Occam's Razor

JULY 18, 2011

Analyzing email campaigns requires three important insights: 1. Your campaign data. Ready for the best email marketing campaign metrics? So for our email campaign analysis let’s look at metrics using that framework. Most good email providers will do this automatically for whatever web analytics tool you use.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

In liquid markets, most of the calories expended on technology and analytics are focused on trade selection, or “ origination ”. I walk through below how progressive investors are using technology and analytics throughout all of their operations. The 11 Steps of Investing in Private Companies. 1) Manage the firm . 3) Raise capital.

Technical Review 78

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ConversionXL

MARCH 20, 2019

Ultimately, a successful ABM campaign needs to solve three problems. While it doesn’t publish prices publicly, an interview with the Demandbase CEO in 2017 claimed that the average revenue per customer per month was $20,000. The analytics portal syncs with independent CRMs to wed engagement and sales data. Sales enablement.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 29, 2013

In this article we’re going to dive deep into a discussion about creating content for your autoresponder campaign. We’ve talked about ReOptimizing your autoresponders and creating effective drip campaigns before. Identifying The Starting Point of Your Auto-Responder Campaigns. Why is that? ” The result?

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Marketing is an investment where the money is spent to acquire more customers for your business, leading to higher profits and more revenue. If you plan to seek out funding , you’ll need to outline your marketing spend, as well as the channels and campaigns you intend to run. Pitch to investors.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 8, 2016

The ability to slice and dice your Google Analytics data is the difference between mediocre, surface-level insights and meaningful, useful analysis. As Avinash Kaushik famously wrote, “All data in aggregate is crap.” Setting Up Your Google Analytics. ” [Tweet It!]. You can read a more in-depth guide here.).

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 9, 2016

The outcome of book smart is rarely better for analytics practitioners then folks trying to learn how to fly an airplane from how-to books. This is all the way from Aug 2009: Web Analytics Career Advice: Play In The Real World! And, happily, it has almost all of the Google Analytics features implemented correctly.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 21, 2020

How do you coordinate the analytics setup of a web shop that sells their products all over the world—if you have to handle 10+ languages and currencies in over 80 countries? Aggregate them and consider how those needs transfer to your web analysis tool: What do you want to analyze? Can all data be stored within Google Analytics? .

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

For companies that build their analytics on Google products, purchasing Google Analytics 360 is a symbol of maturity. . As a business grows, it inevitably runs up against limitations of analytics tools. It’s one of many potential business needs that could affect your decision to upgrade to a Google Analytics 360 license.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 19, 2020

a top-line conversion or revenue target) and recognize both teams’ contributions—regardless of which channel generated the most conversions in a given period. We’ve had clients report SEO metrics from Adobe Analytics, while PPC metrics came from Google Analytics (because of its native integration with Google Ads).

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ConversionXL

MAY 13, 2020

For a long time, I considered standard Google Analytics reports to be the best way to get useful insights. From time to time, I struggled with sampling, limitations, and weird results, but I didn’t see a way around it—until I discovered Google Analytics 360 and raw data exports into Google BigQuery. Where do my users come from?

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 12, 2013

There are few things more complicated in analytics (all analytics, big data and huge data!) MCA-O2S covers the challenge of attributing the offline impact (revenue/brand value/butts in seats/phone calls/etc) driven by online marketing and advertising. There is a free tool inside Google Analytics called Model Comparison Tool.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 12, 2015

The world of digital analytics seems to be insanely complicated. I led a discussion the other day with a collection of people who were brand new to the space and some who were jaded long-term residents of Camp Web Analytics. Digital Analytics Ecosystem: The Inputs. Digital Analytics Ecosystem: The Outputs. Let's go!

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Nose to the grind "How do I" questions: David Walizer: How do you sell the value of web analytics to a skeptical client in 30 seconds or less? By doing multichannel analytics! More detail on those techniques, and three more, are in this blog post: Multichannel Analytics: Tracking Offline Conversions. Let's go!

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

A Facebook employee (FBe) gave a talk about measuring ROI/Value of Facebook campaigns. In the second part of the talk a large client joined FBe on stage to make the case for Facebook campaigns. From the data presented, there is no way to tell if the Facebook campaign worked or not. Attribute it all to the Facebook campaigns.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

I joined as employee 14 and spent a few years at this analytics startup, which was founded by Hiten Shah and Neil Patel. Two of the teams focused on the two main sources of revenue, one team on inbound leads, and the last team on site conversion rates. Our new email subscribers would receive email campaigns for different products.

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Ben's Blog

JUNE 3, 2024

Marketers are looking for ways to scalably create personalized campaigns and messages to meet people where they are. The GenAI marketing agent will still take direction from a marketing team around the goal of a campaign and how much to spend, but it will manage itself autonomously.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 7, 2019

My professional areas of interest cover Customer Service, User Experience and Finance, though here on Occam’s Razor my focus is on influencing incredible Marketing through the use of innovative Analytics. Each chosen obsession is very much in the spirit of my beloved principle of the aggregation of marginal gains.

