Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 3, 2019

They randomly churn for hours a day on a couple of their favorite social media platforms, with little thought given to goals, objectives, or metrics; and ultimately give up and fall back to traditional marketing approaches. Create an action plan with metrics. See some recent examples in the The 10 Best Social Media Campaigns of 2018.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

It’s why Canva can call itself a multibillion-dollar platform and how ConvertKit pulled itself up to compete with goliaths like MailChimp and Campaign Monitor. Where campaigns to build brand awareness and generate top-of-funnel sales drive traditional marketing, data across the entire customer lifecycle drives growth hacking in marketing.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

If not, remember these are professionals that you’re paying, so put a framework in place that enables them to work together and maximizes the value of their efforts. Create a fair tracking and attribution framework. Growth killer #2: Different goals and metrics. Once you’ve identified the metric, never lose sign of it.

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TechEmpower

JUNE 6, 2018

Now in its fifth year, the TechEmpower Framework Benchmarks project has another official round of results available. 26 languages, 431 frameworks, 1774 benchmarks; and the knock on benefits to the the users of any framework that actively participates are enormous - you are truly doing great work! It's lost in the noise.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 18, 2020

Before you kick off a link-building campaign or invest in creating quality content, you need to understand where the volume is, how competitive terms are, and the intent behind those queries. In this article, I walk you through a framework—the SEO pyramid—and how to think about keyword research for B2B SaaS businesses.

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ConversionXL

JULY 16, 2019

You’re a marketer, and you’ve just launched a marketing campaign that you spent weeks or months building. In this post, I’ll walk you through a rigorous project management process to help you optimize your campaign strategy. Vote and decide on your campaign content, channels, and tactics based on ideas pitched in Phase 2.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Run retargeting campaigns that convert with personalized discounts 6. If you want to “increase sales” the SMART framework would look something like: “Increase new ecommerce sales by 10% by the end of quarter two.”. From here, attach valid marketing metrics to each goal. Some goals may be measured by more than one metric.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Yet, this was a successful growth marketing campaign. For example, a growth marketer at Grammarly might begin with the hypothesis that a promotional email campaign targeted at millennials will result in a 10% increase in new subscriptions. If your campaign works and your brand awareness metrics improve, you win.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2019

The power and influence of paid media advertising, including print ads, TV commercials, radio, and even online digital campaigns is waning, in favor of unpaid earned and owned messaging from your website, social media, key market influencers, and existing customer word-of-mouth. Short-term wins.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 16, 2019

Keep in mind that some of the development tools like WordPress themes and Magento framework aren’t free. Set up marketing and sales campaign. It may take more time and money but provide your website with uniqueness, better scalability, more attractive design etc. What about other factors that have an impact on your budget?

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 9, 2013

Providing a methodical framework covering strategy, organisation, execution and measurement, the book provides a step by step process to managing the social media marketing function. Ric Dragon’s seminal publication “ Social Marketology: Improve Your Social Media Processes and Get Customers to Stay Forever ” is different.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 3, 2017

The power and influence of paid media advertising, including print ads, TV commercials, radio, and even online digital campaigns is waning, in favor of unpaid earned and owned messaging from your website, social media, key market influencers, and existing customer word-of-mouth. Short-term wins.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

Frameworks for businesses during a crisis. Each study, however, offers a framework to help with decision making. Our CRO team uses ResearchXL , which is a comprehensive framework for identifying test ideas, though its methods apply broadly. What does a thoughtful campaign look like? Where do your consumers fall?

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 20, 2013

The power and influence of paid media advertising, including print ads, TV commercials, radio, and even online digital campaigns is waning, in favor of unpaid earned and owned messaging from your website, social media, key market influencers, and existing customer word-of-mouth. Short-term wins.

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Occam's Razor

JULY 22, 2013

The world does not need a new business framework. seconds)" for business framework on Google today. But most of the frameworks available to us solve for divisional silos. Most of the frameworks we have also don't optimally capture the complexity of digital marketing and measurement. Why build a framework?

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Given the common challenges encountered by founders as they navigate through this hiring decision, I thought I’d outline some of my thoughts below that can hopefully serve as a simple framework when it comes to making the first Analytics hire at your startup. Analytics vs. Finance?—?what’s what’s the difference (and what do you need)?

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ConversionXL

JUNE 8, 2017

And if you are in SaaS, you could certainly work also with the AARRR framework designed by Dave McClure : Image Source. Marketing campaigns. Are people coming from an email campaign? Which campaigns specifically? This is a correlative metric – a behavioral cohort used as a heuristic for growth. Image Source.

