ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

I feel like “conversion rate optimization” is in 2013 what “social media marketing” was in 2009. Not because they have a conversion problem but because they never really nail the product or how to market it. This is not a conversion problem. This is a customer development problem. image source.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 4, 2011

Having a set of metrics that you watch & that you feel are the key drivers of your success helps keep clarity. And the more public you can make your goals for these key metrics the better. And given your stage of development you sure better at least know what your goal is. increasing conversion from 12.5%

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Team members need to feel comfortable in the office conversing about less significant work concerns, and how they are feeling day to day, without fear of reprisals or judgement. A key to success is for you take the initiative and make the conversation about the other person. Develop metrics to monitor work intensity.

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Metrics Conversion Global Product 270

SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 9, 2009

I just had an all-too common conversation with the founder of a startup who had spent more than a year working with a software development company who had produced a mess. The mess really comes from a developer who was willing to get started on a product that was not fully thought out. What are your key Startup Metrics ?

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TechEmpower

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

This isn’t just our opinion - our startup metrics prove it! The point is, empty textboxes aren’t just intimidating, they can significantly impact user engagement and conversion rates. Which means better conversions and happier customers. The result is less drop off, i.e., better conversion rates.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Thankfully, there are a number of great tools for tracking your web metrics (both free and paid) that can help you get a better understanding of what your users are doing on your site and even how your competitors are faring in their own online efforts. Ahrefs’ Site Explorer reveals insightful SEO metrics and data about any website or URL.

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Metrics Web Analytics Advertising 89

The Equity Kicker

MAY 3, 2018

Let me start by saying that I’m a massive believer in the power of metrics. However, it’s also true that metrics are not a panacea, with difficulties typically arising when a focus on metrics eclipses the big picture. Over focus on metrics at the expense of meaning, culture and innovation.

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Up and Running

MAY 17, 2016

Taking steering one step further, let’s suggest that good planning, with milestones and metrics, is something like steering with the aid of a GPS. Metrics are like dials on the dashboard, indicators of how you’re doing, tracking your progress toward goals. Metrics give you tracking and accountability.

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Metrics Social Media Business Plan Advertising 80

Up and Running

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Your user experience can delight your customers, pushing them to spend more or increase your average conversion across your website. . In this article, we’re going to walk through these tips to leverage user experience and increase conversions across your website. Once captured, the next hurdle is getting them to convert.

Conversion 90

Conversion Sales Software Review eCommerce 90

Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

FBe's recommendation was (paraphrasing a 35 min talk): Don't invent new metrics, use online versions of Reach and GRPs to measure success. Because we don't understand the uniqueness, we fall back on profoundly sub-optimal old world metrics like Reach or Online GRP equivalents. Metrics are a problem.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Combining these goals and objectives will give you meaningful metrics to track. Objective Goal Metrics Grow the business Increase awareness and perceived value Followers, fans, shares, retweets, etc. Do certain types of posts generate more likes, comments, shares, leads, and conversions than others?

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Social Media Media Developer Marketing 142

SoCal CTO

MARCH 11, 2010

If you’re a Web-based startup, for example, show me how many unique visitors you think you can get in the beginning, and what you’re using for an estimated conversion rate (buyers to browsers). Part of those questions are around Startup Metrics. Give me granularity. Great stuff!

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

But it will be patiently deployed, waiting for a cohort of founders who aren’t artificially clinging to 2021 valuation metrics. So we largely sat out fundings of NFTs or other areas where we didn’t feel like we were the expert or where the valuation metrics weren’t in line with our funding goals. And we’re patient.

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Technical Review Pre-Money Valuation San Francisco Valuation 416

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

I was in New York last week with my class at Columbia University and several events made me realize that the Customer Development model needs to better describe its fit with web-based businesses. What metrics do we use to see if we learned enough in Customer Discovery ?

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

It outlines four major growth strategies: market penetration , market development , product development , and diversification. Market development. Market development involves taking existing products into new markets. Product development. During product development, test activities like: R&D.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Conversion optimization is hard; it’s constantly changing and you need to know a lot about a lot. Here’s what some of the top experts in the field are saying about the top challenges in conversion optimization. #1 Keeping up with the technology changes and managing business’ expectations can be tricky. Chad Sanderson, Subway.

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View from Seed

JULY 8, 2020

The remainder of the email should include other highlights, core business metrics, financial metrics, challenges, goals, asks & thanks. Founders who set up and lead effective board meetings from the very beginning stages of the business more quickly develop that crucial muscle memory. Download Investor Update Email Template.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Here is some of our conversation: What is Agile marketing, and what makes it so different? Agile marketing takes its inspiration from Agile software development, which is how 90% of companies develop software today. They run the campaign once and then declare it was successful based on vanity metrics.

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Transformify

OCTOBER 26, 2019

SpdLoad is a startup development company focused on web and mobile development of Minimum Viable Products( MVP) for early-stage startups. In our case, the target audience comprises of web-developers, designers and business developers. Anastasiia, what goals are you looking to achieve by leveraging Employer Branding ?

