ConversionXL

AUGUST 19, 2016

To find what barriers your mobile website may face , let’s look at the limitations of mobile, how to compensate for them, and what improvements you can implement to ensure the best user experience, increase conversions, better retarget potential customers, and more. But conversion rate alone is not a success metric.

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Blog About Log in Register Designing startup metrics to drive successful behavior Great companies are almost always run by great management teams. Good metrics should also be actionable, and drive successful behavior. In a follow up post, I will use this technique to walk through the design of a set of metrics for a SaaS company.

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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. Remember: Engagement is not a metric, its an excuse. ].

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Occam's Razor

MAY 2, 2017

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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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. In the same vein, consider a metric like ‘time on site.’. Image Source.

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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. No keyword-level conversion analysis. Aggregated search engine level analysis.

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Occam's Razor

JULY 18, 2011

Analyzing email campaigns requires three important insights: 1. You must use metrics that are unique to the medium. 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. Optimal Acquisition Email Metrics.

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Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Overall Conversion Rate. What campaigns? It shows the distribution of the pages people see on your site (not the "silly" metric, average page views per session). What campaigns have a higher percentage of these people? See the campaign (utm_) tracking parameters? Total Visits. Yada, yada, yada.

Analytics 118

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ConversionXL

MAY 13, 2020

After a few hours playing around with SQL , I was already able to deliver insights I never could have with aggregated Google Analytics reports. What’s the difference between raw and aggregated data in Google Analytics? Google Analytics, in the free version, provides only aggregated data. Do more and more people use Feature X?

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Occam's Razor

JULY 12, 2010

Please click on the above image for a higher resolution version , including all the other metrics.]. I love the data you saw in the very first screenshot, and I absolutely love this… [Please click on the above image for a higher resolution version , including all the other metrics.]. Say it ain't so! :). Why is this cool?

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Occam's Razor

MARCH 8, 2010

Like good little Reporting Squirrels we collect and stack metrics as if preparing for an imminent ice age. In this case its making right choices about the web metrics we knight and sent to the battle to come back with insights for our beloved corporation to monetize. You run a report and notice a trend for this metric.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 12, 2015

At the core of everything you will do in digital analytics is the concept of metrics. How do you define a metric: It is simply a number. Your digital analytics tools are full of metrics. Helpful post: Best Metrics For Digital Marketing: Rock Your Own And Rent Strategies.]. Now you have your foundation, metrics and KPIs.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 27, 2016

Email marketing and customer communications strategies have long played an important role in a company’s user engagement and conversion rates. In such a world, knowledge is power, which is why we were so excited to take a look at IBM Marketing Cloud’s 2016 Email Marketing Metrics Benchmark Study.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 13, 2013

Traffic volume is a vanity metric. So I was a bit too caught up in vanity metrics like traffic volume and I was happy to say I was getting 10-15K visits a month but is that even good? Look I’m not going to tell you that vanity metrics are useless and you shouldn’t look at your traffic stats. What are vanity metrics?

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abovethecrowd.com

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Over 13 years ago, in March of 2000, I wrote a blog post titled “ The Most Powerful Internet Metric of All. ” The key thesis was this: if an Internet company could obsess about only one metric, it should be conversion. As such, it is time to pound the table again – conversion is by far the most powerful Internet metric of all.

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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. Your effort will make this post 100x more valuable.

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 22, 2011

" ~ Web Metrics: "What is a KPI? " + Standard Metrics Revisited Series. Mobile Marketing and Analytics: Click-to-Call Mobile Ad Campaigns. Six Tips For Improving High Bounce / Low Conversion Web Pages. Multichannel Analytics- Tracking Online Impact Of Offline Campaigns. Is Conversion Rate Enough?

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ConversionXL

APRIL 10, 2019

Form analytics provide quantitative data on metrics such as field timings, field re-entries, last field before abandonment, completion rates by segment, etc. Form analytics and conversion optimization. It’s best paired with other quantitative and qualitative research as part of a thorough conversion research process.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 7, 2020

And what can you do to get the most out of your campaigns? And I discovered that the first page of results on Google was filled with paid search and aggregator results (things like Angie’s list and Yelp). But if you’ve never run a Google Ads campaign before, you may feel overwhelmed. Focus on Purchase Intent.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

So I generally feel right at home in these conversations. 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. In other words, they are facing conditions of extreme uncertainty, just like startups. Is that a lot?

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 12, 2013

MCA-ADC covers the challenge of attributing credit to all digital marketing channels (Social, Display, YouTube, Referral, Email, Search, others) that contributed to a particular conversion (or multiple conversions). But how do we distribute credit for the conversions across all those channels? Hurray, hurray! • It is sweet.

