ConversionXL

AUGUST 31, 2017

Target’s self-learning algorithm continually and automatically adjusts itself to make associations between visitor behavior and content in order to give you the best results possible. As with Analytics, additional modules for Target such as personalisation and recommendations come at a cost.”.

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View from Seed

MARCH 1, 2016

Are you aggregating and leveraging a competitive dataset none will be able to reproduce? Are you bringing an army of algorithm authors to attack a sleep non-technical industry? Are you able to achieve pricing 10 times better than incumbents due to unfair cost advantages?

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

The extreme example of this are algorithmic investors in the public markets, who design algorithms which trade on the designer’s behalf, as opposed to making trading decisions directly. High-frequency trading, algorithmic by its nature, is estimated to account for at least 50% of US equity markets trading volume. .

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

The more well-known your company becomes, the harder it gets to directly impact primary KPI’s at the aggregate level because the majority of customers who buy are going to do so irrespective of if your button color is red or blue. But ultimately whether this is worth it depends on the cost to do this.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Recommendation engines are, at their core, information filtering tools that utilize algorithms and data to recommend the most relevant items to a particular user in a given context. For clarity, by logic, I mean the set of predefined rules and algorithms based on which recommendations are provided (i.e. Personalized Recommendations.

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 21, 2013

Aggregated search engine level analysis. This is a simple custom report I use to look at the aggregated view: As the report above demonstrates, you can still report on your other metrics, like Unique Visitors, Bounce Rates, Per Visit Value and many others, at an aggregated level. Try not to go whole hog.

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Occam's Razor

JULY 12, 2010

I threw out the world class tool, purchased ClickTracks for a fraction of the cost and put money into Analysts and boom! You have aggregated data into three pieces and we all know aggregated data stinks at delivering insights! No simplified over promise under deliver aggregates! Clean into the three desired categories.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Since you have access to intelligent information, the question becomes — how will you aggregate and leverage all this data? Machines that dance to your algorithms: Once an external function of CRM, machine learning is now integrated into advanced CRM solutions for SMBs. You’ll receive digestible and actionable information in one space.

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Start Up Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

The problem of course has always been that while our data isn’t worth much in isolation – a few dollars per user per quarter – it is worth a lot when it gets aggregated by a single firm like Facebook. Competing banks then put an algorithm to task to come back with their best offer for a loan.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

Cell Buddy has developed the only seamless, carrier grade solution, for low cost Voice calls, SMS and Internet, while abroad. Unlike other companies, we are a true digital record label, not aggregators. TvTak is available on iOS and Android and works on any television set using unique patent-pending video recognition algorithms.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 9, 2018

Recent funding is being used to develop its product using predictive booking pattern algorithms and to expand its sales and development teams. It aggregates listings in over 200 countries from the likes of Expedia, Booking.com, and Airbnb, along with other alternative types of accommodation, into an embeddable widget.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

More common is to use a one-way hashing algorithm to map the data to be accessed to one of the shards that store it. This has two major drawbacks: the central directory can become a single point of failure, and there is a performance cost for having to consult the directory ever time you want to access data anywhere in the cluster.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 30, 2013

There is clear room in this space for innovation, aggregation, and higher efficiency. As healthcare costs continue to rise benefit attrition will continue, particularly in the mental health space. In 2012, the Nike Fuelband put self-monitoring devices on the radar of the mainstream consumer and the field is getting bigger.

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David Teten

MAY 8, 2012

Indiegogo also helps campaigns gain and measure traction using the “GoGo Factor,” which is tracked automatically and uses a custom algorithm to determine which campaigns get promoted on the homepage, on the site’s blog, or in media mentions. One campaign offered a free morning wake up call to anyone who donates over $25.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

Our solutions provide peace of mind, improve quality of life and save costs to users and service providers. Cost control & mobile least cost routing implementation. Our unique and patented algorithms are a breakthrough in the present state of the art. A turnkey solution based on a fully telco-grade platform.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

A hold-out group can deliver the answer, but, like everything, it comes at a cost. And while the value of testing may be apparent to those involved in it, individual test results do not aggregate into ROI calculations made in the C-Suite. But site development costs aren’t the only costs to consider. Image source ).

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Austin Startup

APRIL 25, 2017

I won’t dive into cost structure in this blog post, but let’s think through how Snap could grow revenue 20x. Had Facebook not purchased Instagram, Facebook’s aggregate numbers likely would have dipped as millennials have largely abandoned Facebook for Instagram and Snapchat. 2 years ago my grandmother didn’t have Facebook.

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Cracking the Code

MAY 15, 2008

The next wave of internet will come from companies aggregating these various data sets and leveraging them to provide more value to the user. 80 percent voted “Yes” 6) Evolution trumps design (Steve) Artificial Intelligence algorithms will be necessary for each great invention (e.g., ► 12/10 - 12/17. (2).

