Occam's Razor

APRIL 21, 2014

about digital marketing and analytics. We will cover questions in four areas: business/strategy challenges, analytics/technical challenges, career/self-development questions and rampant speculation. Even the worst analytics configuration in the world will most likely allow you to measure cart and checkout abandonment rate.

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Analytics Marketing Campaign Metrics 131

The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Increase your site’s credibility and traffic by using off-site search engine optimisation strategies like link building and social media sharing. Pay-Per-Click Advertising (PPC) Pay-per-click (PPC) advertising ensures that your message reaches the right people. You can buy SEO Packages to boost your business.

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Channel Social Media Marketing PPC 158

ConversionXL

MARCH 3, 2016

The same is true of your data in Google Analytics. Many Google Analytics custom reports are configured incorrectly. More often, Google Analytics configurations are broken, rendering custom reports even less effective. Before you begin experimenting with custom reports, conduct a Google Analytics Health Check. Tweet It!].

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Analytics Customer PPC Metrics 48

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

This post details the role that UTM parameters play in traffic attribution in Google Analytics. Here’s what I’ll cover: Why conversion attribution starts with traffic attribution How Google Analytics understands traffic sources What are UTM parameters? How Google Analytics understands traffic sources. HTTP Referrer.

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Analytics Campaign Email Channel 118

Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

You see if you don't implement your links properly the person shows up to your site without any tracking parameters and thus fail to help your web analytics tool to put that visitor in the right source bucket. Here is a simple example: You are the Acquisition manager for a company called Omniture. Not a great situation right?

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Analytics Software Review Campaign Flash 122

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Customer acquisition cost (CAC) is an important metric for any ecommerce business. Put simply, you need a healthy customer acquisition cost for your business to succeed. It’s up to every ecommerce business to find the middle ground between investing too little in customer acquisition and spending beyond your means.

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Acquisition eCommerce Cost Customer 22

Occam's Razor

AUGUST 11, 2015

You can download them into your Google Analytics account via one click (along with some lovely Advanced Segments and a Dashboard). The include single custom reports that replace all/most current standard reports in GA on Mobile, Content, Paid Search and Acquisition. Social Media Performance Analysis. Seven more!

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Analytics Customer Metrics eCommerce 60

Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 6, 2010

While I am using Google Analytics here, you can do custom reporting in pretty much any tool you have access to, be it Yahoo! Web Analytics or Site Catalyst or WebTrends.]. #1: Here's how you can get this report: Log into Google Analytics. It will open in Google Analytics. 1: Page Efficiency Analysis Report.

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Analytics Web Customer SEM 125

ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2022

For 90% of companies , the top goal for ABM is new business generation— new clients, new contracts, new logo acquisition, etc. For example, if one new acquisition is worth $10K, a pilot win could be 20 new acquisitions for $200K. Who is following you on social media? Which are interacting with you at trade shows?

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Customer Marketing Channel Acquisition 98

ConversionXL

MAY 22, 2014

For Acquisition, we’re primarily asking how do first time visitors & potential customers find you? This could cover a range of methods, but for the sake of this article, we’re going to focus on PPC, Social Media & Search. Acquisition – Getting Visitors At Top Of The Funnel. image source.

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Software Review PPC Analytics Search 116

ConversionXL

AUGUST 11, 2021

This might include things like: Website Social media banners and content Newsletters Digital and traditional media advertising Naming rights of a building Event sponsorship Speaking opportunities Exhibitor opportunities Access to influencers. But it pays to think beyond that. Fulfillment. This will demonstrate brand awareness.

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Audience Social Media Email Ruby 139

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Over a third of email marketers struggle with acquisition and close to a half say increasing engagement is their number one challenge. For example, you can partner with social media and PPC teams to create content that encourages subscribers to sign up to receive something of value. What about social media support?

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Email Customer Marketing Software Review 136

crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 24, 2018

Although Google AdWords offers a wide range of diverse ad formats, text-based PPC ads form the core of AdWords. per month; we use it at crowdspring) that can provide detailed analytics on the top keywords used in search engine marketing by your competitors, but also which of your competitors receive the most organic search engine traffic.

Social Media 51

Social Media Marketing Analytics Audience 51

crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 24, 2018

Although Google AdWords offers a wide range of diverse ad formats, text-based PPC ads form the core of AdWords. per month; we use it at crowdspring) that can provide detailed analytics on the top keywords used in search engine marketing by your competitors, but also which of your competitors receive the most organic search engine traffic.

Social Media 48

Social Media Marketing Analytics Audience 48

Occam's Razor

AUGUST 12, 2013

There are few things more complicated in analytics (all analytics, big data and huge data!) I normally ask people to look at the Path Length report in the Multi-Channel Funnels standard report in Google Analytics (or equivalent tool if you are using SiteCatalyst or WebTrends or other web analytics tools). It is sweet.

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Channel Analytics Campaign Conversion 161

Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

No touching Google Analytics. No going to web analytics conferences. The result will be an astonishingly high level of focus for your digital analytics work (even on day one) and hyper-relevant insights to the business. Don't open Google Analytics or Yahoo Web Analytics yet! Now it's time for acquisition.

