ConversionXL

JANUARY 30, 2013

Wrong metric. The problem is with the metrics used – direct sales are a very bad metric to use for social. So direct sales numbers are not a good metric to look at when it comes to social media, but what is then? Use testimonials and social media widgets to establish your authority and show your success.

Social Media 134

Social Media Sales Media Social Network 134

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

They work to improve top-of-funnel metrics like brand awareness and identify opportunities to improve customer activation, retention, and referral efforts. If your campaign works and your brand awareness metrics improve, you win. Then, compare any change in the awareness metrics you’re measuring in that region with other markets.

Framework 102

Framework Marketing Acquisition Retention 102

ConversionXL

MARCH 28, 2019

Whatever your objective, establish the metrics you want to track in advance to determine whether your launch is a success: Comments and reviews received; Number of upvotes; Number of downloads/active installs; Referral traffic from social media and Product Hunt; Mentions in the media and on social media platforms. Analyze your launch.

Campaign 127

Campaign Product Technical Review Social Media 127

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

reminds us that Customer Development is not just collecting web metrics and it’s not about focus groups. I’m currently developing a widget product for e-retailers to make shopping social. I’ve written before that Customer’s own the pain, Founders own the vision, meaning that [.] Great work.

Customer Development 287

Customer Development Developer Customer Silicon Valley 287

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.

Audience 119

Audience San Francisco Continuous Deployment Lean 119

ConversionXL

AUGUST 21, 2014

That’s why you need to be simultaneously feeding your growth engine , while monitoring churn and your other startup metrics. They refer to these differences as “ Red Flag” Metrics (or RFMs). Total number of logins also proved to be an important metric, though not as much so as the former two. times per day on average.

Retention 106

Retention Churn Rate Metrics Software Review 106

Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 8, 2008

Whenever you have code that is un-deployed or un-integrated, its helpful to think of it as a huge stack of not-yet-installed parts in a widget factory. Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev.

Software Review 136

Software Review San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment 136

ConversionXL

JANUARY 9, 2019

Is it higher usability metrics, like task completion and conversions, or something beyond analytics, like revenue? For example, if Daniel Howell, our CEO pictured above, is frustrated by a lack of information about your service, then it’s probably a good idea to design an FAQ page or service-page widget he can expand for more information.

Design 131

Design Software Review Audio Technical Review 131

Occam's Razor

JULY 12, 2010

Please click on the above image for a higher resolution version , including all the other metrics.]. I love the data you saw in the very first screenshot, and I absolutely love this… [Please click on the above image for a higher resolution version , including all the other metrics.]. Say it ain't so! :). Why is this cool?

Analytics 97

Analytics Viral Web Mobile 97

Up and Running

JUNE 21, 2017

You can further “educate” your Google Analytics metrics by using UTM parameters on your links. You hardly ever need to look at user-specific data, but having that data available is fundamental to truly understand your metrics at scale. Read more about tracking metrics for a SaaS business here.

Marketing 98

Marketing Analytics Campaign Metrics 98

Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 21, 2017

Using these metrics you can cover every side of your social reputation management plan, all from a single dashboard. Price : Unlimited number of widgets for just $19 per month ($14 per month if paid annually). They also have brand and media tracking , social media monitoring, and more. Tweetdeck: Engage with Brand Mentions on Twitter.

Social Media 77

Social Media Reputation Widget Search 77

ConversionXL

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Nowadays nearly every online shop utilizes some sort of product recommendation engine, which is no wonder, as these systems, if set up and configured properly can significantly boost revenues, CTRs, conversions, and other important metrics. This is a very important metric when evaluating a recommender system.

Conversion 48

Conversion Product Technical Review Widget 48

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

And the same is true in reverse - a lone brilliant coder can build a great widget, but it takes a system of people working well together to produce consistently great results. One person making a mistake may be a deranged lone wolf, but systematic mistakes are the result of systemic problems.

San Francisco 60

San Francisco Continuous Deployment Lean DC 60

ConversionXL

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Define your target metrics. This is where you’ve found a page, widget, or process that’s not working well but doesn’t reveal a clear solution. We’ll measure this using (data metric). We expect to see (data metric[s] change) over a period of (X business cycles). Define your website goals. Instrument. Hypothesize.

