Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 11, 2022

Why Call Tracking Metrics Matter To Your Marketing Efforts written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. My guests today are Todd and Laure Fisher, their husband and wife co-founders of Call Tracking Metrics company. Marketing Podcast with Todd and Laure Fisher. This is John Jantsch. So it's has a much, it, it works better.

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Occam's Razor

MAY 2, 2017

There is no golden metric for everyone, we are all unique snowflakes! :). and tell you what are the best key performance indicators (metrics) for them. In the past I’ve shared a cluster of metrics that small, medium and large businesses can use as a springboard…. If you want to play along. Don’t read what I’ve chosen.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

The same lesson applies to our daily life of data and metrics. If you use five web analytics tools, they’ll all give you different numbers; this could be due to differences in definitions of things like “visit” and “session,” but is that truly all it is?).

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 6, 2021

If entrepreneurs answer these questions for their startup, they will definitely stay ahead of most of their competitors in the startup world: What is the “secret sauce” that my startup brings to the problem? Define hard (data) and soft (anecdotal) metrics on the change, as well as on the quality of your leadership.

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

FBe's recommendation was (paraphrasing a 35 min talk): Don't invent new metrics, use online versions of Reach and GRPs to measure success. Because we don't understand the uniqueness, we fall back on profoundly sub-optimal old world metrics like Reach or Online GRP equivalents. Metrics are a problem.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 11, 2010

Part of those questions are around Startup Metrics. And you definitely should have ideas around important proof points for the business.

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Occam's Razor

JULY 18, 2011

You must use metrics that are unique to the medium. Ready for the best email marketing campaign metrics? So for our email campaign analysis let’s look at metrics using that framework. Optimal Acquisition Email Metrics. Allow me to rush and point out that this metric is usually just directionally accurate.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 6, 2024

Definition and Importance of Sales Incentives Sales incentives are bonuses and rewards employees receive to inspire and improve their work performance. Using these metrics, you can adjust the program as needed to ensure it continues to meet its objectives. This approach ensures that each employee feels uniquely valued and motivated.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 17, 2018

What is the definition of traction for a business startup today? Unfortunately, your personal assessment that you have traction probably won’t be convincing to potential investors and partners, so it’s important that you create and track your progress against some metrics. Define metrics on customer feedback and user counts.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 21, 2014

In this webinar, we take time to discuss the different metrics that startups—and established businesses—should be tracking. In terms of pre-purchase, traffic and content metrics. So I’m going to keep going here, “Pre-purchase, the traffic and content metrics.” Peter, anybody have any questions as I go along?

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View from Seed

JULY 8, 2020

Despite that fact, however, in these cases the company can definitely benefit from a consistent cadence of structured email updates. The remainder of the email should include other highlights, core business metrics, financial metrics, challenges, goals, asks & thanks. Download Investor Update Email Template.

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 9, 2021

Almost all metrics you currently use have one common thread: They are almost all backward-looking. If you want to deepen the influence of data in your organization – and your personal influence – 30% of your analytics efforts should be centered around the use of forward-looking metrics. Predictive metrics!

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

If you don’t understand your key financial metrics, you have no way of monitoring your business’s health—and you risk mingling assets, incurring penalties for filing taxes late, overlooking expenses, and running into difficulties paying bills and employees, just to mention a few! Each article will give you: A brief definition of the metric.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 6, 2021

But while it’s great to get your message out there and build brand awareness, you definitely want to avoid overwhelming your audience — because they will leave. Furthermore, metrics help you continually refine and improve your marketing over time. Furthermore, metrics help you continually refine and improve your marketing over time.

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Mucker Lab

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Inbound Lead Stage Definitions: Defining inbound lead stages is vital for alignment between sales and marketing teams. Outbound Lead Stage Definitions: When considering outbound lead stages, an equivalent to MQL in outbound prospecting could be termed as a 'target' or 'prospect list,' distinguishing it from inbound strategies.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 14, 2021

The average customers are around 10 times more likely to click on retargeting content than on regular advertising content so you definitely don’t want to miss out on these people. There are several video-specific metrics that can help you see what’s working and improve what needs improving. The first metric is video views.

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Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

Are not just reporting "hits", rather coming up with clever metrics. Quantitative Metrics / Analyses. While on the surface they might seem useful, I am always suspicious of compound metrics. See more here for Compound Metrics: Four Not Useful KPI Measurement Techniques ]. Velocity. *

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

’ and this post is an attempt to describe the ‘Emerging Manager VC Mode’ vs. the ‘Established Manager Mode’ Emerging Manager Definition and Caveat There’s no strict definition of emerging managers, but typically, funds are considered ’emerging’ in their first, second and sometimes third fund cycle.

