YoungUpstarts

MARCH 27, 2020

Visualizing key data and metrics can help your organization recognize patterns and business opportunities. Interactive sites, widgets, and infographics boast a stunning 70-percent conversion rate. That’s why, for many companies, making their reports visual is no longer a choice — it’s a must. Interactive Infographics & Sites.

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Eric Friedman

APRIL 2, 2008

My conclusion is that we are entering into a new phase of the war for the killer app which will be known as the Widget Wars. What is a widget? Yahoo has one definition of a widget (specific to their product of course). WordPress.com has another widget definition. Should we use the Internet.com definition of widget ?

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Up and Running

JUNE 21, 2017

You can further “educate” your Google Analytics metrics by using UTM parameters on your links. You hardly ever need to look at user-specific data, but having that data available is fundamental to truly understand your metrics at scale. Read more about tracking metrics for a SaaS business here.

Marketing 98

Marketing Analytics Campaign Metrics 98

ConversionXL

JANUARY 30, 2013

Wrong metric. The problem is with the metrics used – direct sales are a very bad metric to use for social. So direct sales numbers are not a good metric to look at when it comes to social media, but what is then? Use testimonials and social media widgets to establish your authority and show your success.

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Social Media Sales Media Social Network 134

This is going to be BIG.

JULY 25, 2022

Metrics around these efforts. For example, you may decide that a small business needs a widget like yours (hypothesis) so you outbound to 100 of them (goals) with a vaporware deck to see if you could sell some pre-orders. Some efforts don’t have more complicated metrics than just, “Did this work, yes, no, or still in process?”

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Equity Metrics Widget Bandwidth 118

ConversionXL

MAY 29, 2014

How far down the page a visitor goes, particularly for eCommerce or SaaS sites with products that require long descriptions, can be a valuable metric to understand where there might be clogs in the UX of the individual pages on a site. Playing with an interactive widget. Think: Watching the explainer video. Visiting the FAQ area.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 9, 2019

Is it higher usability metrics, like task completion and conversions, or something beyond analytics, like revenue? For example, if Daniel Howell, our CEO pictured above, is frustrated by a lack of information about your service, then it’s probably a good idea to design an FAQ page or service-page widget he can expand for more information.

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Design Software Review Audio Technical Review 131

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 6, 2017

Of course, as the metrics (and the ways of compiling them) become more sophisticated, we start seeing how important other types of content really are. You can have the best widget in the world or you can have a mediocre knockoff widget with fewer features. How does your content strategy measure up against these crucial criteria?

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Sales Widget Marketing Social Media 149

Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 21, 2017

Using these metrics you can cover every side of your social reputation management plan, all from a single dashboard. Price : Unlimited number of widgets for just $19 per month ($14 per month if paid annually). They also have brand and media tracking , social media monitoring, and more. Tweetdeck: Engage with Brand Mentions on Twitter.

Social Media 74

Social Media Reputation Widget Search 74

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 23, 2013

It provides a basic introduction to analytics as they apply to Lean Startup, including sections on what metrics to use and how to interpret them. For instance, Ben lists out the worst of the “vanity metrics,” a term that describes appealing but meaningless or misleading numbers. Alistair: There are plenty. Consider a restaurant.

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Analytics Lean Widget Metrics 167

The Startup Magazine

MARCH 28, 2021

When e-commerce first took off in the 1990s, web traffic was regarded as the most critical metric for measuring a website’s popularity. Other metrics to measure online performance did not yet exist. Ensure that necessary widgets are present at the bottom of each page to enhance its sharability.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

AUGUST 16, 2023

Getting Started NPS is one of the most popular customer satisfaction metrics used in the industry. Delighted is an easy-to-use platform that allows you to create an NPS question with a form and distribute it via SMS, email, website link, or a survey widget. A popular NPS survey tool that features a comprehensive set of NPS metrics.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 21, 2014

That’s why you need to be simultaneously feeding your growth engine , while monitoring churn and your other startup metrics. They refer to these differences as “ Red Flag” Metrics (or RFMs). Total number of logins also proved to be an important metric, though not as much so as the former two. times per day on average.

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Retention Churn Rate Metrics Software Review 106

YoungUpstarts

MAY 29, 2018

Providing real-time customer care solutions (including live chat widgets and integrated email). One of the many benefits attributed to modern systems such as those offered by Shopify is the possibility to address numerous sales-related metrics within seconds. Managing inventory. Proactive Versus Reactive. How did we do?

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 19, 2016

Inspired by the movie ‘Moneyball,’ MoneyBall syndrome refers to the fact that companies aren’t looking into the right metrics when measuring the effectiveness of their mobile website. Some marketers try looking at conversion as a solo metric of determining how their CTAs perform on mobile. Revamp Mobile Metrics to Combat Moneyball.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 11, 2015

I just spent a day working with Bob, the Chief Innovation Officer of a very smart large company I’ll call Acme Widgets. There are financial metrics (Return on Investment, Hurdle Rate, etc.) metrics (validated/invalidated hypotheses, Investment Readiness Level ) and processes. Bob summarized Acme’s impediments to innovation. “At

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Widget Lean Business Model Metrics 120

YoungUpstarts

JULY 22, 2011

You’ll find content categorized into different topics such as Marketing , Sales , Design , Revenue , Hiring , Social Media , Business Models , Metrics , PR , Venture Capital , Angel Investors , Bootstrapping , Incubators , Agile and many others.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 4, 2016

And typical success metrics for them would look like: email open rate. However, these metrics provide an incomplete story about how users actually perceive the content. Example of how a live chat widget works with a regular document. Share with their subscribers either through an email blast, or. number of downloads. Conclusion.

