Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 25, 2015

I have written about the deceiving nature of early successes before – in particular in the SaaS or B2B world leading to a phenomenon called “shelfware.” And of course it’s true in personal productivity apps, SMB apps, B2B software and so forth. Not vanity metrics. Success for many is ephemeral.

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Product B2B Warrant Technical Review 150

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Marketing metrics are a competitive advantage. You have to track metrics you can act on. In this article, you’ll learn which metrics to measure to understand and improve marketing performance. Table of contents What are digital marketing metrics? KPIs vs. digital marketing metrics 1. – Seth Godin.

Metrics 105

Metrics Analytics Marketing Acquisition 105

Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

We'll start with digital at the highest strategic level, which leads us into content marketing, from there it is a quick hop over to the challenge of metrics and silos, followed by a recommendation to optimize for the global maxima, and we end with the last two visuals that cover social investment and social content strategy.

Analytics 156

Analytics Marketing Social Media Technical Review 156

ConversionXL

JULY 8, 2021

Ecommerce purchases from Facebook Ads. Paid media is one of the most lucrative sources of customers for ecommerce. According to data sourced from Statista , 16% of ecommerce companies spent between $20-$150,000/month and 14% spent over $150,000/month in ad spend in 2020. But which of these metrics makes a real impact?

Conversion 156

Conversion CPA Metrics Analytics 156

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Conversion optimization is a little different if you’re in B2B. You’ll still need to do the same types of conversion research, persona building, and experimentation that is common across conversion optimization, but let’s talk a bit about how and why B2B is different. It’s called Optimizing for B2B.

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B2B Conversion B2C Sales Cycle 48

ConversionXL

JANUARY 4, 2016

When most people hear “web analytics,” they tend to think about counting visitors, transactions, and conversion rate on a transactional site, such as an eCommerce store. More on this as we get deeper into measurable web analytics for B2B marketing sites. Measuring the Performance of Informational Sites. Acquire prospects. Absolutely.

Lead Generation 48

Lead Generation B2B Analytics eCommerce 48

Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

Bonus: Identifying Macro and Micro Conversions also gives you a list of Ecommerce Tracking to set up on the site, and Goals to set up in the Admin interface. No business, B2C or B2B or here2there, can exist without a robust YouTube strategy. Here I particularly like to look at a metric I call "share of search."

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Web Analytics Technical Review Affiliate 139

Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 9, 2013

A good example, for e-commerce and non-ecommerce sites, is [link]. Bonus: Facebook Marketing: Best Metrics, ROI, Business Value ]. If you open your copy of Google/Adobe Analytics or CoreMetrics or Webtrekk you'll notice that every single report has a gigantic number of metrics in it. Look at the colors. Look at the icons.

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Analytics Marketing Channel Metrics 165

Occam's Razor

MARCH 23, 2010

Because every tool uses its own sweet metrics definitions, cookie rules, session start and end rules and so much more. If you don't kill 25% of your metrics each year, you are doing something wrong. Business priorities (no we are not doing ecommerce, we want leads!). Bigamy is vastly overrated. Usually for free.

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

If you are a B2B company, checkout Cisco's social efforts. You can engage with the fashion content (branding play), you can engage with the how-to content (relationship play), and you can engage with the products (ecommerce play). Once we hit the Build stage you know what to do, much more standard metrics. All on YouTube.

Analytics 151

Analytics Marketing Audience Channel 151

crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

A Discussion with Jon Bischke of Entelo: On Successfully Switching from B2C to B2B (SaaS) | saastr – crowdspring.co/1tKArlK. Benchmarking Hubspot’s S-1: How 7 Key SaaS Metrics Stack Up – crowdspring.co/1qlwWRG. Mega menu design trends in ecommerce: 2011 vs. 2014 | Econsultancy – crowdspring.co/1plL1t0.

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 92

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

In my daily work with ecommerce brands, I see two types of companies: The first type focuses on acquisition and conversion. Overall acquisition costs for both B2C and B2B have gone up by 50% in the past five years. Cohort analysis can be done for revenue, churn, viral word of mouth, support costs, or any other metric you care about.

Retention 126

Retention Analytics Campaign eCommerce 126

ConversionXL

MARCH 28, 2014

If you’re a B2B software company you’ll be happy to know a Forbes study titled “Video in the C-Suite” revealed that 59% of C-Suite executives would prefer to watch video over reading text if both are presented on a page. ” The visitor/view metric is one you should only be competing against yourself on.

