Comments on: Vanity Metrics vs. Actionable Metrics – Guest Post by Eric Ries

By: Cole Demory

Cole Demory — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 07:08:40 +0000

Thanks for your write-up. One other thing is when you are disposing your property yourself, one of the difficulties you need to be aware of upfront is just how to deal with property inspection reports. As a FSBO retailer, the key about successfully moving your property and saving money upon real estate agent income is know-how. The more you know, the smoother your sales effort will probably be. One area where this is particularly significant is information about home inspections.

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 12:03:05 +0000

Great article…thanks for opening my eyes even further to the importance of metrics. I am also one of those who have blindly thrown up content and hoped for the best finding that my expectations were not met. Testing will be a big part of my IM future! Cheers!

By: verdur

verdur — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 07:20:32 +0000

I realize that understanding the vanity metrics and actionable metrics would change the way I did business entirely, and increase my productivity. actionable metrics are something we can measure what we can then act on.vanity metric is one that we can ‘t really change, and therefore can not test. The key to all this is deciding which are actionable and which are vanity and then diverted out two.

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