Occam's Razor

APRIL 21, 2014

about digital marketing and analytics. We will cover questions in four areas: business/strategy challenges, analytics/technical challenges, career/self-development questions and rampant speculation. Even the worst analytics configuration in the world will most likely allow you to measure cart and checkout abandonment rate.

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Occam's Razor

JULY 12, 2010

In this blog post I want to share four analytics tools that I have been playing with for a while… tools that solve an interesting problem… tools that point to what might be in terms of our near term analytical future… and in almost all cases they don't even know! First Some Context. Say it ain't so! :).

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Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 20, 2010

The last blog post shared custom analytics reports that you can use to find amazing insights faster, enabling you to create a focused, truly data driven organization. I am an unabashed segmentation fan: Web Analytics Segmentation: Do Or Die! Web Analytics or WebTrends or. three awesome analytics data segments. #1:

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SVPG

FEBRUARY 23, 2014

One of the most significant changes in how we do product today is our use of analytics. Any capable product leader today is expected to be comfortable with data, and understand how to leverage analytics to learn and improve quickly. When most people think of analytics they think of web analytics. That is but one type.

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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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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Nose to the grind "How do I" questions: David Walizer: How do you sell the value of web analytics to a skeptical client in 30 seconds or less? By doing multichannel analytics! More detail on those techniques, and three more, are in this blog post: Multichannel Analytics: Tracking Offline Conversions. Let's go!

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 12, 2013

There are few things more complicated in analytics (all analytics, big data and huge data!) I normally ask people to look at the Path Length report in the Multi-Channel Funnels standard report in Google Analytics (or equivalent tool if you are using SiteCatalyst or WebTrends or other web analytics tools). It is sweet.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

The ability to slice and dice your Google Analytics data is the difference between mediocre, surface-level insights and meaningful, useful analysis. In this article we’ll show you how to setup your Google Analytics to unlock actionable insights. Setting up your Google Analytics. You can read a more in-depth guide here.).

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 21, 2013

Following revelations of NSA activities via Mr. Snowden, Google has now switched almost all users to secure search, resulting in even more user search queries showing up as not provided in all web analytics tools. No keyword data in analytics tools. Aggregated search engine level analysis. Implications of Secure Search Decision.

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Occam's Razor

JULY 1, 2013

Would you believe me when I say that your digital analytics data, from Google Analytics or WebTrends et. We do have A LOT of data in our analytics tools. But sometimes going outside our analytics tools can yield non-normal insights that can deliver a competitive advantage. Neither is an example of just site analytics.

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 13, 2012

A couple weeks back I'd requested the nice folks following me on Google+ and Facebook to submit their most important digital marketing and analytics questions. Some tools do pan-session analysis better than others, and there are a number of relatively new analytics solutions on the market today.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

In liquid markets, most of the calories expended on technology and analytics are focused on trade selection, or “ origination ”. I walk through below how progressive investors are using technology and analytics throughout all of their operations. The 11 Steps of Investing in Private Companies. 1) Manage the firm . 3) Raise capital.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 24, 2020

Here are just a few things you can do by leveraging data analytics: Gain a better understanding of changing customer preferences Discover new business opportunities Identify and eliminate bottlenecks in your operations Minimize and better allocate advertising costs Provide greater customer support through automated chat. Invest in analytics.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 20, 2019

The best video hosting platform varies business by business, depending on factors like: How often you’re uploading; How you plan to use the video; The viewing experience you want to give your audience; The analytics you need; The cash you have to spend. Wistia’s analytics can help connect the dots between video consumption and conversions.

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View from Seed

MARCH 24, 2021

So, we decided to aggregate NextView’s “greatest hits.” Advice on How to Make Your First Analytics Hire “Analytics is about designing, reporting, and leveraging operating metrics to aid strategic and functional decision-making. What Are Your Valuation Expectations? Hiring Your Team.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

This typically involves a CRM system or tool that helps automate and aggregate various customer touchpoints. It automates simple tasks, sets reminders and checkpoints, and even allows you to integrate directly with other analytics platforms. Analytics and optimization. How to choose a CRM for your business.

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 9, 2016

The outcome of book smart is rarely better for analytics practitioners then folks trying to learn how to fly an airplane from how-to books. This is all the way from Aug 2009: Web Analytics Career Advice: Play In The Real World! And, happily, it has almost all of the Google Analytics features implemented correctly.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 8, 2016

The ability to slice and dice your Google Analytics data is the difference between mediocre, surface-level insights and meaningful, useful analysis. As Avinash Kaushik famously wrote, “All data in aggregate is crap.” Setting Up Your Google Analytics. ” [Tweet It!]. You can read a more in-depth guide here.).

