Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

People driven by your offline campaigns. If you were really smart you would use campaign tagged vanity url so you can segment them!]. Free, non-campaign, traffic. In a nutshell these are people show up without invitation (email, display, social campaigns) or they are people who already know you.

Analytics 122

Analytics Software Review Campaign Flash 122

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

When WordStream began receiving complaints that the seven-day free trial of their PPC management software wasn’t long enough, the brand decided to A/B test 14-day and 30-day trials. Yet, this was a successful growth marketing campaign. If your campaign works and your brand awareness metrics improve, you win. The results?

Framework 102

Framework Marketing Acquisition Retention 102

ConversionXL

AUGUST 11, 2021

A well-thought-out strategy lays the foundations for your sponsorship efforts in the same way a marketing strategy guides your marketing campaigns. For advertising opportunities, research PPC, print, and traditional media fees based on similar audiences and value the asset accordingly. Therefore it’s important to follow up.

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Audience Social Media Email Ruby 139

ConversionXL

AUGUST 19, 2020

PPC has a role. Ask the following six questions to help SEO and PPC teams collaborate—and achieve better results than either could on their own. Are SEO and PPC teams communicating effectively and sharing insights? SEO and PPC teams that don’t communicate effectively (or at all) achieve less. SEO has a role.

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PPC SEO Channel Analytics 69

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 13, 2015

Some things cohorts can answer: How did customers who came in from the Christmas campaign behave differently than those at other times of the year? How does retention differ among different acquisition channels? Customers that converted in the last year that came in through a bottom-of-the-funnel marketing campaign.

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Conversion Retention Acquisition Metrics 48

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 6, 2010

One was extolling the wonderfulness of their multi channel campaign tracking. They did have PPC ads, which I click on the ad for specific product they land me on generic nonsense pages. Not your api driven integrated massively multi channel attribution analyzed campaign lifetime databases. That's sucking.) Affiliate?

Analytics 99

Analytics Web Campaign PPC 99

ConversionXL

MARCH 3, 2021

When launching a digital brand, PPC can be a great way to immediately break into a new market and start generating website traffic. But with rising CPCs and unmitigated click fraud, PPC can also get really expensive quickly. Even the most skilled digital marketers can struggle to run profitable Google Ads campaigns.

PPC 146

PPC SEO Campaign Analytics 146

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 3: PPC (pay-per-click) test campaigns. Startup validation tactic 4: Email test campaigns.

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Business Plan PPC Lean Campaign 94

Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 21, 2013

A lot of the keywords I used to add to my campaigns came from the long, long tail I saw in my organic search data (I would take the best performers there and use PPC to get more traffic) and from competitive intelligence research. This in turn mandates new SEO (and PPC) strategies, if we don't want to fail.

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Search SEO Analytics Engineer 154

ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2022

It’s not a channel, campaign, or tactic. How you approach it will depend on your business model and ideal accounts and how (or if) you plan to expand campaigns. For 90% of companies , the top goal for ABM is new business generation— new clients, new contracts, new logo acquisition, etc. ABM isn’t a quick and easy win.

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Customer Marketing Channel Acquisition 98

Occam's Razor

AUGUST 9, 2016

Along the way I'll share some of my favourite metrics and analytics best practices that should accelerate your path to becoming a true Analysis Ninja. SEO & PPC, Because You Should! At this point you'll be a little confused about some metric or the other. Awesome, right? Play with Enhanced Ecommerce Reports.

Analytics 60

Analytics Metrics eCommerce PPC 60

ConversionXL

JULY 29, 2020

Amazon can skip right past the superficial metrics in a way that Google can’t, and sellers benefit from it. Internal PPC traffic is less influential than it once was. There are reasons beyond Amazon SEO to run paid campaigns. PPC, in other words, is a paid tryout for the organic listings.

SEO 113

SEO PPC Algorithm Software Review 113

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Prescriptive analytics The digital analytics metrics you need to know How to use analytics to improve marketing campaigns Define your mission, goals, and KPIs Set key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure marketing performance What to look for in a digital analytics product 9 tools for your digital analytics stack 1. Bounce rate.

