YoungUpstarts

MAY 24, 2019

by Bruce Cleveland, Founding Partner at Wildcat Venture Partners and author of “ Traversing the Traction Gap “ As we continue our exploration of the Traction Gap Framework® – a step-by-step approach that startup teams can use to go from ideation to preparing to scale – I will walk you through the principles.

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ConversionXL

JULY 21, 2022

By focusing intently on a single measurement, known as a north star metric. They even employ a dedicated “System Implementation Manager” whose sole responsibility is to drive adoption and get 70% of customers using the product daily. The north star metric defines success for the whole company and aligns teams on a growth trajectory.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

When WordStream began receiving complaints that the seven-day free trial of their PPC management software wasn’t long enough, the brand decided to A/B test 14-day and 30-day trials. They work to improve top-of-funnel metrics like brand awareness and identify opportunities to improve customer activation, retention, and referral efforts.

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Framework Marketing Acquisition Retention 102

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 25, 2014

In both cases, it’s easy for them to become frustrated and give up, since most have never been trained in change management, and don’t even know what questions to ask. Define hard (data) and soft (anecdotal) metrics on the change, as well as on the quality of your leadership. It takes a strong team and strong leadership to manage it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 20, 2013

In both cases, it’s easy for them to become frustrated and give up, since most have never been trained in change management, and don’t even know what questions to ask. Define hard (data) and soft (anecdotal) metrics on the change, as well as on the quality of your leadership. It takes a strong team and strong leadership to manage it.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 26, 2010

What existing systems will we leverage, what programming languages, software development methodologies, web application frameworks, revision control systems, etc.? How are we going to manage the product roadmap? What other kinds of capabilities such as graphic design, user interaction, product manager, QA will we need?

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Occam's Razor

JULY 24, 2018

, work (collection, processing, reporting, analysis), processes, org structure, governance models, last-mile gaps , metrics ladders of awesomeness , and… so… much… more. Soon, your digital analytics strategic framework that you hoped would provide a true north to the analytics strategy question looks like this …. The Impact Matrix.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

Investors and partners now look only for a framework of your business essentials, within the context of your opportunity, solution, and financials. You don’t have to be a heavily funded later stage startup to get access to “big data,” customer analytics, and metrics dashboards. Set milestones and manage to those targets.

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

YouTube Marketing and Analytics Framework for Success. Be very careful to not over think it when you frame this step-one to your management team. Again, for your management team you don't have to over think it. Now that our management team is bought into one facet of YouTube, is time to dip our toe into a content strategy.

Analytics 151

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Steve Blank

JUNE 26, 2015

—– Lean Innovation Management. Each horizon requires different focus, different management, different tools and different goals. Management in this Horizon 1 works by building repeatable and scalable processes, procedures, incentives and KPI’s to execute and measure the business model. A 50x speedup kind of fast.

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

Frameworks, because if I can teach someone a new mental model, a different way of thinking, they can be incredibly successful. the company are organized and incentivized (as in what metrics determine their bonus). Make sure your executive dashboards obsess about acquisition, behavior and outcome metrics. So fix that.

Analytics 156

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Marketers can use this framework to evaluate the risks associated with different growth strategies. For example, in 2021 accounting software platform Bill.com acquired spend management tool Divvy in order to increase its market share. The framework helps you evaluate how you can affect growth at each stage of the customer journey.

Marketing 115

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ConversionXL

JUNE 16, 2022

A marketing playbook is a reference guide that outlines how a business will manage its marketing on a particular channel or campaign. It should include primary and secondary KPIs and metrics related to marketing goals , as well as the platforms (e.g., Your products or services, pricing, and details of owners and managers.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

97% of business owners say that online business reputation management is important. Let’s explore the breadth of your digital footprint and help you establish a framework for managing your reputation online. Online or digital reputation management is the act of influencing how people perceive your company or brand online.

Reputation 130

Reputation Management Small Business Software Review 130

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

(Almost) everything you need to know (but are afraid to ask) before you wistfully ask a product manager to coffee so they will help you find a job. TL;DR Product management is a unique and poorly understood discipline, especially as it applies to software and other tech-related companies.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 9, 2013

Social media marketing is probably the most heavily written management topic on the planet. Providing a methodical framework covering strategy, organisation, execution and measurement, the book provides a step by step process to managing the social media marketing function. These tend to be more inspirational than instructional.

Technical Review 159

Technical Review Social Media SEM SCRUM 159

TechEmpower

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Focusing on the metrics that ultimately drive the business, often the bottom line, has provided a reality check, a counter-weight to the desire to consume all new technologies. A site with a million users is much easier to manage today than it was in 2000. It's a fun and funny business to be in. Those requests had better be worth it!

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 9, 2022

They randomly churn for hours a day on a couple of their favorite social media platforms, with little thought given to goals, objectives, or metrics; and ultimately give up and fall back to traditional marketing approaches. Create an action plan with metrics. Ric Dragon, an expert in online marketing, in his classic book.

