ConversionXL

AUGUST 13, 2019

SaaS sales and marketing teams can get overwhelmed by metrics. But without any metrics, it’s impossible to track growth. If growth is the best way to get out alive, marketing metrics do little unless they correlate with sales. But only 400 software companies have made it to the $500M revenue mark.

Metrics 117

Metrics SQL Retention Churn Rate 117

ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2022

Marketing teams capitalize on this fact with lead generation campaigns. More than half allocate most of their budget to securing leads. The problem with lead generation is that, as Brian Gleeson notes , “we’ve mislabeled user actions like forms-fills as ‘leads.’”. And they put a lot of stock in them.

Demand 95

Demand Management B2B Campaign 95

ConversionXL

JANUARY 24, 2017

Everyone has railed against these practices ( including us , many times), but it still seems that much of the industry is focused on short term metrics and surface level changes. Trends include: big data tools, data manipulation (SQL and alternatives), languages like Python, and deeper analyses (e.g., How do you do that?

Conversion 48

Conversion Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Analytics 48

ConversionXL

MAY 13, 2020

After a few hours playing around with SQL , I was already able to deliver insights I never could have with aggregated Google Analytics reports. Further, as you’re now using your own data, you can remove revenue from cancelled transactions or returns. As long as you can export your CRM data with a unique lead ID (e.g.,

Analytics 85

Analytics Aggregator SQL Cloud 85

Occam's Razor

JULY 1, 2008

conversion rate (average as reported by shop.org) and you are dutifully reporting our revenue of $1 million as a result. While you might be doing great in terms of direct revenue impact of your website, pause and consider what in God's name is happening to that other 98.3% "unconverted" traffic on your site?

Analytics 116

Analytics Conversion Campaign Redemption 116