Up and Running

OCTOBER 8, 2014

At Palo Alto Software, we use our own product – LivePlan – to manage and keep track of key business metrics. Most were plastic, or they were made using boring wood, or they were poorly shaped, poorly finished, you name it. One of my favorite holiday destinations growing up in South Africa was the Palace of the Lost City.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

JUNE 9, 2010

Raw CPC is not a good enough metric. Everybody is bidding on them and the competition is higher than on other less obvious countries like South Africa, Norway, Finland, etc… Use the Pages criteria. by Aymeric on June 9th, 2010 What does cheap mean? So how can you get cheap and targeted traffic on Facebook Ads?

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 21, 2014

While our data does apply to a US audience, the reasons for starting a business really aren’t going to be that different, whether you’re in Canada or South Africa. Do you want to tie your name to an oil industry, or offer a service that you may not be brilliant at, but that will attract a lot of customers?

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

JUNE 9, 2010

Raw CPC is not a good enough metric. Everybody is bidding on them and the competition is higher than on other less obvious countries like South Africa, Norway, Finland, etc… Use the Pages criteria. by Aymeric on June 9th, 2010 What does cheap mean? So how can you get cheap and targeted traffic on Facebook Ads?

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

" That quote comes to mind when I think of a new feature in Google Analytics that carries the unassuming name of Weighted Sort. Hundreds and hundreds of referring urls and campaigns and page names and so on and so forth. You saw this problem when I sorted descending or ascending for the metric bounce rate above.

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Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

You can hover over each box to get a sense of the key metrics. You see the big ones named, the hidden mysterious ones, you can unmask using a mouse hover. They also have an app for Treemaps, and it includes using color, as in the Compete case, to represent a metric (say Conversion Rate)! China, South Africa, Egypt.

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 19, 2010

Mongoose Metrics ~ ifbyphone. I know Mongoose Metrics a bit more and have been impressed with their solution and evolution over the last couple of years. And it does not matter if they use a large brand name Agency. Klout has some of the cleanest metrics when it comes to measuring performance of a single twitter account.

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