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Guy Nirpaz

MAY 29, 2016

I’ve written recently that MAU and DAU are the most important metrics for Customer Success. So what are the metrics for success in this business? I need simple and actionable metrics that my team can act, metrics that I can develop my success programs on. And indeed these metrics are important.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

After all, the definition of success varies from business to business. SaaS companies must invest in their relationships with their customers, determining what success looks like for each company and aligning on shared goals and metrics. To be truly effective, this success plan must incorporate how the customer tracks success.

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 2, 2013

I'm going to be looking at aspects like: Things to consider before building your MVP Features often overlooked when documenting an MVP for developers Understanding important metrics you want to measure Risks and challenges in developing an MVP. It should be a fun evening with lots of interesting conversation. What's going to go wrong?

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 23, 2020

The starting point for a successful wedding, music festival, dinner party or team away day is a definite plan. There will be a set of metrics to judge the success of this event. If you can anticipate what these metrics are, you can aim to achieve them. You need to understand what needs to take place and for how many.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 26, 2023

Explore SaaS business models, learn key metrics, and discover effective product/market fit strategies in your SaaS business.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 30, 2017

It’s an investment that will definitely pay off. Similarly, you can update the old post for even longer on-page time metrics, as well as more recognition from Google Search. This is actually a ranking metric in the most current iteration of Google’s Search algorithm. Curate Content. Consider Outsourcing Your Content.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

The idea about success remains popular but its definition means different to everyone and so is it’s measure. 2- Depends on one’s definition of success. The definition of success differs from person to person, and business to business. If it’s the other way around, then its definitely overrated.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

This is the fourth article in a series on novel ideas for SaaS metrics, which started with The unprofitable SaaS business model trap , COC: a new metric for cancellations , and The mistake of 1/c in LTV. It turns out that COC is the key to this metric of “underlying profitability.” Here’s a way to do it.

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 19, 2010

"What is the difference between a metric and a key performance indicator (KPI)?" " "Are goals metrics?" There seems to be genuine confusion about the simplest, most foundational, parts of web metrics / analytics. Metric: A metric is a number. But not normal metrics. Dimensions.

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 3, 2020

If you didn’t fix your mobile site then, you are definitely going to want to do so now. You’re now going to have to pay attention to 3 new mobile site performance metrics: Largest Contentful Paint (LCP): How long does it take your site to fully load? But that clearly didn’t happen.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 25, 2014

If entrepreneurs answer these questions for their startup, they will definitely stay ahead of most of their competitors in the startup world: What is the “secret sauce” that my startup brings to the problem? Define hard (data) and soft (anecdotal) metrics on the change, as well as on the quality of your leadership.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 6, 2024

It’s not a surprise, given that entrepreneurs are obsessed with data and metrics, but in the conservative VC market of 2024, it feels even more important for founders to know what ‘good’ looks like and what investors expect.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 28, 2016

Poorly Defined Project Goals and Performance Metrics. The same is true of performance metrics, as failing to clearly outline how performance will be measured makes it impossible to perform meaningful assessments of progress or efficiency.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 17, 2011

As a preamble to the metrics, it’s useful to know what you’re measuring and why it’s vital. All of the following definitions are meaningful, but each measures something different. Our cancellation log implicitly represents this metric because we review it weekly to look for trends.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 19, 2023

This is, boy, I tell you, if I would ask 10 people, I would get 10 different definitions. If I were to ask Google, I'd get 10 different definitions. So simply code for metrics. That's the metrics. So the whole basis of this show is the large confusion that I have seen around this idea of marketing strategy.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Let’s get the definitions straight: Conversion : The percentage of potential customers who complete a desired action, such as signing up for a trial, making a purchase, or subscribing to a service. I previously wrote about startup benchmarks in the context of funding readiness, so it was time to give it a re-fresh.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 19, 2021

In a hybrid environment, you can’t measure the contributions of team members using traditional baseline metrics such as hours in the office. employees start their day with an unclear definition of what they’re expected to achieve,” data from Gallup indicates. Close to half of U.S.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

What I’m talking about here is a level of discipline and skill necessary to collect and analyze the relevant business data, known as metrics. Here is my selection of ten key metrics that every six-sigma joint like GE tracks without thinking, but too many small businesses only monitor haphazardly, if at all: Sales revenue.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2021

First of all, a definition. Obviously this definition is generic, so my first recommendation is that you take the lead in defining traction metrics for your startup, and then selling your results convincingly to investors. In the consumer world, groups like Consumer Reports , will give you similar credibility, if positive.

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