crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Image Source: SEO Linkbuilding. If you’re moving slowly or have yet to implement search engine optimization (SEO) strategies as part of your overall marketing efforts, you’re falling behind your competitors. For example, SEO typically takes months to implement properly. Set Specific Goals.

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Up and Running

MARCH 3, 2021

It is often used interchangeably with SEM, or “Search Engine Marketing.” PPC vs SEO — What’s the difference? The most notable difference between PPC advertising and organic digital advertising efforts such as SEO (search engine optimization) or organic social media marketing is how the cost is determined. PPC or SEO?

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Define your target metrics. Maybe you’re at a startup whose acquisition engine is fueled by SEO. Add a category like, “doesn’t interfere with SEO,” which might alter some headline or copy tests. We’ll measure this using (data metric). We expect to see (data metric[s] change) over a period of (X business cycles).

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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.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 18, 2020

Simple and Reliable Metrics for Measuring Success. Metrics help understand the success or failure of the marketing campaign. Gen Z entrepreneurs can make use of comprehensive metrics to drive success. It has 7 main categories, as follows: Social media marketing. Email marketing. Lead generation. Conversion rate optimization.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

17:30] How deep into financials and metrics do you get before taking a client on? [19:01] You can't expect the new SEO and content and social and paid. Because I like to think that the CMO is going to get invited to like, look at the financials and talk about profit and talk about, you know, metrics that, that makes sense.

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Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 6, 2010

In a world where we are overwhelmed with data and metrics and key performance indicators and reports and dashboards and. I must forewarn you that my hidden agenda is also to expose to you metrics you might not be using, views of data that you might be ignoring, best practices that are of value and teach you how to fish.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

Equally, hoping to unseat TripAdvisor without understand their SEO strengths and how much it would cost to knock them down would be naïve. The metrics were good but we wondered how much better they would be when we expanded our product. You may have paid marketing: SEM, Social Media Ads, Banner Ads, email lists, etc.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

More metrics need to be identified such as product testing, market validation, and/or customer validation in order to show that a market opportunity exists. Invest in the completion of features that are needed in order to accurately identify business metrics such as product testing, market validation, and/or customer validation.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 26, 2019

How will you take advantage of SEO and SEM? A lot of your customers will be buying products for their friends and family anyway, so you might as well have a deliberate gifting page for the extra nudge and the SEO. What about appealing to a certain lifestyle category? Do you have a system to track detailed customer cohort data?

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Up and Running

JULY 26, 2016

This is when metrics come into play. See Also: The Top 10 Tools for Tracking Your Web Metrics. This optimization results in emails with an open rate greater than 60 percent and a click through rate greater than 20 percent—an unimaginable metric if we were just sending emails blindly. Google AdWords or SEM (expensive).

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 27, 2015

How can you tell what caused that – optimization, SEM, seasonality, word-of-mouth, or something else? Did those 30 new SEO pages cause the rise in conversion or was it just noise or something else? What works for PPC traffic might not work for returning direct traffic, SEO traffic and so on. ROI is Difficult to Measure.

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PPC SEM Technical Review Conversion 48

www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Business model viability, in the majority of startups, will come down to balancing two variables: Cost to Acquire Customers (CAC) The ability to monetize those customers, or LTV (which stands for Lifetime Value of a Customer) Successful web businesses have long understood these metrics as they have such an easy way to measure them.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

Knewton's Online Marketing Director is the key partner to the VP, Online Marketing and is responsible for helping the team drive customer acquisition and revenue growth through SEM (paid search), SEO, Affiliate Marketing, and Email.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

SEM and SEO templates. Use the Bar format to represent the metrics. If you have more than one objective set up for each step of the funnel but want to use a combination of metrics, the next ideas are useful. Using conditional logic, the CASE function can create new dimensions and metrics. Supermetrics. 50+ reports.

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Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 12, 2007

Getting the most of your online marketing: the In & Out of SEM/SEO. SaaS business metrics: why are they different? on a scale of 1-4). on a scale of 1-4). The videos can be watched at Bessemer Online Marketing Portal (the other materials are not public). The 10 laws of SaaS unveiled at Bessemer CEO Summi. Happy New Year 2008!

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Steve Blank

APRIL 30, 2009

And the final lesson was that we were keeping score on our packaging with the wrong metrics – it wasn’t about awards, it was about sales in the retail channel. Hopefully you and your co-founders are experts in one or two parts (agile development, SEO/SEM, etc.) After that you’ve become a battle-hardened realist.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Dont worry about selecting particularly good keywords, if youre new to SEM. SEM only gets at one segment of users, and for a brand new product, you presumably need some skill at marketing in general and adsense in particular to get any useful info. Just put in your credit card. Just load them all in and choose a low cost-per-click.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

Cutting out noise and creating a PPC strategy that drives business: It’s the goal of SEM professionals everywhere. Themes Improve Quality Score and Ad Rank Metrics. None of those metrics are magic bullets to real ROI, but they can be used to improve performance. So let’s talk about how to do that for real, shall we.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 12, 2008

vs. sustainable: Compare this to the renewable strategies, like viral marketing, SEO, widgets, and ads, which can scale into 10s of millions of users but are primarily centered around tough, non-user centric work. Problem is, you inevitably become yesterday’s old news. Startup Lessons Learned - the Conference (April 23.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

The 5 Types of Metrics Every Small Business Must Track written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. I guess I should add you can grow a business without metrics a lot like you can win at roulette from time to time. Below are the five types of metrics every small business must rely on to navigate growth and profit.