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Occam's Razor

JULY 18, 2011

Analyzing email campaigns requires three important insights: 1. You must use metrics that are unique to the medium. Your campaign data. Ready for the best email marketing campaign metrics? So for our email campaign analysis let’s look at metrics using that framework. You can’t track everything.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

AUGUST 8, 2023

The marketing funnel is a strategic framework that guides prospects through different stages of the buyer’s journey, from initial awareness to making a purchase decision. Identifying ROI Metrics for Each Funnel Stage To maximize ROI with the marketing funnel, it’s essential to measure the right metrics at each stage.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 23, 2023

It had oversight from the president, and that community organized the Save Harley campaign. Today they organize breast cancer awareness campaigns. It's as simple as that, and that is what metrics are to me. One is a framework which is a play on Daniel Pink's Amp, which you may have heard of. So that was the key thing.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 25, 2013

The technology, metrics, measurements, testing, and goals are the science part of it while the creative campaigns and intuitive ideas are a critical part of the art of inbound marketing. Always one more video campaign. What are some ways you check the “finished” box for your inbound marketing campaigns?

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Marketing Indianapolis Technical Review Social Media 68

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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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 23, 2015

The power and influence of paid media advertising, including print ads, TV commercials, radio, and even online digital campaigns is waning, in favor of unpaid earned and owned messaging from your website, social media, key market influencers, and existing customer word-of-mouth. Short-term wins.

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Cost Social Media Marketing Framework 120

Up and Running

MARCH 17, 2022

To get the whole picture and have a framework on which to build your business you also need a strategic plan and an operational plan. The operational plan covers the details of marketing campaigns, short-term product development, and more immediate goals and projects that will happen within the next year. What is a business plan?

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

To use my See-Think-Do-Care framework , mobile websites have to solve for See, Think and Do while mobile apps usually have to solve for Care. They will need two different implementations, it is quite likely that you will end up with two sets of metrics (more people focused for mobile apps, more visit focused for sites).

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Analytics Metrics Mobile DC 141

crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 1, 2015

Why Revenue Isn’t the Most Important Financial Metric for Startups – buff.ly/1DhyQo4. 7 Brilliant Video Marketing Campaigns You’ll Actually Enjoy Watching bit.ly/1HRwXF5. How A Movie Co-branding Campaign Spawned A Brand New Color: Minion Yellow bit.ly/1F7WHwu. Which is better – themes or frameworks?

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 12, 2015

At the core of everything you will do in digital analytics is the concept of metrics. How do you define a metric: It is simply a number. Your digital analytics tools are full of metrics. Helpful post: Best Metrics For Digital Marketing: Rock Your Own And Rent Strategies.]. Now you have your foundation, metrics and KPIs.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

Alistair Croll will lead a session on Lean analytics for intrapreneurs —from introducing never-before-seen case studies to tracking a product through its entire development and demonstrating which data and metrics are useful in what kinds of situations. LSC: Continuous delivery involves a set of frameworks that you can put in place over time.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 24, 2018

Both of these bodies of work and frameworks for thinking about startups fit really well for funded startups who plan to shoot the moon (launch the rocket to escape velocity and go as far and fast as possible). they don’t do the social media marketing campaigns themselves, they hire consultants and teams to do this stuff for them.

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Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 9, 2009

In this post let me share with you a common sense framework I use in my consulting engagements to figure out a home for web analysts. The four pronged real world tested probing and loaded with politics framework to find a home for Web Analytics: 1. How long has the company been doing web analytics, what is the landscape of tools?

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Over the last 13 years he’s worked with companies like Target, Jeeter and Shopify to implement performance marketing campaigns. 17:30] How deep into financials and metrics do you get before taking a client on? [19:01] Like, no, you still need to walk in with a framework. Most people, they don't have a framework.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 13, 2015

Some things cohorts can answer: How did customers who came in from the Christmas campaign behave differently than those at other times of the year? Customers that converted in the last year that came in through a bottom-of-the-funnel marketing campaign. Will this cohort help me improve that metric?”.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

stands for: Discover : Which metrics and KPIs should you track? Let’s start with Discover: defining the list of metrics and KPIs that you should track. Discover: Which metrics and KPIs should you track? Before we start using tools or writing code, we need to know which metrics to track and why we want to track them.

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Retention Metrics Analytics Channel 107

ConversionXL

APRIL 17, 2019

Conversations with prospects or customers can improve practically every metric or user state model you’re aiming for. You can use proven frameworks, like the Jobs-to-Be-Done (JTBD) approach. The campaign with “You are a weirdo,” isn’t live yet, but it has that “breakthrough or bust” potential.).

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Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 13, 2009

No dragging of the feet, the book starts with a bang by laying out the framework that will be the center of every company that will leverage data (qualitative, quantitative, competitive) on the web. Chapter 3 The Awesome World of Clickstream Analysis: Metrics. No metrics, data pukes, guidance on creating every more reports.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 31, 2021

Here are some example questions we recently used during a client campaign: Why did you decide to work with [AGENCY]? For example, if SEO is a priority, some metrics you’d want to focus on may include; Organic search traffic; Impressions on the SERPs; SERP click-through-rate; Avg. What are your goals for the next 3-6 months?

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

You can spend on as a risk without putting you outside of the metric. And automated marketing tools allow, have you to create consistent multi-channel campaigns for clear, concise communications and less mixed messages. It actually is a part of their P and L it's part of the metrics. I'm gonna go hire 'em now they know.

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