{"id":3175,"date":"2013-10-10T19:45:36","date_gmt":"2013-10-10T19:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gubatron.com\/blog\/?p=3175"},"modified":"2013-10-10T19:45:36","modified_gmt":"2013-10-10T19:45:36","slug":"metrics-gathering-notes-from-workshop-by-aaron-ginn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gubatron.com\/blog\/metrics-gathering-notes-from-workshop-by-aaron-ginn\/","title":{"rendered":"Metrics Gathering notes from Workshop by Aaron Ginn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aaron Ginn from StumbleUpon.com<br \/>\nOctober 10th, 2013 @ Miami Science Museum \/ Refresh Miami<\/p>\n<p>Most important metrics?<br \/>\nNumber of installations.<br \/>\nRevenues.<\/p>\n<p>Types of metrics:<br \/>\n&#8211; Quantitatie vs -Qualitative.<\/p>\n<p>Idea:<br \/>\n&#8211; On Wizard, let them know how to be in touch for Tech Support<br \/>\nvia @frostwire and facebook.com\/FrostWire Official.<br \/>\nTask for Marcelina to design that screen on the wizard.<\/p>\n<p><b>QUANTITATIVE<\/b><br \/>\nThe funnel (Pirate Metric)<br \/>\nAcquisition &gt; Activations &gt; Retention &gt; Referral &gt; Revenue.<\/p>\n<p><b>QUALITATIVE<\/b><br \/>\nUser Testing (In Progress)<br \/>\nSurveys<br \/>\nStudy Groups<br \/>\nUser Interviews<\/p>\n<p><b>&#8212;<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Stages for companies:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Early Stage<\/b>\u00a0involves discovery, validation. Then get Seeded out of pocket and angels.<br \/>\nQualitative metrics help here.<\/p>\n<p><b>Later Stage <\/b>creation and building &#8211; Series A, profitability.<br \/>\nQuantitative metrics.<\/p>\n<p>During creation, you want to start doing A\/B to grow and see what works.<\/p>\n<p><b>PRODUCT DASHBOARD<\/b><br \/>\nEngagement<br \/>\nUser&#8217;s worth (LTV)<br \/>\nGrowth rate<\/p>\n<p><b>Qualities of a Good Metric<\/b><br \/>\nMeasurements that are aggressively attacking your product.<\/p>\n<p><b>Actionable<\/b> &#8211; short feedback loop.<br \/>\n<b>Product Centric <\/b>&#8211; attack core assumptions of your product<br \/>\n<b>Ratio <\/b>&#8211; Compare against competitors performance, industry numbers.<br \/>\n<b>Explainable &#8211; <\/b>simpler the better<br \/>\n<b>Timeless<\/b><br \/>\n(Checkout &#8220;Flurry&#8221; reports<\/p>\n<p><b>Key Metrics per business<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Marketplace: fulfillment rate, WOW (week over week) growth on both sides, % repeat purchase<\/p>\n<p>Social Product: DAU\/MAU, WOW daily registration, % ad impressions<\/p>\n<p>B2B &#8211; sales funnel metrics, LTV<\/p>\n<p>B2C &#8211; sales funnel metrics, LTV, WOW growth<\/p>\n<p>LTV = churn * avg revenue per customer<\/p>\n<p>Virality = measure the share cycle time is important. The faster, the deeper impact at sub-levels. Time between invites and activations.<br \/>\nLook for vitality equations.<\/p>\n<p><b>Create your own AARRR<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Acquisition &#8211; Number of new downloads, newsletter signups, twitter followers, Facebook page likes, community forum signups,\u00a0Number of displays of our thank you page<br \/>\nActivation &#8211; Number of first uses. Displays of our promotions.<br \/>\nRetention &#8211; Number of sessions, Number of core actions, Newsletter unsubscribes, Facebook unlikes<br \/>\nReferral &#8211; Measure social activity, buzz, cult (pictures, fan art)<br \/>\nRevenue &#8211; Daily reports from all revenue channels (some hourly)<\/p>\n<p><b>Qualitative Testing Schedule<\/b><\/p>\n<p>One user a day. Watch them.<br \/>\nTwo user sessions a month.<br \/>\nThree usability studies a month.<\/p>\n<p><b>Important Factors in Quantitative Testing<\/b><br \/>\nis it <b>Statistically Significant<\/b>?<br \/>\nsample size.<br \/>\nsensitivity of the test.<br \/>\nduration of the test.<br \/>\nvelocity. How many tests can you run in a period, pretty important. You need to test and get results as fast as possible, to learn more and more.<br \/>\nconversion.<\/p>\n<p><b>Good habits<\/b><br \/>\nTest the hell out of MVPs.<br \/>\nKill tech that slows you down.<br \/>\nValidate Instrumentation First. (make sure your test is running well)<br \/>\nThe Goal is testing velocity.<br \/>\nThink about your next developer\/employee.<\/p>\n<p><b>Tools we use<\/b><br \/>\n<b>Qualitative Testing Tools:<\/b><br \/>\nFT User Researcher<br \/>\nUserTesting.com<br \/>\nMouseOver Videos<br \/>\nUser Studies<\/p>\n<p><b>Quantitative Testing Tools<\/b><br \/>\nAB testing<br \/>\nDaily metrics emails<br \/>\nProduct dashboards<br \/>\nTeam metrics<\/p>\n<p><b>Rapid A\/B Testing Workflow<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Test Iteration Implementations -&gt; Rapid implementations.<br \/>\nFull Implementations -&gt; Winner only (clean losers)<br \/>\nCode Fragmentation -&gt; Clean unused test code.<\/p>\n<p><b>Branch Based Workflow <\/b>(git based)<\/p>\n<p>Test Iteration Implementation -&gt; Rapid<br \/>\nFull Impl -&gt; Winner only<\/p>\n<p><b>What will we do differently after this?<\/b><br \/>\nAdded some new metrics I was missing thanks to this in relationship to acquisition and activations.<br \/>\nWill try new tools like UserTesting.com<br \/>\nWill look at what tech might be slowing us down.<br \/>\nWill not build more visualization tools of test data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aaron Ginn from StumbleUpon.com October 10th, 2013 @ Miami Science Museum \/ Refresh Miami Most important metrics? Number of installations. Revenues. Types of metrics: &#8211; Quantitatie vs -Qualitative. Idea: &#8211; On Wizard, let them know how to be in touch for Tech Support via @frostwire and facebook.com\/FrostWire Official. Task for Marcelina to design that screen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[378,1354,1351,1353,1148,1352],"class_list":["post-3175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-entrepreneurs","tag-entrepreneurship","tag-lean-startup","tag-metrics","tag-statistics","tag-testing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Unzf-Pd","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":844,"url":"https:\/\/www.gubatron.com\/blog\/image-metrics-demo-the-most-amazing-facial-animation-tech-so-far\/","url_meta":{"origin":3175,"position":0},"title":"Image Metrics Demo &#8211; The most amazing Facial Animation Tech so far","author":"gubatron","date":"September 5, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"It's official, I'm retarded compared to the guys that built this technology.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Geeklife&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Geeklife","link":"https:\/\/www.gubatron.com\/blog\/category\/geeklife\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3064,"url":"https:\/\/www.gubatron.com\/blog\/new-frostwire-for-android-1-0-8-out\/","url_meta":{"origin":3175,"position":1},"title":"New FrostWire for Android 1.0.8 out","author":"gubatron","date":"June 1, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"A new FrostWire for Android is out on Google Play. 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