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. And it’s not just a CRO problem – it is a marketing-wide phenomenon.

SEO 131

SEO Analytics Conversion Search 131

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. And it’s not just a CRO problem—it’s a marketing-wide phenomenon. Competitor X is doing Y.

SEO 126

SEO Conversion Analytics Design 126

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 4, 2011

How many through SEM? per click on an SEM basis this is NOT your cost to acquire a customer – you need to add conversion rate. I got him talking about this on This Week in VC including a quick demo of his dashboard - I think I'll shoot a separate sequence with just a walk-through of their analytics. SEO is seldom “free.”.

Metrics 346

Metrics Startup Acquisition SEM 346

searchengineland.com

MAY 30, 2012

B2B Search Marketing. Enterprise SEM. In House Search Marketing. Search & Analytics. Search Marketing Toolbox. Overview: What Is SEM? SEM Columns. Our SEM Events. What is Social Media Marketing. How To: Social Media Marketing. Social Media Marketing Library. Foursquare.

SEO 54

SEO SEM Social Media Search 54

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.

Demand 167

Demand San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment 167

VC Cafe

AUGUST 16, 2013

This post covers how to smart start your startup and maximize the chances of achieving product-market fit. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

SEM 150

SEM Startup Customer Development Lean 150

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Yet, this was a successful growth marketing campaign. In this article, you will learn how growth marketing compares to traditional marketing and its key components. You’ll also learn how to apply growth marketing to five key channels and how to plan and execute experimentation. What is growth marketing?

Framework 102

Framework Marketing Acquisition Retention 102

Occam's Razor

JUNE 4, 2012

These insightful reports are from the six I'd created for my latest video for the Market Motive Web Analytics Master Certification course. My latest video was on how to find meaningful insights, faster, when performing paid search analysis with web analytics tools (rather than, say, the AdWords or Bing UI).

Analytics 127

Analytics Campaign Search Customer 127

This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

Online Marketing Director, Knewton - New York, NY "I am 15. 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.

San Francisco 92

San Francisco CTO Hire Developer EC2 92

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.

PPC 48

PPC SEM Technical Review Conversion 48

ConversionXL

AUGUST 23, 2017

Customer journey mapping is a widely used and impactful technique that can help you make better product, marketing, UX, and merchandising decisions. Like user personas, funnels, or any other marketing heuristics we’ve come up with, they aren’t 100% true to reality. As such, no two journey maps are exactly the same.

Customer 130

Customer Channel Design Retention 130

Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 6, 2010

While I am using Google Analytics here, you can do custom reporting in pretty much any tool you have access to, be it Yahoo! Web Analytics or Site Catalyst or WebTrends.]. #1: Here's how you can get this report: Log into Google Analytics. It will open in Google Analytics. 1: Page Efficiency Analysis Report.

Analytics 125

Analytics Web Customer SEM 125

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2015

Social media is now one of the key marketing tools, but not the only one, so the challenge is to manage the resource tradeoffs effectively by constantly assessing payback versus cost. Create an integrated conventional marketing and social media strategy. Don’t forget the metrics and analytics. Marty Zwilling.

Social Media 120

Social Media Media SEM Startup 120

crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2016

If you’re moving slowly or have yet to implement search engine optimization (SEO) strategies as part of your overall marketing efforts, you’re falling behind your competitors. Let’s take a look at the top ten things you can do to make SEO an effective part of your 2017 marketing strategy: 1. image credit: hetemeel.

SEO 48

SEO Search Engineer Small Business 48

Seeing Both Sides

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

By viewing product development and marketing as integrated functions, not silos, leading tech companies like Facebook and Pinterest are rethinking their approach to driving growth and achieving breakthrough results. If data is the fuel of growth, then analytics is its engine. Confidence that the test will yield a successful result.

Management 20

Management Analytics Technical Review Framework 20

Seeing Both Sides

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

By viewing product development and marketing as integrated functions, not silos, leading tech companies like Facebook and Pinterest are rethinking their approach to driving growth and achieving breakthrough results. If data is the fuel of growth, then analytics is its engine. Confidence that the test will yield a successful result.

Management 20

Management Analytics Technical Review Framework 20

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2013

When polled 88% of marketing professionals said they couldn’t accurately measure the effectiveness of their marketing campaigns and the majority said lack of ROI measurement is their single greatest frustration with social media (Forbes). Clicks are also a simple measure that you can get from basic link tracking packages.

Technical Review 307

Technical Review Marketing SEM Campaign 307

Occam's Razor

MAY 19, 2006

Numerous studies have pointed out that while almost all Fortune 500 companies have great investments in "Web Analytics" they still struggle to make any meaningful business decisions. Here it what it says…… Our Goal: Highest value from Web Analytics implementation. The rule works quite simply.

Analytics 133

Analytics Web SEM Metrics 133

ConversionXL

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Here’s the executive summary of the process we use at CXL: Heuristic analysis ; Technical analysis; Web analytics analysis ; Mouse-tracking analysis ; Qualitative surveys ; User testing and copy testing. Web analytics analysis is next. You’d be surprised by how many analytics setups are broken.). Doing a speed analysis.

