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How Startups Can Use Metrics to Drive Success

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Having a set of metrics that you watch & that you feel are the key drivers of your success helps keep clarity. And the more public you can make your goals for these key metrics the better. You’ll have no idea when you’re off course. How many through SEM? Here are some measurements I think about. SEO is seldom “free.”.

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How to Solve the Biggest Frustration Marketers Have With Social

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And of course you could add up impressions by counting your the followers of everybody who had retweeted plus your own. It is what is commonly referred to as “vanity metrics” as in, “Look at how many more followers I got us! Of course it’s valuable to know how many clicks you drive.

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Why Misunderstanding Startup Metrics Can Cost You Your Business

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There has been a lot of public debate over the past several weeks about whether it’s a good thing to be “gross margin positive” or not and commentary always reminds me that some people at startups don’t quite understand financial metrics or even how to think about which ones are healthy.

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How to Decrease the Odds That Your Startup Fails

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If you look at the structure of the travel industry above – of course we know that the hotel industry is fragmented while the airline industry is reasonable consolidated. The metrics were good but we wondered how much better they would be when we expanded our product. If you’re not successful then who cares.

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