crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 13, 2014

The Essential Email Marketing Metrics You Should Be Tracking | Hubspot blog – crowdspring.co/1gY786G. The Essential Email Marketing Metrics You Should Be Tracking | Hubspot blog – crowdspring.co/1gY786G. Social, Digital & Mobile Around The World (January 2014) – crowdspring.co/1gYcVJm. 1eVT4b8.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 4, 2017

I really enjoyed a recent post I read on First Round Review about vanity metrics, which touches on what I love about my startup vs. others with more funding, more engineers and more mentions on TechCrunch. Vanity metrics aren’t useless. Tracking clarity metrics builds great businesses.” “In Don’t focus on them internally.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 8, 2013

As we enter Q4, I’m starting to see discussions about annual performance – often in the context of gearing up for 2014 plans. Quantitative metrics are either too easy to hit, or completely impossible. I’m considering encouraging all the CEOs I work with to get rid of MBOs in 2014. Things are changing daily.

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Haystack

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

As a little tradition on this blog, I’ve singled out companies starting in 2013 with Stripe ; there was Snap back in 2014; Slack in 2015; took a break in 2016, as I wasn’t inspired to select one then; and last year, 2017, was Coinbase. It’s entirely possible the trend lifts these companies in due time, as well.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

Benchmarking Hubspot’s S-1: How 7 Key SaaS Metrics Stack Up – crowdspring.co/1qlwWRG. 50 Free Resources for Web Designers from August 2014 – crowdspring.co/1vJ9Fwa. 50 Free Resources for Web Designers from August 2014 – crowdspring.co/1vJ9Fwa. You suck at technical interviews – crowdspring.co/1pEfybN.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

Small Business and Startups: The Trends for 2014 (Pt II) - crowdspring.co/1atXci8. Good whitepaper on advertising measurement metrics | by Ben Kunz – crowdspring.co/HsVIMR. Good whitepaper on advertising measurement metrics | by Ben Kunz – crowdspring.co/HsVIMR. Repeat Your Successes, Not Your Failures. posts/2441.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 23, 2014

The Single Biggest Reason Most Entrepreneurs Fail in 2014 – crowdspring.co/1jzW3Oy. 3 Key PPC Metrics Are Lying To You. HTML, CSS, PSD and More: 23 Free Design Resources from May 2014 | noupe – crowdspring.co/1lDrTpe. Top 4 Web Design Trends for 2014| SpyreStudios - crowdspring.co/1gj2BQP. 1gj2qVK.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

Say no to SaaS vanity metrics - crowdspring.co/NzqJ53. Old School SEO Tests In Action (A 2014 SEO Experiment) - crowdspring.co/1dB0QGP. Email marketing best practices, 2014 edition - crowdspring.co/NeK0bD. Our Love Affair With the Tablet Is Over | Re/code - crowdspring.co/Nv1PDw. Who is ignoring which ads? 1fDWbqg.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 4, 2013

Metrics on keywords, follower profiles and competitors all help define your target listener. An advance purchase garners a 50 percent discount off the planned price of $100, encouraging investment long in advance of the summer 2014 launch date. Startup Example: Zappos. Strategy Adopted: Leveraging Social Media Analytics.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

The Metrics Required for Raising a Series A Round | EquityZen – crowdspring.co/ZEAcxq. 9 Fonts Brands Should Avoid in 2014 – crowdspring.co/1uDQgsH. 10 Free eBooks for web designers from 2014 | Creative Nerds – crowdspring.co/1xfSjb2. How to get your employees into fitness | Fortune – crowdspring.co/1saKodQ.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 6, 2019

LinkedIn video ads: tech specs, targeting, metrics, and cost. LinkedIn video ad metrics. Both are limitations on how much video metrics can tell you. In case studies, LinkedIn touts cost-per-view metrics as low as $0.06, but, as Wilcox notes, that can add up quickly. LinkedIn began beta testing video ads in October 2017.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 11, 2014

Benchmarking Box’s S-1: How 7 Key SaaS Metrics Stack Up | by Thomas Tunguz - crowdspring.co/1dysrz8. Fresh Resources for Designers and Developers – April 2014 - crowdspring.co/1mZn6kw. Fresh Resources for Designers and Developers – April 2014 - crowdspring.co/1mZn6kw. 180 Free Science Icons - crowdspring.co/1e9jxsf.

