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Tristan
Web designer -> Web developer -> Applications developer
Current project: lead analytics application
(shhh ... don’t tell them, but business doesn’t know what
they want)
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Tristan
Web designer -> Web developer -> Applications developer
Current project: lead analytics application
(shhh ... don’t tell them, but business doesn’t know what
they want)
Hence this presentation
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What questions do you really want answered?
Is she fertile enough to bear offspring (is she in good
reproductive health)?
Is he good enough in bed (is he fun and pleasurable)?
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What questions do you really want answered?
Is she fertile enough to bear offspring (is she in good
reproductive health)?
Is he good enough in bed (is he fun and pleasurable)?
Is my website popular (is it reaching my target
audience) ?
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What questions do you really want answered?
Is she fertile enough to bear offspring (is she in good
reproductive health)?
Is he good enough in bed (is he fun and pleasurable)?
Is my website popular (is it reaching my target
audience) ?
How long until I break even from my investment (ROI) ?
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What does the business want to know?
How does this affect the bottom line? (impact)
What are the areas we need to improve on? (highlight
weaknesses)
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What does the business want to know?
How does this affect the bottom line? (impact)
What are the areas we need to improve on? (highlight
weaknesses)
In other words, will he be a good father/mother to my
children?
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What does the business want to know?
How does this affect the bottom line? (impact)
What are the areas we need to improve on? (highlight
weaknesses)
In other words, will he be a good father/mother to my
children?
See http://www.kaushik.net/avinash/web-metrics-super-
lame-super-awesome/
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What we’re doing at Mindvalley:
value per lead, per class
quick run through of [part] of our business model
Google Adwords -> traffic -> Landing Page -> signups ->
Mailing List -> funnel -> Purchase
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Initially rolled out for Google Adwords, and it worked great
Because the initial design was flexible, it was easy to add
new traffic sources and tag them properly
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Initially rolled out for Google Adwords, and it worked great
Because the initial design was flexible, it was easy to add
new traffic sources and tag them properly
We now have value per lead data for Facebook Ads and
Organic Search (Google, Bing, Yahoo)
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Initially rolled out for Google Adwords, and it worked great
Because the initial design was flexible, it was easy to add
new traffic sources and tag them properly
We now have value per lead data for Facebook Ads and
Organic Search (Google, Bing, Yahoo)
Mindvalley’s traffic team rely on Oathkeeper’s data to help
them secure funding for their initiatives (they can use it as a
bargaining chip and leverage)
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Caveats:
Don’t make something other companies with bigger budgets and focus can do better
(e.g. Google Analytics) - it is often cheaper and more effective to use that instead of
rolling your own
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Caveats:
Don’t make something other companies with bigger budgets and focus can do better
(e.g. Google Analytics) - it is often cheaper and more effective to use that instead of
rolling your own
Only roll your own solution if the existing products available out there do not solve
your problems (e.g. privacy, lack of APIs, too large granularity)
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Caveats:
Don’t make something other companies with bigger budgets and focus can do better
(e.g. Google Analytics) - it is often cheaper and more effective to use that instead of
rolling your own
Only roll your own solution if the existing products available out there do not solve
your problems (e.g. privacy, lack of APIs, too large granularity)
Your solution might be so successful the business might start of thinking other ways to
leverage your metrics that were outside the scope of how you initially designed it, so
make sure you bake in enough flexibility
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METRICS
Caveats:
Don’t make something other companies with bigger budgets and focus can do better
(e.g. Google Analytics) - it is often cheaper and more effective to use that instead of
rolling your own
Only roll your own solution if the existing products available out there do not solve
your problems (e.g. privacy, lack of APIs, too large granularity)
Your solution might be so successful the business might start of thinking other ways to
leverage your metrics that were outside the scope of how you initially designed it, so
make sure you bake in enough flexibility
Rule of thumb: if you cannot attach a dollar value to a metric, try digging deeper,
integrating wider, consolidating more until you do or it becomes ridiculous. Then start
thinking whether the effort of collecting the data is worth the insight it will bring.