ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Google Analytics switched its default metric from “sessions” to “users” in 2018, mirroring Mixpanel’s emphasis on users over pageviews. You’ll be able to see which channels (paid, organic, social, etc.) We don’t know the impact of each marketing channel.”. Cross-channel attribution extends beyond first and last clicks.

Analytics 119

Analytics Technical Review Acquisition Retention 119

Up and Running

MAY 1, 2014

Milestones and Metrics. You don’t need to be on every social media channel, but you do need to be on the ones that your customers are on. Every industry has different distribution channels and the best way to create your distribution plan is to interview others in your industry to figure out what their distribution model is.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

Mass blasts of information are ineffective, because the broadcast channels are suffering from information overload (even in social media). Test-marketing is now easier than ever before, thanks to leveraged distribution channels like AdWords and Facebook. There are too many products clamoring for attention. Is that a lot?

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San Francisco Lean Technical Review Distribution 113

ConversionXL

AUGUST 19, 2020

The first step is to establish communication channels between teams and set expectations about when and how to use them. a top-line conversion or revenue target) and recognize both teams’ contributions—regardless of which channel generated the most conversions in a given period. Are we able to create incrementality across channels?

PPC 69

PPC SEO Channel Analytics 69

VC Cafe

MARCH 1, 2024

I’ve recently come across several of such lists and I thought it could be useful to aggregate them and share them here. A lightweight “agent” with access to logs and metrics can, to start, retrieve relevant information (e.g. and generate a post mortem.

Artificial Inteligence 176

Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Software Review Generative AI 176

www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Blog About Log in Register Designing startup metrics to drive successful behavior Great companies are almost always run by great management teams. Good metrics should also be actionable, and drive successful behavior. In a follow up post, I will use this technique to walk through the design of a set of metrics for a SaaS company.

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Metrics Design Entrepreneur Startup 55

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. In the same vein, consider a metric like ‘time on site.’. Image Source.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Every board meeting, the metrics of success change. Because they have no presence in the market, they have to find distribution channels to bring in customers. First of all, it means that most aggregate measures of success, like total revenue, are not very useful. And yet, their investors are frustrated.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Instead, they were shared in company Slack channels, emailed between VPs and investors, and featured in industry newsletters. But, ultimately, it generates paying customers—and that’s the only metric that really matters. It created powerful network effects. The company’s early articles were rarely discovered through search.

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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.

Retention 106

Retention Churn Rate Metrics Software Review 106

Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

In an ecosystem, each participant acts according to its own imperatives, but these selfish actions have an aggregate effect. A minimum viable product in this category must answer the question: does my media content or channel command the attention of a valuable audience? A successful startup strives for this latter case.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 5, 2009

She has a separate team, with its own culture and office, and a mandate straight from top management to innovate without regard to the company’s historic products, channels, or supply chain. In a startup context, numbers like gross revenue are actually vanity metrics, not actionable metrics. So far, so good.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 18, 2010

But instead of channeling all my energy towards building new features, I channel roughly 80% of it towards measuring and optimizing existing features. Examples of things I monitor are the numbers of user activations, active users, and aggregate page hits to user galleries. I am not advocating adding no features at all.

Continuous Deployment 151

Continuous Deployment San Francisco Lean Wiki 151

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

We collect the complete narrative of what they discovered talking to customers as well as aggregate interviews, hypotheses to test, invalidated hypotheses and mentor and instructor engagements. The Power of the Investment Readiness Level: Different Metrics for Different Industry Segments. Or watch the video here.). Medical Devices.

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Incubator Intellectual Property Startup Lean 318

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Investors sitting through Incubator or Accelerator demo days have three metrics to judge fledgling startups – 1) great looking product demos, 2) compelling PowerPoint slides, and 3) a world-class team. And we can offer investors metrics to play Moneyball – with the Investment Readiness Level. We think we can do better. Here’s how.

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Oakland Incubator Lean Metrics 330

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.

Metrics 160

Metrics Analytics SEC Acquisition 160

Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 3, 2010

The key driver of this renewed confidence from brand advertisers is better measurement of brand metrics that can show the impact of online advertising beyond clickthrough. We got everything from price comparison engines to aggregated user reviews to one-click checkout. Direct Response Advertising becomes ever more efficient.

Internet 114

Internet eCommerce Advertising Flash 114

ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Before you can dive into them fully, it’s important to understand the difference between hit-level metrics and session-level metrics. Avinash wrote an excellent post on this very topic, Excellent Analytics Tip #23: Align Hits, Sessions, Metrics, Dimensions! Here’s a graphical summary… ( Image source ).

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 19, 2016

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. Revamp Mobile Metrics to Combat Moneyball.

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Mobile Technical Review Software Review Metrics 48

Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

Paid Search or affiliates or email or display or YouTube or whatever channel you end up choosing. [ Remember: Engagement is not a metric, its an excuse. ]. The ideal metrics for this desired outcome are Visitor Loyalty & Visitor Recency. You can compute two important metrics: Likelihood to Recommend / Brand Lift.

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Campaign Analytics Metrics Search 130

ConversionXL

JANUARY 8, 2016

As Avinash Kaushik famously wrote, “All data in aggregate is crap.” Before you can dive into them fully, it’s important to understand the difference between hit-level metrics and session-level metrics. ” [Tweet It!]. Setting Up Your Google Analytics. Here’s a graphical summary… Image Source.