Analytics 127

Analytics Technical Review Software Review Framework 127

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 13, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, September 13, 2008 SEM on five dollars a day How do you build a new product with constant customer feedback while simultaneously staying under the radar? Trying to answer that question at IMVU led me to discover Google AdWords and the world of search engine marketing. SEM is a simple idea.

SEM 164

SEM San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment 164

Eric Friedman

APRIL 23, 2014

It was during this time that I actually started this blog (when it was all about Marketing). I saw SEM as being the so-called “holy grail” of advertising, only showing ads to those people that were actually looking for something similar! It was (and is?) I will leave that experience to other posts).

SEM 83

SEM Advertising Metrics Analytics 83

Occam's Razor

AUGUST 22, 2011

Here you'll find all my blog posts categorized into a structure that will hopefully make it easy for you to discover new content, find answers to your questions, or simply wallow in some excellent analytics narratives. " ~ Digital Analytics: "Am I thinking right? Digital Marketing: "What is amazing out there?

Analytics 124

Analytics Metrics SEM Web 124

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.

Analytics 60

Analytics Web Affiliate Metrics 60

Occam's Razor

JULY 1, 2008

This post bravely attempts to: 1 ] Highlight the importance of holistic multichannel analytics. That's why multichannel analytics is so important. You struggle to get budget to hire Analysts or Marketers. You have already identified these two buckets (location, directions) in Omniture (or in Google Analytics !),

Analytics 116

Analytics Conversion Campaign Redemption 116

crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 24, 2018

Most small businesses and young startups can’t afford to hire marketers. That leaves those companies in a tough situation: they need to market to grow their business but they need to grow their business to hire marketers. Search marketing. Google Adwords. Not impressed?

Social Media 51

Social Media Marketing Analytics Audience 51

crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 24, 2018

Most small businesses and young startups can’t afford to hire marketers. That leaves those companies in a tough situation: they need to market to grow their business but they need to grow their business to be hire marketers. Search marketing. Google Adwords. Not impressed?

Social Media 48

Social Media Marketing Analytics Audience 48

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

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.

San Francisco 60

San Francisco Continuous Deployment Lean DC 60

crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2014

SpyFu is a great tool that allows you to compare your own SEO/SEM tactics against those of your competitors. Mixpanel: An advanced analytics platform, Mixpanel allows users to drill down and better understand how visitors engage with your site. Do you manage your own keyword campaigns or work closely with the person who does?

Small Business 79

Small Business SEM Social Media Mobile 79

A Crowded Space

JULY 29, 2011

“and this is without marketing” My thought: I call BS. What you mean is that this is without spending on SEM / paid advertising. Social media is still marketing. But believe me, I’m really analytical and in to the numbers.” . “and this is a conservative estimate” My thought: Ha!

SEM 60

SEM Social Media Acquisition Analytics 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

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

One of the investment themes I’ve been focused on in the past 3 years has been Performance-Based Marketing. When I started investing the US advertising market was $300 billion with only 10% of it ($30 billion) of it being online and measurable. I believe that many social networks confused this idea. Early evidence is good.

Advertising 284

Advertising Las Vegas Affiliate RSS 284

crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Why you should consider using it: Although AdWords can be a powerful marketing tool for small business, more than half of small business owners stop paid advertising within six month of starting. If you want to learn more about search engine marketing, I suggest you read 10 Practical Small Business SEO and SEM marketing tips.

Small Business 102

Small Business Analytics Social Media Search 102

mashable.com

MAY 28, 2010

A tech Startup OTOH may find themselves having to pivot as new players and innovation come into their market. Personally I feel the 'convey meaning but are made up words' approach are a marketing nightmare. It depends on how complex your *written* marketing strategy plan (you have one, right?) My company name is forever!

Naming 94

Naming Technical Review Social Media Startup 94

Occam's Razor

AUGUST 28, 2006

Segmentation examples would include: By “campaigns” (this would include PPC, Pay Per Click, / SEM, Search Engine Marketing, and direct marketing and other campaigns you run). Excellent Analytics Tip #7: The Adorable Site Abandonment Rate Metric is a post from: Occam's Razor by Avinash Kaushik.

Metrics 98

Metrics Analytics SEM Campaign 98

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2010

Business schools teach aspiring executives a variety of courses around the execution of known business models, (accounting, organizational behavior, managerial skills, marketing, operations, etc.). What is market size? Come up with ways to test: is a business worth pursuing (market size). Where’s the market?

Wiki 311

Wiki Lean Management Business Model 311

Seeing Both Sides

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

With a nod to my friends at Hubspot , I'll refer to this future phenomenon as "inbound marketing comes to health care". As the process gets cheaper and the data and analytics gets better, that will change. And that gets me to the concept of inbound marketing. Inbound marketing. First, some background.

Marketing 38

Marketing SEM Database Analytics 38