Analytics 127

Analytics Technical Review Software Review Framework 127

blog.adaptiveblue.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Tracking results is useful for metrics, which, in turn, help measure growth and success of the company. For example, if your service is offering a widget you can use Google Analytics to track what sites is this widget on. To do that just call Google analytics from the widget code. link] Looking for Widgets?

EC2 40

EC2 Widget Software Review Startup 40

YoungUpstarts

JULY 22, 2011

You’ll find content categorized into different topics such as Marketing , Sales , Design , Revenue , Hiring , Social Media , Business Models , Metrics , PR , Venture Capital , Angel Investors , Bootstrapping , Incubators , Agile and many others.

Aggregator 170

Aggregator Curation Widget Angel Investor 170

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 23, 2013

It provides a basic introduction to analytics as they apply to Lean Startup, including sections on what metrics to use and how to interpret them. For instance, Ben lists out the worst of the “vanity metrics,” a term that describes appealing but meaningless or misleading numbers. Alistair: There are plenty. Consider a restaurant.

Analytics 167

Analytics Lean Widget Metrics 167

Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 15, 2025

There's never a broken widget. John Jantsch (17:25.345) Have you, have you determined any sort of metrics, employee morale, productivity? I think yeah, we are a marketing agency, but we're also a services firm. And after 20 years of building a services firm, you can be interchangeable with a psychologist, right?

Exit Strategy 61

Exit Strategy Retention Employee Programming 61

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 27, 2020

Visualizing key data and metrics can help your organization recognize patterns and business opportunities. Interactive sites, widgets, and infographics boast a stunning 70-percent conversion rate. That’s why, for many companies, making their reports visual is no longer a choice — it’s a must. Interactive Infographics & Sites.

Marketing 232

Marketing Social Media Public Relations Widget 232

ConversionXL

AUGUST 19, 2016

Inspired by the movie ‘Moneyball,’ MoneyBall syndrome refers to the fact that companies aren’t looking into the right metrics when measuring the effectiveness of their mobile website. Some marketers try looking at conversion as a solo metric of determining how their CTAs perform on mobile. Revamp Mobile Metrics to Combat Moneyball.

Mobile 48

Mobile Technical Review Software Review Metrics 48

ConversionXL

MARCH 1, 2016

James Gurd , Owner of Digital Juggler , described it a structured approach to improving business metrics, both micro and macro actions: James Gurd: ”It is a structured approach to improving the progress through and completion of user journeys, whatever the end goal may be. But Isn’t Design Metrically Opposed?

Conversion 48

Conversion Metrics Analytics Design 48

Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 22, 2024

Wix work in sync with your team all on one canvas, and reuse templates, widgets, and sections across sites. Certainly if you're going to have a seat at the C-suite table, you are going to be talking about metrics. Work in sync with your team all on one canvas, reuse templates, widgets and sections across sites.

Leadership 80

Leadership Technical Review Retention Widget 80

www.ere.net

JULY 15, 2012

Common reason for failure: no metric or feedback mechanism to measure the percentage of applications that were routed to the wrong job. Common reason for failure: the absence of a metric or feedback mechanism to measure the percentage of applications that were misclassified or that advanced without meeting minimum standards.

Hiring 57

Hiring Metrics Search Widget 57

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 6, 2017

Of course, as the metrics (and the ways of compiling them) become more sophisticated, we start seeing how important other types of content really are. You can have the best widget in the world or you can have a mediocre knockoff widget with fewer features. How does your content strategy measure up against these crucial criteria?

Sales 149

Sales Widget Marketing Social Media 149

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

APRIL 11, 2011

They should talk about how to write an effective newsletter, how to track key metrics on newsletter campaigns, what kinds of things you should expect to achieve from a newsletter, ideas for content for your newsletter, ways to look informative instead of spammy, ways to get two-way promotion with other bloggers via your newsletter, and so on.

