Analytics

Data-Driven Growth: Unlocking Business Success with Validated Insights

Understanding the 'why' behind your data is pivotal in elevating your marketing strategy. It's not just about celebrating wins; it's about translating those victories into a comprehensive brand upgrade. When a data-validated insight proves successful in one channel, don't confine it. Spread the message across your entire brand ecosystem, from website messaging to sales decks, using meticulously tested data to guide and amplify your moves.

Beyond A/B Testing: The Future of Data-Validated Insights in Business

In the world of digital marketing and data-driven decision-making, creative testing is a pivotal tool in achieving business growth. Gone are the days of relying on gut feelings or guesswork; now, business decisions are powered by data-validated insights, meticulously collected, analyzed, and validated. This transformative process empowers businesses of all sizes, from established enterprises to budding startups, to thrive in an ever-evolving digital market. This article looks at the practical applications, challenges, and innovative transformations associated with creative testing, offering you valuable insights and actionable strategies to implement in your own digital marketing efforts for achieving growth and success.

Volume vs Efficiency: Which Marketing Strategy is Right For You?

Your marketing success ultimately comes down to your goals, your risk tolerance, and employing a sound strategy regardless of whether it’s volume or efficiency-based. The key is to clearly outline your strategies and expectations and optimize your resources, time, and capital to give yourself the best opportunity for success. Remember that you and your growth partner must be on the same page or you might run into some very unpleasant conversations when it comes time to report on progress.

How To Combat The Changes in Data Privacy Regulations and Restrictions

We are moving from an era of obtaining precise data and information to an era of prediction and model conversion. So, how can we prepare for these changes? This is a hot topic right now. In this article, I will talk about what we can do in the Google ads environment and how we can leverage machine learning and capabilities based on the data we have to fill the gaps in the data we don’t have.

How to scale your business with growth modelling

The benefits of data driven growth modelling

Growth modelling is at the core of what we do at Ladder, both on the client side and internally. It lets us predict outcomes with accuracy, which allows for greater control of our investments, and can be applied to any business to achieve remarkable benefits.

Marketing data isn't a panacea

When we launch the test and we get the data back, we don’t look at it from a place of “OK, the data is X. What does this mean?” Instead, we’re able to evaluate the purpose of what we are looking at, and all the strategic associations we already know about it, and the first order principles behind it. 

How A Marketing Attribution Technique From The 1980s is Being Reinvented For the post-iOS14 Era

Today most brands start as online-only, and that gets you pretty far. As you scale, your marketing mix gets more complex – you start working with influencers, sponsoring podcasts, running TV ads and billboards... all things that are difficult to track digitally (you can’t ‘click’ on a TV ad!). 

Marketing Audit Expertise: We Wrote The 100-Page Step-By-Step Guide You Need

Discover why marketing audits are essential to growth. Then, download our free marketing audit template:

Facebook B2B Paid Social Trends Report

How do you know if your Facebook ads are performing better than average or below average? Take a look at our growth benchmarks so you can find out for yourself.

Why Your Approach to Being “Data-Driven” is Wrong

Data informs all marketing decisions, but is it the only thing you should rely on? Here’s why you should look outside of the typical marketing data you receive.

The Importance Of Target Audience Testing In Marketing With ATT

Have you let Facebook do your target audience testing for you? With app tracking transparency, it’s imperative you learn how to use audience testing to your advantage.

What is App Tracking Transparency And How Is It Affecting Your Facebook Ads

What does the new App Tracking Transparency mean for your company and your marketing campaigns? Find out everything you need to know about ATT and how it affects you.

Hotjar Review – Heatmaps And A User Feedback Platform We Love

These days, building a website is easy. It doesn’t take much of an investment – you don’t need an army of developers, either. Even if you have exactly zero…

Intercom Review: The Customer Communication Platform We Love

With the deluge of information people are subjected to on a daily basis, brands must go to great lengths to differentiate themselves. Once, a good price po…

5 Things Your Marketing Analyst Must Do To Ensure Value And Success

When most people think of what a marketing team looks like, they probably imagine what amounts to an “arts & crafts” department. After all, the marketi…

Omnichannel Marketing: What It Is and How It Benefits Retailers

This is a guest post by Ashley Kimler, who currently works with Heroic Search in Tulsa and has been helping all sized businesses with their digital marketi…

[SEO Audit] We Analyzed Our SEO. Here’s What We Learned:

Any good marketing plan is incomplete without an SEO audit. And as part of our Ladder 2017 Marketing Series, we did just that...

6 Amazon Listing Optimization Fundamentals For PPC

Advertising works on Amazon, but having a successful campaign doesn’t just involve buying ad spots. It requires fundamental amazon listing optimi...

What Is Event Tracking And How To Set It Up: A Full Guide

In this guide, you’ll learn how to write your own event tracking implementation plan. Yes, actually write the code and instructions that you can pass on to your developer to implement or even implement yourself.

A marketer’s comprehensive guide to Apple’s IDFA changes.

Early next year, Apple will release a new privacy update that will change the rules of mobile advertising, giving more power to the users. Get ready for the iOS 14 IDFA changes with this comprehensive guide.

A Smarter Way to Track Campaigns in Google Analytics (+ Free URL Builder)

How do we track a campaign’s performance? We can track how many people click a link to visit our blog, but do you know where they came from, if they visited a specific landing page, if they found our blog from a specific Google Search, if your email campaign worked better than your Facebook ads campaign, or if you generated any revenue for those campaigns. Fortunately, this information is relatively easy to track using Google Analytics, but what isn’t easy is trying to track performance for a client that has an awful event tracking setup.

How Google Analytics Can Improve Your Content Marketing

Leverage Google’s Free Content Analytics And Make An Impact Hundreds of millions of Internet users take new photos, create videos, and write blog post...