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 13, 2012

A couple weeks back I'd requested the nice folks following me on Google+ and Facebook to submit their most important digital marketing and analytics questions. Some tools do pan-session analysis better than others, and there are a number of relatively new analytics solutions on the market today.

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

One of the ultimate excuses for not measuring impact of Marketing campaigns is: "Oh, that's just a branding campaign." Before we go any further I must clarify that I love branding campaigns just as much as the next guy. I love campaigns that Visa runs. are you doing the "branding campaign"?

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Occam's Razor

MAY 2, 2017

Outcomes: Revenue | Ideas Funded Behavior: Path Length | Cart Abandonment Rate Acquisition: Assisted Conversions | Share of Search. Every ecommerce site has to obsess about Revenue. Remember: All data in aggregate is crap, segment or suck. With advertising revenue in a tailspin, it is more important than ever.

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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. For example, Adobe Analytics (Omniture) only allows the use of historical data for personalization.

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Occam's Razor

MAY 20, 2013

" comfort zone, and out of your Google Analytics, Site Catalyst, WebTrends worldview silo. Part of the reason is that the data you to which you have access narrows your worldview – "Hey, all I have is Google Analytics, so all I'll look at is Google Analytics data!" The answer is simple: Aggregators.

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Occam's Razor

JULY 13, 2017

By design none of them from the world of digital analytics, though I’ll stay connected to that world from a how could you use this idea perspective. The sixteen examples neatly fall into nine strategies I hope you’ll cultivate in your analytics practice as you create data visualizations: 1: The Simplicity Obsession.

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Occam's Razor

MAY 19, 2014

Conversion Rate is money, sometimes directly as revenue and other times indirectly via Leads collected. The purists amongst you might notice that I'm really using Revenue as the BFF. Revenue <-> Profitability. None of the digital analytics tools make it easy to measure true profitability. And they should.

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

In fact I've gone so far as to say: "All data in aggregate is crap." " That's certainly a bit melodramatic, but beyond the most bare bones "ahh, I see something is happening" you are unable to get anywhere with aggregate data. Google Analytics: New Segmentation User Experience.

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 21, 2013

Following revelations of NSA activities via Mr. Snowden, Google has now switched almost all users to secure search, resulting in even more user search queries showing up as not provided in all web analytics tools. No keyword data in analytics tools. Aggregated search engine level analysis. Implications of Secure Search Decision.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 19, 2016

Marketers should also be looking at acquisition (visits, unique visitors, pageviews), behavior (pages per visit, time on site, bounce rate), and revenue (if you’re eCommerce). To start, both parties need to look at mobile usage separately and develop a more detailed variety of analytics for their mobile campaigns. Image Source.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 1, 2020

It’s your best indicator of churn (the live-and-die metric for subscription stores), your best projector of profit, and perhaps your best aide in decision making when it comes to marketing and sales campaigns. Until this point, everything is trackable through your Google Analytics setup (assuming you’ve set up cross-domain tracking ).

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VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

Through the powerful management & analytic tools, Applicaster empowers broadcast operations to work more efficiently and swiftly deliver competitive experiences to viewers on very large scales with no investments in infrastructure. Unlike other companies, we are a true digital record label, not aggregators.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 21, 2014

This equates to a loss of revenue, which requires more and more signups from new customers just to replace what you are organically losing every month. I have seen this happen at a few startups I’ve worked with by expanding revenue from the current product, plus up-sell and cross-sell opportunities , but that will be a future post.

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abovethecrowd.com

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Internet analytics can be roughly broken down into two simple activities – customer acquisition and customer optimization. As a result, AdWords boasts over one million customers and over $30B in annual revenue. The second activity, which I believe should be the obsession of all analytical startups, is customer optimization.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 26, 2014

While Google Analytics is so widely used, most marketers only scratch the surface when it comes to the reports they use. Brian Massey, the Conversion Scientist : One of our more unusual Google Analytics reports is the buyer persona report. 1: Advanced Segments Based On Buyer Personas. 1: Advanced Segments Based On Buyer Personas.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Check aggregator sites that feature tweets. With those strategies as a foundation for profile growth, you can start to think about ways to do something more than gain revenue-free attention on Twitter. For example, one of my Twitter lead-generation campaigns was based on giving away a free writing checklist. Who needs this step?

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Occam's Razor

MAY 18, 2010

I have said: All data in aggregate is "crap" Because it is. 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 (!), Total revenue. Of course Yahoo!

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Since you're reading a blog on advanced analytics, I'm going to assume that you have been exposed to the magical and amazing awesomeness of experimentation and testing. It is published 50x/year, and shares bleeding-edge thinking about Marketing, Analytics, and Leadership. It truly is the bee's knees. So delicious.

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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. Ravage all the features.

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