Remove Metrics Remove Operations Remove Product Development Remove Retention
article thumbnail

Conversion: The Most Important Internet Metric of All (Revisited)

abovethecrowd.com

Over 13 years ago, in March of 2000, I wrote a blog post titled “ The Most Powerful Internet Metric of All. ” The key thesis was this: if an Internet company could obsess about only one metric, it should be conversion. As such, it is time to pound the table again – conversion is by far the most powerful Internet metric of all.

Metrics 93
article thumbnail

CXL Live 2018 Recap: Top 5 Lessons from Each Speaker

ConversionXL

Ed Fry – Customer Data Operations: Unleashing your hidden growth engine. Tara Robertson – How to 10x Growth by Optimizing Customer Marketing & Retention. Retention is the most important thing – if that’s poor, nothing else matters. Start with retention. Optimize for retention, not just acquisition.

Retention 106
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

How to Build a User Research Culture

ConversionXL

It slows product development. The key is to connect user research to an improved user experience and, in turn, an increase in customer retention, leads, or any other metric for which C-suite members are accountable. Include notes from your internal team that explain how insights are influencing product development.

Design 111
article thumbnail

You Are What You Measure, So Choose Your KPIs (Incentives) Wisely!

Occam's Razor

While there is a great deal of appreciation for the power of metrics/data, I've come to realize that Sr. Leaders don't quite appreciate the deep, and often corrosive, consequences of choosing metric x over metric y as a key performance indicator (KPI). It is a standard metric. Don't believe me?

Metrics 152
article thumbnail

CXL Live 2019 Recap: Takeaways from Every Speaker

ConversionXL

Why our CRO jobs will die: Teams operate at different paces. Conversion teams: 6–8 week experiment cycles; Marketing teams: Prepare, campaign, prepare, campaign; Product teams: 2-week sprints. Conversion/Optimization teams might become a nightmare for marketing and product teams. Historically that’s been expensive. Not anymore.

article thumbnail

Fueling Your Growth With Facebook Groups And Communities

Duct Tape Marketing

John also spent several years at The New York Times Company at NYTimes.com running strategy, marketing, and operations. He was part of the management team that was instrumental in launching NYTimes.com’s first digital paid product and the acquisition of About.com. 19:23] What’s next for businesses on Facebook? [22:24]

article thumbnail

How to Build a High Performing Growth Team

ConversionXL

Jonathan Price wrote on the same Quora thread that he believes growth marketing to differ from regular marketing because it “is technology-centric and it blurs the boundary between marketing and product development.” Product vs. Growth? But what about between growth and product? What skills does this role entail?