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Life Beyond Code

DECEMBER 27, 2013

We want to improve on the metrics for the sake of improving on the metrics. Sometimes we forget to measure the amount of time we spend being obsessed with measuring the metrics. End of the year is a great time to stop, reflect and think about what are the metrics that really matter most to you. No registration required.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2014

Benchmarking SaaS Startup Efficiency with Revenue per Employee Metrics | by @ttunguz – crowdspring.co/1sRVdjm. 30 new free tools & resources for designers (October 2014) | Inspired Magazine – crowdspring.co/1z7oKKI. Design Is Changing How We Innovate | Co.Design – crowdspring.co/1sChJN5. What makes HubSpot…well, HubSpot?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 2, 2015

The full financial details and metrics were in the deck. So my time was freed up to call board members in advance and walk them through our metrics and understand any concerns. David set up employee policies, helped negotiate office leases, established our long-term accounting system, implemented RJ Metric and so forth.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

With increased scrutiny surrounding the safety and security of electronic consumer data, especially after such events like the Target hack of 2014 where 40 million credit card numbers were stolen , consumers are more focused now than ever about their personal and sensitive information being online. Users prefer to see HTTPS on their browsers.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 31, 2014

Tara Stockford (@tarastockford) October 8, 2014. Both feature a full menu of Dimensions and Metrics you can filter on, and a set of rules you can select. Or, as it was captured in a quote from this year’s MeasureFest: “It’s more important to reach the people who count than to count the people you reach” #MeasureFest.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

How to create a growth hacking strategy using the pirate metrics model. Growth hacking in marketing incorporates the five stages of the customer lifecycle into the “ AARRR Framework ,” otherwise known as the “Pirate Metrics model.”. But it’s not a channel you can scale as easily as LinkedIn , which offers a similar audience.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 1, 2021

ICAS® will give customers real visibility over their project, its metrics and progress – ultimately better serving their needs. Maha : In 2014, we visited the Kakuma Refugee Camp in Northern Kenya as part of a Gates Foundation/United Nations led initiative to build schools & clinics for the community.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 8, 2018

Sales and marketing tend to have the same metrics,” explained Phillips. A scan of marketing-specific KPIs highlighted by training firms also reveals a list of familiar metrics: number of qualified leads generated, cost per qualified lead, marketing staff turnover rate, and marketing staff productivity.). Trend analysis.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 10, 2013

By firing events on every action, you can get metrics that track Call-to-Action buttons and compare their performance to find out which one can be optimized. . - Nadav Poraz, Founder, WhoSampled. 2) Add Google Analytics events everywhere. One thing that every startup should implement is tracking how customers are using their interface.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 15, 2023

Her book Marketing Metrics: Leverage Analytics and Data to Optimize Marketing Strategies , is a practical guide to creating efficient future-focused marketing strategies powered by data-driven techniques that can develop stronger brands and products. [17:45] What do you see that businesses need to be doing? [21:35] Like this show?

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SiliconHills

MAY 8, 2014

By LAURA LOREK Founder of Silicon Hills News The Austin Chamber of Commerce Wednesday night named 12 companies to its A-List of Startups for 2014. In the “Emerging” category, for companies that have raised less than $1 million, the winners were Datical, Compare Metrics, Embrace, TeVido, TrustRadius and Spot on Sciences.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 31, 2015

After attending the 2014 Lean Startup Conference with 6 of her team members, intrapreneur and product strategist Andrea Hill realized that ReadyTalk needed to hold its emerging business lines to a different standard of success. He shares: “You need to test your way through this process until you find that crucial connection point.”

