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Web Analytics Technical Implementation Best Practices. (JavaScript Tags)

Occam's Razor

So to make up for that this post covers some of the “technical” best practices around tracking with your web analytics tools, especially if you are using JavaScript tags. Often the job of implementation is left to the friendly neighborhood IT person and your web analytics vendor. It runs between $95 – $795.

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Mobile Apps vs Mobile Web: Do You Have To Choose?

YoungUpstarts

There have been countless debates about the demise of the mobile Web at the hands of mobile apps. One pundit sees apps dominating users’ attention ; another predicts apps will kill off the entire Web. Amazon has more app revenue than mobile Web revenue. Apps are for loyal users and mobile Web is for reach.

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How Startups Can Use Metrics to Drive Success

Both Sides of the Table

How many through affiliate deals? How many through SEM? If you have multiple versions of your product, how many are web vs. mobile? per click on an SEM basis this is NOT your cost to acquire a customer – you need to add conversion rate. How many adds came through organic SEO? Do you have a customer referral program?

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Lessons Learned: The three drivers of growth for your business.

Startup Lessons Learned

In this model, you take some fraction of the lifetime value of each customer and plow that back into paid acquisition through SEM, banner ads, PR, affiliates, etc. For example, its always nice to have someone constantly optimizing your SEM accounts, driving down your CPA. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0.

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Stories of Opportunity from the First Round Capital Key Hire Wire – COO, VP of Business Development, Online Marketing Director

This is going to be BIG.

ROBLOX ( www.roblox.com ) is a web/game startup in Silicon Valley that you have probably never heard of--unless you were an eight year old boy, in which case you're probably not qualified for this position. Now, all of that construction and destruction has moved online. Check out the highly entertaining front page video.)

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Advertising Wants to be Measurable – An Investment Thesis

Both Sides of the Table

By now we all know that the largest part of the online spend has been SEM (search engine marketing) where people buy CPC (cost per click) links to display alongside the “organic&# search results in the search engine. The affiliate networking market alone is about a $2 billion industry now. Early evidence is good.

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Why Every Company Needs a Growth Manager

Seeing Both Sides

Paid: Ads (Mobile, Web, Video, TV, Radio, SEM, Affiliate), Sponsorships. James Currier, founder of Ooga Labs, identifies three general types of acquisition channels: Owned Media: Email, Facebook, Craigslist, Twitter, Pinterest, Apps. Earned Media: SEO, PR, Word of Mouth.