Tracey WallaceJanuary 23, 2015 Most successful business owners can, with confidence, answer the question “How well is my business doing?” Better yet, they can back up their answer with sufficient data. After all, only when you can answer this question with data-backed clarity will you know where your online store stands today and what to … Continue reading 11 Need to Know Ecommerce Metrics to Scale Like the Big Box Retailers
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5 Most Important Analytics Metrics Explained
By Zach Heller, Published November 3, 2014 For those of you not using Google Analytics to track your website activity, I suggest you start. Whether you’re already using it, or you’re about to get started now that I told you to, it’s important to know how to use the information Google Analytics provides. When you’re … Continue reading 5 Most Important Analytics Metrics Explained
10 Email Marketing Metrics
By Heather Seitz, Published October 31, 2014 There are a LOT of questions about email marketing metrics, trends, and overall “how to improve” your email program. So let’s take a moment to look at 10 Important Email Marketing Metrics that you need to be paying careful attention to: Deliverability Metrics Let’s start by looking at deliverability … Continue reading 10 Email Marketing Metrics
9 Metrics for Measuring the Success of Your Brand Ambassador Campaigns
By Marcella Wigg, Published October 23, 2014 Measuring the success of your brand ambassador program is important. But what metrics should you use as indicators of success? Which measurements will allow you to see for yourself the success of your brand ambassador program? When analyzing what your ambassadors have contributed to your brand during … Continue reading 9 Metrics for Measuring the Success of Your Brand Ambassador Campaigns
Four Performance Metrics to Improve your Call Center
Call centers are at the core of the customer experience and are often under constant scrutiny from the public and industry to ensure a high level of service is provided. Businesses today acknowledge that the sustainable differentiator between companies is driven by the level of customer care they provide and the subsequent impression left with … Continue reading Four Performance Metrics to Improve your Call Center
Soft Metrics That Have A Significant Effect On Your Bottom Line
Everyone wants to increase sales and grow their business – that’s practically a given in the marketing world. Increasing sales numbers and related key performance indicators (KPIs) is typically the main task for most marketers. And it is almost definitely the one that your boss cares about the most, regardless of whether said boss is … Continue reading Soft Metrics That Have A Significant Effect On Your Bottom Line
Public Relations Metrics Are Like Apples for Pie
As part of the AMEC Measurement Week, I’ve been asked to prepare some quick thoughts on how to explain PR metrics to stakeholders and executives. Rather than get highly technical, I thought I’d share a story about apple pie. Imagine that there were two grandparents and a grand-daughter named Mary that made and sold apple … Continue reading Public Relations Metrics Are Like Apples for Pie
3 ROI Metrics Your Marketing Team Should Start Tracking Tomorrow
If your company is serious about creating an online presence, there’s more to it than just putting up blog posts or social updates and then just forgetting they ever exist. You want to find a way to figure out if all your efforts are paying off. For a lot of organizations, the list of metrics … Continue reading 3 ROI Metrics Your Marketing Team Should Start Tracking Tomorrow
Don’t Use The Wrong Metrics To Measure Success
In the new second edition of my book, “Email Marketing Rules,” I focus more on measuring success than on anything else except permission. That’s because too often email marketers are using the wrong yardstick to measure the effectiveness of their programs. Here are three examples of how success is often measured incorrectly, leading to underperformance: … Continue reading Don’t Use The Wrong Metrics To Measure Success