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Marketing. Raven Media Labs (RavenMediaLabs) Sample cohort analysis. How to estimate Lifetime Value; Sample cohort analysis. In many businesses, repeat purchase behavior is a key driver of value.

How to estimate Lifetime Value; Sample cohort analysis

Many companies track % of repeat purchases as a key business metric. This is useful in steady state, but can sometimes be quite misleading if the company is showing substantial growth. By definition, growth implies many first time customers, and the mix of these new customers can distort the view into how much repeat purchase behavior is actually occuring. I prefer to try to analyze repeat pruchase behavior, and hence, estimate lifetime value, by doing cohort analysis.

This is approximate by definition, but it can give you some sense of lifetime value well before you actually see a full customer lifetime, which can help in accelerating decisions about marketing and customer acquisition. I’ve uploaded a spreadsheet with a sample cohort analysis, using representative but dummy data to illustrate how to do this. In this particular example, I look at a hypothetical subscription business. Xu Cui » Cohort analysis. Cohort analysis is a good metric on how users engage to an application.

Xu Cui » Cohort analysis

To do this, you: Break the users into cohorts according to when they register (bin size usually a month)Count the number of users in each cohort who login in over timePlot it What you can get: the number of users currently using the program (read the height of period 5)retention rate over timegrowth rate EverNote ECO Phil Libin used this analysis to attract investors. Source: How to make the cohort analysis plot? It’s actually simple. Measuring & Tracking Success of your SEO Strategy - The Beginners Guide to SEO. They say that if you can measure it, then you can improve it.

Measuring & Tracking Success of your SEO Strategy - The Beginners Guide to SEO

In search engine optimization, measurement is critical to success. Professional SEOs track data about rankings, referrals, links and more to help analyze their SEO strategy and create road maps for success. Although every business is unique and every website has different metrics that matter, the following list is nearly universal.

Note that we're only covering those metrics critical to SEO - optimizing for the search engines. As a result, more general metrics may not be included. Every month, it's critical to keep track of the contribution of each traffic source for your site. Direct Navigation: Typed in traffic, bookmarks, email links without tracking codes, etc.Referral Traffic: From links across the web or in trackable email, promotion & branding campaign linksSearch Traffic: Queries that sent traffic from any major or minor web search engine Compare Performance vs. Get Visibility Into Potential Drops Analytics Software.

Online Metrics. Customer lifetime value. In marketing, customer lifetime value (CLV) (or often CLTV), lifetime customer value (LCV), or user lifetime value (LTV) is a prediction of the net profit attributed to the entire future relationship with a customer.

Customer lifetime value

The prediction model can have varying levels of sophistication and accuracy, ranging from a crude heuristic to the use of complex predictive analytics techniques. One of the first accounts of the term Customer Lifetime Value is in the 1988 book Database Marketing, which includes detailed worked examples.[2] Purpose[edit] The purpose of the customer lifetime value metric is to assess the financial value of each customer. As Don Peppers and Martha Rogers are fond of saying, “some customers are more equal than others.”[3] Customer lifetime value (CLV) differs from customer profitability or CP (the difference between the revenues and the costs associated with the customer relationship during a specified period) in that CP measures the past and CLV looks forward.

Methodology[edit] Redirect Notice. Cohort Visualizer » A handy tool for browsing cohort datasets. Note: No data will go to the server.

Cohort Visualizer » A handy tool for browsing cohort datasets

This is all client-side in your browser. Google Ventures — Startup Lab — Startup Lab videos available to the public. Since its inception, Google Ventures has held more than sixty workshops.

Google Ventures — Startup Lab — Startup Lab videos available to the public

These sessions are open to every employee of our 160+ portfolio companies and are held on a variety of topics: everything from privacy to Javascript testing to business development. Speakers are drawn from experts at Google and beyond. More than 95% of our portfolio companies have attended at least one workshop, and our recorded talks have been viewed thousands of times. We’ve decided to make several of these workshops available to everyone in the world on our YouTube channel. The first three — A/B testing done right, Meetings that don’t suck, and Cohort analysis — are available today and embedded below. We’ll be releasing new videos every week, continuing with “How Google sets goals: objectives and key results” next week.