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Analytics Metrics Channel Campaign 106

Occam's Razor

AUGUST 11, 2015

Custom reports allow you to deeply focus (by eliminating the rif-raf metrics and dimensions, they save time and show just what you want). The include single custom reports that replace all/most current standard reports in GA on Mobile, Content, Paid Search and Acquisition. Campaign Cost Analysis. Seven more! Here we go… 1.

Analytics 60

Analytics Customer Metrics eCommerce 60

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. We’ll also break down the main elements of high-performing emails to show you how to drive action from your campaigns. Strategy is the big picture thinking that drives email marketing campaigns.

Email 136

Email Customer Marketing Software Review 136

ConversionXL

DECEMBER 13, 2022

In general, bandits are great for: Headlines and short-term campaigns; Automation for scale; Targeting; Blending optimization with attribution. Define your target metrics. Maybe you’re at a startup whose acquisition engine is fueled by SEO. We’ll measure this using (data metric). Define your website goals.

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Analytics Technical Review Software Review Framework 127

Occam's Razor

JULY 22, 2013

My solution to these problems was to create a simple framework we can use to put our customers first, evaluate our marketing programs, and right-align our view of success (metrics). Ditto for PPC, your affiliate links (all likely in the Do stage), and your email marketing programs. What consideration state might someone be in?

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Framework Marketing Metrics Audience 163

ConversionXL

MAY 14, 2019

If you’re not running YouTube Ads campaigns , you’re missing out on key advertising opportunities. Although YouTube Ads campaigns run via Google Ads, YouTube advertising is different from other online ad options. Upload it as “Public” or “Unlisted” for use in YouTube Ads campaigns.

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Campaign Audience Channel Metrics 133

Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 6, 2010

In a world where we are overwhelmed with data and metrics and key performance indicators and reports and dashboards and. I must forewarn you that my hidden agenda is also to expose to you metrics you might not be using, views of data that you might be ignoring, best practices that are of value and teach you how to fish.

Analytics 125

Analytics Web Customer SEM 125

Occam's Razor

APRIL 21, 2014

Find campaigns where they are spending most money, lower the bounce rate and reduce acquisition cost. But if you would like a quick collection of tips: Multichannel Analytics- Tracking Online Impact Of Offline Campaigns The enabler of tying offline activity to online is ensuring you have a weak or strong primary key.

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Analytics Marketing Campaign Metrics 131

Occam's Razor

AUGUST 12, 2013

Even if, and this is not possible, I said to you that the path is Direct, Social, PPC, Organic, Referral for 5% of the site traffic … what would you do? And you are telling me that the Cost Per Acquisition for my display campaigns is not $201 but rather a lowly $155? Campaign is defined as anything but Direct traffic.

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Channel Analytics Campaign Conversion 161

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Define the Campaign. First off, a campaign should have a single goal. A well-structured and organized campaign test has the best chance of producing what you’re after – quality insights. Other bidding methods: Which metric is most appropriate to focus on for this run? Prioritize High Impact Campaign Variables.

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Utah Campaign Audience PPC 246

Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

We'll start with digital at the highest strategic level, which leads us into content marketing, from there it is a quick hop over to the challenge of metrics and silos, followed by a recommendation to optimize for the global maxima, and we end with the last two visuals that cover social investment and social content strategy.

Analytics 154

Analytics Marketing Social Media Technical Review 154

ConversionXL

MAY 19, 2016

Unfortunately, it’s not that easy because, as Ed points out, having so many different acquisition channels, devices, purchase influences, etc. While there are a number of different classic funnel stages , for this article, we’re going to use Acquisition -> Activation -> Engagement -> Retention -> Resurrection.

Analytics 78

Analytics Metrics Channel Software Review 78

ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Dave McClure’s conversion metrics visualize where different conversion optimization opportunities lie—including those for acquisition. Acquisition focuses on how to grab attention in a very crowded content environment. Strategies span a range of methods, but we’re going to focus on PPC, social media, and search.

