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.

Metrics 141

Metrics Acquisition eCommerce Analytics 141

The Startup Magazine

JULY 9, 2020

We kept ourselves entertained through social media and streaming platforms. Setting up a strong and aggressive Social Media presence. If you are using your social media for just branding activities, then you are doing it wrong. In 2020, social media has evolved into a platform, which can help you with-.

Social Media 90

Social Media PPC Marketing SEO 90

SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2011

This site aggregates and filters content from thought leaders who talk about topics such as Marketing , Sales , Design , Revenue , Hiring , Social Media , Business Models , Metrics , PR , Venture Capital , Angel Investors , Bootstrapping , Incubators , Agile and many others.

Intellectual Property 175

Intellectual Property Aggregator Startup IP 175

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?

Analytics 96

Analytics Viral Web Mobile 96

Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 20, 2010

It shows the distribution of the pages people see on your site (not the "silly" metric, average page views per session). 2: Social Media, Baby! Social media is all the rage. The challenge in measuring social media impact on your business is two-fold. Have fun. #2: Still pathetic, right?

Analytics 118

Analytics Web Social Media Search 118

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

An investor had few hard metrics other than the actual financials, and little technology to make the process scaleable. Over the past few decades, better metrics became available, and investors could take a more analytical, data-driven approach. ” Historically, investing was a manual, artisan process. 6) Negotiate deal.

Private Equity 60

Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

ConversionXL

JULY 21, 2022

By focusing intently on a single measurement, known as a north star metric. The north star metric defines success for the whole company and aligns teams on a growth trajectory. In this article, you’ll learn how other growing companies use the north star metric to achieve customer success. Customer-centricity. Accountability.

Metrics 120

Metrics Acquisition Revenue .Net 120

Up and Running

MAY 1, 2014

Milestones and Metrics. Social Media. These days, having a social media presence is essentially a requirement for the vast majority of businesses. You don’t need to be on every social media channel, but you do need to be on the ones that your customers are on. Milestones and Metrics.

Business Plan 163

Business Plan Forecast Balance Sheet Distribution 163

Hearpreneur

JULY 8, 2017

Some innovators with integrated business models like Kaiser Permanente are making great strides in aggregating your patient data and making it accessible to you. And it’s filled with a lot of repetitive filling out of forms and providing the same info to each entity you visit. What is unique about being a Healthy CEO?

Technical Review 48

Technical Review Fractional CTO CTO CTO Hire 48

Up and Running

JUNE 23, 2015

90 percent of our clients are ordering more than one product at a time, so we’re an aggregator. Allyson attributes part of their large reach to Maternova’s strong social media presence, which she says is essential to their marketing strategy. Social media. Even a small investment can make a huge difference.”.

Cofounder 60

Cofounder Sweat Equity Social Media Business Model 60

The Next Web

MARCH 2, 2014

To measure the return on investment – or ROI – of your SEO campaigns, utilize the information aggregated from Positionly and Google Analytics to pull through the data and analyze patterns in traffic, increases in links, sustainable traffic and above all, increases in revenue. Increased inbound links. Inbound links are the lifeblood of SEO.

SEO 159

SEO Analytics Social Media Metrics 159

Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 3, 2010

Brand advertising starts to move online, boosting premium display, video and social media. Many brand advertisers are spending their experimental budgets widely in social media as they attempt to figure out how to promote themselves through Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare and other platforms.

Internet 113

Internet eCommerce Advertising Flash 113

SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 22, 2009

I'm going to be working with people like Cliff and Steve Gilison (see Product Management for Startups in Los Angeles ) and Tom Humbarger (see Social Media to Build Reputation and Reach Prospects ) to create this online business networking group for Los Angeles. We can use could choose a hashtag (e.g.,

Los Angeles 150

Los Angeles Networking Southern California Aggregator 150

View from Seed

DECEMBER 11, 2019

These are literal quotes from social media and email announcements over the past six months from VC Partners moving on to other competitive firms, and, well, just moving on. Calibrated against the firm’s overall velocity (which can vary), this metric is a tell-tale about a Partner’s standing with their peers. Fund cycle.

Venture Capital 204

Venture Capital Cap Table Partner LP 204

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

Mass blasts of information are ineffective, because the broadcast channels are suffering from information overload (even in social media). 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. Is that a lot?

San Francisco 113

San Francisco Lean Technical Review Distribution 113

Brandanew

JANUARY 8, 2016

Most small business and Startup founders are talking about customer engagement and social presence beyond the customary likes and one-post-a-month schedules. We talked to global social media experts and influencers to share with us their top social analytics tools for the coming year. Carrie Aulenbacher , Author.

Analytics 100

Analytics Social Media Marketing Media 100

Occam's Razor

JULY 18, 2011

With all the sexiness oozing out of social media it might seem insane to write about email. I dare say even more than Search (and without a shred of doubt, more than Social Media). You must use metrics that are unique to the medium. Ready for the best email marketing campaign metrics? Outcomes.

Metrics 137

Metrics Campaign Email Marketing 137

crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 2, 2016

One of the major benefits of the digital age is that marketers now have far more meaningful metrics by which to evaluate the success of their initiatives. Your social media posts can be compared on the basis of impressions and engagement. Contextualize all available data relative to aggregate spend. Of course not.

