The Startup Magazine

JULY 21, 2021

Kevin Wu, co-founder and CEO of job search optimization program Pathrise , says “Digital marketer roles are some of the most in-demand positions in the tech industry.” According to a recent McKinsey survey, 83% of CEOs said they depend on digital marketing to be the major driver of growth. This is the power of SEM marketing.

Technical Review 147

Technical Review PPC SEM Marketing 147

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 26, 2016

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.

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

This audience is immensely attractive to Brands and Marketers around the world. FBe's recommendation was (paraphrasing a 35 min talk): Don't invent new metrics, use online versions of Reach and GRPs to measure success. Facebook has an incredible audience, 950 million strong and counting. This makes me really sad.)

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ConversionXL

JUNE 16, 2022

Consistency is the cornerstone of good marketing. Stacked Marketer turned a free newsletter into a six-figure revenue generator by staying actionable, convenient, and entertaining. A marketing playbook helps you achieve brand consistency across channels and campaigns. A marketing playbook gets everyone on the same page.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Rob Sobers said about the marketing growth strategy, “It’s not about tactics—it’s about people and process.”. When it comes to process, growth marketers must learn to fail. A marketing growth strategy is about small and incremental wins that build up over time. Growth marketing is about process over tactics.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 21, 2021

You also need to invest in restaurant marketing of your business to ensure you keep diners coming in. Keeping an eye on the marketing trends having an impact will help you find new ideas to test and measure in your hospitality venture. Mobile Marketing. In turn, your restaurant marketing gets better results.

Marketing 158

Marketing Technical Review Social Media Audience 158

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 11, 2022

How might our next phase of the journey seem brighter, even with more uncertain days for startups and capital markets? And then in the late 90’s money crept in, swept in to town by public markets, instant wealth and an absurd sky-rocketing of valuations based on no reasonable metrics. What happened?

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Up and Running

AUGUST 26, 2020

With many brands unsure of where to turn amid the crisis, we are reminded of how important it is to have flexibility within our marketing strategies. It’s in times like these when you need to adjust your marketing strategies. How to adapt your marketing strategy. Revamp your email marketing strategy. Host virtual events.

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Marketing Audience eCommerce Social Media 171

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 4, 2011

Having a set of metrics that you watch & that you feel are the key drivers of your success helps keep clarity. And the more public you can make your goals for these key metrics the better. You will likely have multiple sets of metrics you keep depending on the company’s stage, one’s function in the company and level.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Not only can Google Ads help businesses reach customers who are searching for what they want online, but it can target customers in a precise location, increasing the likelihood of conversion. With these tricks, you’ll be able to establish a strong local marketing campaign and reach out to your community. Have a Business profile.

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Marketing Campaign Software Review Community 107

Steve Blank

JANUARY 17, 2023

Three types of organizations – Incubators, Accelerators and Venture Studios – have emerged to reduce the risk of early-stage startup failure by helping teams find product/market fit and raise initial capital. Instead, they search and pivot until product-market fit is found. How Venture Studios Work.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

In this article, you’ll learn what growth hacking in marketing is and what it’s not. The goal of growth hacking as marketing is rapid growth, using strategies and tactics that leverage (and even exploit) technology, platforms, and behavior to reach an end goal. Why do people think growth hacking in marketing is controversial?

Retention 113

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Not for lack of competition, but as the result of a carefully designed ecommerce marketing strategy. This is what drives growth for online stores like ASOS, despite existing in a saturated market. Table of contents What exactly is an ecommerce marketing strategy? Leverage FOMO in social media marketing 3.

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eCommerce Marketing Social Media Retention 129

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 14, 2023

Cash flow is a basic survival metric for every startup. Of course, their answer is that the second intends to get to market faster, but every engine has limits regardless the fuel applied. Use social media for early marketing. Desperate entrepreneurs lose their leverage and die young. Tackling most of the support tasks yourself.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 21, 2021

Kevin Wu, co-founder and CEO of job search optimization program Pathrise , says “Digital marketer roles are some of the most in-demand positions in the tech industry.” According to a recent McKinsey survey, 83% of CEOs said they depend on digital marketing to be the major driver of growth. This is the power of SEM marketing.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review PPC SEM Marketing 78

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

It does, and we brought world-class marketers to deliver keynotes full of value on growth and experimentation. Of course, we took care of the usual aspects of every offline marketing conference, and CXL Live 2022 brought together 300 returning attendees and first-timers, taking over a rooftop venue in downtown Austin.

B2B 94

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 11, 2010

Tim Berry has a great post on Why I Hate Those Huge Market Numbers tells us that he doesn’t like to see business plans with multi-billion market numbers used as the basis for projections. It’s the old – 5% of massive market gives us a big number. Part of those questions are around Startup Metrics. Great stuff!

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2021

The Wal-Mart home page is customized for each shopper based on location, local weather, and the customer search and purchase history. Manual tracking and occasional surveys won’t keep you competitive in today’s high volume and rapidly changing market. Algorithms and data are required to compete.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 4, 2017

Exactly what is that customer experience that every modern marketer is talking about, and how do you measure it? This active discovery mindset searching for new questions drives real innovators away from more of the same. One metric now commonly used is called the Net Promoter® Score (NPS).

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

The same lesson applies to our daily life of data and metrics. Besides paranoia, I’ve found another advantage in computing the same data twice: a better understanding of the forces behind that data, and therefore better analysis of how the company operates and how the market is changing. Consider web traffic.