Analytics 48

Analytics eCommerce Software Review Technical Review 48

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 2, 2014

As marketers, we create and curate engaging content, broadcast it to all the right channels and measure how it performs. The Uberflip platform starts with aggregating all the content you create and curate. But marketers today still struggle with tapping into the potential that exists in content marketing.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 13, 2015

So by segmenting your data, you can learn things you couldn’t from the aggregate data. How does retention differ among different acquisition channels? SALs are the goal for many enterprise marketing and sales groups, but knowing which channel brought them in is the key to really scaling your sales velocity.”

Conversion 48

Conversion Retention Acquisition Metrics 48

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

A tool like Quuu identifies relevant, shareable content to keep your social media channels active. . Lean Case provides standard business models & metrics, so you can apply a standard approach to business planning, modeling, and profitability tracking. I used Ipreo heavily at one of my prior VC funds. .

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

Hearpreneur

JULY 8, 2017

Some innovators with integrated business models like Kaiser Permanente are making great strides in aggregating your patient data and making it accessible to you. And it’s filled with a lot of repetitive filling out of forms and providing the same info to each entity you visit. What is unique about being a Healthy CEO?

Technical Review 54

Technical Review Fractional CTO CTO CTO Hire 54

ConversionXL

JULY 11, 2016

“Umbrella terms” are when you aggregate multiple features and benefits under one vague term, like “powerful” or “easy-to-use.” Report tangibly and make content marketing comparable to direct marketing channels. All PPC channels will work for you if you stop using brute force. Need Keywords?

PPC 48

PPC Analytics Video Non-Compete 48

The Next Web

MARCH 2, 2014

To measure the return on investment – or ROI – of your SEO campaigns, utilize the information aggregated from Positionly and Google Analytics to pull through the data and analyze patterns in traffic, increases in links, sustainable traffic and above all, increases in revenue. Increased inbound links. Inbound links are the lifeblood of SEO.

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SEO Analytics Social Media Metrics 159

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

I’ll cover: How to avoid “blank page panic” by using templates; How to turn disparate data points into an intuitive flow; How to save time with data manipulation (and get cleaner data); How to aggregate data from different sources in the same dashboard. content, channels, etc.) Use the Bar format to represent the metrics.

Analytics 117

Analytics Metrics Affiliate Aggregator 117

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 4, 2022

We can all use head fake metrics to calling out useless activity metrics. [ None of them are KPIs, most barely qualify to be a metric because of the profoundly questionable measurement behind them. ]. It is not a leap to suggest that it is a big distraction from what's important to anoint this barely-a-metric as a KPI.

Conversion 129

Conversion Analytics .Net Metrics 129

Austin Startup

APRIL 25, 2017

In order to achieve 20x growth, Snap needs grow both of those metrics 4–5x. Had Facebook not purchased Instagram, Facebook’s aggregate numbers likely would have dipped as millennials have largely abandoned Facebook for Instagram and Snapchat. Let’s look at each figure. 2 years ago my grandmother didn’t have Facebook.

Valuation 48

Valuation Technical Review Social Network Forecast 48

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

2gov.org automatically routes your tweet (aggregating it with everyone else whos expressed a similar point of view) to the right legislator or agency. In other words, the service transforms tweets into professional reports that are sent by snail mail, fax, and email - the channels that actually have attention paid to them.

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San Francisco Founder DC Washington 150

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

For example, while the data aggregation process in Google Analytics seems like a “normal” feature, it might be a hurdle if your business needs to process data at the hit level instead of by sessions or campaigns. Custom dimension and metrics. With Google Analytics 360, you can have 200 custom dimensions and 200 custom metrics.

Analytics 90

Analytics SQL Metrics Campaign 90

Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

PS: The data in the graph is cool, you can see my brief analysis on my LinkedIn Influencer Channel: Email Still Rocks! Yes, cost per click is metric. The metric CPC aside, we do present data like this all the time. If you can, focus on a singular metric for each module/slide/element. Social, Surprisingly, Stinks! ].

Analytics 145

Analytics Search Metrics Web 145

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 30, 2012

When it comes to data analysis, you are usually more likely to see me share guidance on advanced segmentation or custom reports or advanced social metrics or controlled experiments or economic value or competitive intelligence or web analytics maturity or one of an infinite number of difficult, if hugely rewarding, things. Not today.

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Analytics Metrics API Web 146

Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Increased investment in Facebook as an engagement/acquisition channel has translated into requests from CEOs, CMOs and other CxOs about the return on that investment. As Facebook is a very young channel, it is not surprising that everyone's struggling with the answer. I don't think it is simply a metrics/measurement problem.

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Metrics Advertising Marketing Social Media 165

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Since you have access to intelligent information, the question becomes — how will you aggregate and leverage all this data? Today’s best SMB-focused CRMs capture metrics more effectively than ever before. Tech-driven CRM systems will communicate across channels to rapidly seek information in order to understand each unique situation.

Artificial Inteligence 127

Artificial Inteligence Sales Cycle Colorado Retention 127

The Startup Magazine

JULY 9, 2020

Improve traffic figures, metrics and digital performance. Help create New Sales channels and Revenue generating models. Help create New Sales channels and Revenue generating models. Build your credibility on search engines. Contribute to branding and visibility.

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