Up and Running

OCTOBER 7, 2019

You need to use your time and resources productively by focusing on the right metrics so you can use data to help you implement improvements that matter. The first step is to formulate a KPI strategy by selecting the right metrics to track. The metrics should help you identify areas for improvement.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 16, 2019

Just take a look at one of the most impressive examples: in 2018, Amazon’s net profit exceeded $10 billion , which is twice as much as in 2017. Well-thought and unique eCommerce business is a bottomless source of profit. No proves are needed until giants like Amazon , eBay , Alibaba and similar exist.

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eCommerce Software Developers Software Development Hosting 113

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 6, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, November 6, 2008 Steveys Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile I thought Id share an interesting post from someone with a decidedly anti-agile point of view. Steveys Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile : "Google is an exceptionally disciplined company, from a software-engineering perspective.

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Agile San Francisco Software Review Continuous Deployment 76

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Marketing metrics are a competitive advantage. You have to track metrics you can act on. In this article, you’ll learn which metrics to measure to understand and improve marketing performance. Table of contents What are digital marketing metrics? KPIs vs. digital marketing metrics 1. – Seth Godin.

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OnlyOnce

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Follow up with an all-hands meeting to explain what happened, why you made the choices you did—preferably with metrics to back up your decisions—what’s next for the company, and whether people who weren’t laid off are at risk in the future. (Be If you can offer a safety net or bridge, do so. Follow layoffs with an all-hands meeting.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Mastering SEO in the Age of AI written by Tosin Jerugba read more at Duct Tape Marketing  The Duct Tape Marketing Podcast with John Jantsch In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast, I interviewed Stephan Spencer, an acclaimed SEO expert and founder of net Concepts, an interactive agency specializing in search engine optimization.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

Research from FreshBooks shows that using the words “21 days” as opposed to “Net 21” in your payment terms gets invoices paid more often and faster. While the words “Net 21 days” or similar makes sense to most business owners, that kind of wording may not be as clear to less business-savvy clients or consumers.

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Software Review Forecast .Net Cloud 120

ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

These metrics identify when a customer is about to stop their usage, before they actually do. Using their self-identified red flag metrics, the folks over at Groove were able to pinpoint their causes for customer defection. The red flag in this case is when an account performs below average for your north star metric.

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Customer Churn Rate Metrics Retention 110

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 4, 2019

My goals for the new year are to release my blog, connect with a range of clients, build my email list and to never stop learning. My focus is on photography, travel and my blog. 19- Metric accountability. At SocialChimp, our 2019 goals are surrounded by metric accountability. Simplicity is key. . 3- Four goals.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 21, 2016

In addition to improving cash levels and earnings, cutting expenses, and reducing debt, companies seeking credit should consider focusing on improving key financial metrics that can best predict default. See Also: The 7 Key Metrics Every Business Owner Should Monitor. Net income to sales. Debt service coverage ratio.

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Board Effect

APRIL 15, 2024

Solving our most pressing social issues, providing a safety net of love and care, this is the immeasurably critical role of our social sector organizations. Measuring DE&I progress Use tools and metrics. “To

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

If you like this, go see his Shockwave Innovations blog ) Anyone that has taken an accounting class or learned basic business financials knows the interaction between key elements of a P&L (revenue, cost, expense) and a balance sheet (assets, liabilities, equity). (Guest post by Gordon Daugherty.

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Churn Rate .Net Metrics Hosting 288

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Blog posts, speakers at conferences, and anecdotes in books often make the growth process sound formulaic and easy, but it’s hard and you know it! This made a huge difference for us, especially when we started codifying the answers to those questions as success metrics within our vision documents. The information includes: 1.

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Metrics Database Retention Hiring 114

ConversionXL

JANUARY 14, 2020

blog posts) compared to sites that scale with inventory (e.g., In the case above, I used Ahrefs to find a new (hypothetical) feature opportunity for Crunchbase: the net worth of companies and people. The post How to Scale Organic Traffic (Without Writing a Million Blog Posts) appeared first on CXL. has no future.

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SEO Framework SCRUM Search 159

Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

A few months ago, we wrote about the data we focus on to evaluate marketplaces and later shared a marketplace KPI dashboard that we created to guide founders on the important metrics they should track. There are lots of great blog posts and articles out there that talk about social platform metrics. Also, good news!

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Metrics Churn Rate Due Diligence Social Network 60

Occam's Razor

MARCH 26, 2008

They might be there to look at your latest Blog Post, etc. Net Promoters ("Likelihood to Recommend"): The % of people (or a indexed representation) who will recommend the company products after a experience on the tech support site. For blogs I have made an attempt at creating metrics to measure holistic success.

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Analytics Conversion RSS Metrics 121

Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 2, 2013

I’ve used the following seven metrics to gain a crystal clear picture about the health, growth potential and challenges facing a business interested in growing organically. I present these as seven metrics worth obsessing over. Email subscribers, Twitter followers, Facebook Likes, Blog readers.

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Metrics Marketing Revenue Differentiation 77

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Seasoned experts suggest that you should optimize for a metric which can affect the bottom line of your business. These metrics ensure that most of your efforts can be tied to monetary values. The downside that all those metrics have in common is that they only measure the short-term effects gained with your tests.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 21, 2014

In this webinar, we take time to discuss the different metrics that startups—and established businesses—should be tracking. In terms of pre-purchase, traffic and content metrics. So I’m going to keep going here, “Pre-purchase, the traffic and content metrics.” Peter, anybody have any questions as I go along?