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Acquisition Software Review PPC Analytics 111

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. Google Adwords lets its users launch campaigns directly from your research on keywords, making it a one-stop shop for keyword success. If you want to start a drip marketing campaign, Drip is a natural choice.

Social Media 51

Social Media Marketing Analytics Audience 51

ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Creating a tailored, personalized campaign is often done with micro-triggers: Did the user spend more than X minutes on the site? All of these data points personalize the messaging for retargeting campaigns. But even a talented campaign manager can juggle only so many variables. Did they view more than Y pages?

Artificial Inteligence 131

Artificial Inteligence CPA Campaign Metrics 131

The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Pay-Per-Click Advertising (PPC) Pay-per-click (PPC) advertising ensures that your message reaches the right people. The ROI from your pay-per-click (PPC) advertising campaigns will increase with consistent monitoring and tweaking. Create captivating ad copy that compels readers to take action.

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Channel Social Media Marketing PPC 132

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. Google Adwords lets its users launch campaigns directly from your research on keywords, making it a one-stop shop for keyword success. If you want to start a drip marketing campaign, Drip is a natural choice.

Social Media 48

Social Media Marketing Analytics Audience 48

Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

If you are a regular reader of this blog you know how deeply fond I am of the Acquisition, Behavior, Outcomes framework. Now it's time for acquisition. Competition (who comes up first consistently, ppc and organic). Will I analyze Search first or Campaigns? Now, I better understand visitor acquisition.

Web 138

Web Analytics Technical Review Affiliate 138

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 30, 2012

When it comes to data analysis, you are usually more likely to see me share guidance on advanced segmentation or custom reports or advanced social metrics or controlled experiments or economic value or competitive intelligence or web analytics maturity or one of an infinite number of difficult, if hugely rewarding, things. Not today.

Analytics 145

Analytics Metrics API Web 145

ConversionXL

JULY 29, 2014

If you’re an AdSense and/or AdWords user, connecting these accounts will add powerful dimensions, metrics, and reports to determine how AdSense is making you money, and what traffic your PPC spend is bringing you. Gain More Power Over Your PPC Spend with AdWords Data. Everyone should sign up for and connect Webmaster Tools.

Analytics 132

Analytics Software Review eCommerce Search 132

Occam's Razor

JULY 1, 2008

There is perhaps no challenge greater than tracking offline impact of your online presence (campaigns or other activity). Your hair is thinning from repeatedly trying to get funding for online campaigns. It is perhaps one of the last few complex nuts left to crack. Because it is hard. Not impossible.

Analytics 116

Analytics Conversion Campaign Redemption 116

crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 6, 2015

But when it comes to measurement, many managers struggle with developing and tracking the metrics specific to their strategy. An important step is to figure out which metrics are the ones that are important to your business. Customer Acquisition Cost. Well the answer is pretty simple: turn to math and leverage technology.

Metrics 48

Metrics CPA Lean Marketing 48

Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 12, 2015

Top 4 Content Marketing Metrics written by Alex Boyer read more at Duct Tape Marketing. There are a handful of metrics you can use to get an idea about whether or not your content marketing strategy is working. Here are the top 4 content marketing metrics to follow. These are the folks you draw in without any PPC advertising.

Metrics 28

Metrics PPC Marketing Analytics 28

Occam's Razor

MAY 20, 2013

At ZQI U, a vast number of students enroll into online-only courses (just like our analytics, PPC, mobile, and SEO Master Certification students at my awesome Market Motive ). Digital advertising and marketing is a key part of ZQI's multi-channel acquisition portfolio. They do everything. Business As Usual. Again, easey peasey.

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Analytics Aggregator Channel B2B 139

Occam's Razor

MAY 18, 2010

Acquisition. Segment Category #1: Acquisition. Acquisition refers to the activity you undertake to attract people (or robots!) This would include campaigns you run, like pay per click marketing (PPC), email, affiliate deals, display / banner ads, facebook marketing campaigns. Television campaigns.

Analytics 123

Analytics Web Acquisition Metrics 123