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5 Vanity Metrics Your Marketing Team Should Be Wary Of

ANNUITAS

Clicks and Opens. The proliferation of marketing automation tools has given rise to the importance of measuring email clicks and opens. The problem with clicks and opens is that – at their core – both metrics are flawed. Here are five vanity metrics your marketing team needs to be wary of. . Subscribers and Followers.

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Diversifying Your Engagement Channel Mix to Keep Up with Changing Customer Expectations

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Sure, your analytics might be able to focus on acquisition metrics like click-through and conversion rate, but it’s unlikely you’re able to connect the dots between how a lead’s engagement with each channel impacts their progression through the funnel.

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How do you migrate to a new site search engine?

Biznology

That search gets search results (it isn’t a “not found”), at least one of those results gets clicked, and the searcher doesn’t “pogostick” back to the search results screen within a few seconds. If they get no results or they don’t click on anything or they pogostick back, you know that was bad.

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Four Great Ways to Use Personalization in Digital Marketing

Webbiquity

Here are a few interesting statistics from various (case) studies suggesting how much of a difference personalization can make in your email campaigns: According to Statista , the open rate for personalized emails is 18.8%, compared to 13.1% Image credit: Elastic Email. without any personalization. 3. Website Personalization.

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Key Performance Indicators – Not Clicks

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This line of thinking also supports the parallel perception that effective program measurement is driven by click and open rates. Unfortunately, you can’t look simply at email-based metrics and draw correlations to downstream conversions. – Lead stage elasticity per content offer. – Growth rate per lead stage.

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Optimization Testing: Don't Obsess Over Conversion Rates

Hubspot

This is a guest article written by Linda Bustos, director of eCommerce research for Elastic Path Software. Linda is chief blogger at the Get Elastic Ecommerce Blog , the Internet's most read eCommerce blog. One of the biggest mistakes you can make with A/B or multivariate testing is to have conversion rate myopia.

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Customer Engagement Software Pricing Guide

TrustRadius Marketing

We’ll also explore software with free features and Top Rated products on TrustRadius that can help you improve business outcomes. For more information on customer engagement platforms, see our definitional piece below: Click here to read “What are Customer Engagement Platforms?” International rates vary by destination.