Occam's Razor

JUNE 4, 2012

The first part of my Market Motive video covers the best way to identify optimal starting points for improving bottom-line impact right away (I call it campaigns, keywords, outcomes ) and how to find opportunities for making immediate fixes ( optimizing ad copy, landing pages, match types ). Criminal behavior.

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datapine

OCTOBER 10, 2019

A business dashboard offers at-a-glance insights based on key performance indicators (KPIs) and is an intuitive and visually pleasing way to consume data. Looking at total digital advertising spent and the revenue. Make Sure Your Dashboard Is Mobile-Optimized. e) How are they currently viewing these KPIs?

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Dashboards Visualization Sales Metrics 146

Occam's Razor

MAY 2, 2017

People ask me this seemingly simple question all the time: What Key Performance Indicators should we use for our business ? 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.

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Metrics Key Performance Indicator B2B Measurement 141

Occam's Razor

MARCH 25, 2014

In a world of infinite choice, the ability to pick critical few metrics to focus on is, well…, critical. In this post I want to share that one-page list of the best metrics for digital content, marketing and business success with you. The Optimal Digital Investment Strategy ]. Bonus reading: Rent or Own?

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Metrics Marketing Strategy Key Performance Indicator 155

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 31, 2017

There is only one simple message above, and just two metrics that matter. It also forces a lot less think than might be optimal. Everything seems sub-optimal. Yes, text can be optimized. It can be any of the numerous brand metrics avilable to us. It should have just focused on those two. Interesting trend.

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Visualization IT Strategy Key Performance Indicator 148

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 23, 2024

Regardless of where organizations are in their digital transformation, CIOs must provide their board of directors, executive committees, and employees definitions of successful outcomes and measurable key performance indicators (KPIs). As a result, outcome-based metrics should be your guide.

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Measurement Digital Transformation KPI Metrics 138

FineReport

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Metrics dashboards enable you and your team to track the effectiveness of various tactics, campaigns, and processes. These KPI metrics are critical data to analyze and evaluate a company’s sales, human resources, and marketing, and operational activities. Dashboard metrics from FineReport. What is dashboard metrics.

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KPI Metrics Dashboards Key Performance Indicator 52

datapine

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Armed with powerful visualizations and real-time data, modern weekly summary reports enable businesses to closely monitor their performance and the progress of their strategies to extract relevant insights and optimize their processes to ensure constant growth. Let’s look at it more in detail. click to enlarge**. Weekly Sales Report.

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datapine

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Using the right marketing KPIs (key performance indicators) is a good start – what is now left is finding a way to organize it all in a way that makes sense and brings value. Structure your metrics. That way you can choose the best possible metrics for your case. How do you know that? Regularly monitor your data.

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Reporting Marketing Advertising Metrics 280

Occam's Razor

AUGUST 11, 2014

Each shows a unique facet of digital performance, and I've attempted to choose the best dimensions and, for those dimensions, the best possible metrics. I've done the hard work on your behalf to pick the dimensions and critical few metrics that will illuminate your complete business performance.

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Metrics Dashboards Key Performance Indicator B2B 147

Occam's Razor

AUGUST 22, 2022

To ensure clear focus, clear postmortems and clear accountability, I recommend identifying one single solitary metric as the Success KPI for the initiative. You can measure seven additional metrics – say for diagnostic purposes -, but there has to be just one Success KPI. [Note 1: I’m going to use the phrase Success KPI a lot.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 21, 2009

If you buy into measuring Visitor Behavior then another fantastic metric to measure your campaign "conversions" is Visitor Loyalty. If you are a non-profit like NTEN (the "craigslist of non-profits") then use Visitor Loyalty metrics to measure success of your AdWords campaigns. They will love you more.

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Measurement Analytics Metrics Key Performance Indicator 75

Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 10, 2011

Most of us have no idea how to participate optimally in this unique channel – we are doing TV on Twitter (breaks my heart). We have IT-minded people engaging in massive data puking (one report with 30 metrics anyone?) We have IT-minded people engaging in massive data puking (one report with 30 metrics anyone?)

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Metrics Measurement Advertising Key Performance Indicator 165

Occam's Razor

MAY 19, 2014

But the problem is that single golden metrics hide valuable insights and, more often than not, drive bad behavior. Here's my proposal: If you are pushed to have a single golden metric, give it a partner. The key is the immediately adjacent part. The BFF metric you find should not be one that is very far away.

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Metrics Key Performance Indicator Analytics Marketing 159

FineReport

MAY 25, 2023

An HR dashboard functions as an advanced analytics tool that utilizes interactive data visualizations to present crucial HR metrics. Its primary objective is to enhance the HR department’s recruitment processes, optimize workplace management, and improve overall employee performance. What is an HR Dashboard?

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Dashboards Metrics Cost-Benefit Key Performance Indicator 52

Occam's Razor

JULY 22, 2013

Most of the frameworks we have also don't optimally capture the complexity of digital marketing and measurement. My solution to these problems was to create a simple framework we can use to put our customers first, evaluate our marketing programs, and right-align our view of success (metrics). Then there is Agile for engineering.

