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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Metrics Web Analytics CPA 153

The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Here are the most effective digital marketing channels to skyrocket your business’s success. You should examine metrics like CTR, Conversion Rate, and Cost Per Acquisition (CPA) to improve your efforts. Improve the efficacy of your email marketing by analysing metrics like open and click rates and conversions.

Channel 158

Channel Social Media Marketing PPC 158

Occam's Razor

MARCH 25, 2014

In a world of infinite choice, the ability to pick critical few metrics to focus on is, well…, critical. In this post I want to share that one-page list of the best metrics for digital content, marketing and business success with you. Your primary owned channel is your website, mobile or desktop. Everything.

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Metrics Marketing Analytics Channel 157

Occam's Razor

AUGUST 9, 2016

Along the way I'll share some of my favourite metrics and analytics best practices that should accelerate your path to becoming a true Analysis Ninja. At this point you'll be a little confused about some metric or the other. Go, read one of the best pages in the Analytics help center: Understanding Dimensions and Metrics.

Analytics 60

Analytics Metrics eCommerce PPC 60

Occam's Razor

APRIL 5, 2010

There is a better way to analyze your acquisition strategy than simply using Conversion Rates or Cost Per Acquisition (CPA). Did you pay enough to acquire customers from each marketing channel? A simple segmentation by channel can easily help us answer these key questions. Using Life Time Value might be a much better idea.

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Analytics Customer CPA Acquisition 136

YoungUpstarts

MAY 17, 2017

Here are some hacks you could use in your favour in this case: Creating a countdown timer on your website and social media channels. And finally, defining the metrics that define success for your business. Be sure your core metrics are not just achievable but accurately measurable and specific. For B2C your metrics are: Signups.

Marketing 133

Marketing Social Media B2C B2B 133

www.readwriteweb.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

The channel is sponsored by Intel and VMware. Along those lines, last week, Ryan Carson, co-founder of Carsonified offered a list of six key metrics for your web app and how to track them. CPA Definition : CPA is "Cost per Acquisition." Are there any additional metrics you think SaaS companies should track?

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Metrics CPA Illinois Acquisition 58

www.readwriteweb.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

The channel is sponsored by Intel and VMware. Along those lines, last week, Ryan Carson, co-founder of Carsonified offered a list of six key metrics for your web app and how to track them. CPA Definition : CPA is "Cost per Acquisition." Are there any additional metrics you think SaaS companies should track?

Metrics 58

Metrics CPA Illinois Acquisition 58

ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

They’ve grown to attract big-name clients like LinkedIn, PayPal, and Shopify, mostly through social media channels rather than organic search. It’s how people are using these channels that makes social critical to brand perception and business growth. When someone shares your YouTube video on Twitter, you can track that metric.

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Social Media Audience Media Marketing 145

ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

It’s easy to get lost down the rabbit hole of metrics for your business. When it comes to getting the most out of your website performance, only certain metrics are what you can consider key performance indicators. For websites, this can include “sales volume,” “number of visits,” “average cart value,” and a variety of other metrics.

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Metrics Acquisition Conversion Revenue 121

Up and Running

JULY 31, 2015

Your tactics are the specifics of pricing, and channels, and what you’re delivering, what’s on your menu. You really want to have metrics or measurement, which I think is one of the real areas for good creativity and management. You don’t have to be CPA or MBA. You’re working on reviews, etc.

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Lean Business Plan Forecast Software Review 60

Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

My solution is centered on organizing data/metrics/methodologies into a ladder of awesomeness (which solves for #3). Level 1 (Yellow): At the minimum, focus on these metrics. Level 2 (Green): These metrics/methods get you to learn actually useful things. Channel Marketing (3rd parties to take your products to market) 4.

Analytics 78

Analytics Marketing Metrics Channel 78

The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

The best tools aren’t only powerful but efficient, as they let you filter through data based on traffic sources, channels, verticals, campaigns, or custom Smart Tags. You’ll be able to better segment key metrics like COGS, eCPA, Churn Rate and more to better understand the history of your business.

eCommerce 131

eCommerce Analytics Security Churn Rate 131

Occam's Razor

JULY 26, 2010

If today you are a content site that is only focused on measuring content consumed try to go deeper to understanding CPA of the ads or Visitor Loyalty. PALM: People Against Lonely Metrics]. So why not your metrics? This is the problem with lonely metrics. Never ever never never never ever present any metric all by itself.

Web 96

Web Metrics Analytics eCommerce 96

ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Single-channel attribution models don’t reflect reality, but marketers continue to make decisions based on these outdated models. Patch-work solutions for multi-channel attribution struggle to accommodate cross-device and cross-browser usage, and private browsing. Meanwhile, other channels appear (wrongly) to be underperforming.

Artificial Inteligence 93

Artificial Inteligence Channel eCommerce Mobile 93

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Master of 500 Hats: Startup Metrics for Pirates (SeedCamp 2008, London) This presentation should be required reading for anyone creating a startup with an online service component. He also has a discussion of how your choice of business model determines which of these metric areas you want to focus on. Choose one.

San Francisco 167

San Francisco CPA SEM CTO Hire 167

ConversionXL

MARCH 21, 2017

Influencer marketing works in part because it bypasses the very real shortcomings of channels like display. We have been focused on improving and expanding our influencer marketing channel since then (20 months ago).”. Email has been the most productive channel for growing ButcherBox.

Marketing 78

Marketing B2C Social Media Channel 78

Up and Running

MARCH 14, 2017

The beauty of social media surveys (for all of the founders who either have their own following, or are somehow able to garner enough support to hijack other channels or groups for a serious social gauging) is that they’re quick and easy to execute. Startup validation tactic 2: Social media surveys. Collect qualitative data wherever possible.

Business Plan 94

Business Plan PPC Lean Campaign 94

Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 30, 2025

Alex Smereczniak (02:24.058) Yeah, so I actually, you know, I've done a lot of research on franchising as a whole and two metrics that have jumped out to me before is that, you know, the two year success rate of a franchise business is about 76%. entity formation, lending, finding the right CPA, etc. Oh, sorry, sorry.

Private Equity 76

Private Equity Bankruptcy Naming Equity 76

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 30, 2021

However, with every new technology, channel, and distraction served up by the internet, that journey becomes less linear, and the traditional funnel becomes less relevant. Social media, on the other hand, are browsing channels. You can do this by tracking metrics and user behavior. Cost per acquisition (CPA).

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Customer Marketing Social Media CPA 140

Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

A business that strives for something like this should absolutely be charging money from day one, in order to establish baselines for their two key metrics: CPA (the cost to acquire a new customer) and LTV (the lifetime value of each acquired customer). Why vanity metrics are dangerous What is Lean about the Lean Startup?

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Customer San Francisco Viral Lean 156

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.

San Francisco 102

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment Startup 102

ConversionXL

AUGUST 5, 2013

It’s very easy, you only need to keep in mind a few rules: Ad copy (or email copy, or copy of whatever promotional channel you use) needs to match landing page copy. 2 Filing by CPA. A metrics company! Same girl, same design, same call to action look, same copy. Great stuff. How to maintain strong scent. Same story here.

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Advertising Bulgaria UAE Matching 111

Occam's Razor

MARCH 7, 2016

While I'm pointing out Google+, this has been replicated on every social channel ( my LinkedIn influencer channel is another great example), every newsgroup, every other rented platform over time – all you need to do is look. Of course, measure that using the four best social media metrics !) Bounce rate is a metric.

Analytics 60

Analytics Marketing Metrics Audience 60