A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

The same lesson applies to our daily life of data and metrics. Number of active customers from Stripe, and from your User Portal. Web traffic from Google Analytics but also another analytics system, or your raw web logs. (If Consider web traffic. You stick the tank, in case the gas gauge is lying.

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Analytics Software Review Metrics Technical Review 248

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 11, 2022

Why Call Tracking Metrics Matter To Your Marketing Efforts written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Key Takeaway: Today, it seems as though there’s a never-ending list of channels and ways in which your customers can communicate with you and your business. Marketing Podcast with Todd and Laure Fisher.

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Metrics Marketing Software Review Cofounder 85

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. 4 times / 100 means if a customer uses your app frequently (say 10-20 times / day) then they are crashing nearly every day.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 9, 2019

Organize existing data into an idealized customer journey. Those interactions occur across teams (marketing, sales, customer support) and platforms (analytics, CRM, email). It starts with a survey of all known customer data. Step 2: Organize existing data into an idealized customer journey. Analyze and act on that data.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Many small businesses are turning to customer relationship management systems(CRM) to better understand customer wants and needs. CRM applications, often used in combination with data warehousing, eCommerce applications , and call centers, allow companies to gather and access customer information. What is CRM? Who is using CRM?

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 13, 2019

It’s always tempting to think that more product variations will satisfy more customers and lead to new sales. Some chaos is normal in every new business, but many wait far too long before they install metrics based on “best practices,” and fail to attack obvious bottlenecks with a vengeance. Use multiple small orders at first.

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Technical Review Metrics Social Media Channel 306

TechEmpower

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

We recently completed a web-based application that uses a unique algorithm to match professionals with new career opportunities. This isn’t just our opinion - our startup metrics prove it! So instead, we fill it with a completely custom blurb, written just for him: Hello! Which means better conversions and happier customers.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 16, 2022

There’s more to ecommerce customer acquisition than increasing checkout conversion rates. For long-term, sustainable success, you must attract the right customers. In this article, you’ll learn how to gauge the effectiveness of any customer acquisition strategy. What makes customer acquisition different from marketing?

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Acquisition eCommerce Customer Churn Rate 129

Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Key Takeaway: In the world of customer experience, mishaps are inevitable. However, by approaching customer recovery with style, empathy, and exceptional ownership, businesses can turn these situations into opportunities to create raving fans. 15:10 What are the best strategies for fixing a poor customer experience? [17:56]

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Customer Technical Review Employee Artificial Inteligence 78

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 25, 2023

For example, only a few people today still think of Amazon as an online provider of books and related goods, now that they have exploded their business world-wide into every product arena, added web services (AWS), television and film production (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer), a bricks-and-mortar grocery chain (Whole Foods), and more.

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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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Metrics Advertising Marketing Social Media 165

Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 23, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, December 23, 2009 Why vanity metrics are dangerous In a previous post, I defined two kinds of metrics: vanity metrics and actionable metrics. In this post, Id like to talk about the perils of vanity metrics. My personal favorite vanity metrics is "hits."

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Metrics San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment 167

Guy Nirpaz

MAY 29, 2016

I’ve written recently that MAU and DAU are the most important metrics for Customer Success. For that purpose I will assume that I’m the VP of Customer Success of Google AdWords product. Here’s what an AdWords customer needs to do in order to present their ads, taken from the Google AdWords website.

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Metrics Customer Technical Review Programming 40

Up and Running

OCTOBER 17, 2014

For many small business owners – especially those who have turned a passion or hobby into a business – tracking metrics and numbers is a chore. The most simple financial metrics are the most important to keep track of. This will include things like cash flow metrics and various financial statement metrics.

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Metrics Small Business Software Review Forecast 106

The Startup Magazine

MAY 19, 2021

“The customer is always right!” If you’re wondering what these factors are and how is user experience connected to them, here’s a rundown of each of them: Core Web Vitals. Core web vitals measure the factors affecting user experience, including interactivity, stability, and load time of the content. Needs improvement.

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SEO Technical Review Metrics Mobile 173

VC Cafe

MARCH 1, 2024

AI to build enterprise software – In the future, every enterprise could have their own custom ERP, CRM or HRIS that is continually updating itself as the company itself is changing. A lightweight “agent” with access to logs and metrics can, to start, retrieve relevant information (e.g. and generate a post mortem.

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Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Software Review Generative AI 176

Up and Running

DECEMBER 6, 2021

It reflects your brick-and-mortar experience, if you have one, and sets the tone for what customers should expect when doing business with you. Furthermore, metrics help you continually refine and improve your marketing over time. Furthermore, metrics help you continually refine and improve your marketing over time.

Small Business 153

Small Business Marketing Software Review Technical Review 153

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 27, 2019

My simple answer is that they keep their focus on customers, rather than technology. Jeff Bezos has kept his focus on customers. In my view, every startup in today’s world would do well to adopt a management system with the same key objectives: Start with a customer-obsessed business model.

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Global Marketing Technical Review Algorithm 308

Up and Running

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

But being able to monetize customers and acquire those customers at a low enough cost is quite another. Especially in the early stages of growth, standing up to competition means that your business also needs to minimize the cost of acquiring new customers. It’s not enough that your business has product/market fit.

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Acquisition Cost Affiliate Customer 127

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

Over the last years, there has been an explosion of online trading platforms that offer the option to trade online with the best technology and the lowest-priced account that maximizes the premium features your customers can actually use. If your customers are online, you should be too. ROI of Customer Experience.

