View from Seed

MARCH 1, 2016

She became a prolific writer—12 books, while you and I struggle with one email or one blog post! Flash forward 100 years: now listed as a noxious weed, the Kudzu is found as far north as NYC and Nova Scotia Canada, and covers 7.5 She became a lecturer. Helen Keller was a hero. million acres of land. Go Forth and Story Tell.

Founder 120

Founder Technical Review Cofounder Non-Compete 120

Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

In a nutshell these are people show up without invitation (email, display, social campaigns) or they are people who already know you. So if Direct traffic is so important and often the metrics show very positive results then why don't we all obsess about it a lot more? Untagged campaigns (search, email, display, social media etc).

Analytics 122

Analytics Software Review Campaign Flash 122

Up and Running

APRIL 17, 2018

Think about surveys, heatmaps, A/B testing, and remote user feedback (users test your website at home and then send back feedback in the form of videos, screenshots, or a simple email). Chat boxes, email, and telephone are a great place to start. Using SEO best practices is like putting a bright, flashing neon sign on your storefront.

SEO 80

SEO eCommerce Analytics Software Review 80

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

It was one of those brilliant startup brainstorms that comes to the team in a flash, with a giant thunderclap. Finally the day came, we unleashed the landing page, emailed our existing customers, and started advertising online. We finally settled on a $1.99 The net result: we sold exactly zero presidential debate avatars.

Demand 167

Demand San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment 167

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 6, 2010

When I went to their website it was a 100% flash website with a constrained small size where it took too much looking to click on anything and then too much scrolling to read anything and unclear calls to actions (if any). Sign up for your websites campaigns using your personal email address. See how the emails look.

Analytics 99

Analytics Web Campaign PPC 99

Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 21, 2013

This is a simple custom report I use to look at the aggregated view: As the report above demonstrates, you can still report on your other metrics, like Unique Visitors, Bounce Rates, Per Visit Value and many others, at an aggregated level. And of course our Acquisition, Behavior, Outcome metrics. See Page Value there?

Search 154

Search SEO Analytics Engineer 154

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 20, 2010

I recently did a webinar for the Search Engine Strategies conference (I am doing the opening conference keynote at SES London and SES New York ) and my Market Motive co-faculty member Greg Jarboe sent me this KPI via email: "Your webcast was a big success. Your KPI questions per attendee was off the chart!" Back to our story.

Analytics 90

Analytics Search SEO Metrics 90

Occam's Razor

APRIL 25, 2011

Why not keep sending emails / spending on AdWords / running affiliate programs / buying display only on MSN. Gratuitous use of Flash. It is not Adobe's fault, it is your fault for using Flash for the most pathetic things mankind has known. Remember every time you use flash on your website, a cute puppy dies.

Marketing 126

Marketing Flash Analytics Web 126

ConversionXL

MAY 16, 2016

“The flash draws attention to the element you’re testing, meaning that visitors who see your test will focus on that element. If the treatment wins, it will be rolled out to the site, eliminating the flash. HP Optimost unfortunately did not respond to our email in which we shared their ranking outcome of this study.

Flash 86

Flash Metrics Caching Conversion 86

Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 26, 2023

Duct Tape Transcript Email Download New Tab John Jantsch (00:00): This episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast is brought to you by HubSpot. 08:29): I could go on and on social media, email marketing, paid advertising. There's like 20% of the people out there, uh, that are very into tracking and metrics and data. (09:24):

Marketing 57

Marketing Artificial Inteligence Retention Audio 57

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

The real metrics that help you determine if you’ve achieved product/market fit. ” The easiest metric for subscription software products to check is churn rate. . For eCommerce sites, increasing the amount of repeat purchases is most often done through savvy email campaigns. Turn it into emails.

Software 93

Software Churn Rate eCommerce Flash 93

The Next Web

AUGUST 17, 2013

I asked a panel of 13 successful entrepreneurs to share their favorite best practices, especially for newer startups that may be tempted to focus on flash over experience: What’s one UX design best practice you think new startups should NOT overlook? Their most practical tips are below: 1. Call to Action. Doreen Bloch , Poshly Inc. .

Design 156

Design Startup Flash Mobile 156

Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 14, 2014

Any big changes in your marketing/customer acquisition strategy over the last time period (more money doing Search, less money in Email, elimination Facebook as it does not work, etc., Conversion rate is one of those metrics that I strongly encourage you only create benchmarks for from your own data. And who does not love Organic?

