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Digg it UP - Measuring The Impact Of Initiatives - Even When You Don't Have Complete Control
It is likely that your company already has many rules and regulations that are in effect for its employees. Whether or not it's acceptable to smoke in the building, where and when employees are allowed to eat lunch, and even as simple as what time the employee should report to work each day, there are many rules that most of the employees already know.There may also be many other rules and regulations your company has that perhaps the employees are not as fam
My initiatives include Google Ads that appear when someone searches for "kpi" or "balanced scorecard", improving my website design to list higher in internet search engines, and publishing free articles on the web. For 10 weeks I tested Google Ads, in isolation of any other initiative. The effect was that subscriptions li
For most of us, the issue is getting started. How do I start? Where do I start? And so forth.I know from my own personal experience years ago, just how intimidating it is to embark on a career change. I first became interested in real estate way back in the mid 1980's. I knew I wanted to increase my earning potential, and have a business where I did not have to worry about punching a clock. I wanted my hours to be my own.I love being out doors on pr
Obviously I can't control whether someone joins the ezine list - it is unethical to simply add people to the list without their permission (do you recall the confirmation you had to give in order to be added to the mezhermnt Handy Hints list?). But I can influence a few things that increase the number of people that find out about it, and even the proportion of those people that go to the next step and sign up.
So whether your improvement initiatives are small like mine, or much larger and more complex, there are a few good tips to consider when you measure the impact your improvement initiatives have on the intended results.
tip #1: start with some baseline data
The performance measure for building my list is the number of new subscribers. Before starting any list building initiatives, subscriptions were averaging about 10 per week. That's my measure's baseline.
What's your performance measure's baseline? Did you measure it before you began your improvement initiatives? Can you establish the baseline from historic data, or estimate where it was at that time? Can you use correlated data to calculate roughly where it was?
tip #2: pilot test each initiative separately
I don't just implement all the possible improvement initiatives for list building at once (it is tempting, but not sensible). Why? Because I want to first know how effective each strategy is for my situation, and then only invest in the strategies that work best. For solo professionals and large organisations alike, time and resources are limited and must be invested where they get the highest return!
My initiatives include Google Ads that appear when someone searches for "kpi" or "balanced scorecard", improving my website design to list higher in internet search engines, and publishing free articles on the web. For 10 weeks I tested Google Ads, in isolation of any other initiative. The effect was that subscriptions lif
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So whether your improvement initiatives are small like mine, or much larger and more complex, there are a few good tips to consider when you measure the impact your improvement initiatives have on the intended results.
tip #1: start with some baseline data
The performance measure for building my list is the number of new subscribers. Before starting any list building initiatives, subscriptions were averaging about 10 per week. That's my measure's baseline.
What's your performance measure's baseline? Did you measure it before you began your improvement initiatives? Can you establish the baseline from historic data, or estimate where it was at that time? Can you use correlated data to calculate roughly where it was?
tip #2: pilot test each initiative separately
I don't just implement all the possible improvement initiatives for list building at once (it is tempting, but not sensible). Why? Because I want to first know how effective each strategy is for my situation, and then only invest in the strategies that work best. For solo professionals and large organisations alike, time and resources are limited and must be invested where they get the highest return!
My initiatives include Google Ads that appear when someone searches for "kpi" or "balanced scorecard", improving my website design to list higher in internet search engines, and publishing free articles on the web. For 10 weeks I tested Google Ads, in isolation of any other initiative. The effect was that subscriptions li
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tip #1: start with some baseline data
The performance measure for building my list is the number of new subscribers. Before starting any list building initiatives, subscriptions were averaging about 10 per week. That's my measure's baseline.
What's your performance measure's baseline? Did you measure it before you began your improvement initiatives? Can you establish the baseline from historic data, or estimate where it was at that time? Can you use correlated data to calculate roughly where it was?
tip #2: pilot test each initiative separately
I don't just implement all the possible improvement initiatives for list building at once (it is tempting, but not sensible). Why? Because I want to first know how effective each strategy is for my situation, and then only invest in the strategies that work best. For solo professionals and large organisations alike, time and resources are limited and must be invested where they get the highest return!
My initiatives include Google Ads that appear when someone searches for "kpi" or "balanced scorecard", improving my website design to list higher in internet search engines, and publishing free articles on the web. For 10 weeks I tested Google Ads, in isolation of any other initiative. The effect was that subscriptions li
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tip #2: pilot test each initiative separately
I don't just implement all the possible improvement initiatives for list building at once (it is tempting, but not sensible). Why? Because I want to first know how effective each strategy is for my situation, and then only invest in the strategies that work best. For solo professionals and large organisations alike, time and resources are limited and must be invested where they get the highest return!
My initiatives include Google Ads that appear when someone searches for "kpi" or "balanced scorecard", improving my website design to list higher in internet search engines, and publishing free articles on the web. For 10 weeks I tested Google Ads, in isolation of any other initiative. The effect was that subscriptions li
There appears to be quite a discrepancy of data about the number of carwashes in the United States. Then there are different types of carwashes; Fixed and mobile. Amongst the fixed site carwashes there are coin-op self serve washes, Flex Service Robotic, Conveyor Conventional, Gas Station Rollover and the Touchless automatic.You can pick up a carwash survey from any of the four major industry magazines or the co-marketed service industry magazines like; C-Sto
My initiatives include Google Ads that appear when someone searches for "kpi" or "balanced scorecard", improving my website design to list higher in internet search engines, and publishing free articles on the web. For 10 weeks I tested Google Ads, in isolation of any other initiative. The effect was that subscriptions lifted to an average of 105 per week, an impact of 95 subscribers per week (not too shabby a result).
Are you in the habit of jumping into several solutions and actions before really testing the size of impact of each? Yes testing is slower, but you'll just waste time and money on initiatives that don't really work, when you have no way of knowing either way.
tip #3: use diagnostic indicators too
There are a few other indicators that are also useful to give more information about the ezine sign-up process. One is the click through rate of people that become aware of my ezine, who then sign up. By adjusting the wording of the Google Ad, I can finetune its relevance to people who search for information on KPIs. Of the 3 Google Ads I tested, one achieved a click through rate of 0.3%, and the other two were equal at 2.9%.
To decide which of the two better ads to go with, I needed more information. Another diagnostic measure is the position that Google ranks my ad along with other ads for the same search keywords. One ad averaged around position 5, and the other around position 4. Now I know which ad performs the best, and what size of impact it is capable of having on my performance measure of subscriptions.
Do you know which of your initiatives are most successful, and by how much? Have you tested variations of your initiatives to pinpoint what makes them more successful? Diagnostic indicators can be designed before you test your initiatives, but often you discover helpful diagnostic indicators during your testing too.
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