The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Through these applications including its core product CareBook, DataLink helps healthcare payors and providers by resolving gaps in patient care while also improving quality performance metrics. As leader of Hauser Private Equity, Mark Hauser has played an instrumental role in developing the firm’s portfolio within the industrial sector.

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www.jonsamsel.com

MAY 12, 2011

Jon Samsel Social media, SEO, marketing and writing Home Bio Books Portfolio Login A Framework for Web Analytics On May 10, 2011, Heardable’s CEO, Jon Samsel, was asked to speak at the Jamba Juice Digital Marketing Summit in Emeryville, California. Guest speakers included reps from Google, Manatt, Twitter, Facebook and Heardable!

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

VCs tout themselves as frontier technology investors, but most are using the same infrastructure tools they have used for the past 20+ years: Excel and recent college grads searching Google. An investor had few hard metrics other than the actual financials, and little technology to make the process scaleable. Two Sigma Ventures.

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Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 19, 2022

11- Paying attention to metrics. Metrics do not lie, and metrics over a longer time period are much more useful to study. Although your company's analytics are vital, simply investigating your own metrics is insufficient. Instead, you should monitor metrics for the whole sector. Photo Credit: Shiv Gupta.

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Entrepreneur Metrics Technical Review North America 120

Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

2- Growth of voice search. Consumers are loving the convenience of simply speaking what they want, from movie requests to directions, thanks to enhanced voice search. According to DVS Interactive, voice searches account for 20% of all smartphone searches. 3- Visual search. 24- Big analytics, blockchain and 5G .

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Artificial Inteligence Software Review Technical Review Entrepreneur 112

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

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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Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

Paid Search or affiliates or email or display or YouTube or whatever channel you end up choosing. [ Remember: Engagement is not a metric, its an excuse. ]. The ideal metrics for this desired outcome are Visitor Loyalty & Visitor Recency. You can compute two important metrics: Likelihood to Recommend / Brand Lift.

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Campaign Analytics Metrics Search 128

David Teten

JANUARY 9, 2018

Some VCs have identified a number of new advantages that distinguish them in the marketplace: – Portfolio acceleration. I saw “ portfolio operations ,” i.e., levers to enhance the operations efficacy of portfolio companies, become a standard part of the private equity toolkit. – Portfolio company diversity.

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Venture Capital Private Equity Silicon Valley Differentiation 60

David Teten

JANUARY 9, 2018

Some VCs have identified a number of new advantages that distinguish them in the marketplace: – Portfolio acceleration. I saw “ portfolio operations ,” i.e., levers to enhance the operations efficacy of portfolio companies, become a standard part of the private equity toolkit. – Portfolio company diversity.

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Venture Capital Private Equity Silicon Valley Differentiation 60

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 28, 2010

kaChing launched a virtual portfolio management game on Facebook in January 2008 and a similar version shortly thereafter on kaChing.com. Because kaChing prefers its portfolio managers to have a long track record, the marketplace launch (i.e., A portfolio manager’s entire track record & holdings had to be disclosed.

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San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment SEC 158

Occam's Razor

APRIL 13, 2015

The 80/20 rule applies to our use of web analytics tools as well. I recommend that periodically you gather folks around you for lunch, pull up Adobe Analytics on the big screen in the conference room, let each person expose one hidden report or feature. Google Analytics Shortcuts: Save Your Complex Views. This hurts my feelings!

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Analytics Web eCommerce Metrics 60

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Creating and showing constant momentum through personal portfolio projects and volunteering is a powerful means of landing a new job as a product manager, especially if one has never officially held the professional title “Product Manager.” often referred to as business analytics?—?is from administration to politik? or developers?—?are

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Management Product Technical Review Software Review 85

Occam's Razor

AUGUST 9, 2016

The outcome of book smart is rarely better for analytics practitioners then folks trying to learn how to fly an airplane from how-to books. This is all the way from Aug 2009: Web Analytics Career Advice: Play In The Real World! And, happily, it has almost all of the Google Analytics features implemented correctly.

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Analytics Metrics eCommerce PPC 60

ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

When it comes to identifying what has changed, Labay continues: I’d think the first stop is analytics—who dropped off, what channels, who remained, etc., echoes Labay’s sentiment: Search habits change. Use that intelligence to inform product portfolio and investment choices.”. but polls and surveys are obvious choices, too.

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Marketing Campaign Non-Compete Lean 121

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.

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Analytics Marketing Campaign Metrics 131

Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

We'll start with digital at the highest strategic level, which leads us into content marketing, from there it is a quick hop over to the challenge of metrics and silos, followed by a recommendation to optimize for the global maxima, and we end with the last two visuals that cover social investment and social content strategy.