Analytics 133

Analytics Vertical Metrics Web 133

Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 26, 2023

Duct Tape Transcript Email Download New Tab John Jantsch (00:00): This episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast is brought to you by HubSpot. 08:29): I could go on and on social media, email marketing, paid advertising. There's like 20% of the people out there, uh, that are very into tracking and metrics and data. (09:24):

Marketing 44

Marketing Artificial Inteligence Retention Audio 44

Berkonomics

AUGUST 16, 2010

Many early stage CEO’s believe they can delegate design and creation of metrics, flash reports, analytical reports and more to their bookkeepers. Email readers continue here.] To expect a bookkeeper to provide analytical planning is to ask for something they often cannot provide, except in a cursory way. Why the discussion?

Early Stage 54

Early Stage Flash Analytics Metrics 54

Occam's Razor

AUGUST 22, 2011

" ~ Web Metrics: "What is a KPI? " + Standard Metrics Revisited Series. "Engagement" Is Not A Metric, It's An Excuse. Defining a "Master Metric", + a Framework to Gain a Competitive Advantage in Web Analytics. Podcast: Measuring Rich Media (Ajax, Flash / Flex, RSS & Blogs).

Analytics 124

Analytics Metrics SEM Web 124

ConversionXL

MAY 11, 2016

Fashion Metric. Fashion Metric makes products that allow online retailers to better predict people’s sizes, thus reducing returns and maximizing revenue. It’s usually just on the home page and is often used in conjunction with an offer to join an email list. Kopywriting Kourse. ConversionXL. Conversion Sciences.

Conversion 48

Conversion Flash Framework Stock 48

ConversionXL

JULY 3, 2019

Email is one of the few marketing channels that spans the full funnel. You use email to raise awareness pre-conversion. Getting the right email to the right person at the right time throughout the funnel is a massive undertaking that requires a lot of optimization and testing. The current state of email testing.

Email 121

Email Metrics Campaign Revenue 121

Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 4, 2010

We read books / blogs on Metrics & KPIs and we think we know what to do for an ecommerce site or a blog or support site etc and we start reporting what the blog / book recommended. If you are unique, why should you crack open a standard analytics tool with its standard reports and metrics and get going? on our website?

Analytics 119

Analytics Web Metrics eCommerce 119

Hearpreneur

MARCH 2, 2018

5- Black Sheep by Metric. When walking into a meeting or before sending a risky email, I’ll have Black Sheep playing in the background, giving me the adrenaline I need to get the job done. It is as if I could see my whole entrepreneurial journey flash before my eyes. Thanks to Dr. Jaime Kulaga, Dr. Jaime, Inc. ! #5-

Entrepreneur 79

Entrepreneur LLC SEM Flash 79

Occam's Razor

AUGUST 11, 2014

Each shows a unique facet of digital performance, and I've attempted to choose the best dimensions and, for those dimensions, the best possible metrics. I've done the hard work on your behalf to pick the dimensions and critical few metrics that will illuminate your complete business performance. I suppose that is a bonus. :).

Metrics 147

Metrics Analytics Channel eCommerce 147

Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Tighten up Your Metrics and Reporting. Evaluate your metrics tracking and see where you’re losing data. Develop and Build Your Email List. Nordstrom bought the flash sales site Hautelook for $270 million in 2011. Action item: Start building up your email list into an acquirable asset. Their answers are below.

PR 103

PR Acquisition Metrics Social Media 103

ConversionXL

JUNE 20, 2019

In comparison, Facebook Live shows overview metrics like minutes viewed, average percentage completion, and unique viewers.). Their email open rates also doubled, and they received “overwhelmingly positive feedback about the video.”. Before, running videos directly on your site required a plugin, like Flash.)

Hosting 127

Hosting Video Technical Review Software Review 127

Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 12, 2007

Subscribe via email. SaaS business metrics: why are they different? on a scale of 1-4). Newer Post. Older Post. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Philippe Botteri Accel Partners London, UK My Bio. Subscribe in a reader. Add RSS feed. Cracking The Code on Facebook. SaaS 13 Index*. Started on Jan. 1st 2008 with a base value of 100.00

Software Review 48

Software Review SEM Marketing Las Vegas 48

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 21, 2008

Imagine developing three versions of a web site in Prototype, JQuery, and Flash -- all at the same time. Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev. Talk about "wasteful experimentation."