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Designing your website requires a studied understanding of human behavior if you want to increase your conversions. Daniel Kahneman presents two thought systems that can give marketers a framework for how to target their ideal clients through site design and get a major uplift in conversions. What are Kahneman’s two systems of thought?

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

In this post, we’re sharing how ASO helps you increase traffic and downloads, the specific on-metadata vs. off-metadata factors that matter, and how to leverage ASO mechanics to maximize conversions. How to leverage app store optimization (ASO) to improve app visibility, conversion rates, and retention.

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Metadata Technical Review Retention Metrics 121

The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Effective sales coaching is pegged on the accurate sales metrics that you can easily generate with the aid of sales coaching tools. Here are 4 categories of sales coaching tools sales managers can use to track sales metrics and drive sales. · Performance-oriented metrics. Maximize investment in training.

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Metrics Sales Retention Software 141

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Conversion optimization is a little different if you’re in B2B. You’ll still need to do the same types of conversion research, persona building, and experimentation that is common across conversion optimization, but let’s talk a bit about how and why B2B is different. Longer Sales Cycles and Micro-Conversions.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 17, 2021

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) is a metric to monitor how effectively a business is accomplishing its specific objective. The metric is useful for measuring the chances a customer would recommend your products or service. Employers use this metric to measure their employees’ loyalty. COST PER CONVERSION.

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.Net Metrics Retention Revenue 92

Guy Nirpaz

MAY 29, 2016

I’ve written recently that MAU and DAU are the most important metrics for Customer Success. But for that they need to: create great ads, bid on the right keywords – basically continuously manage their ad spend and optimize the keywords and conversions. So what are the metrics for success in this business?

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VC Cafe

MARCH 1, 2024

Commercial open source companies – being open source is a powerful way to gain developer adoption and sell to enterprises a lot sooner. A lightweight “agent” with access to logs and metrics can, to start, retrieve relevant information (e.g. Looking for startups solving practical use cases that go beyond gaming.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 16, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, March 16, 2009 Combining agile development with customer development Today I read an excellent blog post that I just had to share. In most agile development systems, there is a notion of the "product backlog" a prioritized list of what software is most valuable to be developed next.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 2, 2016

It’s generally accepted to praise developers and designers for bringing these products to life but there is usually someone else behind the concepts and ideas. It is one of the most important processes in a product development lifecycle to deliver the product. Product Management Metrics. Customer Success Metrics.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 24, 2017

Similarly, conversion optimization moves quickly. Everyone has railed against these practices ( including us , many times), but it still seems that much of the industry is focused on short term metrics and surface level changes. Conversion is expanding beyond just the core user experience. Image Source.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Real conversations with good people. This defines how to connect problem themes to a metric strategy, building a metric-driven action system. Its effectiveness is measured by engagement and leading indicators, which are the usual metrics in this case (traffic, clicks, impressions, time on page, or branded search volume growth).

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Conversely, relationship funnels concentrate on establishing long-term connections with clients through establishing trust and providing value. Let’s look at some key aspects of how to use a relationship funnel and how to develop a relationship strategy for your company whilst taking these into consideration.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Nowadays nearly every online shop utilizes some sort of product recommendation engine, which is no wonder, as these systems, if set up and configured properly can significantly boost revenues, CTRs, conversions, and other important metrics. This is a very important metric when evaluating a recommender system.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Understanding where your traffic comes from, learning about the spikes and troughs, and knowing where your site conversions come from can really help to shape your SEO strategy. Metrics : Website visitor data. Metrics : Keyword data, technical issues, coverage, sitemaps, mobile usability, schema, core web vitals. Cost: Free.

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SEO Technical Review Metrics Analytics 85

Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Marketing Consultant Marketing Consultants are experts in a specific field who help companies by giving advice and developing their marketing strategies. Fractional CMOs are also responsible for developing a brand's marketing strategy (budget, vision, team makeup, customer journey, systems, and tactics).

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 7, 2021

The growth of parcel services has been boosted due to – Free trade agreements (FTAs) signed between various countries and the development of special economic zones (SEZ) in different economies. Developing the prototype of the Uber-like app for courier delivery consisting of the basic functionalities. .

Technical Review 163

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 5, 2010

I believe it is the best introduction to Customer Development you can buy. As all of you know, Steve Blank is the progenitor of Customer Development and author of The Four Steps to the Epiphany. It is written in a conversational tone, doesnt take itself too seriously, and avoids extraneous fluff. I think theyve succeeded.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

John says to drive growth, growth marketers must develop a “ T formation.”. How to create a growth hacking strategy using the pirate metrics model. Growth hacking in marketing incorporates the five stages of the customer lifecycle into the “ AARRR Framework ,” otherwise known as the “Pirate Metrics model.”. Activation.

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