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Analytics Marketing Social Media Technical Review 154

Occam's Razor

JULY 18, 2011

To not have it as an active part of your marketing portfolio is sub-optimal. 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? Optimal Acquisition Email Metrics.

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Metrics Campaign Email Marketing 137

Brandanew

JULY 9, 2015

The easiest way to understand whether or not you have found the right experts is to check their portfolio of work. This means, you need someone to help you with: a) buyer profiling including understanding their search behavior, b) understanding or drafting your brand value proposition, c) positioning your brand.

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Marketing SEO Metrics Agile 100

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.

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Analytics Web Metrics Channel 118

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.

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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. Here's your online data: You are capturing the above information using your web log based or javascript tag based web analytics tool. Not impossible. Well just assume. :).

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Analytics Conversion Campaign Redemption 116

Occam's Razor

AUGUST 13, 2012

A couple weeks back I'd requested the nice folks following me on Google+ and Facebook to submit their most important digital marketing and analytics questions. Some tools do pan-session analysis better than others, and there are a number of relatively new analytics solutions on the market today.

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Analytics Channel Metrics Web 124

Occam's Razor

MARCH 25, 2014

In a world of infinite choice, the ability to pick critical few metrics to focus on is, well…, critical. In this post I want to share that one-page list of the best metrics for digital content, marketing and business success with you. Focus on all three with everything you do with digital analytics. Can you feel my pain?

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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.

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Metrics Analytics SEC Acquisition 159

ConversionXL

JANUARY 9, 2019

Using a combination of Google Analytics , heat mapping, and session recordings , they uncovered three recurring patterns related to FAQs, pricing, and product information. Is it higher usability metrics, like task completion and conversions, or something beyond analytics, like revenue? A portfolio of UX work. Task Time.

Design 131

Design Software Review Audio Technical Review 131

Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Step 1: Optimal Metrics. When it comes to your Digital Marketing and Digital Analytics practice, I've advocated slow and steady evolution. You'll find it here: Digital Metrics Ladder of Awesomeness. The metrics ladder lays out a path that will get you there, step by step while ensure your org is coming along with you.

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Analytics Metrics Technical Review Channel 60

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.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 7, 2019

My professional areas of interest cover Customer Service, User Experience and Finance, though here on Occam’s Razor my focus is on influencing incredible Marketing through the use of innovative Analytics. First… The Analytics top ten things to focus on to elevate your game this year…. The Step Change Analytics Obsessions List.

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Analytics Marketing Algorithm Campaign 88

Occam's Razor

JULY 22, 2013

My solution to these problems was to create a simple framework we can use to put our customers first, evaluate our marketing programs, and right-align our view of success (metrics). 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.

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Framework Marketing Metrics Audience 163

Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

To ensure customer delight was delivered in a timely manner, it was also decided that Average Call Time (ACT) would now be The success metric. The success metric, ACT, did go down. That ACT was an activity metric was terrible – if you have a The success metric, it should always be an outcome metric. Another issue.

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Metrics Analytics Acquisition Naming 60

Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

" That quote comes to mind when I think of a new feature in Google Analytics that carries the unassuming name of Weighted Sort. We have a very long tail of data in web analytics. Tens of thousands of rows of keywords in the Search Report (even for this small blog!). " Ok analytics tool: Sort descending!

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Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 12, 2011

I am going to attempt to significantly simply your life by recommending the critical few metrics you should use to analyze performance of your digital marketing campaigns and website. Recommend metrics / KPIs you can use based on the size of your company. Best Metrics / KPIs for Small Business Websites. Obsess about this metric.

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Metrics Web Analytics CPA 151

Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 22, 2008

The Google Analytics team announced the release of seven features today. The next stage in the metamorphosis of the popular web analytics tool. Along the way I'll share three different segments that you must have in your web analytics tool. The Google Analytics API. User Interface refresh. Custom Reports!

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Analytics Web Search Non-Compete 105

ConversionXL

AUGUST 14, 2019

What can it offer your analytics team ? In this instance, you’d combine data from your ecommerce platform with Google Analytics data. In the panel displayed, select or search for the first data source you want to compare. Select dimensions and metrics you want to compare. Here’s what you need to know. Well, you can.

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Analytics Metrics eCommerce Search 123

Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

A vast majority of occasions where data is presented (reports, executive dashboards, conference presentations, or just plain here's a automated emailed thingy from Google Analytics ) end up being abject failures because most of the discussion is still about the data. Yes, cost per click is metric. Give it some thought.

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Analytics Search Metrics Web 144

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.

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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.

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