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Measurement Marketing Key Performance Indicator Metrics 163

Occam's Razor

AUGUST 11, 2015

Custom reports allow you to deeply focus (by eliminating the rif-raf metrics and dimensions, they save time and show just what you want). We mis-align metrics and dimensions across Users, Session, Hits. Social Media Performance Analysis. Key Metrics: Map Overlay Visualization. Social Media Performance Analysis.

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Reporting Analytics Metrics Key Performance Indicator 158

Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

We are all aware that the best companies in the world have an optimal DC-DR-DA allocation when it comes to time/money/people: 15%-20%-65%. Calibrate data altitude optimally. #4. Yes, cost per click is metric. Focus on Economic Value from your search advertising. Focus on Profit from your search advertising.

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Visualization Key Performance Indicator Dashboards Metrics 144

Occam's Razor

JULY 15, 2014

digital performance. It also handy explanations of the metrics, with key context where necessary. is yearning for some segmentation, or at least for some comparisons of current performance to past performance for context. The VPs of Marketing, Advertising, Product, Public Relations, Human Resources etc.,

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Dashboards Key Performance Indicator Snapshot Slice and Dice 159

Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

To ensure customer delight was delivered in a timely manner, it was also decided that Average Call Time (ACT) would now be The success metric. The success metric, ACT, did go down. That ACT was an activity metric was terrible – if you have a The success metric, it should always be an outcome metric. Another issue.

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Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Progress in digital marketing and analytics in either scenario becomes painful (the organization / systems / thinking is simply not in the optimal position). During this stage you should also invest a lot in Search Engine Optimization. Bonus: Facebook Marketing: Best Metrics, ROI, Business Value ]. Business results suffer.

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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. " Boom!

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Analytics Dashboards Metrics Key Performance Indicator 145

Occam's Razor

JUNE 28, 2011

Web Analysts are blessed with an immense amount of data, and an amazing amount of valuable, even sexy, metrics to understand business performance. Yet our heroic efforts to report the aforementioned sexy metrics lead to little business action. Since crappy sounds bad, let's just say you are reporting super lame metrics.

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Metrics Measurement Key Performance Indicator Reporting 126

datapine

MAY 16, 2019

In today’s hyper-connected digital landscape, it’s possible to collect, organize, and present every single fragment of information – from wait time to staff performance and menu optimization – in a way that will help your restaurant evolve and improve on a continual basis. Why Are Restaurant Analytics Important?

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Step 1: Optimal Metrics. It lays out an evolutionary path for the key performance indicators you should use to drive digital sophistication inside your company. You'll find it here: Digital Metrics Ladder of Awesomeness. The end goal is to recommend an optimal mix for your marketing budget.

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datapine

APRIL 9, 2019

By leveraging HR KPIs (Key Performance Indicators), which are measurements that enable businesses to track very specific areas of human resources-related data, companies like yours can continuously and consistently improve their HR capabilities. Also, problems can be handled before they negatively affect the organization.

Reporting 155

Reporting Dashboards Metrics Cost-Benefit 155

Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Some use the display advertising options on YouTube, but are not sure what value those ads deliver (and how to think of them in context of web display ads or even TV). It is a pure advertising platform (like every site on the world). What's advertising/marketing/participation on YouTube? What to do (participation)?

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Marketing Analytics Advertising Measurement 149

Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

The Directors, the Marketers, the Optimization employees and our resident social media gurus. You can cut yourself with it and embarrass yourself, or you can look the very best you ever have by using it optimally. We still live in an world where we are optimize for single visit sessions. No, you are smarter than that.

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Visualization Key Performance Indicator Slice and Dice Strategy 160

datapine

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

It is very likely that you have found yourself looking at a chart or graph at work, in the news, sports, media, advertising, and many other places at some point in your life. The metrics are different and useful independently, but together, they tell a compelling story.

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Visualization Dashboards Sales Measurement 177

Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 19, 2010

A huge vast majority of clicks coming from search engines continue to be organic clicks (which is why I love and adore search engine optimization). Mongoose Metrics ~ ifbyphone. I know Mongoose Metrics a bit more and have been impressed with their solution and evolution over the last couple of years. Google Website Optimizer.

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datapine

JANUARY 31, 2022

Because things are changing and becoming more competitive in every sector of business, the benefits of business intelligence and proper use of data analytics are key to outperforming the competition. Consumers have grown more and more immune to ads that aren’t targeted directly at them. Let’s see it with a real-world example.

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 23, 2012

While there is a great deal of appreciation for the power of metrics/data, I've come to realize that Sr. Leaders don't quite appreciate the deep, and often corrosive, consequences of choosing metric x over metric y as a key performance indicator (KPI). It really is that stark. But it gets worse.

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Measurement Key Performance Indicator Metrics KPI 152

Occam's Razor

APRIL 29, 2013

Many used some data, but they unfortunately used silly data strategies/metrics. And silly simply because as soon as the strategy/success metric being obsessed about was mentioned, it was clear they would fail. It is a really good metric. But it is not a key performance indicator. I love bounce rate.

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Jet Global

JUNE 30, 2021

A chief executive officer (CEO) key performance indicator (KPI) or metric is a relative performance measure that a CEO will use to make informed decisions. This CEO metric checks to see if a company can cover its current liabilities using its current assets. What is a CEO KPI?

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