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Video Software Review Cofounder Metrics 122

Occam's Razor

JULY 22, 2013

My solution to these problems was to create a simple framework we can use to put our customers first, evaluate our marketing programs, and right-align our view of success (metrics). I believe it has to do with choosing the wrong success metrics. Because the consideration stage matches your marketing, which in turn matches the metric.

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Framework Marketing Metrics Audience 164

ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

It’s one of many ecommerce software platforms on the market but only the fifth most popular by market share. It’s also not the cheapest ecommerce platform: Squarespace plans start at $12 per month, Woocommerce has a completely free plan, and Shopify’s plans start at $30 per month. Take Shopify. Image source.

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Equity Marketing Social Media Software Review 94

Occam's Razor

APRIL 21, 2014

I believe these two posts with a collection of some of my favorite metrics will inspire you: 1. Best Metrics For Digital Marketing: Rock Your Own And Rent Strategies 2. Best Web Metrics / KPIs for a Small, Medium or Large Sized Business. Do you have any metrics to measure the effectiveness of offline campaigns (Print/TV/Radio)??

Analytics 132

Analytics Marketing Campaign Metrics 132

Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

I can report on pageviews and bounce rates and sessions and all the other lovely metrics we normally obsess about. Now, all those other metrics suddenly have a purpose and context. Most Analysts for ecommerce entities spend all their time with ecommerce data. They should obsess like crazy about ecommerce conversion rates.

Analytics 60

Analytics eCommerce Metrics Acquisition 60

crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

The only metric that matters – [link]. Almost All B2B Marketers Do Content Marketing, But Only 36 Percent Think It’s Effective [STUDY] – [link]. 11 Best Practices For eCommerce Websites – [link]. A Startup Founder’s Priorities – [link]. Getting Better vs Being Good – [link].

Social Media 101

Social Media Small Business Design Media 101

Occam's Razor

JUNE 11, 2014

From B2C to B2B. But the reason to mention Bonobos today is to introduce you to the world's greatest ecommerce purchase and checkout experience. Take any metric you want. Pick any metric you want. And their ecommerce stores also look feel the same around the world. We will look at many different examples.

Design 151

Design Software Review Technical Review Mobile 151

ConversionXL

JUNE 8, 2017

Quantitative research with digital analytics tools like Google Analytics , Mixpanel, Amplitude or RJ Metrics will inform you about where your users are coming from, what they are doing during their sessions and where they are dropping off from your conversion funnel or when they churn. Image Source. Which campaigns specifically? Image Source.

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Programming Revenue Analytics Software Review 97

ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

If you’re an eCommerce site , switch “Enable Ecommerce” to “ON” under “Ecommerce Settings” After you’ve done that, you can return to the same settings and switch “ Enable Enhanced Ecommerce Reporting ” to “ON” as well. Sessions, conversion rate, etc.

Analytics 70

Analytics eCommerce Software Review Technical Review 70

Up and Running

JULY 15, 2015

50% of B2B companies find it difficult to attribute marketing activity directly to revenue results. Ecommerce statistics—money generated by source, by campaign, by ad, and so on. If so, what have you learned from tracking your marketing metrics? 21% of companies consider themselves effective at measuring mobile ROI.

Marketing 60

Marketing Social Media Campaign Acquisition 60

ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 10, 2020

The key factors that boost several metrics via visual merchandising are as follows: Engagement and time-on-site. Additionally, eCommerce sites have paved the way for brands not only to sell their products on their online shopping site but also on Amazon, Facebook, etc. Store navigation and ease. Order inventory. Conversions.

Startup 78

Startup eCommerce B2C Metrics 78

Brandanew

OCTOBER 13, 2015

> 66% B2B and 60% B2C “best in class” content marketers had a documented Content Marketing Strategy according to the Content Marketing Institute. Some of the quantitative metrics that companies use to measure their Content Marketing success include: a) Traffic. Many eCommerce sites and businesses (e.g.

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Social Media Marketing SEO B2B 100

Occam's Razor

AUGUST 12, 2013

" In this case it was a B2B client, long conversion cycle that lasted around 65 days, ignoring the outliers, so I picked 75. You can do attribution modeling uniquely and optimize your marketing efforts just for an ecommerce transaction. Just to be conservative. Look at your own Time Lag report, come up with your own number.