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View from Seed

AUGUST 30, 2016

Incepted in 2012, Alignable’s platform hit the market in 2014, and since then, we’ve seen hundreds of thousands of business owners in North America join. “Users” is interesting, but the engagement metrics and value of users is where real success comes into play. Doesn’t look all that compelling.

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ConversionXL

MAY 14, 2014

Peep Laja (@peeplaja) April 17, 2014. We analyzed the site, created a design treatment (built based on their brand guidelines) and it beat the control on every metric by 30%, 40% and so on. Know anyone? The criteria for participating in this was that: Your company has to have over 100 employees. Great success.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 3, 2015

Bill Phelan, president of small business ratings company PayNet, estimates that alternative lending companies, which provide billions of dollars in loans annually, grew 100% in 2014. Filling a Need. Corporate business loans, commercial loans, and secured lines of credit can help banks and credit unions achieve bigger profits. How it Works.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

you have a landing page that would suitably match buy used diesel 2014 ford focus) , rather than the parent brand of a product ( ford focus, or buy used ford ), do it. Themes Improve Quality Score and Ad Rank Metrics. None of those metrics are magic bullets to real ROI, but they can be used to improve performance.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 25, 2017

A key impact metric for Kairos is the number of faces processed. Wyncode has experienced a 473% growth in revenue since becoming an Endeavor company in 2014. Led by former Apple project manager Brian Brackeen, Kairos set up an Endeavor-facilitated advisory board. The Endeavor connections catapulted Kairos’ customer reach.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 21, 2014

Though it may seem obvious, according to the CMO Survey , which collected responses from Fortune 1000, Forbes Top 200, and other high ranking Marketers, found that the state of analytics even now in 2014, is quite dismal. Here are the highlights: Only 2% of companies are tracking lead generation to sales metrics.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 28, 2020

This is the model my customers referenced when I was selling them demand-gen software in 2014. Most B2B enterprise demand funnels, like the ones reviewed earlier, have metrics like Marketing Qualified Leads (MQLs), Sales Qualified Leads (SQLs), and deals or opportunities created from those. Image source ).

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 14, 2014

A new 2014 State of Marketing Report from ExactTarget presents the results of a survey taken by approximately 2,000 marketing managers. In fact, 57 percent of marketers plan to increase the number of emails they send in 2014. Related posts: How Content Marketing Can Help Grow Your Business in 2014. Conversions are king.

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View from Seed

MARCH 3, 2015

Ellie Mirman was the first marketer hired by the CMO of HubSpot, the Boston-based marketing software startup that IPOed in 2014. If I had a business where there’s a six-month sales cycle instead, I’d need to wait longer and look for affects on some metrics that would provide an early indication of success or failure.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Unlike billboard and TV ads that are often difficult and expensive to modify, companies can collaborate with media sellers to quickly make alterations to mobile advertisements based on performance metrics while a campaign is in progress. billion by 2017, more than doubling the $18 billion spending projection for 2014. Gartner, Inc.,

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 13, 2014

As the VP of worldwide sales and field operations, I had been looking for sales tools that engage and encourage HP’s sales reps and provide us with a clear understanding of which metrics are important, how they are collected, and how they are analyzed. Players (sales reps) earn points for everything they do. These results are hard to deny.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 20, 2018

NorthSide Metrics is a digital marketing agency based in the Chicagoland area. The colors + location were combined with my love of data to bring in the metrics. I had a few variations of the name and after asking 3-5 people which they liked or hated I ended up settling in on NorthSide Metrics. Thanks to Ebooks4fashion ! #6-

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 30, 2014

The auto industry and others have used this model for generations, so business processes and metrics for innovation are well documented. Martin Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 7/21/2014. Most equity investors tend to avoid truly disruptive technology startups, since they take longer and more money to scale.

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