Occam's Razor

APRIL 21, 2014

about digital marketing and analytics. We will cover questions in four areas: business/strategy challenges, analytics/technical challenges, career/self-development questions and rampant speculation. Even the worst analytics configuration in the world will most likely allow you to measure cart and checkout abandonment rate.

Analytics 131

Analytics Marketing Campaign Metrics 131

Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

A secondary, under-appreciated, challenge is that search engines value freshness of content. You launch your site, it becomes stale in due course (from a organic search signal perspective). It is also immensely beneficial for search engine optimization (great content, delivered fresh, every day!). And so on and so forth.

Analytics 154

Analytics Marketing Social Media Technical Review 154

Occam's Razor

AUGUST 12, 2013

There are few things more complicated in analytics (all analytics, big data and huge data!) 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). From a Venn -diagram.

Channel 161

Channel Analytics Campaign Conversion 161

Occam's Razor

MARCH 23, 2010

There are more mistruths and F U D about Web analytics out there than I think is reasonable. Web Analytics, this beautiful child, was born just the other day in the midst of tumultuous times, quite literally, when everything changes every day. Here are ten web analytics ground truths… 1. Part of it fueled by Vendors.

Analytics 118

Analytics Web Metrics Channel 118

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!" That data is not in Google Analytics.

Analytics 139

Analytics Aggregator Channel B2B 139

View from Seed

OCTOBER 7, 2015

Sector: B2B On-Demand. B2B on-demand is the perfect combination between two of our existing portfolio strengths: The fact that half of our investments are business-focused startups, and our expertise with consumer on-demand services like Paintzen , TaskRabbit , and Scratch. davidbeisel | LinkedIn. Authenticity to NextView.

Search 120

Search B2B Artificial Inteligence Semantic 120

View from Seed

OCTOBER 7, 2015

Sector: B2B On-Demand. B2B on-demand is the perfect combination between two of our existing portfolio strengths: The fact that half of our investments are business-focused startups, and our expertise with consumer on-demand services like Paintzen , TaskRabbit , and Scratch. davidbeisel | LinkedIn. Authenticity to NextView.

Search 120

Search B2B Artificial Inteligence Semantic 120

Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 24, 2016

When it comes to your Digital Marketing and Digital Analytics practice, I've advocated slow and steady evolution. Because the above picture actually looks like this… Suddenly most of your standard Adobe and Analytics reports are more than lying to you about the effectiveness of your marketing investments. Let's go.

Analytics 60

Analytics Metrics Technical Review Channel 60

Occam's Razor

JUNE 6, 2011

I got an email the other day with this simple question: "How do break into the world of web analytics?" There is a ton of excitement about web analytics. Therein you see one way to "break into" analytics, or anything really, you have to be good!]. Analytics or start pimping your resume left and right.

Analytics 125

Analytics Web Salary Non-Compete 125

Occam's Razor

JULY 22, 2013

You'll do it with Paid Search, with SEO, with YouTube, with Affiliate and Email marketing and every other thing you have going on inside your company. Why did the company have such a poor paid search strategy? " " It is a waste of time using Paid Search for upper funnel keyword queries by our customers. "

Framework 163

Framework Marketing Metrics Audience 163

VC Cafe

OCTOBER 24, 2022

A look at the overall exits for both enterprise (B2B) and consumer (B2C) companies from 1995-2022 shows that both categories can produce power law returns, but they vary substantially: The top five enterprise companies with the largest exits account for $188B in value creation, or 12% of the $1,609B generated in the enterprise category since 1995.

B2C 103

B2C IPO B2B 103

Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Bonus: Remember, you can measure profit everyday in Google Analytics! ]. You’ll recognize these most commonly as being set by Adobe or Google Analytics on your site to better track metrics like Sessions and Users. There is still a decay, if you want to get a sense for it checkout the Recency reports in your analytics tool.

Metrics 60

Metrics Analytics Acquisition Naming 60

Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Web Analytics blog was to pull us up 10,000 feet to do something we do less than 1% of the time in the web analytics world – look at the bigger business picture. It was called: Secret To Winning With Web Analytics? Secret To Winning Web Analytics: 10 Starting Points For A Fabulous Start! Go use site search.

Web 139

Web Analytics eCommerce Campaign 139

Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

We send out our multi-tab spreadsheets, our best Google Analytics custom reports , our great dashboards full of data , and more to the tactical layer of data clients. We added to your analytical skills a demand for business savvy. Companies should optimize for the portfolio of visits (multiple!) In fact 86.4% This is insane.

Stock 60

Stock Conversion Matching Audience 60

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 9, 2012

Here's important context (before we get into the rules for revolutionaries)… The Fundamental Web Analytics Problem Is Not Data! If you are doing lame stuff, why try harder in an analytics context by asking for Economic Value or Visitor Loyalty or Conversation Rate or a thousand other super powerful and insightful metrics ?

Marketing 140

Marketing Analytics Web Channel 140

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 26, 2020

This might be data from your CRM, email service provider, website, or social media analytics. If you’re a B2B company, are there industries you work with often, or are your point-people in a particular department, or do they hold a specific job title? Take, for example, a paid search campaign. Design Unique Landing Pages.

Architecture 94

Architecture Audience Social Media Campaign 94

Rob Go

JULY 11, 2013

This isn’t true for every single one of our portfolio companies, but in at least half, we had a thesis about why this company had some sort of unfair advantage or head-start when it comes to getting their product out into the market. But this time, I gave a different answer. We tend to favor companies that have a “distribution advantage”.

Distribution 66

Distribution Vertical Viral B2B 66

mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

b2b CRM – A Web-based CRM that manages contacts, activities, and your sales pipeline, and integrates with Outlook and Word. ReputationHQ – Online reputation management app that searches for your desired information across millions of websites. carbonmade Carbonmade – A free online portfolio showcase.

Software Review 78

Software Review Social Media Social Network Software 78

Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

In my case (LucidEra -- a SaaS analytics provider focusing on sales, marketing, and financial analytics), weve found that success requires not only building some best practices for analytics into our solution, but also coming up with a repeatable and scalable way to show the customer how to use the analytics and how to interpret the results.

Software Review 48

Software Review North America Europe Metrics 48

Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Ok, so perhaps as the author of two bestselling books on analytics I love it a little bit more! In each case the creator did something interesting that made me wonder how I can use their strategy in my daily efforts in service of digital marketing and analytics. I've used Sunbursts to do the same with keyword portfolios.

Analytics 143

Analytics Sierra Leone Channel Conversion 143

VC Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2011

Mobile analytics – measuring the impact of mobile and increasing customer engagement (Check out G-Stat). Established location-based services to enable the CSP offer B2B and B2C services based on mobile positioning, tracking & locating, turn-by-turn navigation and mobile local search. Rad Data Communication.

Mobile 103

Mobile Securities and Exchange Commission Flash IP 103

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Whether you’re wondering what site search you should use or what is the best email marketing tool, knowledge is power. Â Search for apps tools. Google Custom Search Engine. Google Analytics. Site Pulse – Live Web Traffic Monitor and Analytics. SEO and Analytics Tutorials. Analytics review â??

Software Review 53

Software Review Technical Review Startup 53