Marketing 48

Marketing Metrics Aggregator Social Media 48

www.subelsky.com

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Because it has an RSS feed, one could also use "Unresolved Hoptoad Errors" as a metric influencing the continuous deployment system. This isnt Rails-specific, but we use SimpleDB for dumping a lot of important metrics data, like performance measurements, which we then turn into metrics.

Lean 41

Lean Baltimore Ruby Maryland 41

ReadWriteStart

JUNE 29, 2020

Let’s assume, for this article, that you are a part-time social media expert. Consequently, you’ve decided to utilize this passion and expertise to collect and aggregate social media data from some of the popular social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, CrunchBase, and LinkedIn.

Bootstrapping 85

Bootstrapping Global Startup Hungary 85

Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 14, 2014

Conversion rate is one of those metrics that I strongly encourage you only create benchmarks for from your own data. In my case I'm looking at Social Media (boss LOVES social!), … You can see the wisdom of not just setting a 20% aggregate conversion rate, based on the above benchmarking data.

Analytics 133

Analytics Vertical Metrics Web 133

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!

Analytics 124

Analytics Metrics SEM Web 124

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 16, 2010

Designed for large businesses, the channels let a company share several types of documents, brand the channel with their own design elements, and then include display advertising, contest promotions, blog aggregation, social media integration and metrics reporting. The idea seemed to SlideShare to be a natural direction.

San Francisco 167

San Francisco Lean Analytics Continuous Deployment 167

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.

Lean 91

Lean Marketing Public Relations Social Media 91

ConversionXL

JULY 29, 2015

Most project creators describe their project using aggregate framing. Most crowdfunding platforms display the number of current backers of a project in a very prominent place: Potential donors use that metric to determine the value of the project: “…these statistics invite conjectures about the (unknown) quality of the project.

Campaign 48

Campaign Reputation Metrics Naming 48

entrepreMusings

JANUARY 30, 2011

A couple of years ago someone I know mentioned the term ‘signal to noise’ when talking about social media and my tweet stream in particular. It’s true that social media tools have provided a platform for noisiness. We know that there’s tremendous untapped value in data, as there is in social content.

Social Media 47

Social Media Curation Syndicate Syndication 47

Occam's Razor

APRIL 4, 2011

Any application of algorithmic intelligence , weighted sort , expected range for metric values ( control limits ), or anything that even remotely smells of ever so slightly advanced statistics is a good sign. "All data in aggregate is crap." Unknown unknowns are what it's all about! Loads and loads and loads of context!

Web 127

Web Las Vegas Analytics Metrics 127

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 9, 2020

People, not just metrics. Well the same could be viewed as a community, a marketplace, social media company, anything. And what I mean by that is, almost every metric, every graph, every number, is a person. Eric Ries : Metrics are people too. Brian Chesky : Metrics are people. Your metrics are your master.

Silicon Valley 60

Silicon Valley Hosting Cofounder Employee 60

Occam's Razor

APRIL 13, 2015

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. Go to Acquisition > Social > Conversions > Assisted vs. Last Interaction Analysis tab.

Analytics 60

Analytics Web eCommerce Metrics 60

Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 31, 2011

I love that the analyst is segmenting the data rather than showing the aggregate trend ("all data in aggregate is essentially crap" – me). Ditto for Social Media. It is likely that the Social Media conversions are already included in Referrals and, of course, in Mobile. Look at it carefully?

Salary 130

Salary Analytics Green eCommerce 130

Occam's Razor

APRIL 21, 2014

I believe these two posts with a collection of some of my favorite metrics will inspire you: 1. Best Metrics For Digital Marketing: Rock Your Own And Rent Strategies 2. Best Web Metrics / KPIs for a Small, Medium or Large Sized Business. If you have a lot of them, aggregate them up. The post provides more detail.

Analytics 131

Analytics Marketing Campaign Metrics 131

Occam's Razor

MARCH 4, 2008

Customer satisfaction report : You can have this aggregated or segmented by months or weeks. Task completion rate : My all time favorite #1 Web Analytics Metric ( booo conversion rate! ). PS: Couple other related posts: Overview & Importance of Qualitative Metrics. The Three Greatest Survey Questions Ever. Got Surveys?

Analytics 104

Analytics Metrics Web Aggregator 104

betashop.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

If it’s done right, feedback and postmortems are regular activities and reviews are just the official aggregation of such feedback.?. We think social first and we are defining and inventing what social commerce can be. Getting social right is hard. Your customer is growing up on social media. Fab Culture.

Technical Review 108

Technical Review Technology Software Review Valuation 108

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Social Media Tracking/Marketing. Startup Metrics for Pirates â?? SaaS Metrics Tutorial â?? analytics for social media and online. social media and email marketing. aggregation. Aptana Cloud (svn, IDE, php, java, rails etc…). code spaces (svn). CVSDude (svn). github (git only).

Software Review 53

Software Review Technical Review Startup 53

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.

Metrics 159

Metrics Analytics SEC Acquisition 159

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.

Retention 106

Retention Churn Rate Metrics Software Review 106

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. ]. Landin Gee: Besides compete.com, where else can I access free competitive intelligence (excluding social media tools)?

Analytics 94

Analytics Web Non-Compete Metrics 94