Which metrics matter most to your business?

kara_susvilla
HubSpot Employee
HubSpot Employee

To determine the success of your content, you have to set goals and track the metrics that make the most sense for your business. This could be page views, conversions, and so on. Keeping this in mind, which metrics matter most to your business and why? Tell us in the comments below.

 

*To learn more about this, check out the Measuring and Analyzing Your Content lesson via HubSpot Academy. 

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laurenchina2
Participant

The metrics that matter most to Bonkey's is revenue growth and customer growth. Building a wider customer base is definitely the most important as they are looking to build their word of mouth marketing by adding families that support their business. Raising the amount of money coming in without raising the prices is also an important metric to them!

BArshad3
Participant

As I reflect on my business, I realize that the metric that matters most to me is revenue growth. My business model is based on e-commerce, and my primary goal is to increase revenue. I operate in a competitive industry, and I know that revenue growth is essential to staying ahead of the curve.

 

To me, revenue growth is the most important metric because it has a direct impact on my business's profitability and sustainability. As I increase revenue, I'm able to invest in growth initiatives, expand my team, and improve my infrastructure. Outpacing my competitors in revenue growth also helps establish my brand as a market leader.

 

While other metrics like customer acquisition cost, customer lifetime value, and retention rate are important, revenue growth is the key indicator of my business's success. By focusing on revenue growth, I can make informed decisions to drive my business forward and achieve my goals.

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LANGAT97
Contributeur
The key metrics that matter to my business include open rate, clickthrough rate, reach, impressions, and traffic.
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Mike_rothar
Membre

Content performance, lead generation, and conversion rates are pivotal metrics for me. Here’s why: The core purpose of content is to drive results, so ultimately, content should be crafted to convert viewers into paying customers or leads. This can manifest in various ways, from email sign-ups and quote requests to direct sales. Additionally, tracking these conversion rates helps demonstrate the effectiveness of content in achieving its objectives.

 

Moreover, it's not solely about conversions. I have to know how each piece of content performs on its own. Things like page views, shares, comments, and how long people stay on the page tell us what's clicking with the audience. This intel helps me refine our strategy and create even better content down the line.

JBadger5
Membre

I think that for our business, the metrics that matter most would be conversions- since I work for a university, that would be individuals who come to the site and end up applying for admission or who reach out looking for more information.

AnamVakil
Membre

Awareness and Engagement rate

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CUgwuezike
Membre
social media with good engagement also paid metric
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Folasadepitan
Participant

Engagements and lead generation 

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EMartinez04
Participant

The metric is most important is engagement, lead generation and awareness.

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BDuVinay
Membre

Engagement 

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Rolyat
Membre

metric rates and engagement levels are what we go off of

JSaunders7
Contributeur

Great strategy Taylor! Metric rates and engagement levels are key metrics for businesses.

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PFF4628
Participant

We subdivide our content by awareness plays and consideration plays (we sell third-party and don't close our own business, which makes this complicated), so for awareness we look at impressions and for consideration we look more at unique visitors and time on site. A lot of it comes through email marketing so we also cross-reference our web metrics and email metrics to get a bigger picture of our email campaigns.

JSaunders7
Contributeur

Great post Peter! Email is one of the best ways to market business to business.

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SSutliff
Membre

Metric rates and engagment levels are most important to my non-profit organization. This is because we need to reach a large but very specific audience and we often rely on those donors to continue their contributions. 

JSaunders7
Contributeur

Great read Shannon! Engagement and Metric rates are key to growing your base.

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LAnderson85
Contributeur

I would have to say that web page metrics, particularly bounce rate, matters greatly. I'm going to localize all advertising in a rather competitive niche, so I would want my audience to spend more time on the website. Also, my social media analytics will play an important role. In the past, my social media posts had resulted in more visits to my previous, so I'm hoping to repeat (or enhance) those results.

shelovesmariya_
Participant

yes

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PatchTBBPO
Membre

ATM, i'm more focused on increasing likes, follows, and engagements on Facebook. Click-through-rate, conversion rate, open rate in email.

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OPD
Membre

At the moment, I do not have a business. However, the metrics that matters the most for the company am working with is social media metrics and webpage traffics. 

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WIkechukwu
Participant

To my content marketing efforts, I'm more concerned on increasing brand awareness, lead generation and coversions. metrics such as page view, CPC, CTR matter to me inorder to achieve my overall marketing efforts.

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