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Customer Technical Review Mobile Web 100

ConversionXL

AUGUST 23, 2017

Customer journey mapping is a widely used and impactful technique that can help you make better product, marketing, UX, and merchandising decisions. However, like other UX research techniques (including user personas ), there’s some vagueness and obscurity around how to actually create customer journey maps. Moments of Truth.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 25, 2020

It is considered to be an extremely personal way of reaching target customers. Your message can be tailored to customer actions so that every communication is relevant to their interest. There is practically no other distribution channel that drives engagement and builds customer relations better than email marketing.

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Up and Running

MAY 3, 2021

To answer this question, you need to have a set of metrics that give you a clear picture of what’s going on in your business. Likewise, your website , the digital representation of your business, and the means through which people find you and connect with you, also needs to have metrics in place to know how it’s doing. Site speed.

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Small Business Caching Metrics Analytics 148

abovethecrowd.com

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Over 13 years ago, in March of 2000, I wrote a blog post titled “ The Most Powerful Internet Metric of All. ” The key thesis was this: if an Internet company could obsess about only one metric, it should be conversion. As such, it is time to pound the table again – conversion is by far the most powerful Internet metric of all.

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Metrics Conversion Internet Acquisition 93

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. In terms of pre-purchase, traffic and content metrics. Every single page you have on your website needs to have a purpose and needs to have a functionality for that customer or that visitor.

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Metrics Startup Churn Rate Forecast 84

Up and Running

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Generally, you can expect to uncover issues like: Slow web page loading speeds Broken or redirected links Blocked or incorrectly indexed webpages Toxic links from poorly run sites Incorrect or missing HTML tags Missing Meta information Poorly performing content. Metrics : Website visitor data. Cost: Free. Google Search Console.

SEO 85

SEO Technical Review Metrics Analytics 85

Mucker Lab

JULY 11, 2023

These intersections are where the magic happens, where potential customers discover your offerings, and where online presence translates to tangible growth. In order to achieve that, a website must first be indexed by Google through using the following meta tags: Title Tags: A type of meta tag that specifies the title of a web page.

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SEO Technical Review HTML Software Review 78

ConversionXL

JUNE 27, 2016

Web analytics analysis is a big part of that. Why Web Analytics Analysis Is Important. Web analytics analysis is a key part of the ResearchXL model. Now, there are four main reasons you want to include web analytics analysis in your conversion research process… Ensure your data is reliable and accurate.

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Analytics Web Technical Review Conversion 72

Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

Social Customer Service Metrics: 3 Case Studies written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Well, now 90% of customers are influenced by online reviews. And we all know some customers can be finicky, their opinions arbitrary and skewed. The Social/Digital team is more concerned with metrics and strategy.

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Metrics Customer Social Media Idaho 28

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

If your profile is on a network that allows reviews, try to get some recommendations from past customers. You could potentially offer customers an incentive – like a discount code – in exchange for their positive review. Make sure you choose an influencer who has good metrics on that platform. If not, you may miss opportunities.

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Campaign Software Review Social Media Social Network 147

ConversionXL

JULY 8, 2021

In this article, we’ll explore how to calculate conversion rates and its application across different channels and customer journeys. The benchmark for a good conversion rate depends on factors like pricing, average order value (AOV), and lifetime value of a customer (LTV). conversion rate, that’s 1,200 new customers.

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Conversion CPA Metrics Analytics 156

Up and Running

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Some firms specialize in research and can assist with pulling together some compelling numbers and detailed customer profiles. Inbound marketing is about creating a welcoming home for your customers through platforms such as your website and social media communities like Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter. What is inbound marketing?

Marketing 142

Marketing Technical Review SEO Hosting 142

The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2022

Focus on the Customer Journey. The aim of the customer journey is to surprise and delight your customers at every stage. Every touchpoint needs to be carefully optimized to ensure that the customer receives brand-centric communication. In addition, they enable complete visibility into key customer experience metrics.

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eCommerce Hosting SEO Conversion 147

Occam's Razor

JULY 12, 2010

That's not including others I actively seek out around the web. Remember I am the creator of the 10/90 rule of investment in web analytics. Add a piece of javascript to your web page (do a View Source on this page to see it), and it will tell you how often your content is being copied. Simple right? First Some Context.

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Analytics Viral Web Mobile 96

leananalyticsbook.com

AUGUST 19, 2012

The One Metric That Matters. One of the things Ben and I have been discussing a lot is the concept of the One Metric That Matters (OMTM) and how to focus on it. That doesn’t mean there’s only one metric you care about from the day you wake up with an idea to the day you sell your company. Lean Analytics Book.

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Metrics Clickthrough Lean Analytics 58

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 12, 2021

But very few are talking about how to measure your results and return on investment (ROI), and the right metrics for optimizing your marketing environment. Social media is the realm of public opinion and customer conversations. Measure customer response and action. Get the message from your customer.

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Social Media Media Metrics Advertising 319

Up and Running

JULY 6, 2021

Traffic leads to inquiries and sales, and consistent visits from the same users mean repeat customers. If you see a significant dip in your web rankings, it could be the cause of an algorithmic update. This update was designed to detect web spam and reduce shady links, in turn, encouraging high-quality content for users.

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Software Review Small Business Algorithm SEO 104