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Find the right metric
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Find the right metric
Finding the right metric to focus on for a time-boxed period of time is great for direction.
Acquisition - How do customers find me?
Activation - How quickly can I delight customers in their "aha-moment"?
Retention - How many of your customers are you retaining and why are you losing others?
Referral - How can I get my customers to become advocates?
Revenue - How can I increase revenue?
You canât improve what you canât measure
Break down your business model into its component parts using a tool like âLean Canvasâ
Ask the questions like, âwhat are the riskiest parts of your business model?â, âwhat are you most uncertain about?â, âhow costly would it be if you got this wrong?â
Also ask yourself, âhow can I tell if the people I am serving are getting value from my product/service?â
Create a simple customer journey map with your team to think about these moments in the journey
For example: if I was building a photo-sharing service, looking to focus on usage for this quarter, our metric could be the number of uploads we get in a month. Or at the cohort level, I could go deeper and focus on certain behaviours.
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