ConversionXL

JUNE 30, 2019

Knowing what the competitors are doing—how they’re thinking about the market, which tactics they’re using, how they’re crafting messages and design—can make all the difference in the battle for customers. Often, the layout is something their web designer came up without doing a thorough analysis or testing. (In

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ConversionXL

MAY 11, 2017

Knowing what the competitors are doing – how they are thinking about the market, what tactics they are using, how they are crafting messages and design – can make all the difference in the battle for the customers’ mind share and conversions. Competitive Analysis for Design. First Thing’s First: Set Your Goals.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Customer personas are often talked about in marketing and product design, but they’re almost never done well. Cooper framed personas as a way of avoiding designing for an “elastic” user, and thus cementing some sort of common properties across segments to aid cohesive design strategy. Artistic and Aspirational Alex…?

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ConversionXL

MARCH 7, 2017

User personas are often talked about in marketing and product design, but they’re almost never done well. Cooper framed personas as a way of avoiding designing for an “elastic” user, and thus cementing some sort of common properties across segments to aid cohesive design strategy. Artistic and Aspirational Alex…?

Software Review 102

Software Review Design Agile Analytics 102

crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 24, 2018

Ahrefs is one of the best Search Engine Optimization ( SEO ) and Search Engine Marketing ( SEM ) tools available for anyone who prefers to make data-based decisions in their marketing strategies. SendWithUs also handles drip marketing but focuses on sending messages directly from your app or website using email designs created by you.

Social Media 51

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 24, 2018

Ahrefs is one of the best Search Engine Optimization ( SEO ) and Search Engine Marketing ( SEM ) tools available for anyone who prefers to make data-based decisions in their marketing strategies. SendWithUs also handles drip marketing but focuses on sending messages directly from your app or website using email designs created by you.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 23, 2017

Rather, we build models hoping to reflect reality with a certain degree of accuracy, but with the tradeoff that they’re usable and help us make customer-focused product, design, UX, and marketing decisions. Depending on the expert you’re following and the product you’re mapping, the design will be different.

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Brandanew

JANUARY 8, 2016

Social analytics and video marketing are likely to be the key marketing trends for 2016. We talked to global social media experts and influencers to share with us their top social analytics tools for the coming year. 16 Top Social Analytics Tools For 2016. Tools 1 to 3: Native Analytics at Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Enable Google Analytics tracking. You just have to sign up for Google Analytics, get your account number, and plug it into your site. Dont worry about selecting particularly good keywords, if youre new to SEM. Use Googles built-in Analytics/AdWords integration, to track the effectiveness of each ad you run.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

If you’ve worked in web analytics for a while, you’ve suffered the pain of building graphs and tables in spreadsheets and then, once a “decent” dashboard has been set up, trying to automate it. Or, perhaps, you’ve relied on in-product Google Analytics reports, with all their limitations. Our eyes are how we intake most analytics data.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 2, 2018

The 210,000+ creatives at crowdspring can design a custom website to help your small business stand out. Successful businesses usually have a strong business name and a professionally designed logo. Less than 30% of small businesses use website analytics, call tracking or coupon codes. Customers will beg to differ.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 27, 2015

How can you tell what caused that – optimization, SEM, seasonality, word-of-mouth, or something else? Time Period Comparison in Analytics (and Why It’s Wrong). If asked to measure improvement in conversion rate due to optimization efforts, most people would point to Google Analytics. ROI is Difficult to Measure.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Tip: One of the most important tools for any effective SEO strategy is website analytics. There are many paid options for website analytics. We like and use Google Analytics. Once you’ve taken care of analytics, you’ll want to identify some tools that will help you with keywords. image credit: mil8.

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Seeing Both Sides

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

As part of an entrepreneurial research effort for Harvard Business School, we interviewed more than a dozen Growth Managers at fast-growing startups and explored what they are doing to design a growth function within an organization. If data is the fuel of growth, then analytics is its engine. So what makes a good Growth Manager?

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Seeing Both Sides

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

As part of an entrepreneurial research effort for Harvard Business School, we interviewed more than a dozen Growth Managers at fast-growing startups and explored what they are doing to design a growth function within an organization. If data is the fuel of growth, then analytics is its engine. So what makes a good Growth Manager?

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2015

Your plan should include a well-designed web site, events, press releases, and search engine marketing (SEM). SEM is the most common form of online marketing, which increases your website visibility on search engine results pages through optimization and advertising. Don’t forget the metrics and analytics.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 2, 2015

In other words, multivariate tests are like A/B/n tests in that they test an original against variations, but each variation contains different design elements. Web Analytics Analysis. Web analytics analysis is next. You’d be surprised how many analytics setups are broken. Technical Analysis. Mouse Tracking Analysis.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 14, 2022

I was also in my previous life looking for something that would do this particular thing and everything I found was almost like designed to deceive consumers, to trick them into buying something or create false scarcity, which isn't what sales and marketing is about. But it's a little bit scammy. You're right. And that's why we exist.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

Knewton's Online Marketing Director is the key partner to the VP, Online Marketing and is responsible for helping the team drive customer acquisition and revenue growth through SEM (paid search), SEO, Affiliate Marketing, and Email.