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 8, 2011

and partly because all they do is present data in the aggregate (a punishable criminal offence if there ever was one!). As a cure to this malaise, I’ve encouraged y’all to switch to using only custom reports (bring just relevant metrics and dimensions into one place, and throw away 90% of web analytics data that does not apply to you).

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

This typically involves a CRM system or tool that helps automate and aggregate various customer touchpoints. This can help them better manage marketing campaigns with clear goals and objectives. Generally, a CRM should include contact management, campaign automation, and lead tracking tools for monitoring sales activities.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 19, 2020

In pre-COVID days, our SEO and PPC teams sat in close proximity, so conversations could naturally flow between them. Now that we’re remote, we share threaded conversations in Basecamp (our project management tool of choice) so both teams are aware of the others’ activities. Not sure who needs to be included in each conversation?

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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. At this point you'll be a little confused about some metric or the other. Go, read one of the best pages in the Analytics help center: Understanding Dimensions and Metrics.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 10, 2016

It requires that optimizers put in the effort to create user state models, dig into cohort analysis and correlative metrics, run experiments for different user states, etc. When optimizers talk about A/B testing and experimentation, they’re focused on increasing conversions. Which phase of the funnel are those metrics?

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

We ran A/B tests around the clock on our free-trial funnel for nine months and got these wins: Quadrupled monthly lead volume in one year; Tripled the conversion rate from visitor-to-trial signups on our homepage. This thing crushed sign-up conversions. Our new email subscribers would receive email campaigns for different products.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 21, 2015

Elite Camp is a 3-day traffic and (mainly) conversion event. Never start a marketing campaign without a dedicated landing page. ROAR: Risk( 1000 conversions / mo ) -> Optimization ( 10 000 conversions / mo ) -> Automation -> Re-think. Use minimal viable (low-cost) campaigns to test assumptions.

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Occam's Razor

MARCH 4, 2008

campaigns, and so on and so forth. All critical data that helps you step up your game – improve your campaigns, fix pages, fire someone. Why is it that we only have one percent conversion rate ? Customer satisfaction report : You can have this aggregated or segmented by months or weeks. Got Surveys?

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 13, 2015

Assisted Conversions: Smarter Marketing Impact Attribution. You can simply click on either one of the two above and see the valuable-drilldown view… All the standard Acquisition, Behavior and Outcome metrics you are used to can be leveraged to identify valuable segments. Google Analytics Shortcuts: Save Your Complex Views.

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 13, 2012

Finally there were questions we can always count on: setting goals and tracking conversions, justifying analytics and wanting to track the absolutely impossible ( why can't I track people across all devices and all websites? ). That means: All of these metrics are off. EU Cookies!) We will adapt to whatever they decide.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 21, 2014

That’s why you need to be simultaneously feeding your growth engine , while monitoring churn and your other startup metrics. They refer to these differences as “ Red Flag” Metrics (or RFMs). Total number of logins also proved to be an important metric, though not as much so as the former two. times per day on average.

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 19, 2010

"What is the difference between a metric and a key performance indicator (KPI)?" " "Are goals metrics?" There seems to be genuine confusion about the simplest, most foundational, parts of web metrics / analytics. experiment with p type of campaigns. Metric: A metric is a number.

Analytics 138

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

I have tried to find some metric that mixes Y/Y and M/M, but to no avail. Here's me comparing performance of this blog over two years for the Visitors metric: Overall happiness reigns, I think. In aggregate trends can hide insights and hence "dirty" the data. Or performance of email campaigns.

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Occam's Razor

MAY 19, 2014

" And we oblige: "Conversion Rate, that's it." But the problem is that single golden metrics hide valuable insights and, more often than not, drive bad behavior. Here's my proposal: If you are pushed to have a single golden metric, give it a partner. So, great metric. Honestly, who can blame them.

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ConversionXL

MAY 16, 2018

Relatively recently, conversion optimization specialists have discovered the immense power of experimentation when applied to an online environment in the form of A/B Testing, Usability Testing, and more. Know the difference between leading and lagging metrics. Common examples are Revenue and Conversions. Why do we test?

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

Explain why, hopefully you'll have rules you can apply and check if your Web Metrics are indeed KPI's! Update] Here are two recent posts that dive deeper into the topic of Key Performance Indicators and provide latest thinking (as well as real world examples): ~ Best Web Metrics / KPIs for a Small, Medium or Large Sized Business.

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