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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Growthink Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

goods and services, especially services, and they are expanding in aggregate at a rate that even 10% U.S. A strong results and metrics-focused approach. And an environment that encourages and demands learning and constant improvement of people and processes. These are fantastic new markets for U.S. But a few constants remain.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 8, 2017

Portability: Related to privacy, consumers are going to demand that they are the owners of their data. Some innovators with integrated business models like Kaiser Permanente are making great strides in aggregating your patient data and making it accessible to you. It’s maddening for the consumer to navigate.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

The other revels in the world as we all know it will be someday: limitless distribution enabled by new technologies, the importance of collaborative filters, and on-demand availability of all content for end-users. Gatekeepers are overloaded. My blog has over 14000 subscribers, for example. Is that a lot?

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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. Obviously, some fields are more demanding than others—a credit card number takes longer to enter than a zip code. If you’re not tracking form analytics, you don’t know.

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 22, 2011

" ~ Web Metrics: "What is a KPI? " + Standard Metrics Revisited Series. "Engagement" Is Not A Metric, It's An Excuse. Defining a "Master Metric", + a Framework to Gain a Competitive Advantage in Web Analytics. Aggregation of Marginal Gains: Recession Busting Analytics!

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 28, 2008

Eloqua is bringing this revolution to the B2B marketers by providing on-demand applications and best-practice expertise for B2B marketers to execute, automate and measure effective marketing programs that drive revenue. Cornerstone on Demand is a fast growing Learning and Talent management company based in Los Angeles. ► 2007. (10).

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 28, 2011

A market merely defines the aggregate of demand for a product or service and every organization, whether for profit or not participates in one. Just as businesses large and small use analytics tools to understand their traffic, their customers, and their conversion metrics, NFPs can also benefit from the tools used for this.

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K9 Ventures

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Typically, Pre-Seed rounds are less than $1M in aggregate capital raised. If the Micro-VCs are looking for Series A-like metrics, what does a company do when it’s just getting started? That’s squarely in Series A territory and you now need to have Series A metrics for that. Q: What amount of financing is considered Pre-Seed?

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Growthink Blog

JULY 23, 2012

goods and services, especially services, and they are expanding in aggregate at a rate that even 10% U.S. A strong results and metrics-focused approach. And an environment that encourages and demands learning and constant improvement of people and processes. These are fantastic new markets for U.S. But a few constants remain.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 21, 2020

Aggregate them and consider how those needs transfer to your web analysis tool: What do you want to analyze? One Account for your company; Multiple Properties for regions (or brands) and one Property (with a different tracking code) to aggregate data from all sites; One roll-up View for each Property; One View per website. Conclusion.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Tim Friedman, Founder, PE Stack , said, “If I could offer one piece of advice to today’s managers, it would be to take the time to understand the demands of the modern institutional LP. Lean Case provides standard business models & metrics, so you can apply a standard approach to business planning, modeling, and profitability tracking.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 20, 2019

In comparison, Facebook Live shows overview metrics like minutes viewed, average percentage completion, and unique viewers.). Brightcove analytics aggregated data effectively across those platforms. That allows some to escape the trap of hosting videos on Facebook, which locks content into the platform.

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Up and Running

MAY 1, 2014

Milestones and Metrics. Your prices need to match up with consumer demand and expectations. Instead, they prefer to buy through large distribution companies that aggregate products from lots of suppliers and then make that inventory available to retailers to purchase. Milestones and Metrics. Read more ». Read more ».

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Occam's Razor

JULY 1, 2013

If our search traffic was up 150% year-over-year, should it have been up 20,000% year-over-year because there is that much demand out there? Yet your magnificent search strategy (SEO + PPC) resulted in you capturing such a small percentage of the demand! The Ad Groups view is pretty helpful from an aggregated perspective.

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

But each keyword gets "credit" for other metrics. This way GA will show you both keywords while the aggregate for visits will not be skewed – as technically it is just one session. ]. Additionally, it is exceptionally difficult to measure available demand because 1. Please see the advice above. and finally 3.

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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. If you don't kill 25% of your metrics each year, you are doing something wrong. Allow me to point out that only 50% of the metrics I love exist in clickstream tools - like webtrends or xiti or unica.

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 13, 2012

That means: All of these metrics are off. How does one go about changing a corporate culture to make data driven insight an implicit demand of an organization frightened of data? This is exactly why the Page Value metric (in the past called $index value) was created. Pick metrics that matter. Hopefully soon!