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Social Media Framework Media Conversion Ratio 338

Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

97% of business owners say that online business reputation management is important. Let’s explore the breadth of your digital footprint and help you establish a framework for managing your reputation online. Online or digital reputation management is the act of influencing how people perceive your company or brand online.

Reputation 115

Reputation Management Small Business Software Review 115

Board Effect

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

The governance board and CEO should develop a strong AI framework that outlines the AI strategy and includes guidelines for usage. The framework can help minimize risk and prevent harm or other unforeseen consequences to the organization. Fortunately, support is available through board management software.

Technical Review 52

Technical Review Framework Government Software Review 52

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Metrics for this depth are rare and only long-term. Strategic content gives the audiences the frameworks and processes they need to make the conceptual ideas reality, and helps them frame up the solution space (again, not your product or service but how to think about solutions). The strategic level.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 6, 2012

Instead of detailed documents, we focused on tracking our performance to our plan and managing to regularly updated schedules and milestones. In 2010, Alex Osterwalder published his book, Business Model Generation , where he created a framework for what Tim called “business identity.”

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 16, 2013

Software development is all about managing complexity and the bigger and more mature the codebase gets, the more complex it gets. But we couldn''t have identified this without having clear metrics (that high bug count) to assess our development process. So what was going on?

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

If not, remember these are professionals that you’re paying, so put a framework in place that enables them to work together and maximizes the value of their efforts. Create a fair tracking and attribution framework. Growth killer #2: Different goals and metrics. Once you’ve identified the metric, never lose sign of it.

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www.jonsamsel.com

MAY 12, 2011

Jon Samsel Social media, SEO, marketing and writing Home Bio Books Portfolio Login A Framework for Web Analytics On May 10, 2011, Heardable’s CEO, Jon Samsel, was asked to speak at the Jamba Juice Digital Marketing Summit in Emeryville, California. Leave a Reply You must be logged in to post a comment.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

JULY 18, 2024

Key Takeaways Understanding the core principles of Quality Management Systems (QMS). What Is a Quality Management System (QMS)? A Quality Management System (QMS) is a comprehensive framework encompassing policies, processes, and procedures to achieve and maintain quality in organizational output.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 8, 2013

Normally as a company grows this changes as management layers are added, and work simply becomes less efficient. They should freely share learnings and don’t compete with each other, meaning they effectively act like small, independent start-ups within a larger framework. All KPIs and metrics are available to everyone in the company.

Software Review 146

Software Review Agile Analytics SCRUM 146

VC Cafe

MARCH 1, 2024

Developer tools inspired by existing internal tools – tools or frameworks that were built by programmers at their previous company to help solve their own particularly painful or repetitive problems. AI – tax planning or wealth management augmented and in some cases replaced with AI. and generate a post mortem.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 20, 2021

The best businesses are data-driven and metrics-driven. Instead of simply tracking top-line metrics, every person in the organization understands their role, how they impact the business metrics, and how this impacts its larger goals. Every entrepreneur and CEO should read LEVERS.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

How to create a growth hacking strategy using the pirate metrics model. Growth hacking in marketing incorporates the five stages of the customer lifecycle into the “ AARRR Framework ,” otherwise known as the “Pirate Metrics model.”. Let’s look at each stage of the framework and how to use it to drive and measure growth.

Retention 113

Retention Marketing Acquisition Channel 113

The Startup Magazine

MARCH 1, 2021

David has twenty years’ experience in the healthcare construction industry with a background in construction project management. So, our pathway to the right stakeholders has really been through our Customer Engagement Framework. This entails deploying a DevOps model in our first year of development.

Technical Review 119

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 30, 2018

The key is to connect user research to an improved user experience and, in turn, an increase in customer retention, leads, or any other metric for which C-suite members are accountable. It forms several components of our ResearchXL framework : Analyzing web analytics data to understand how users currently move through a site.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

More recently, Google Search Console rolled out a Core Web Vitals section, which tracks a set of website performance metrics that focus on user experience. Enter your URL on this free tool, and you’ll see an overall score and some useful metrics. Here are the metrics Google Page Insights measures that specifically relate to SRT.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 16, 2019

Keep in mind that some of the development tools like WordPress themes and Magento framework aren’t free. It may take more time and money but provide your website with uniqueness, better scalability, more attractive design etc. What about other factors that have an impact on your budget?

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eCommerce Software Developers Software Development Hosting 113

ConversionXL

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Define your target metrics. To do this, we recommend the ResearchXL Framework. It also helps to have a framework. There are many frameworks to prioritize your A/B tests, and you could even innovate with your own formula. We’ll measure this using (data metric). Define your website goals. Craig Sullivan.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 15, 2010

Behind this analysis is a spreadsheet model, complete with detailed metrics for a set of customer behaviors that show just how valuable the new product will be. Safely because it is clear that the manager in question didnt do his homework. They are on-schedule and on-budget, but their gross metrics are way off.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Every board meeting, the metrics of success change. These founders have not managed, to borrow a phrase from Steve Blank , to create a scalable and repeatable sales process. Time-to-complete-a-sale is not a bad metric for validated learning at this stage. And yet, their investors are frustrated. They are closing orders.

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