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Finding your One Metric That Matters

leananalyticsbook.com

The One Metric That Matters. One of the things Ben and I have been discussing a lot is the concept of the One Metric That Matters (OMTM) and how to focus on it. That doesn’t mean there’s only one metric you care about from the day you wake up with an idea to the day you sell your company. Lean Analytics Book.

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How to win with marketplaces: The three success factors

The Next Web

The first and most important metric to watch out for is the percentage of listings that lead to transactions within a certain time period. Merely increasing the number of buyer and seller sign-ups doesn’t serve a purpose unless this metric starts rising. This serves as a proxy for the efficiency of the marketplace.

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For 78 straight weeks, my " This Week in the NYC Innovation Community Newsletter " enjoyed industry leading metrics. Near 40% opens, almost 15% clickthroughs, and almost 4,000 subscribers. Then, all of the sudden, in my May 31st mailing, nearly a third of my actives just. disappeared.

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CXL Live 2022 Recap: Main Takeaways From 6 World-Class Marketers

ConversionXL

You should also be aware of the law of shitty clickthroughs: all marketing strategies end up having shitty CTR because novelty fades and a first-to-market strategy doesn’t last. This defines how to connect problem themes to a metric strategy, building a metric-driven action system. How will you act? Gaetano DiNardi.

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Why Keyword Themes +Modified Broad Match = Winning PPC Strategy

ConversionXL

Themes Improve Quality Score and Ad Rank Metrics. Boosting your CTR ( clickthrough rate ) will improve your Quality Score , which in turn improves your Ad Rank which gives you better ad position & lowers your CPC ( cost-per-click ). None of those metrics are magic bullets to real ROI, but they can be used to improve performance.

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Metrics that Matter for 2011 (One Page PDF)

Life Beyond Code

We want to know the number of connections, number of followers, number of pageviews, number of minutes someone spends on our website, number of clickthroughs, number of times the shopping cart was abandoned, number of repeat visitors, number of new visitors. We want to improve on the metrics for the sake of improving on the metrics.

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5 Things You’re Measuring Incorrectly With Digital Analytics & What To Do About It

ConversionXL

Here are the highlights: Only 2% of companies are tracking lead generation to sales metrics. If every business were as “data-driven” as they claimed & held actually held accountable to increasing quantifiable metrics – a lot of people would be out of a job. Does the funnel begin on the clickthrough to the site?

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