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Mobile App Analytics: Everything You Need to Know to Get Started

Where should you start with your mobile app analytics?

If you’re launching a mobile app, you’ve likely considered the differences between optimizing a simple site and a mobile app or game. But have you considered how the measurement and data analysis process will be different?

Without a definitive plan and deep understanding of the fundamentals, your mobile app data will get complicated quickly. There are new tools, new terminology, new reports, new rules for efficiency, and so on.

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Form Analytics: What You Can Track and How to Track It

You spend plenty of marketing dollars trying to get someone to your form. But how much goes to waste at that stage? According to data from Zuko, roughly two-thirds of those who start filling out a form never complete it.

Why? If you’re not tracking form analytics, you don’t know. The data between a pageview and a form completion (or abandonment) is missing.

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Long Sales Cycle? Here’s How to Set the Value of a Conversion

Most hurricanes that reach the United States start off the coast of West Africa. Those storms join and split with other minor systems as they move across the Atlantic. Some dissipate into a mild breeze; others devastate coastal areas along the Eastern seaboard.

So what does an afternoon rainshower over Cape Verde tell you about the next Category 5 hurricane? Often, little more than a form fill tells you about the potential for a five-figure sale months down the road.

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Predictive Analytics: What’s Possible, Who’s Doing It, and How

In 2009, Netflix offered $1 million to anyone who could improve the quality of its recommendation engine by 10%. It took two years, but a team finally won. Netflix paid the bounty—then ignored the code.

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Mixpanel vs. Google Analytics: a Detailed Comparison for 2023

This post is not a dry feature-by-feature comparison, nor does it include a winner-take-all verdict. Your business won’t benefit from either of those things.

Instead, we’re comparing Mixpanel and Google Analytics in the terms that drive business growth—identifying the core use cases for each tool and the business problems they solve, while highlighting the features that make it possible.

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Why (and How) Optimizers Should Take Advantage of User State Models

William A. Foster once said, “Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction, and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives.”

Yet, we continue to see businesses pushing leads through doors, pushing customers through funnels… just hoping that they’ll create a high quality, engaged audience by accident.

Unfortunately, it doesn’t work that way. A high quality, engaged audience is anything but accidental. It requires that optimizers put in the effort to create user state models, dig into cohort analysis and correlative metrics, run experiments for different user states, etc.

It’s not the easy choice, but if you’re looking for long-term revenue growth, it’s the only choice.

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5 Things You’re Measuring Incorrectly With Digital Analytics

Watching the growth of digital analytics over the last several years has been both exciting and disturbing.

It’s been exciting because what was a once niche-activity has evolved into a serious, business-focused enterprise activity.

Disturbing, because many people & organizations want to compete on analytics, but are not doing the right things or adopting the right thinking about analytics.

I’ve run into organizations that don’t know how to effectively create, participate, manage or lead analysts and often believe that “data science” or the latest technology will save the day, not the team of people with different skill sets working cross-functionally to make systematic improvements.

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7 Ways that Predictive Analytics Is Transforming Ecommerce

Have you ever dreamed about learning which products your customers are most likely to buy in advance?

How great would it be if you could determine the highest price a customer would pay for a product? What if you could optimize customer service to resolve concerns proactively before they become issues?

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Screw Vanity Metrics – Show Me The Money

This is a guest post by Dan Norris from Informly.

In my last business I was obsessed with traffic. I started a blog and I clearly remember the day I cracked 5,000 monthly visitors woo hoo! Only took me about 2 years.

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