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Web Analytics Technical Review Affiliate 138

Occam's Razor

JULY 22, 2013

If you want to grow your business, you are going to need content/engagement points for the See stage (the widest possible addressable audience) and for the Think stage (fill up your funnel at the very top, convince people early, build relationships, convert higher at a cheaper acquisition cost). It is also rude.

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Framework Marketing Metrics Audience 163

ConversionXL

MAY 19, 2016

She might turn to social media, look at more car insurance providers, go into the office, read online reviews, sign up for a newsletter first, etc. Gone are the days of simple funnels and so there are many external factors that influence a purchase decision, such as content marketing or social media.

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Analytics Metrics Channel Software Review 78

Occam's Razor

APRIL 23, 2012

Choose the right metric and they'll create the most glorious digital experience in the universe, the perfect acquisition campaign, the most amazing customer service channel. Visitor Loyalty is not in every single report in your Digital Analytics tool. And they will shock you with the profits they deliver. But it is there.

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Metrics Analytics Search Channel 152

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 30, 2012

It is painfully heartbreaking to realize that a very small tiny number of people who have access to web analytics tools actually use them. In-Page Analytics – Re-imagine Traveling Through Data. #5. Matched Query Type, Keyword Position, Day Parts: Sexier PPC Analytics. #7. I mean really use the tools. Ravaging data.

Analytics 145

Analytics Metrics API Web 145

Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 15, 2017

I started out working for various agencies and eventually I was recruited to work in-house for a Fortune 500 company doing SEO and PPC work. what I really liked about SEO and PPC was that it was involved with everything related to online marketing. My entire staff had been laid off due to an acquisition by an aggressive v.c.

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Entrepreneur Czech Republic Retention B2C 115

Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Half-way through this post, you'll seriously wonder why you've spent so much time obsessing with Adobe/Google Analytics/Chartbeat or other web analytics tool. CIA also formed one of five foundational elements in my best-selling book Web Analytics 2.0. My first blog post on the topic of CIA was on 14th Aug 2006!

Metrics 60

Metrics Analytics Non-Compete Search 60

ConversionXL

MAY 11, 2013

For example, if your marketing campaign consists of PPC, Tradeshows, and Radio Ads, each marketing channel is assigned a different phone number so you could measure both volume and quality of phone conversation. Doing this decreased their Cost Per Acquisition by 30% and tripled their mobile acquisition within the first year.

Analytics 116

Analytics Phoenix PPC Campaign 116

Occam's Razor

MAY 18, 2010

One of my earliest blog posts extolled the glorious virtues of segmentation: Excellent Analytics Tip#2: Segment Absolutely Everything. Many paid web analytics clickstream analytics tools, even today (!), Web Analytics , the other wonderful free WA tool, had advanced segmentation from day one. Acquisition.

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Analytics Web Acquisition Metrics 123

Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 14, 2016

No One Cares How Many Followers You Have – How to Properly Measure Social Media Success written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. When social media first started being used by businesses, it was all about the numbers – the bigger, the better. What Is Social Media Success?

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Social Media Media Channel Analytics 28

Up and Running

MARCH 14, 2017

You must conduct client interviews, website usage tests, and maybe even set up a small PPC campaign to figure out whether or not the market is interested in you offering. Startup validation tactic 2: Social media surveys. Social media surveys easily give fairly reliable quantitative data from actual people.

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Business Plan PPC Lean Campaign 94

crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Before founding MobileMonkey, Kim founded WordStream , the world’s leading PPC (pay-per-click) marketing platform managing over a billion dollars of annualized ad spend for tens of thousands of businesses. Messaging has eclipsed social networks in popularity. Facebook Messenger messages can reduce your marketing costs.

Marketing 87

Marketing Software Review Campaign Widget 87

Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 14, 2014

If you've read my first book Web Analytics: An Hour A Day, you know that I've advocated this strategy since 2008! Any big changes in your marketing/customer acquisition strategy over the last time period (more money doing Search, less money in Email, elimination Facebook as it does not work, etc., See Page 269. :).

Analytics 133

Analytics Vertical Metrics Web 133

Occam's Razor

APRIL 29, 2013

If it take ten days to make a decision to change bids on our PPC campaigns, let's go with that data cycle. " You end up paying substantial amounts of money to your analytics/big data vendor – for questionable value. This quarter the goal of our PPC campaign is to get that to $2. " " Right-time.

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Metrics Marketing Search SEO 166

Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 12, 2015

Knowing how to use Google Analytics is the #1 tool any content marketer needs to have in their arsenal. The best part about Google Analytics is that it shows us everything we need to know about our websites and then some. You can find Average Session Duration on your Google Analytics “All Website Data” dashboard on the “Overview” tab.

Metrics 28

Metrics PPC Marketing Analytics 28

Software By Rob

FEBRUARY 10, 2009

With the goal of increasing the conversion rate I read piles of books on internet marketing , web analytics , and copywriting. What was your primary means of driving traffic to the site (Google Adwords, Blogging, Social Media), etc? And by far the biggest lesson I learned is that you have to test everything. at 7:31 pm [.]

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Design Software Review Marketing Software Developers 51