November 8, 2009
LES Must read en marketing digital (freemium, metrics, viral, produits..)

  • Viral marketing et user acquisition

La croissance de votre base d’utilisateurs est un défi essentiel. Ces articles se focalisent sur comment optimiser votre base utilisateurs:

  • What’s your viral loop? Understanding the engine of adoption
  • Adwords is not enough for success on the consumer web
  • Are your SEO efforts working, or failing?
  • Bridging your traffic engine with your revenue engine
  • Facebook viral marketing: When and why do apps “jump the shark?”
  • How to calculate cost-per-acquisition for startups relying on freemium, subscription, or virtual items biz
  • Is your site really viral? Viral Branding versus Viral Action
  • Social network marketing: Getting from zero to critical mass
  • Viral marketing is not a marketing strategy
  • 10 obvious strategies to ruthlessly acquire users
  • Growing renewable audiences (a talk at O’Reilly Alphatech Ventures)
  • Go-to-market strategies for vertical social products
    • Engagement et product design

    Ces articles portent sur le processus de la création de l’expérience en se basant sur l’analyse du comportement. En effet, on ne fournit plus un produit au consommateur, mais on lui apporte une nouvelle expérience.

    • Freemium and online ad monetization

    Social web products ont des caractéristiques d’utilisation spécifique. Ces articles se focalisent sur des problématiques clé comme les ARPUs, conversion funnels, CPM rates, behavioral data, revenue modeling, etc.

    • Metrics

    Sans metrics et data, nous sommes aveugles. Ces articles portent sur l’organisation et le développement des données - ce qu’il faut mesurer, dans quel ordre, et comment les appliquer.

  • 5 warning signs: Does A/B testing ead to crappy products?
  • 5 steps towards building a metrics-driven business
  • Benefit-Driven Metrics: Measure the lives you save, not the life preservers you sell 
  •  The first 6 steps to homegrowing basic startup analytics
  • Are you misusing Alexa numbers? (Probably)
  • Lessons from the casino industry on engagement metrics and lifetime value
  • Obama and McCain: How political marketing has evolved from offline to online
  • omg I’m just a startup, I can’t do those fancy analytics!
  • Recency Frequency and Monetization (RFM): Optimizing your notifications strategy
  • How to measure if users love your product using cohorts and revisit rates
  • How to generate awesome test candidates for A/B testing
  • Why metrics-driven startups overlook brand value
    • Evolution de l’industrie de l’entertainment

    Les médias traditionnels, notamment la télévision, la musique, les jeux et les films sont à un carrefour. Voici quelques réflexions sur la manière dont l’industrie se transforme et évolue.

  • From analog dollars to digital pennies: The crisis in traditional media
  • Game design tutorial at the GDC
  • MySpace versus Facebook: Analysis of both traffic and ad revenue, using Google Trends
  • What every Web 2.0 entrepreneur should know about virtual goods
  • Social Gaming Summit: Recap and observations
  • Early adopters vs the Mainstream: Google Insights points out websites only used by Silicon Valley nerds
  • YouTube vs Webkinz: Case studies for new product adoption
  • Prosper.com and peer-to-peer lending in the economic downturn
  • 4 major cultural differences between Games people and Web people
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