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

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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The Startup Magazine

JULY 9, 2020

Improving your visibility and Rankings on Search Engines with SEO. Many startups are using the pandemic to invest in SEO or Search Engine Optimization. SEO is the process of ranking your website for your industry-relevant keywords on search engines. Improve traffic figures, metrics and digital performance.

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Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 20, 2010

What campaigns? It shows the distribution of the pages people see on your site (not the "silly" metric, average page views per session). 12.11% from Organic Search via Google. What campaigns have a higher percentage of these people? See the campaign (utm_) tracking parameters? They just left. Not enough?

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Nowadays nearly every online shop utilizes some sort of product recommendation engine, which is no wonder, as these systems, if set up and configured properly can significantly boost revenues, CTRs, conversions, and other important metrics. This is a very important metric when evaluating a recommender system.

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Occam's Razor

JULY 18, 2011

I dare say even more than Search (and without a shred of doubt, more than Social Media). 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? Every fiber of your being.

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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.]. Search engines are complicated little beings. 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.].

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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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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

What Are Your Goals, and What Are Your Metrics? What this means depends on the company, but it can take into account different metrics like pathing, time on site, video engagement, company size, role, etc. There you want to look at things in clumps and aggregates. What types of micro-conversions produce the highest lead values?

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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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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

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. Multichannel Analytics- Tracking Online Impact Of Offline Campaigns. "Engagement" Is Not A Metric, It's An Excuse. How do I choose well?

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

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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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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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. Further, if forms aren’t the low-hanging fruit of your optimization campaign, it may not make sense to spend time gathering more data (yet). Ten seconds? Thirty seconds?).

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

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.

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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). And you are telling me that the Cost Per Acquisition for my display campaigns is not $201 but rather a lowly $155?

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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. You can also search for other stuff, like custom reports or attribution models. At this point you'll be a little confused about some metric or the other. Awesome, right?

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 19, 2020

It’s the same for search engine marketing. Search volume dried up overnight for generic queries like “summer concerts in Richmond, VA,” as well as branded events that had been canceled. Shortly thereafter, we discovered a corresponding increase in paid search queries for “things to do during quarantine in Richmond, VA.”

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 21, 2014

Find campaigns where they are spending most money, lower the bounce rate and reduce acquisition cost. But if you would like a quick collection of tips: Multichannel Analytics- Tracking Online Impact Of Offline Campaigns The enabler of tying offline activity to online is ensuring you have a weak or strong primary key. Mehdi Oudjida.

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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 30, 2008

The first one covered career advice for Stressed "Agency Analysts" and Search Robots messing up your life. 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.

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 13, 2012

That means: All of these metrics are off. My perspective on this multi-channel multi-device multi-visit multi-campaign challenge is best summarized by the Serenity Prayer : “Lord grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.” :).

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 13, 2015

Search Queries: Get Your Organic Keyword Data Back! 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. Time Lag & Path Length: Pan-Session Ecommerce Analysis.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

You can run holdouts for A/B tests and other marketing efforts, like drip email campaigns in which a percentage of users receives no email at all. For example, a “10% off” coupon (delivered through a pop-up or email campaign) may generate 15% more sales than a current “$10 off a $100 purchase” coupon. Image source ).

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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.

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Occam's Razor

MARCH 23, 2010

Because every tool uses its own sweet metrics definitions, cookie rules, session start and end rules and so much more. It is a bit silly to believe you can use one tool for purpose x (say search analysis) and another for purpose y (say everything else). Do a Google search for the Consultant. Was that what you set out to buy?

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

We use Google Analytics, HubSpot, and LinkedIn Campaign Manager for the majority of our analytics. Coalesce address the more general problem of searching through large data sets for best fits. Pacer is useful to search prior litigation, bankruptcies, etc. 3) Raise capital. I used Ipreo heavily at one of my prior VC funds.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 21, 2015

Never start a marketing campaign without a dedicated landing page. Use minimal viable (low-cost) campaigns to test assumptions. Test secondary assumptions, with minimal viable campaigns to acquire even more visitors. Valentine’s Day campaign). Stay away from aggregate metrics – combine, segment, visualize, predict.

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Occam's Razor

MAY 19, 2014

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. The BFF metric you find should not be one that is very far away. So, great metric. Honestly, who can blame them.

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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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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

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. Paid Search. Organic Search. Should it be the first search phrase you came on?

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

For example, while the data aggregation process in Google Analytics seems like a “normal” feature, it might be a hurdle if your business needs to process data at the hit level instead of by sessions or campaigns. English-only audience, those who saw your last ad campaign, etc.). Custom dimension and metrics.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 30, 2012

When it comes to data analysis, you are usually more likely to see me share guidance on advanced segmentation or custom reports or advanced social metrics or controlled experiments or economic value or competitive intelligence or web analytics maturity or one of an infinite number of difficult, if hugely rewarding, things. Not today.

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Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 12, 2011

I am going to attempt to significantly simply your life by recommending the critical few metrics you should use to analyze performance of your digital marketing campaigns and website. Recommend metrics / KPIs you can use based on the size of your company. Best Metrics / KPIs for Small Business Websites. Impressions?

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