’s Fueling Uber’s Growth Engine? Good whitepaper on advertising measurement metrics – crowdspring.co/HsVIMR.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 21, 2013

What we do know is that bad content is a thing of the past, at least if you plan to build a site that generates a decent amount of organic search engine traffic. Backlinks are losing ground to stronger rankings metrics. In short, SEO is becoming more and more similar to PR every day. Content doesn’t mean blogging (necessarily).

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

It other words, it’s a team of designers and engineers. We had a designer, a front-end engineer, and a data scientist. Then, I evolved it into a growth team by hiring a designer and two engineers. Every team included a mix of designers, engineers, marketers, and copywriters. The growth teams that I’ve built.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 6, 2017

Here’s a question – is your PR working? As small business owners or marketers, we all know full well how important it is to put time aside for PR. If you’re an astute CEO you’ll feel it in your water when PR is working. It’s also a way to see that your PR is working. written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Experimentation is the engine that drives innovation. 17:16] Is there a small set of metrics that you rely on? [19:43] Number one, because originally right, the founding of the company was, it's always like square in the search engine marketing at the yeah. Is there a small set of metrics that you rely on as. The barber.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 6, 2017

In other words, it’s about the customer finding you through a mixture of engaging and educational content across multiple platforms such as your blog, social media channels and search engines, to connect with buyers (aka target audiences) at each stage of the buying cycle. And let’s not forget the gem of it all — analytics.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Search Engine Optimization Tips For Startups – [link]. Startup Tip: Four Questions To Ask When Making Decisions Based On Metrics & Statistics – [link]. The 10 Social Media Metrics Your Company Should Monitor – [link]. How To Organize Huge Copywriting Projects – [link].

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 4, 2023

Experimentation is the engine that drives innovation. 17:16] Is there a small set of metrics that you rely on? [19:43] Number one, because originally right, the founding of the company was, it's always like right square in the search engine marketing at the Yeah, yeah, yeah. They're not reading search engine land.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, February 8, 2010 Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Review) The next article in my series on entrepreneurship for Harvard Business Review is live today. Once again, we revisit the topic of Actionable metrics and their nemesis: Vanity metrics. Remember "metrics are people, too."

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 10, 2013

The critical metrics for each stage of your SaaS business | by Lars Lofrgren – [link]. Reverse Engineering Your Startup’s Success - [link]. 6 Interesting Facebook Tricks You Might Not Know | Search Engine Journal – [link]. It’s difficult to fake corporate culture | Business Insider – [link].

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

Do your own PR. Whether or not you’ve got the budget, doing your own PR to start with is a good idea. A good online campaign should include paid search engine advertising, social media advertising, email marketing, and a PR campaign.”. Step 8: Track your metrics. The benefits of tracking key metrics.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2009

Announce a new product, start its PR campaign, and engage in buzz marketing activities. Even if you must launch to your customers, avoid the urge to also launch in extra places, just because your PR firm can do it at the same time. If you are having trouble raising money, sometimes a little PR can help. Help you raise money.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 7, 2010

At least, not in the traditional sense of trying to squeeze every tenth of a point out of a conversion metric or landing page. When people (ok, engineers) who have been trained in this model enter most startups, they quickly get confused. Even if it shows improvement in some micro metric, does that invalidate the overall design?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 30, 2009

Launch with a PR blitz, including mentions in major mainstream publications. After years of engineering effort, changing these assumptions was incredibly hard. As with many Silicon Valley failures, a flawless PR launch turned into a flawed customer acquisition strategy. Departments were built and were even metrics-driven.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

For example, Indie Hackers is a community full of entrepreneurs, makers, and marketers sharing their experiences and seeking advice: Take the insights gleaned from these communities to reverse engineer customer sentiment and pain-points. Nothing quite beats digital PR. Most influencers love meeting other smart and like-minded experts.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

Startup Priorities: Is Design More Important Than Engineering? Entrepreneurs: Beware of Vanity Metrics - [link]. Trust in Friends Declines, Trust in Experts Rises – Social Media and PR Still Win - [link]. Management Secrets of the Grateful Dead – [link]. – [link]. How Do You Reference Check a VC?