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Analytics Software Review Metrics Technical Review 248

Up and Running

MAY 3, 2021

To answer this question, you need to have a set of metrics that give you a clear picture of what’s going on in your business. Likewise, your website , the digital representation of your business, and the means through which people find you and connect with you, also needs to have metrics in place to know how it’s doing. Site speed.

Small Business 148

Small Business Caching Metrics Analytics 148

Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 21, 2013

In late 2011, Google announced an effort to make search behavior more secure. This encrypted their search queries from any prying eyes, and kept from being passed on to websites the users visits after seeing search results. This led to the problem we, Marketers, SEOs, Analysts, fondly refer to as not provided.

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Search SEO Analytics Engineer 154

Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

Ego Metrics: What Measurements Matter? written by Guest Post read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing Thursday is guest post day here at Duct Tape Marketing and today’s guest is Andy Crestodina – Enjoy! The problem is that some of these metrics aren’t meaningful. No cattle.”.

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Metrics Social Media Widget Chicago 72

Up and Running

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Where you may have previously been able to engage with a digital marketing agency to help with your SEO activity , you may find that you now need to take on some of that workload internally. . An SEO audit is simply the process of identifying issues on your website that could be limiting your ability to rank on Google or other search engines.

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SEO Technical Review Metrics Analytics 85

ConversionXL

JULY 21, 2022

In this post, we’ll explore lessons from brands that use omnichannel marketing to deliver a seamless customer experience. What is omnichannel marketing? If you’ve ever received an email with personalized product recommendations or a retargeting ad on Facebook for a product you left in your cart, that’s omnichannel marketing in action.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 19, 2018

Your Guide to Google Search Console written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Combined with the text below you should have a pretty good feel for how to use the new Google Search Console. Google AdWords : For a lot of small business owners, paid search is the way they generate leads and customers.

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Search Analytics HTML Technical Review 76

ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

As with most platforms, there are metrics that matter, and vanity metrics. With YouTube, for organic, average view duration (AVD) and click-through rate (CTR) should be prioritized over YouTube search optimization, descriptions, tags, and other vanity metrics. Both metrics represent high engagement.

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Analytics Metrics Channel Video 134

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

And if you haven’t yet dabbled in influencer marketing, now’s the time to try it out. Keep reading for five tips for launching influencer marketing campaigns for your e-commerce business. For all marketing campaigns, the most important part is deciding on the goals you want to strive to achieve. Define your campaign objectives.

Campaign 147

Campaign Software Review Social Media Social Network 147

Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 23, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, December 23, 2009 Why vanity metrics are dangerous In a previous post, I defined two kinds of metrics: vanity metrics and actionable metrics. In this post, Id like to talk about the perils of vanity metrics. My personal favorite vanity metrics is "hits."

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Metrics San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment 167

Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 25, 2023

From crafting a compelling brand identity to mastering digital marketing, it's a multifaceted journey that demands careful planning and execution. While platforms like Instagram offer a great starting point, the key to differentiation lies in the age-old strategy of Search Engine Optimization (SEO). Thanks to Steven Light, Avenue B !

eCommerce 126

eCommerce Omaha Entrepreneur SEO 126

The Startup Magazine

MAY 19, 2021

We spoke to Grapefruit Digital SEO , a UK-based digital marketing agency, to find out more. Based on these metrics, the website is graded as: Good. However, sites that ignore or are slow to adapt to these new user experience metrics, could find themselves losing ground in the search results. Needs improvement.

SEO 174

SEO Technical Review Metrics Mobile 174

Up and Running

JULY 6, 2021

In 2012, websites were automatically ranked higher based on inbound links, and some marketers abused this signal to the point where they were able to create all kinds of linking tactics just to build links that connect back to a website. The update caused their rankings to tank or their websites failing to show up on search engines at all.

Software Review 104

Software Review Small Business Algorithm SEO 104

ConversionXL

JULY 8, 2021

The magic of a conversion rate formula lies in gleaning marketing insights. The method for calculating conversion rate varies by channel, sales cycle, and stage of the marketing funnel. On the contrary, you’re likely to afford a modest average conversion rate from search traffic. Email subscribers from search traffic.

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Conversion CPA Metrics Analytics 156

The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

When we hear the term ‘local SEO,’ we usually think about people searching on browsers for businesses that are near to their homes. Hubspot notes that already 46% of all searches on Google are for local businesses. Local searches already have a lot of leverage since they can convert users both online and offline.

SEO 90

SEO Search Metrics Audience 90

ReadWriteStart

APRIL 8, 2023

Keeping up with trends is the reality show of the e-commerce world, which is constantly developing, gaining a significant market share, and driving online sales. The story behind its substantial growth in the market is simple: people love to shop in the most convenient way possible, and a smartphone is a perfect way to do it.

eCommerce 185

eCommerce Technical Review Software Review Analytics 185

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 18, 2020

They have a strong ability to market themselves, which allows these young entrepreneurs to get more clients and grow their business. Those who are starting off their new ventures are able to succeed not necessarily because they have full passion and ambition, but because they are into digital marketing. Email marketing.

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Entrepreneur Marketing Social Media SEM 286

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 18, 2018

Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) can be challenging for many businesses, however it can be even more puzzling for startups. If your business is only ranking on page 4 or 5 on a search engine, it is practically guaranteed that valuable leads are not finding you. Search engines will then only index that one page.

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SEO Startup Metrics Engineer 100