Widget 268

Widget Social Media RSS Software 268

The Startup Magazine

MARCH 28, 2021

When e-commerce first took off in the 1990s, web traffic was regarded as the most critical metric for measuring a website’s popularity. Other metrics to measure online performance did not yet exist. Ensure that necessary widgets are present at the bottom of each page to enhance its sharability.

SEO 183

SEO Social Media Search Campaign 183

Steve Blank

MARCH 11, 2015

I just spent a day working with Bob, the Chief Innovation Officer of a very smart large company I’ll call Acme Widgets. There are financial metrics (Return on Investment, Hurdle Rate, etc.) metrics (validated/invalidated hypotheses, Investment Readiness Level ) and processes. Bob summarized Acme’s impediments to innovation. “At

Widget 120

Widget Lean Business Model Metrics 120

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 30, 2012

When it comes to data analysis, you are usually more likely to see me share guidance on advanced segmentation or custom reports or advanced social metrics or controlled experiments or economic value or competitive intelligence or web analytics maturity or one of an infinite number of difficult, if hugely rewarding, things.

Analytics 146

Analytics Metrics API Web 146

Feld Thoughts

APRIL 11, 2011

As a result, they don’t charge for the usage of their API or their widgets. The BigDoor team believes strongly that gamification should be a profit-center for web publishers and app developers, not a cost-center.

Cost 130

Cost Widget API Advertising 130

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 8, 2012

For example, if you’re at the beginning of a simple campaign and you’re just trying to get a general idea of whether that campaign is working or not, and that’s all you’re concerned about, there’s no need to overload yourself with a dashboard full of widgets telling you all sorts of extraneous information.

Marketing 160

Marketing Conversion Ratio Widget Forecast 160

YoungUpstarts

MAY 29, 2018

Providing real-time customer care solutions (including live chat widgets and integrated email). One of the many benefits attributed to modern systems such as those offered by Shopify is the possibility to address numerous sales-related metrics within seconds. Managing inventory. Proactive Versus Reactive. How did we do?

Widget 127

Widget eCommerce Framework Metrics 127

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 29, 2010

(<30 sec) Write your local newspaper & tell them you support the Startup Visa Act Call your senators & let them know you support Startup Visa legislation Add the Startup Visa Widget to your blog or website Follow the #startupvisa hash tag on Twitter and voice your support Contribute to Startup Visa so we can spread the word!

San Francisco 143

San Francisco Video DC Continuous Deployment 143

www.kalzumeus.com

AUGUST 13, 2012

Well, on the surface it appears to align price with customer success (bigger customers pay more money), it gives you the excuse to have really fun widgets on your pricing page, and it seems to offer low-cost entry options which then scale to the moon. Why do geeks love this sort of pricing? I hate, hate, hate this pricing scheme.

Revenue 62

Revenue Distribution Software Non-Compete 62

Genuine VC

APRIL 30, 2008

However, for the past couple years, the metrics of “success” with early-stage digital media startups (especially consumer-facing ones) have clearly focused on distribution, as opposed to monetization. But it goes beyond just widgets and social networks.

Distribution 103

Distribution Widget Viral Social Media 103

This is going to be BIG.

JULY 25, 2022

Metrics around these efforts. For example, you may decide that a small business needs a widget like yours (hypothesis) so you outbound to 100 of them (goals) with a vaporware deck to see if you could sell some pre-orders. Some efforts don’t have more complicated metrics than just, “Did this work, yes, no, or still in process?”

Equity 133

Equity Metrics Widget Bandwidth 133

Genuine VC

APRIL 30, 2008

However, for the past couple years, the metrics of “success” with early-stage digital media startups (especially consumer-facing ones) have clearly focused on distribution, as opposed to monetization. But it goes beyond just widgets and social networks.

Distribution 100

Distribution Widget Viral Social Media 100

The Next Web

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

A next generation biotech business would get priced at a higher valuation than yet another family diner or widget manufacturer. If there are no earnings yet, with your business plowing profits into long term growth, then revenue multiples or some other metric would be used. Related to the above is the industry in which you operate.

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Valuation Forecast Seed Stage .Net 167