How to make your marketing work for you in a crisis – a case study

Introduction to the problem Over the last couple of months, we at Ladder have been experiencing the various degrees of impact the recent world pandemi...

Marketing Analysis For Growth: A Step-By-Step Guide

“Tell me what’s happening with marketing.” As a junior marketing executive I got cold-called by our CEO late at night with that deceptively simple sou...

Why We’re Ditching Optimizely for Google Optimize

Optimizely has been a great website testing and optimization tool in Ladder’s arsenal for the past two years, but the signs are on the wall that it’s ...

How to Use Advanced Segments in Google Analytics

Editor’s Note: A special thanks to Tony Flores of Growth Science for contributing this guest post.  In 2018, access to data is no longer a compe...

Using Excel in Marketing: Spreadsheet Functions Marketing Hires Need To Know

Editor’s Note: Excel in marketing should be a big priority. Are you an excel wizard? You might be a good fit for Ladder! We’re hiring in New York, Aus...

What Is A Good Conversion Rate?

Editor’s Note: This is a guest post from Ruchika Sharma of VWO, the world’s first connected conversion rate optimization platform. All of t...

4 Inexpensive Lead Generation Strategies That Every Business Should Use

Note: This lead generation strategies guest post is from Mark Cirillo, Content and PR Manager at LeadsBridge, a lead generation and Facebook Ads ...

The Ultimate PPC Audit Walkthrough: A Step-By-Step Guide For PPC Analysis

This article covers a PPC audit of our current pay-per-click ad campaigns. For the sake of transparency, we’re using real performance data drawn strai...

We Audited Booking.com for Business and Found 100+ Growth Opportunities

Editor’s Note: Special thanks to Lennart Gijsen, Global Head of Marketing for Booking.com for Business, for collaborating with us on this post about h...

232% Increase in eCommerce Revenue via the Ladder Growth Testing Process [Case Study]

A global trendsetter in modern home furniture hired Ladder to take their eCommerce growth to the next level. Started by two friends in Detroit, Michig...

Data Storytelling: Best Practices and Visualization Tips To Create Remarkable Reports

Data storytelling is changing the way we communicate data insights – for the better. By shaping our facts using the right techniques we improve unders...

Full funnel marketing: What it is and how to use it

Don’t know the first thing about full-funnel marketing? Don’t worry – you’re not alone. This type of marketing method is grounded in history, but it’s...

4 Strategic Tips on Automating the Digital Marketing Funnel

Each of us, sooner or later, looks at their digital marketing funnel and struggles with the inevitable question: “To automate or not?”  The recen...

Plan for Growth with the Monte-Carlo Simulation [No Code Solution]

If you’ve ever predicted future growth by dragging across an Excel formula, the Monte-Carlo Simulation is for you. It’s an impossible task: accurately...

Simple Strategies To Analyze The Strength Of Your Marketing Funnel ROI

In marketing, as in poker, the key is knowing when to hold ’em and when to fold ’em. Gambling on hunches when deciding which tactics and channels will...

Create your own ad spend calculator with Google Data Studio

Keeping ad spend under control is essential if you have a limited budget. Even if you don’t, you probably want to appropriately manage it and have a f...

Performance and testing split – how to do it right?

There will always be a need for growth. The size and market value of your business don’t matter here, as there always will be a place to improve somet...

How to use the Facebook Pixel

These days, running your own ad campaign isn’t rocket science – in big part thanks to tools like the Facebook Pixel.  Well-known ad platforms suc...

Qualaroo Survey Tactics For Valuable User Insights [Step-By-Step Guide]

A user lands on your landing page. They browse around and hit your pricing page. They get all the way there after reading your awesome landing page co...

2 Ways To Find Your “Super Fans” Using Facebook Custom Audiences

Any marketer can use Facebook Ads to find the people who may benefit from their products and services. But how do you identify people whoare more like...

Growth Marketing Mythbusters: Stop Making These 3 Mistakes

As software continues to eat the world and the amount of free content available continues to explode, you have more tools and resources than ever to h...

Marketing Funnel Growth Guide 2019: Analysis, Strategies, Tactics, and Tools

Businesses can only survive for so long with an uncoordinated marketing strategy. “Growth hacks” aren’t sustainable. And while they may yield some fru...

Conversion Rate vs. Click-Through Rate: What’s The Difference?

Click-Through Rate vs. Conversion Rate: What exactly is the difference? Let’s start with the basics. A click-through rate (CTR) is a metric, show...

How to Forecast Performance for Your Marketing Campaigns

Forecasting marketing performance is always difficult. This is particularly true in the noisy world of online marketing, where a million different var...

Marketing Science – modeling growth with data

Growth modeling is an absolute must in every marketer’s go-to tool stack. In this article, here's a step-by-step guide to building causal growth models and other growth models.

It’s What’s Inside That Counts: Get Advanced Creative Insights via Spotlight

I’ve spent over $40m on digital marketing in the past 10 years, and anyone in my position will tell you the same thing: Creative testing is the key t...

Why You’re Leaving Money on the Table If You Don’t Run Ads

Last month, Ladder co-founder & Chief Product Officer Michael Taylor gave a lecture at the GrowHack Bootcamp The lecture was all about using paid ...

We Audited Our Analytics Setup. Here’s What We Learned:

Last week, we introduced you to our new article series: the Ladder 2017 Marketing Plan. We started with an audit of our PPC campaigns Before we dive a...

The Marketing Metrics Checklist: 8 Numbers You Need To Check Daily

We’ll get onto the list of marketing metrics, but first, here’s a story that’ll convince you that Daily Checks are not a chore, but actually a secret ...