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Lessons Learned: The three drivers of growth for your business.

Startup Lessons Learned

Master of 500 Hats: Startup Metrics for Pirates (SeedCamp 2008, London) This presentation should be required reading for anyone creating a startup with an online service component. He also has a discussion of how your choice of business model determines which of these metric areas you want to focus on. Choose one.

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It's a startup, not a spreadsheet

Startup Lessons Learned

I think this idea is particularly appealing to those of us from an engineering background. In a startup context, numbers like gross revenue are actually vanity metrics, not actionable metrics. Luckily, we also discovered that certain other metrics, like LTV and CPA were much better than we initially projected.

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7 Social Media Tactics Your 2013 Budget Needs to Succeed

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Best Metrics For Digital Marketing: Rock Your Own And Rent Strategies

Occam's Razor

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. Best Digital Metrics: Own Existences/Strategies. Bonus reading: Rent or Own?

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Lean Business Planning with Tim Berry [VIDEO]

Up and Running

We’re looking at our lean business planning is about strategy, tactics, concrete specifics including milestones, metrics, tasks and schedule, and essential numbers to run a business, all of which lead to managing cash flow. You have visits that you assume through organic search engine optimization. Are we recruiting?

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Digital Marketing And Analytics: Two Ladders For Magnificent Success

Occam's Razor

During this stage you should also invest a lot in Search Engine Optimization. Bonus: Facebook Marketing: Best Metrics, ROI, Business Value ]. Now in step eight , we really kick things up multiple notches when it comes to creating a truly fantastic multi-channel (or the flavor of the month, omni-channel) execution engine.

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Multi-Channel Attribution Modeling: The Good, Bad and Ugly Models

Occam's Razor

Apply the right model and you will not only distribute conversions across multiple touch points, but you can also look at the impact on the CPA (this really is OMG, I peed in my pants a little cool). You may be getting a lot of conversions, but the CPA can kill you. Notice above I only have two CPA values. You do too. #3.

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