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Metrics Startup Churn Rate Forecast 84

Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 13, 2009

I now have several full time jobs, plus this blog, plus speaking around the world, plus a family, plus… so much more. " This blog post is in three parts: The pitch. Chapter 3 The Awesome World of Clickstream Analysis: Metrics. No metrics, data pukes, guidance on creating every more reports. Request for help.

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Analytics Web Technical Review Metrics 71

Version One Ventures

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Last week, we kicked off a blog series to help founders determine their company’s core priorities and strategies at each stage of the progression from seed to Series A and Series B. This metric is over 90% for best-in-class startups and is a huge driver for above mentioned LTV.

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Acquisition Distribution Metrics Retention 150

Board Effect

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

They’re most interested in meaningful metrics and the standards you measure them against. Valve has more than 300 employees, and its net worth is between $2 billion and $4 billion. Today’s stakeholders don’t just want any data, so don’t overwhelm them with meaningless data. That’s right!

Salary 93

Salary Technical Review Social Media Employee 93

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. According to Gartner , three metrics form the foundation for those growth levers: (Image source).

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Metrics SQL Retention Churn Rate 117

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

The net result: we sold exactly zero presidential debate avatars. This is one of the blog we posted about how some company is doing SEO to promote the website. To help find the right keywords, Ive written an article on my blog Web Startup Help that details How to Do Keyword Research for startups. We finally settled on a $1.99

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OnlyOnce

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

You don’t have any metrics at all — no Net Promoter Score, no basic customer satisfaction measures, no product engagement levels…nothing. You can find this post on the Bolster Blog here The post When to Hire a Chief Customer Officer appeared first on The Startup CEO blog.

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Hiring Customer .Net Metrics 62

The Startup Magazine

APRIL 24, 2020

In this blog, we aim to decipher the meaning behind some of the more abstract metrics when it comes to an eCommerce website valuation. but we do cover the rudimentary metrics (along with tips for improving your own site’s value). Business’s net trend for the past few years/months. eCommerce: The Rising Star of Retail.

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eCommerce Valuation B2C Revenue 91

crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

The amendment introduced by Oregon Representative Greg Walden, specifically prohibits the FCC from enforcing its Net Neutrality rules , passed late last year. These rules would effectively maintain a level playing field for small companies, startups, and entrepreneurs.

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.Net Small Business Oregon Startup 82

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Product managers have the exciting responsibility of establishing the goals, roadmap and tracking metrics of their product (among many other duties), and also the less-glamorous but equally-important task of taking care of all the blocking and tackling required?—?from customers, other employees, books, blogs, social media, news?—?and

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Management Product Technical Review Software Review 85

Steve Blank

MARCH 17, 2020

This is the one blog post that I hope I’m completely wrong about. Subtract your monthly gross burn rate from your monthly revenue to get your net burn rate. What are the new financial metrics? “Winter is coming.”. And what’s in my lifeboat?”. Here are a few thoughts about operating in uncertainty in a pandemic. How do you know?

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ConversionXL

MARCH 3, 2016

Once you’re sure your analytics are healthy, you can begin trying to understand the five key elements of custom reports: users, sessions, hits, metrics and dimensions. Dimensions: Every report is made up of dimensions and metrics. Metrics: Every report is made up of dimensions and metrics.

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Analytics Customer PPC Metrics 48

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

In any experiment, some metric within some group usually changes, but whether we’ve invested in the statistical rigor to discover it is another question altogether.”. Knowing these finer details can help meaningfully shift your metrics in a positive direction, where they may have once been plateauing. Image Source. [We

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View from Seed

MAY 16, 2019

You can see this both by looking at a cohort “layer cake” graph or by examining the net dollar retention. Slack’s net dollar retention rate is an incredibly impressive 143%. Slack’s net dollar retention rate is decreasing, but is still a long way from dropping below 100%. So Slack generated $1.43

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2010

It’s human nature to prioritize the metrics that get measured, so the simple act of keeping track is often enough to have a significant positive impact. Net Income: The five factors listed above all contribute to something that is directly measurable: net income. Detail isn’t important; tracking your progress is.

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Intellectual Property .Net Valuation Distribution 223

Up and Running

APRIL 2, 2015

See Also Small Business Owners, Start Tracking Your Financial Metrics. This includes social security numbers, net worth, details on assets and liabilities such as your home, vehicles, investment accounts, credit card accounts, auto loans, mortgages, the whole thing. Complete financial statements, preferably audited or reviewed.

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Balance Sheet SBA Covenant Technical Review 60

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 24, 2011

Regular readers of this blog will recognize that I suffer from OOD. The other way OOD manifests itself is that I am in your face, on this blog, constantly asking you to create goals in your web analytics tool ( macro and micro conversions ) as well as identify goal values for each of those beloved goals. Not net profit, just value.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 4, 2008

I immediately started digging deeper and found Steves course handouts ([link] podcast from his presentation ([link] and presentation slides from SKMurphys blog ([link] And yes, The Four Steps to the Epiphany is on its way too ;-). Eric Ries’ and Steve Blank’s blogs have enlightened my entrepreneur mind for the many years to come.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

Growth - when you have existing customers, the pressure is on to grow your key metrics day-in day-out. Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev. Startup Lessons Learned - the Conference (April 23.

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