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 12, 2015

The world of digital analytics seems to be insanely complicated. I led a discussion the other day with a collection of people who were brand new to the space and some who were jaded long-term residents of Camp Web Analytics. Digital Analytics Ecosystem: The Inputs. Digital Analytics Ecosystem: The Outputs. Averages this.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

The more well-known your company becomes, the harder it gets to directly impact primary KPI’s at the aggregate level because the majority of customers who buy are going to do so irrespective of if your button color is red or blue. For example, Adobe Analytics (Omniture) only allows the use of historical data for personalization.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 21, 2014

That’s why you need to be simultaneously feeding your growth engine , while monitoring churn and your other startup metrics. They refer to these differences as “ Red Flag” Metrics (or RFMs). Total number of logins also proved to be an important metric, though not as much so as the former two. times per day on average.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 21, 2020

How do you coordinate the analytics setup of a web shop that sells their products all over the world—if you have to handle 10+ languages and currencies in over 80 countries? Aggregate them and consider how those needs transfer to your web analysis tool: What do you want to analyze? Can all data be stored within Google Analytics? .

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ConversionXL

MARCH 11, 2019

There are NO analytical models can truly explain WHY things happen. There is another method of text analytics called sentiment analysis or, sometimes, opinion mining. Text analytics uses an algorithm to convert text to numbers to perform a quantitative analysis. No single metric, NPS included, is perfect. — ?? ??

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Occam's Razor

MAY 19, 2014

But the problem is that single golden metrics hide valuable insights and, more often than not, drive bad behavior. Here's my proposal: If you are pushed to have a single golden metric, give it a partner. The BFF metric you find should not be one that is very far away. So, great metric. Honestly, who can blame them.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 19, 2020

We’ve had clients report SEO metrics from Adobe Analytics, while PPC metrics came from Google Analytics (because of its native integration with Google Ads). There will always be discrepancies across analytics and media platforms. In the instance above, we ended up migrating Google Ads reporting to Adobe Analytics.

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 19, 2010

. "What is the difference between a metric and a key performance indicator (KPI)?" " "What is a dimension in analytics?" " "Are goals metrics?" There seems to be genuine confusion about the simplest, most foundational, parts of web metrics / analytics. " And many more.

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Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 1, 2006

Web Analytics usually simply helps us understand the “What” Clickstream data typically does not tell us why something happened. Since many of us in the Web Analytics community don’t have optimal awareness of this methodology we’ll go into some detail about how lab usability tests are conducted.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 9, 2019

Click maps show you a heat map comprised of aggregated click data. It’s also easy to take in aggregate click data quickly and see broad trends. However, you can also see where people click in Google Analytics, which is generally preferable. If you’ve set up enhanced link attribution , the Google Analytics overlay is great.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

Most importantly, it’s now possible to have detailed analytics on exactly what’s happening to messages and ideas as they flow through word-of-mouth channels. Despite all the energy invested in talking to authors about the size of their platform, very few gatekeepers have a rigorous set of metrics for measuring it.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

However, about 5% of the VCs in our database, mostly younger ones, are trying to build a competitive advantage by crawling large amounts of publicly available data and building analytical functions to flag companies with accelerating traction to them. ” Historically, investing was a manual, artisan process. Two Sigma Ventures.

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

Remember: Engagement is not a metric, its an excuse. ]. See if you were able to get more traffic to arrive at your site, and if they were Existing Visitors or New Visitors (hopefully measured with a first party cookie in your website analytics tool). The ideal metrics for this desired outcome are Visitor Loyalty & Visitor Recency.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

At a high level, user experience is the aggregate and subjective experience of using a product such as a website or app. They’re also remarkably popular because, like digital analytics, it’s a form of passive data. You might improve user satisfaction metrics with a set of changes, but revenue per visitor goes down. Does it work?

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eranki.tumblr.com

JULY 13, 2012

App-specific metrics. Another thing that became increasingly useful was to have thousands of custom stats aggregated over thousands of servers graphed. Poor man’s analytics with bash. Better than switching off features! Very scalable, and this made it possible for us to track thousands of stats in near real time.

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

In fact I've gone so far as to say: "All data in aggregate is crap." " That's certainly a bit melodramatic, but beyond the most bare bones "ahh, I see something is happening" you are unable to get anywhere with aggregate data. Google Analytics: New Segmentation User Experience.

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ConversionXL

MAY 16, 2018

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.

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Occam's Razor

MAY 20, 2013

" comfort zone, and out of your Google Analytics, Site Catalyst, WebTrends worldview silo. Part of the reason is that the data you to which you have access narrows your worldview – "Hey, all I have is Google Analytics, so all I'll look at is Google Analytics data!" The answer is simple: Aggregators.

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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.

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