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Conversion: The Most Important Internet Metric of All (Revisited)

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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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9 Case Studies That’ll Help You Reduce SaaS Churn

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That’s why you need to be simultaneously feeding your growth engine , while monitoring churn and your other startup metrics. When they met to discuss and attempt to address the issue in January 2013, they realized they had little insight into exactly why customers were leaving. churn rate meant the company’s growth was unsustainable.

Retention 106
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Evolution of a Founder: Lessons I have learned

om.co

In the early days, my belief was that blogs (or as I called them micro-pubs back in 2002) would grow really fast and it would allow me to aggregate large subsets of audiences around specific niches. It is my one resolution for 2013: less annoying emails. But that is the real metric of success as far as I am concerned.

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How to Run Marketing Experiments The Right Way

ConversionXL

Know the difference between leading and lagging metrics. While it’s always necessary to keep track of lagging indicators to evaluate ongoing performance, as marketers we want to understand what causes those metrics to move either up or down. As you can see, leading metrics differ wildly depending on the brand and industry.

Marketing 133
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Five case studies you'll see at the Lean Startup Conference 2015

Startup Lessons Learned

It all started with a small group of founders and product enthusiasts who self-aggregated into an online community. Over Thanksgiving weekend in 2013, right after launching his email list experiment, he built Product Hunt’s first website mockup with his team.

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How to Handle Mobile “Moneyball Syndrome” & Cross-Device Attribution

ConversionXL

in 2013 to 1.43 Inspired by the movie ‘Moneyball,’ MoneyBall syndrome refers to the fact that companies aren’t looking into the right metrics when measuring the effectiveness of their mobile website. Some marketers try looking at conversion as a solo metric of determining how their CTAs perform on mobile. Image Source.

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19 Psychological Tactics for Successful Crowdfunding Campaigns

ConversionXL

Most project creators describe their project using aggregate framing. Agrawal, Catalini, and Goldfarb (2013) examined the types of risks that donors encounter in crowdfunding. Kuppuswamy and Bayus (2013) analyzed all Kickstarter projects from 2009 to 2012. Among their findings, one primary factor was efficacy. The problem?