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 12, 2013

Interesting, especially in light of debate about remote work … Engineering Serendipity | NYT – [link]. The Lean Analytics Cycle: Metrics > Hypothesis > Experiment > Act – [link]. Lean Business: Pivot Point – [link]. An acquisition is always a failure | by Jake Lodwick – [link].

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 15, 2015

Pay attention to your metrics, because a company will build what the CEO measures. The side benefit of this was that when engineers got tired of answering customer service calls on a particular tech issue, they would fix the tech issue. It’s better to build something a small number of users love, than a large number of users like.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

My colleagues Sebastian Soler , Steven Greenberg and I recently launched a new online community, PEVCTech.com , exclusively for PE/VC investors; engineers who work at PE/VC funds; and other technologists who specialize in working on this problem. ” Historically, investing was a manual, artisan process. VC Firm. $ Tech % of workforce.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 10, 2019

They helped their client breakthrough into competitive search rankings, helping to boost their web traffic by 1,115% and their leads by 1,271% in just one year, creating a business where 85% of leads came from search engine traffic. How quickly a website loads affects both how it ranks in search engines and how people use the site.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

In 2007, BusinessWeek named Ries one of the Best Young Entrepreneurs of Tech and in 2009 he was honored with a TechFellow award in the category of Engineering Leadership. Thanks to Suns amazing PR blitz, there was tremendous demand for experts on Java, and I did my best to convince people that I was one of that mythical breed.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

. “Growth hackers have a passion for tracking and moving a metric. Without metrics or data, a growth hacker can feel out of place and uncomfortably exposed. This strong bias towards data drives a growth hacker away from vanity metrics towards metrics that will make or break the business.” ” Creativity.

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Brandanew

OCTOBER 13, 2015

With increasing competition, online reputation is a major draw for search engines as well as your consumers. Some of the quantitative metrics that companies use to measure their Content Marketing success include: a) Traffic. You can often not hide behind PR notices if you create something that’s atrocious!

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Up and Running

JUNE 27, 2018

Define success metrics before your campaign starts, then measure your effectiveness during and after the campaign. When done right , you can achieve better rankings on search engines, increase your website’s traffic, and build stronger brand credibility in the online space. Did your strategies work? Not having a website.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 10, 2015

Tech Startups Woo Investors With Unconventional Financial Metrics — but Do Numbers Add Up? Usability Metrics – A Guide To Quantify The Usability Of Any System – Usability Geek crowdspring.co/1HqW5mA. Tips For Finding Success As A Female Engineer – buff.ly/1gk9SkA. JFDI” instagram.com/p/34KQylEHJt/. 1JXvhtR.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 8, 2018

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is one of the biggest levers that a business can use within their acquisition strategy as part of their Growth goals. They apply content/link/keyword research, technical audits, content creation and the ability to do massive PR/Awareness/Brand campaigns to help boost this. It all start with Acquisition.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 29, 2013

Oh, and your salespeople have to make sure bookstores will stock it, and your marketing and PR people will have to make sure readers know it exists. Last year, the co -founders of B ack to the Roots talked about their innovation accounting and how they were ignoring sales metrics in order to grow.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 18, 2013

The 6 Marketing Metrics Your CEO Actually Cares About [Cheat Sheet] | Hubspot Blog - [link]. Facebook Has Some Tips | Search Engine Land - [link]. The 6 Marketing Metrics Your CEO Actually Cares About [Cheat Sheet] | Hubspot Blog - [link]. Here’s what I learned hanging out with Jason Fried - [link].

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 29, 2013

Many used some data, but they unfortunately used silly data strategies/metrics. And silly simply because as soon as the strategy/success metric being obsessed about was mentioned, it was clear they would fail. It is a really good metric. There are many spectacular reasons for why Like (and +1s, Followers) is a horrible metric.

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