Channel 162

Channel Analytics Campaign Conversion 162

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

If you’re starting a new campaign or selling a new product, you can create a baseline based on your current metrics. To get an idea of where you are starting out, note metrics like: Open rates Click rates Unsubscribe rates Conversion rates Spam rate. Before strategizing or revising your email copy, ask four questions.

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Email Software Review Campaign Metrics 133

Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

You can hover over each box to get a sense of the key metrics. The core performance of the current website look like this… While we are applying it to a B2B case, it could just as easily be applied to a B2C / Ecommerce scenarios. It shows all the incoming traffic to a site as a Treemap. What would you like to plot?

Analytics 145

Analytics Sierra Leone Channel Conversion 145

Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 13, 2009

Chapter 3 The Awesome World of Clickstream Analysis: Metrics. The second half shows exactly how to pick the best metrics for your org and, my absolute favorite (Page 64), how to diagnose the root cause of a metrics performance. Non-Ecommerce. No metrics, data pukes, guidance on creating every more reports.

Analytics 71

Analytics Web Technical Review Metrics 71

ConversionXL

JULY 21, 2022

Its study of B2B buyers shows an even split in how decision-makers interact with sales reps traditionally, remotely, and self-served digitally: Of the B2B leaders that use omnichannel marketing, 83% say it’s a more successful way to prospect and secure new business than traditional “face-to-face only” selling.

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Customer Marketing Channel Audience 118

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 6, 2010

No longer can tools or "analysts" just puke 15 metrics on a report and hope to survive. It is that important (especially if you are a non-ecommerce b2b government peaceful protest photo sharing website). Here is a post with seven different strategies: Brand Measurement: Analytics & Metrics for Branding Campaigns.

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Analytics Web Campaign PPC 99

Occam's Razor

AUGUST 11, 2014

Each shows a unique facet of digital performance, and I've attempted to choose the best dimensions and, for those dimensions, the best possible metrics. I've done the hard work on your behalf to pick the dimensions and critical few metrics that will illuminate your complete business performance. I suppose that is a bonus. :).

Metrics 148

Metrics Analytics Channel eCommerce 148

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 24, 2011

Surely not using horrible metrics like Page Views, right? So how does one identify economic (goal) value for the non-ecommerce macro-conversions and all the micro-conversions? It is also a B2B company with no real online conversions, which makes our job in this context harder to do, and hence a great example.

Analytics 123

Analytics Conversion Affiliate Web 123

Up and Running

APRIL 17, 2018

In fact, according to Shopify , global retail ecommerce sales are on track to reach $4.5 B2B ecommerce sales , (businesses selling directly to other businesses) generate three times as much revenue as B2C, at $7.7 Below, I’ve listed some of the SEO basics for ecommerce to get you started. trillion in 2021, up from $1.3

SEO 80

SEO eCommerce Software Review Analytics 80

ConversionXL

MAY 19, 2016

Both Harvard Business Review and Practical Ecommerce have reported the death of the linear funnel. Additionally it’s no longer enough to think of segments as “customer types” (for example a B2B SaaS segmenting by small, medium and large companies). Are Linear Funnels a Thing of the Past? via Quora).

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Analytics Metrics Channel Software Review 78

conversionxl.com

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

Ask Peep about analytics, and he’ll tell you, “Metrics are there to provide actionable insight. You need to look at a metric, ask “so what?” – and have an answer.”. 5 Dimensions of Rockstar B2B explainer videos. Ecommerce Checkout Funnel Review: How Vintage King Audio Can Improve. → Tommy Walker. 19 Comments.

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Analytics Software Review Conversion Video 98

ConversionXL

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Let’s take a look at an example scenario: You’re trying to find users to review your B2B payroll solution. Cost: $40/non-B2B user, $80/B2B user + custom incentives (usually $20–40/user). However, having user-friendly navigation is crucial for more complex websites ( often applicable to ecommerce ). UserZoom GO.

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Technical Review Software Review B2B Design 92

The Startup Magazine

APRIL 24, 2020

If you’re interested in selling your eCommerce website but are unsure of how to go about determining the actual value of your business, you’ve come to the right article. In this blog, we aim to decipher the meaning behind some of the more abstract metrics when it comes to an eCommerce website valuation.

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