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www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Design and maintain a roadmap of projects to meet demanding business objectives, taking advantage of trends and new technology where appropriate. Where developing a new system in a start-up environment, work with the business to develop use cases, user stories, user experience design and wire-frames. Personal Entrepreneurial attitude.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 6, 2021

Designing collateral and assets for social media. Critical thinking —they’re inquisitive and analytical. Demonstrable experience with social media marketing, email marketing, advertising campaigns, marketing databases and analytics, and SEO/SEM. Solid knowledge of website and marketing analytics tools.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 17, 2011

A website is the hub of a small business’s marketing efforts through other channels (print, SEO, SEM, email, direct, mobile, etc.). Options range from low cost sites through GoDaddy , to sophisticated sites, with analytics, A/B testing, blogging tools, SEO,and other value-adds from Hubspot.

Small Business 93

Small Business SEM SEO Social Network 93

Occam's Razor

JUNE 6, 2007

I am thrilled to say that my book Web Analytics: An Hour A Day has been published and is now widely available. Five Reasons Why You Should Buy Web Analytics: An Hour A Day: Web Analytics: An Hour A Day for the first time provides a Practitioner's in the trenches perspective on web analytics. There I said it.

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Analytics Web Affiliate Metrics 60

crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 17, 2011

A website is the hub of a small business’s marketing efforts through other channels (print, SEO, SEM, email, direct, mobile, etc.). Options range from low cost sites through GoDaddy , to sophisticated sites, with analytics, A/B testing, blogging tools, SEO,and other value-adds from Hubspot.

Small Business 84

Small Business SEM SEO Social Network 84

mashable.com

MAY 28, 2010

When you’re creating a name, remember you’re putting together syllables — a good design is going to be about pleasing contrasts between consonants and vowels, and consonants themselves,” says Johnson. View More » Dev & Design 5 Innovative Uses of an API [Mashable. But don’t get intimidated by the linguistics-speak.

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Naming Technical Review Social Media Startup 94

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

At Facebook we never did testing or looked at analytics. SEM on five dollars a day Andrew Chen: Growing renewable audiences Marc Prensky's Weblog: Cell Phones in Class A new version of the Joel Test (draft) Smarticus — 10 things you could be doing to your c. We did surveys, user testing and psychological profiles.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2013

Import your list, modify one of their templates (or create your own design), input your content, and away it goes, delivered to your customer’s virtual doorstep through the internet tubes. An added advantage of using email campaigns to say thanks is the data you’ll receive in return. Pay-per-click.

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Small Business Startup Campaign SEM 85

crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

If you want to learn more about search engine marketing, I suggest you read 10 Practical Small Business SEO and SEM marketing tips. Google Analytics. What it is: Google Analytics is a free tool from Google that provides detailed and very useful information about your website traffic and the effectiveness of your marketing efforts.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2010

Or more accurately, startups are a temporary organization designed to search for a scalable and repeatable business model.) There are few courses which teach aspiring entrepreneurs the skills (business models, customer and agile development, design thinking, etc.) use Google Analytics to measure the success of your campaign.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

New tools aimed at making analytics for small business owners and marketing a snap come to life seemingly daily. Don’t forget a lot of this data can be had with free tools like Google Analytics , Facebook Insights , and Twitter Analytics. In Google Analytics, you can find this report through Acquisition > Overview.

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Metrics Small Business Analytics SEM 28

crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2013

In fact, 15% of them are outsourcing design and development of their SM campaigns, 11% using outside capacity to create content and 10% are outsourcing their social media analytics. Studies have shown over 60% of small business marketers devote as much as 10 hours per week to SM campaigns and tactics.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 22, 2015

You can’t rely on web analytics data – and just compare time periods – as everything changes. In addition to this, we tracked everything closely in Google Analytics and we could verify that conversions, revenue and sales were up and that the combined effect of all my work was a 21% lift in the overall conversion rate.

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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

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 4, 2016

Jelli – Self-service platform specifically designed for broadcast audio advertising; the easiest and fastest way to buy radio ads. Email Design Best Practices. Tools: Moz – Inbound marketing and marketing analytics software subscriptions. SEM Rush – Find profitable key words. Further Reading.

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marketingland.com

JULY 11, 2012

Analytics |. Recognizing the industry needed a scalable design strategy that acknowledged the growing stable of web-enabled devices, Ethan Marcotte coined the term “responsive web design.”. Marcotte’s recent book, also titled Responsive Web Design , defined the idea as having three key pieces: Flexible, grid-based layouts.

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