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ConversionXL

JULY 10, 2019

On a micro level, each section or chart should lead with priority metrics, or KPIs , followed by secondary metrics. . Many reporting tools lead with secondary metrics , which measure “what must not be broken” (instead of “what needs to be fixed”). Always start with the big picture. Why it happened.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 13, 2016

Regarding these so-called metric KPIs, there is a high uncertainty about the level of purchasing – if a user buys anything at all. Don’t measure too many metrics. If every metric available in the tool is randomly used to measure, you wind up losing sight of the goal of the test.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

In an ecosystem, each participant acts according to its own imperatives, but these selfish actions have an aggregate effect. In other words, the minimum viable product is designed to answer the question: does the product generate enough demand and margin to support a growing ecosystem? Now consider a traditional media business.

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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? Today’s best SMB-focused CRMs capture metrics more effectively than ever before. You’ll receive digestible and actionable information in one space.

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om.co

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

But it was a conversation with Toni Schneider (now CEO of Automattic, the on-demand WordPress service), and a venture partner at True that made it all come together. But that is the real metric of success as far as I am concerned. Funny, because here I was telling others to start blog-based businesses. Back to the top.

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A Crowded Space

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

They provide on-demand temp labor via mobile devices. . With scale, marketplaces have the ability to understand supply and demand and ensure that the right resources are available at the right time. The number of full-timers is an essential metric. Marketplaces do an excellent job at aggregating demand.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Only after reaching $1M in CMRR should you consider hiring European sales and services execs behind customer demand. Be prepared to cross the desert - SaaS requires R&D and sales expense up front for a multi-year stream of revenue, so it demands enough investment capital to fund 4+ years of runway. Brian, Paglo www.paglo.com.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 9, 2019

Initially, when Mediametric was just founded, it was called Pandorama and was designed to aggregate fun news and trending content with a cute Panda being the logo. Since our tool didn’t JUST monitor press but incorporated different metrics like Facebook reactions, citations, various indices etc. Thanks to Johannes Probst, SimScale ! #13-

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 22, 2008

Analyzing data in aggregate is a crime. When you look at all that in aggregate you get nothing. On you left are the Dimensions (customer & campaign attributes) and Metrics (numbers, key performance indicators) you can choose to create custom segments of your own. Demand answers fast. Why Segmentation?

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

Many have noted that the aggregate shareholder value created by all of the Unicorns will vastly overshadow the losses from the inevitable failed unicorns. Anything that hints of a down round brings questions about the success metrics that have already been “booked.” If you over-fund the industry, aggregate returns fall.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

To be fair, “familiarity” and “Ever listened to” aren’t really great metrics that translate to consumption. In 2013 Mazda started installing Stitcher – the second most popular podcast aggregator – in the actual dashboards of their cars. In 2006 it was a mere 11%, and in 2012 it hit 29%. The reason for including Stitcher?

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 3, 2018

They took a host of seemingly fragmented industry changes—customers demanding more from their vendors, customer relationships lasting years instead of days, competing businesses appearing virtually every day—and found the common thread that tied them together: more companies and customers were switching to subscriptions. Conclusion.

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

. + Traffic Trends Key Metrics Analysis. Onsite Behavior Key Metrics Analysis. I tend to use Hitwise a lot less, or not at all, because it is a very hard to use, it is slow, the UX/UI, metrics and reports have not really evolved over the years. Traffic Trends Key Metrics Analysis. The metric being displayed is Visits.

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Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 4, 2008

This introduction was also the opportunity to illustrate the amazing growth of our software and saas portfolio in the past years, with aggregated revenues reaching $1.2B What metrics should I be using to drive a saas business? If you want to learn more on SaaS metrics, you can read my previous blog post. Stay local.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 4, 2021

It kind of aggregates technology content, I suppose. But basically from that moment, we struggled to keep up with the demand as opposed to trying to create more demand. How did it come on your radar for the first time? And yeah, I was just home for the holidays at my parents' house. ER : And the rest, as they say, is history.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2011

The solution provides a live, accurate status of customers’ level of satisfaction, according to metrics that are pre-defined and measured at the time of the customer experience. Logia offers Mobile Operators a range of solution for their Apps Stores starting from Content Aggregation, Billing aggregation to full white labeled Apps Store.

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 29, 2013

Many used some data, but they unfortunately used silly data strategies/metrics. And silly simply because as soon as the strategy/success metric being obsessed about was mentioned, it was clear they would fail. It is a really good metric. There are many spectacular reasons for why Like (and +1s, Followers) is a horrible metric.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 3, 2010

The key driver of this renewed confidence from brand advertisers is better measurement of brand metrics that can show the impact of online advertising beyond clickthrough. We got everything from price comparison engines to aggregated user reviews to one-click checkout. Direct Response Advertising becomes ever more efficient.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Startup Metrics for Pirates â?? SaaS Metrics Tutorial â?? on demand billing and fraud management. aggregation. Startup Foundry tools list. Small Business tools list. Lean Startup Circle â?? Google Group for startup advice. SEO and Analytics Tutorials. read this before you spend time elsewhere. worth reading as well.

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