Lean 121

Lean San Francisco Continuous Deployment Startup 121

Gust

DECEMBER 27, 2012

You should know every metric regarding customer acquisition, conversion and retention. These range from outbound materials, such as pitch emails and funding applications, to presentations of your venture in different forms for different purposes, to detailed back-up information that you will be asked to supply during due diligence.

Software Review 164

Software Review Term Sheet Technical Review Angel Investor 164

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 31, 2014

Both feature a full menu of Dimensions and Metrics you can filter on, and a set of rules you can select. The wide use of Goals as a conversion metric across Google Analytics reporting makes it easy for you to ask and answer the question: Are my visitors accomplishing the tasks I want them to when they visit my website?

Analytics 134

Analytics Software Review eCommerce Conversion 134

Occam's Razor

AUGUST 23, 2010

Maybe it is the agency you have outsourced the site to, the agency whose only competence seems to be gratuitous use of flash. The process that worked optimally for me was to send an email to 10 or so folks (a diverse set!). Successfully contact tech support via email. Flash & Add-ons Are Used Sparingly 5.

Analytics 116

Analytics Web Flash Software Review 116

Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 12, 2011

I am going to attempt to significantly simply your life by recommending the critical few metrics you should use to analyze performance of your digital marketing campaigns and website. Recommend metrics / KPIs you can use based on the size of your company. Best Metrics / KPIs for Small Business Websites. Obsess about this metric.

Metrics 151

Metrics Web Analytics CPA 151

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 1, 2015

You know you shouldn’t check your email first thing in the morning because it’s bad for productivity, but you do anyway. While I don’t have access to CollegeHumor’s data, I’m willing to bet that once they convince a reader to view one article from the homepage, their engagement and retention metrics increase. as you can.

Conversion 48

Conversion Audience Design North America 48

ConversionXL

APRIL 11, 2016

Revue is a tool designed to help create email digest newsletters. Also, it only works on browsers that support Flash. Second, you can capture information (name, email, etc.) Submit their email for more information, a discount, a free trial, etc. Which site metrics matter and connect to user experience? via a form.

Video 48

Video Conversion Mobile Search 48

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 16, 2009

We eventually embedded the Flash interpreter into our process, so we could experiment with our UI more quickly. It would carefully monitor their behavior, and especially their technical metrics, like crashes and freezes. There are plenty more techniques even further upstream. We had a structured automated release process.

Continuous Deployment 68

Continuous Deployment San Francisco Software Review Lean 68

Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 3, 2012

We like to believe that all there is to digital marketing is to do some search engine optimization, send out an email blast every once in a while, get our agency to create a flash-heavy "brand experience" website, or slap together a mobile app in the corporate-approved shade of eggshell white. Except the flash bit.

Framework 147

Framework Marketing Search Mobile 147

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 9, 2020

People, not just metrics. And so I'd have to read hundreds and hundreds of emails of the pain and suffering they're going through. Doesn't it feel like in a crisis suddenly the world flashes before your eyes and you see what is truly important? Eric Ries : Metrics are people too. Brian Chesky : Metrics are people.

Silicon Valley 60

Silicon Valley Hosting Cofounder Employee 60

gigaom.com

JUNE 18, 2012

Dash captures publisher specific data to present the best opportunities for engagement and to improve key metrics for publishers. Email address. Notify me of follow-up comments via email. Image courtesy of Flickr user KungPaoCajun. Related research and analysis from GigaOM Pro: Subscriber content. Sign up for a free trial.

Viral 50

Viral Technical Review Social Network SEO 50

ConversionXL

APRIL 12, 2017

Jared Spool: Is Design Metrically Opposed? It’s not which variant collects more email addresses, it’s which variant sells more books. Email addresses are observations. Useless measures and silly metrics. Metric: A measure we track (usually over time). A metric should tell you what you will do differently.

San Antonio 86

San Antonio Metrics B2B Analytics 86

Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

Flashing statements on one side, bottom-up financial analysis on the other: I will let you decide which one to believe, but I could not help reflecting on some of the comments made in the interview: "The hype is based on one company in the software industry having modest success. Subscribe via email. Newer Post. Older Post.

Software Review 48

Software Review Software Technical Review Cloud 48