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The Very Best Digital Metrics For 15 Different Companies!

Occam's Razor

There is no golden metric for everyone, we are all unique snowflakes! :). and tell you what are the best key performance indicators (metrics) for them. In the past I’ve shared a cluster of metrics that small, medium and large businesses can use as a springboard…. If you want to play along. Don’t read what I’ve chosen.

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10 Fundamental Web Analytics Truths: Embrace 'Em & Win Big

Occam's Razor

Because every tool uses its own sweet metrics definitions, cookie rules, session start and end rules and so much more. When it comes to proving which campaigns are better and which numbers to report to the management what will you do? Never bother to sign up for their own email campaigns (to see how much they stink).

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Web Analytics: Frequently Asked Questions And Direct Answers

Occam's Razor

So use unique phone numbers (specific to campaigns if you want granular details)… leverage unique coupon / campaign / offer codes… get good at geographic targeting… become a God of controlled experiments. But each keyword gets "credit" for other metrics. By doing multichannel analytics! and finally 3.

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Marching through quicksand

Startup Lessons Learned

Despite all the energy invested in talking to authors about the size of their platform, very few gatekeepers have a rigorous set of metrics for measuring it. The problem is that there are no other metrics they can look at to judge the content of a book to know if it’s worth reviewing. Is that a lot? In that I see opportunity.

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Kill Useless Web Metrics: Apply The "Three Layers Of So What" Test

Occam's Razor

Like good little Reporting Squirrels we collect and stack metrics as if preparing for an imminent ice age. Rather than being a blessing that stack becomes a burden because we live in times of bright lovely spring and nothing succeeds like being agile and nimble about what we collect, what we give up, and what we deliberately choose to ignore.

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Business ecology and the four customer currencies

Startup Lessons Learned

In an ecosystem, each participant acts according to its own imperatives, but these selfish actions have an aggregate effect. In an entrepreneurial situation, this is hard, because artifacts that we are creating (products, code, marketing campaigns, even revenue) are of secondary importance.

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Lessons Learned: Please teach kids programming, Mr. President

Startup Lessons Learned

After volunteering for the Obama campaign last year, a friend of mine insisted that I write a letter to our new President telling him what I thought he should do. But aggregated across many schools, there are thousands or tens of thousands of them. Ill explain in a moment. This post is the result. Expo SF (May. Expo (and a call for he.