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How To Better Measure B2B Lead Generation

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When most people hear “web analytics,” they tend to think about counting visitors, transactions, and conversion rate on a transactional site, such as an eCommerce store. The typical end goal for businesses with informational sites is to use the site to generate more leads. Measuring the Performance of Informational Sites.

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The Essential SaaS Metrics for Growth

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SaaS sales and marketing teams can get overwhelmed by metrics. But without any metrics, it’s impossible to track growth. If growth is the best way to get out alive, marketing metrics do little unless they correlate with sales. According to Gartner , three metrics form the foundation for those growth levers: (Image source).

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Google Analytics 102: How To Set Up Goals, Segments & Events in Google Analytics

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Some of you out there may find this Google Analytics feature overview to be mostly review. From the time you set up your account and put your tracking code on your site, Google Analytics, starts to capture and display a lot of data. The rest are based on data points that are part of standard Google Analytics collection processes.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

In liquid markets, most of the calories expended on technology and analytics are focused on trade selection, or “ origination ”. I walk through below how progressive investors are using technology and analytics throughout all of their operations. The 11 Steps of Investing in Private Companies. 1) Manage the firm . 3) Raise capital.

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5 Things You’re Measuring Incorrectly With Digital Analytics & What To Do About It

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Watching the growth of digital analytics over the last several years has been both exciting and disturbing. Disturbing, because many people & organizations want to compete on analytics, but are not doing the right things or adopting the right thinking about analytics. 15% of companies don’t track ROI (Return on Investment).

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How to Create a Marketing Playbook for Consistent Campaigns

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It should include primary and secondary KPIs and metrics related to marketing goals , as well as the platforms (e.g., Google Analytics and CRM) used to track them. When teams know what to track and how metrics relate to the overall objective, they can transform data into actionable insights to improve the play. Usage policies.

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Conversion Rate Formulas to Accurately Calculate Growth

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If audience building is a priority, email subscribers should be an important metric. For example, if Brian generated 500,000 organic visitors last month, of which 3,100 subscribed, then: (3,100 / 500,000) * 100 = 0.62%. Leads generated from content. But which of these metrics makes a real impact?