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ConversionXL

MARCH 20, 2019

G2 Crowd confirms that it’s a high-cost option. Demandbase’s costs place it in the 96th percentile for “Marketing Account Management” software. Aggregate that data at an account level to know which accounts to target. The aggregation of individual behavior at a company level was the critical innovation. Image source ).

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ConversionXL

JUNE 20, 2019

Many occupy the Featured Snippet box, with snippets selected algorithmically. CXL’s own Kyle Brodeur, who manages thousands of videos for CXL Institute courses , likes it for similar reasons: Vimeo has the cheapest cost for storing our videos with the feature sets we require. The learning curve for its interface can be steep.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

Will creativity and human touch still be part of the advertising process, or will they be completely replaced by algorithms? Typical tasks included looking at how well a campaign performed, what the costs were and returns on investment. Data: between historical assessment and predicting the future. A/B testing and Bandit testing.

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viniciusvacanti.com

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Cons: It will cost you money. Your service has to be secure, it has to scale immediately, you need PhD’s to help you develop algorithms and you’re probably applying for a few patents. Advice: I wrote a gude to finding a technical co-founder. Hire a programmer. We also tried this at Yipit and it didn’t work.

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 14, 2014

… You can see the wisdom of not just setting a 20% aggregate conversion rate, based on the above benchmarking data. The above graph shows you the dangers of setting targets on aggregated benchmarking analysis. In my case I'm looking at Social Media (boss LOVES social!), Direct Traffic (I get a lot of it!)

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 12, 2013

And you are telling me that the Cost Per Acquisition for my display campaigns is not $201 but rather a lowly $155? The core premise of the time decay model is this: The media touch point closest to conversion gets most of the credit, and the touch point prior to that will get less credit based on a smart and simple algorithm.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 7, 2019

Each chosen obsession is very much in the spirit of my beloved principle of the aggregation of marginal gains. You'll be surprised by the steep drop in Cost per Acquisition. Take your first steps towards unlocking smart algorithms. Across all your analytics data, algorithms will take you places humans simply can't.

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viniciusvacanti.com

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Cons: It will cost you money. Your service has to be secure, it has to scale immediately, you need PhD’s to help you develop algorithms and you’re probably applying for a few patents. Advice: I wrote a gude to finding a technical co-founder. Hire a programmer. We also tried this at Yipit and it didn’t work.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 13, 2016

In test 2 you change the Recommendation engine algorithm, such that you primarily show sale articles here. For example, optimizing product recommendations on the product page (design, placement, algorithm) does not necessarily lead to people buying anything at all. Statistics trap #4: Fear of Multivariate Tests. “We

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 12, 2015

We also built a product called VEDO which allows customers to ingest any large dataset and draw insights using Machine-Learning based algorithms. 90% of DataSift customers ingest data from 2 sources (most ingest multiple streams) and select from > 20 large data sources of which Twitter is one.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 28, 2016

And with a recent revelation Google’s algorithm for Maps search results has been updated, it’s more important than ever to make sure you’ve got your business name, address, and phone (NAP) information up to date and consistent on the Internet. Local SEO is super important, everyone says so. And they’re not wrong. It is important.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 30, 2012

Every search engine's SEO algorithm is unique. On top of the report you'll see the scorecard, or aggregate performance of the page via metrics like Pageviews, Unique Pageviews, Time on Page, Page Load Time (!) Nextanalytics costs $199/year and GA Data Grabber costs $299/year. I typically look for anomalies.

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ConversionXL

JULY 7, 2016

A/B testing shows graphs and statistics, mostly at the aggregate level, but it doesn’t show you how users experience your page. An algorithm measures facial expressions and correlates different expressions to different emotional responses. A/B Testing + Visual Engagement Analytics. That’s a gap visual engagement analysis can fill.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2011

Think of DataSift as turning the fire-hose into a cost-effective and manageable tap of running water. DataSift = platform for companies to develop cost-effective applications using this Twitter data to gain advantage relative to their competition. Or in utility speak, they are transmission and we are last-mile distribution.

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ConversionXL

JULY 11, 2016

“Umbrella terms” are when you aggregate multiple features and benefits under one vague term, like “powerful” or “easy-to-use.” Use free test software to minimize the cost of A/B testing ( A/B Testing with Google Tag Manager ). Think about cost <> efficiency tradeoffs.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 4, 2018

As it turned out , the enhanced algorithms “did not seem to justify the engineering effort needed to bring them into a production environment.”. But, in 2018, incremental gains no longer cost $1 million either: You have more data; Storage is cheap; and. Full warehouses cost money; empty shelves cost money.

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

she will look at all her observations of other supermarkets on Earth, on other planets, and do her best to give your the best normalized, indexed, algorithm'ed number. And I'm totally ignoring that demo/psycho data is deeply inferred and algorithmized. but then ignore them as they are quite useless aggregated at this level.

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