Occam's Razor

APRIL 8, 2013

To win in business you need to follow this process: Metrics > Hypothesis > Experiment > Act. We are far too enamored with data collection and reporting the standard metrics we love because others love them because someone else said they were nice so many years ago. That metric is tied to a KPI.

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Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

A few months ago, we wrote about the data we focus on to evaluate marketplaces and later shared a marketplace KPI dashboard that we created to guide founders on the important metrics they should track. There are lots of great blog posts and articles out there that talk about social platform metrics. Part I: High-Level Metrics.

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Metrics Churn Rate Due Diligence Social Network 60

Up and Running

AUGUST 21, 2014

In this webinar, we take time to discuss the different metrics that startups—and established businesses—should be tracking. It’s hard to understand how many people will you actually attract, what is it going to cost, what’s your conversion rate, how long will people stay. Those things are all really hard to just get.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

When we talk about conversion optimization , much of the strategies remain the same across industries. After all, the goal is to systematically improve the success of a business, whatever that means metric-wise. That said, there are some key differences in how experts approach SaaS conversion optimization. Reducing churn rate.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

When you’re trying to grow your subscription business, you need to understand the key metrics that drive your growth. Reduce churn. Churn is essentially your cancellation rate. The percentage of your paying customers that cancel is your churn rate. Launch an engagement or retention marketing campaign.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 13, 2019

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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Metrics SQL Retention Churn Rate 117

Up and Running

JULY 27, 2016

When you’re trying to grow your subscription business, you need to understand the key metrics that drive your growth. Reduce churn. Churn is essentially your cancellation rate. The percentage of your paying customers that cancel is your churn rate. Obviously, a lower churn rate is better.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Customer retention is a metric that measures customer loyalty and how good your business is at keeping customers over time. A good retention rate means people continue to choose you over a competitor, deepening customer relationships and reducing churn rate. What is ecommerce customer retention (and why does it matter)?

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Prescriptive analytics The digital analytics metrics you need to know How to use analytics to improve marketing campaigns Define your mission, goals, and KPIs Set key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure marketing performance What to look for in a digital analytics product 9 tools for your digital analytics stack 1.

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Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

First: An Ode to New Thinking: One common thing between the all tools in this post is that they were built by "outsiders" One of the things I love and adore about Twitter (besides all that connection and conversation) is how its open API has lit a fierce fire of innovation when it comes to analytics. Quantitative Metrics / Analyses.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

The real metrics that help you determine if you’ve achieved product/market fit. Calculate Your Churn. ” The easiest metric for subscription software products to check is churn rate. . “On SaaS, target churn rate should be around 2% monthly churn. & a lot more.

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Software Churn Rate eCommerce Flash 93

ConversionXL

AUGUST 21, 2014

In other words, growth slows, becomes stagnate or worse, churn is so bad, you’re losing more customers than you are gaining every month. That’s why you need to be simultaneously feeding your growth engine , while monitoring churn and your other startup metrics. churn rate meant the company’s growth was unsustainable.

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Up and Running

JUNE 21, 2017

But keeping track of where a customer came from is very hard, especially when you start diversifying your marketing channels to campaigns that don’t have a direct conversion. Let’s take a Google Adwords ad, for example; you can track and confirm the source of a conversion using: The conversion tracking pixel from Adwords.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 3, 2016

Facebook likes are great if all you’re using to advertise your business is Facebook, but when it comes to truly reaching your target audience and current customers, understanding how every effort translates to income is nearly impossible without clear metrics guiding the way. Metrics You Didn’t Learn in School. Connecting ROAS and LTV.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 12, 2016

It’s a common acronym that gets thrown around in the SaaS world that’s basically a “businessy” way of saying “important metrics for tracking your business.” The Metrics That Matter. MRR is probably the most critical metric for any subscription business. LTV = ARPA * % Gross Margin / % MRR Churn Rate.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

We use Google Analytics, HubSpot, and LinkedIn Campaign Manager for the majority of our analytics. Lean Case provides standard business models & metrics, so you can apply a standard approach to business planning, modeling, and profitability tracking. 3) Raise capital. I used Ipreo heavily at one of my prior VC funds. .

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Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Article after article, course after course, conference talk after conference talk addresses acquisition experimentation—getting more conversions at the top of the funnel. Exhibit A: This is the table of contents from the article that currently ranks first for the keyword “conversion rate optimization tips.” Renewal rate.

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Retention Metrics Churn Rate Acquisition 101

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Article after article, course after course, conference talk after conference talk addresses acquisition experimentation—getting more conversions at the top of the funnel. Exhibit A: This is the table of contents from the article that currently ranks first for the keyword “conversion rate optimization tips.” Renewal rate.

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Retention Metrics Churn Rate Acquisition 48

Up and Running

MAY 28, 2015

Shape your brand personality, and let it inspire your marketing campaign. A higher percentage of conversions is probably a better metric than sheer number of conversions. Providing proper expectations will minimize the churn rate. It worked out well for Lyft and their hot pink furry mustache, after all.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

Written By Dan Martell on February 2nd, 2012 | Category: Hiring LeanStartup Marketing Metrics Startup Life | 6 Comments. Building Metrics / Usage Reports / KPI 3. Product/Metrics (70%/30% time) * Get your product activation (sign-up + meaningful action) to 60% * then, Get your product retention to 20% weekly. 10) Metrics.

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Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2015

If you’re online, it’s a little bit easier to track that through pay per click campaigns and things like that, because there’s a lot of analytics behind that so that you can track what that costs. Food, technology, bioscience, services, you need to know the metrics for your model. Then referral rates and opt-out rates.

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Technical Review Software Review Due Diligence Exit Strategy 60

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 30, 2021

This can be simplified further into a three-stage model: Top of the funnel (TOFU): Awareness Middle of the funnel (MOFU): Consideration Bottom of the funnel (BOFU): Conversion. These linear marketing/conversion funnel models are based on the traditional customer lifecycle. . The conversion at this stage is them attending that webinar.

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