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5 Vanity Metrics Your Marketing Team Should Be Wary Of

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And because you aren’t measuring the specific impact of engagement channels and content, you can’t be sure that the marketing campaign you’re going to execute will be successful or not. Correlation is not causation. When a vanity metric number is too low, the reaction is to execute another marketing campaign. Subscribers and Followers.

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5 Reasons Why You’re Getting Bad Leads

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From a top-funnel to bottom-funnel approach, the first step to ‘engage’ correlates with early stage content that attracts a wide audience by touching on high-level, thought leadership topics, like industry trends. Your Content is Reaching the Wrong Audience. Engagement channels are where content and buyer journey intersect.

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Avoiding The Predictive Analytics #Fail In Demand Generation

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For predictive analytics to be meaningful, they must identify those factors that are the best indicators of a potential purchase — so it requires drawing correlations in your data between these factors and revenue outcomes. Except this data isn’t just lying around, and it is probably not part of a closed loop today.

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Key Performance Indicators – Not Clicks

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Unfortunately, you can’t look simply at email-based metrics and draw correlations to downstream conversions. After all, clicks alone do not help measure the efficacy of the key pillars of a sophisticated Demand Generation program: buyer-centric content performance; lead management performance; channel effectiveness; and revenue performance.

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Log File Analysis 101 - Whiteboard Friday

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But you'll also see W3C, elastic load balancing, which you might see a lot with things like Kibana. Missed content: So what's really important is to take a look at: What's Googlebot finding and crawling, and what are they just completely missing? Types So let's get right into it. So for those larger sites, that's not uncommon.

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Optimizing Go-to-Market Program Lift Through a Converged Growth System of KPIs

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A great example is a content team comparing a blog post with 1,000 views with one that has 100 and judging the former as the most successful blog post when in reality the latter led to 10x more commercial results. Every interaction must be able to be analyzed according to its content and channel “elasticity.”

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How Social Media Can Help B2B Marketing Teams Hit Growth Goals

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I’ll talk about how to do that a little later in this post, but it boils down to understanding your buyer’s content consumption preferences and taking a good hard look at your own internal skills. As long as your audience thinks your content is relevant and interesting, that’s all that matters. Elasticity of Engagement Channel (i.e.