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Metrics Small Business Analytics SEM 28

Occam's Razor

AUGUST 6, 2007

So what is this mysterious metric? In Adobe's Site Catalyst bounce rate is not a standard metric, but you are able to create a special custom metric. If you don't fall into those two categories you need to pay very careful attention to this metric. It is almost instantly accessible in any web analytics tool.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

If you sell an online service that solves a defined problem, you can compete in SEO or SEM. Im on the team that released one of the Taxi apps, and we agree that the "SEO" and placement on the App Store can sometimes leave users with insufficient or inaccurate information to make decisions. Hey Eric, very interesting post.

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Distribution San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment 74

crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 1, 2013

We’ll look at relevant metrics to help you assess whether a specific marketing channel could work for you, and also highlight additional resources to help you get a better understanding of that channel. There are two distinct forms of search engine marketing: organic (search engine optimization or SEO) and paid (pay-per-click or PPC).

Small Business 107

Small Business Marketing Affiliate PPC 107

This is going to be BIG.

JULY 26, 2011

Show that you know how to target, acquire, and profitably build up a subscription customer base, all while tracking the right metrics, and *boom* you're hired. People have gotten so specialized, that we have people doing nothing but community management, SEO/SEM, PR, etc. In New York City, that just shouldn't happen.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 12, 2016

The world of SEO is an inherently volatile one. With every Google algorithm update, conventional wisdom on SEO has crumbled and risen anew from the ashes. With every Google algorithm update, conventional wisdom on SEO has crumbled and risen anew from the ashes. Related posts: Ten Practical Search Engine Marketing (SEM) Tips.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 24, 2018

Ahrefs is one of the best Search Engine Optimization ( SEO ) and Search Engine Marketing ( SEM ) tools available for anyone who prefers to make data-based decisions in their marketing strategies. Getting started with Google Analytics can be a little daunting at first, as it has a considerable array of metrics and data available.

Social Media 51

Social Media Marketing Analytics Audience 51

crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 24, 2018

Ahrefs is one of the best Search Engine Optimization ( SEO ) and Search Engine Marketing ( SEM ) tools available for anyone who prefers to make data-based decisions in their marketing strategies. Getting started with Google Analytics can be a little daunting at first, as it has a considerable array of metrics and data available.

Social Media 48

Social Media Marketing Analytics Audience 48

ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

They can be utilized across teams— UX , CRO, social media, SEM, SEO , etc., running regression analyses against success metrics), but we knew what our “ideal customer profile” looked like for the most part, and we knew which customer profiles were worth the most money to us generally.

Software Review 115

Software Review Design Agile Analytics 115

Seeing Both Sides

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

This task is accomplished through the selection of key performance indicators, and the development of reports on these metrics for consumption across the organization. Paid: Ads (Mobile, Web, Video, TV, Radio, SEM, Affiliate), Sponsorships. Earned Media: SEO, PR, Word of Mouth.

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Seeing Both Sides

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

This task is accomplished through the selection of key performance indicators, and the development of reports on these metrics for consumption across the organization. Paid: Ads (Mobile, Web, Video, TV, Radio, SEM, Affiliate), Sponsorships. Earned Media: SEO, PR, Word of Mouth.

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Management Analytics Technical Review Framework 20

Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2009

Start with a five-dollar-a-day SEM campaign. Know what the success metrics are for the launch. March 13, 2009 11:09 PM Steen Seo Öhman said. the most sensible SEM advice Ive read - discussed in the context of a real situation. So dont combine your product launch with a marketing launch. Dont scale. Dont marketing launch.

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 22, 2011

" ~ Web Metrics: "What is a KPI? " + Standard Metrics Revisited Series. "Engagement" Is Not A Metric, It's An Excuse. Defining a "Master Metric", + a Framework to Gain a Competitive Advantage in Web Analytics. PPC / SEM Analytics: 5 Actionable Tips To Improve ROI.

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Analytics Metrics SEM Web 125

crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2014

SpyFu is a great tool that allows you to compare your own SEO/SEM tactics against those of your competitors. The traditional page views metric dimply does not provide the valuable information you need when analyzing page performance and making strategic decisions. What’s the implication here?

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Small Business SEM Social Media Mobile 79

Occam's Razor

JUNE 4, 2012

One of the biggest mistakes perpetuated by siloed execution of SEO and PPC strategies is that the groups that own each piece rarely learn from the other party's work. Never create a custom report without Acquisition, Behavior, Outcome metrics. Be insanely relevant (pick the critical few metrics ). Criminal behavior.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 2, 2015

Define your target metrics. We’ll measure this using (data metric). We expect to see (data metric(s) change) over a period of (x business cycles). PPC/SEM campaign. Before you think about optimization and testing, however, solidify your high-level strategy and move down from there to the granular. Technical Stuff.

Technical Review 48

Technical Review Analytics Framework Software Review 48

ConversionXL

MARCH 7, 2017

They can be utilized across teams – UX, CRO, Social Media, SEM, SEO, etc., running regression analyses against success metrics), but we knew what our “ideal customer profile” looked like for the most part, and we knew which customer profiles were worth the most money to us generally.

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