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B2B Sales Technical Review Software Review 48

ConversionXL

MARCH 1, 2016

James Gurd , Owner of Digital Juggler , described it a structured approach to improving business metrics, both micro and macro actions: James Gurd: ”It is a structured approach to improving the progress through and completion of user journeys, whatever the end goal may be. But Isn’t Design Metrically Opposed?

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Conversion Metrics Analytics Design 48

blog.adaptiveblue.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Tracking results is useful for metrics, which, in turn, help measure growth and success of the company. For example, if your service is offering a widget you can use Google Analytics to track what sites is this widget on. To do that just call Google analytics from the widget code. link] Looking for Widgets?

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EC2 Widget Software Review Startup 40

ConversionXL

MAY 29, 2014

How far down the page a visitor goes, particularly for eCommerce or SaaS sites with products that require long descriptions, can be a valuable metric to understand where there might be clogs in the UX of the individual pages on a site. Playing with an interactive widget. Think: Watching the explainer video. Visiting the FAQ area.

Conversion 62

Conversion Analytics Metrics Vermont 62

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

So while the abstraction shown is a failed CRM, this could just as easily be applied to a ticketing management widget. As we see it we think there’s a whole variety of features that we can actually integrate and that this one widget will provide ranging from attachment indexing and e- mail archival. ’ Melissa: Yes, I was.

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Widget Cofounder Technical Review Software Review 204

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 12, 2008

vs. sustainable: Compare this to the renewable strategies, like viral marketing, SEO, widgets, and ads, which can scale into 10s of millions of users but are primarily centered around tough, non-user centric work. Problem is, you inevitably become yesterday’s old news. Startup Lessons Learned - the Conference (April 23.

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Audience San Francisco Continuous Deployment Lean 119

Occam's Razor

JULY 12, 2010

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Analytics Viral Web Mobile 96

www.igda.org

JULY 24, 2012

A worker who is creating 10 widgets/hour at the beginning of a shift may be producing only 6/hour at the end of the shift, having peaked at 12/hour a couple of hours in. While this is indeed the metric that matters most to shareholders, its not terribly useful as a measure of productivity, especially daily or hourly productivity.

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Software Review Technical Review Widget Los Angeles 90

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

They work to improve top-of-funnel metrics like brand awareness and identify opportunities to improve customer activation, retention, and referral efforts. If your campaign works and your brand awareness metrics improve, you win. Then, compare any change in the awareness metrics you’re measuring in that region with other markets.

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Framework Marketing Acquisition Retention 102

Up and Running

MAY 23, 2018

In fact, the work you’re doing right now may actually be a core contributor to creating the metrics that future generations will use to measure their decisions. When you are creating your widget, you should put every bit of effort into the process—this is your passion at play. However, this data can come from other sources.

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Startup Widget Due Diligence Reputation 104

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

And the same is true in reverse - a lone brilliant coder can build a great widget, but it takes a system of people working well together to produce consistently great results. One person making a mistake may be a deranged lone wolf, but systematic mistakes are the result of systemic problems.

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San Francisco Continuous Deployment Lean DC 60

Feld Thoughts

APRIL 11, 2011

As a result, they don’t charge for the usage of their API or their widgets. The BigDoor team believes strongly that gamification should be a profit-center for web publishers and app developers, not a cost-center.

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Cost Widget API Advertising 130

www.ere.net

JULY 15, 2012

Common reason for failure: no metric or feedback mechanism to measure the percentage of applications that were routed to the wrong job. Common reason for failure: the absence of a metric or feedback mechanism to measure the percentage of applications that were misclassified or that advanced without meeting minimum standards.

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Hiring Metrics Search Widget 57

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 8, 2012

For example, if you’re at the beginning of a simple campaign and you’re just trying to get a general idea of whether that campaign is working or not, and that’s all you’re concerned about, there’s no need to overload yourself with a dashboard full of widgets telling you all sorts of extraneous information.

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Marketing Conversion Ratio Widget Forecast 160

Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 8, 2008

Whenever you have code that is un-deployed or un-integrated, its helpful to think of it as a huge stack of not-yet-installed parts in a widget factory. Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev.

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Software Review San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment 136

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

reminds us that Customer Development is not just collecting web metrics and it’s not about focus groups. I’m currently developing a widget product for e-retailers to make shopping social. I’ve written before that Customer’s own the pain, Founders own the vision, meaning that [.] Great work.

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VC Cafe

JULY 20, 2011

SupersonicAds reports that BrandConnect in-game videos and widgets have been receiving 20-80% engagement rates and benefiting from a captive targeted audience. The funding will be used to expand the international presence of BrandConnect , the Cost Per Engagement monetization solution for social games.

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Widget Video Campaign 84

The Next Web

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

A next generation biotech business would get priced at a higher valuation than yet another family diner or widget manufacturer. If there are no earnings yet, with your business plowing profits into long term growth, then revenue multiples or some other metric would be used. Related to the above is the industry in which you operate.

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Valuation Forecast Seed Stage .Net 167

Genuine VC

APRIL 30, 2008

However, for the past couple years, the metrics of “success” with early-stage digital media startups (especially consumer-facing ones) have clearly focused on distribution, as opposed to monetization. But it goes beyond just widgets and social networks.

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Distribution Widget Viral Social Media 103

Genuine VC

APRIL 30, 2008

However, for the past couple years, the metrics of “success” with early-stage digital media startups (especially consumer-facing ones) have clearly focused on distribution, as opposed to monetization. But it goes beyond just widgets and social networks.

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