Metrics blogs
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Why metrics are the key to confident decision making
By Graham Watts — July 31, 2023
Let’s fix analytics so we can stop asking you for dashboards
By Cathrin Schneider — September 11, 2023
Promoting data literacy with metrichq.org and the power of AI
By Allan Wille, Co-Founder — October 12, 2023
Unlocking the Value of Metrics for Everyone: Introducing PowerMetrics + revamped dbt Semantic Layer
By David Mennie — October 17, 2023
Partner Case Study: The Project Booth
By Cathrin Schneider — April 11, 2024
Partner Case Study: Eyeful
By Cathrin Schneider — May 21, 2024
PowerMetrics - New data warehouse integrations and Cube semantic layer support
By David Mennie — June 14, 2024
Metrics provide rich context for better AI: Introducing the new PowerMetrics AI experience
By David Mennie — June 21, 2024
Case Study: How Media Propulsion Laboratory improved client analytics with the PowerMetrics – BigQuery integration
By Cathrin Schneider — September 12, 2024
The Top 10 SaaS Affiliate Programs
By Emily Hayward — March 16, 2022
What are HubSpot lifecycle stages?
By Jonathan Taylor — March 14, 2022
5 SaaS subscription metrics for financial reporting
By Emily Hayward — April 5, 2022
SaaS Metrics Cheat Sheet
By Emily Hayward — April 21, 2022
How to design a SaaS metrics dashboard
By Emily Hayward — April 27, 2022
How to: Create calculated metrics in PowerMetrics
By Jonathan Taylor — May 5, 2022
Set goals and hit your business targets in PowerMetrics
By Jonathan Taylor — May 18, 2022
SaaS Finance Metrics Cheat Sheet
By Emily Hayward — May 11, 2022
What is a data dashboard?
By Emily Hayward — August 4, 2021
The Hidden Value of SaaS Sign Up Rate Benchmarks
By Priyaanka Arora — February 10, 2021
How (and when) to create a custom metric
By Mark Brownlee — January 23, 2019
Three Ways Unito Uses Data As Rocket Fuel
By Lauren Thibodeau — September 25, 2020
The top 10 Twitter analytics metrics you need to track
By Mark Brownlee — August 3, 2018
5 Google Ads metrics to measure advertising performance
By Emily Hayward — February 2, 2022
World-Class SaaS Support: The Metrics You Need to Track
By Jonathan Milne — March 20, 2017
What is Product-Led Growth?
By Emily Hayward — October 14, 2021
Why customer support should be metrics-driven
By Akshaya Srikanth — July 2, 2019
What's New: Fall 2021 PowerMetrics updates
By Emily Hayward — October 28, 2021
Metric-centric analytics - What it is and why it matters
By Cathrin Schneider — July 12, 2023
PowerMetrics - The first Metric-Centric BI solution
By David Mennie — June 27, 2023
Our metric-centric product vision – Business Intelligence ahead of its time
By Allan Wille, Co-Founder — June 21, 2023
Secure and accessible dashboards for your extended team
By David Mennie — April 25, 2023
Unlock Data-Driven Decisions with ChatGPT & MetricHQ
By Nicolas Venne — April 3, 2023
22 expert informed metrics for SaaS Head of Finance
By Jonathan Taylor — May 25, 2022
Live Data, Live Preview
By David Mennie — December 5, 2022
The Power of Data Exploration
By David Mennie — October 24, 2022
How to write KPIs in 4 steps
By Emily Hayward — October 3, 2022
How to: Create custom metrics in PowerMetrics
By Emily Hayward — July 19, 2022
The Starter Guide to Metrics
By Emily Hayward — June 22, 2022
Introducing: PowerMetrics for the Stripe App Marketplace
By Emily Hayward — July 11, 2022
Start your analytics journey with instant metrics
By Jonathan Taylor — June 8, 2022
How do dashboards help agile software development teams?
By Ali Pourshahid — July 5, 2016
Why cycle time may be the most important metric in software development
By Ali Pourshahid — February 27, 2017
Customer Marketing KPIs & Metrics For Businesses To Track
By Valerie Hamilton — August 4, 2017
A Starter Guide to a CX Metrics Program
By Jennifer Batley — September 14, 2020
Are you spending too much money acquiring new customers?
By Allan Wille, Co-Founder — July 31, 2015
The key business metrics from 8 SaaS startup pitch decks
By Jonathan Milne — June 20, 2018
Small Business (SMB) Analytics in 2024
By Matt Shealy — December 26, 2021
13+ Marketing Metrics You Need to Track in 2024
By Anneka Burrett — December 25, 2021
6 must-have metrics for Twitter Analytics
By Danielle Poleski — July 26, 2016
The 6 must-have metrics to bring your email marketing program to the next level
By Valerie Hamilton — May 3, 2016
The 5 essential metrics for community engagement
By Lawrence Court — November 6, 2018
6 dashboards I use daily - with live links
By Allan Wille, Co-Founder — September 11, 2015
Looking for a job promotion? Here are 5 marketing KPIs to convince your boss
By Jonathan Taylor — December 12, 2013
Become a better CFO with these three metrics
By Jody Grunden — October 18, 2019
A Metric Milestone: 200 Metrics (and Counting!) on MetricHQ
By Emily Hayward — November 26, 2020
4 Major Types of Subscriber Churn Metrics You Need to Know
By Daniella Ingrao — July 28, 2020
4 dashboards our marketing team uses to track the metrics that matter most
By Marisha Sesto — November 8, 2018
4 AskNicely metrics for your customer satisfaction dashboard
By Nikta Kanuka — April 6, 2016
3 Steps to Reboot Customer Loyalty
By Vicky Freed — July 8, 2021
Three Essential Metrics for Studying HR Specialists' Success
By David Mizne — October 31, 2018
The Top 10 SaaS Metrics of 2024 with Benchmarks
By Priyaanka Arora — December 27, 2021
12 must-have metrics for your social media dashboard
By Jonathan Taylor — November 2, 2015
The top 12 YouTube metrics to measure
By Emily Hayward — November 9, 2021
10 must-have search marketing metrics
By Katya Zeisig — August 9, 2016
The top 10 metrics for building a killer Facebook presence
By Mark Brownlee — July 13, 2018
Top 10 Instagram Analytics metrics you need to measure
By Mark Brownlee — July 3, 2018
Content metrics for content marketing and journalism
By Cameron Conaway — June 30, 2017
Business metrics vs KPIs. What’s the difference?
By Jonathan Taylor — October 27, 2017
Why being intelligent about your business may not be easy, but should be simple
By Jonathan Taylor — June 20, 2013
Best practices for picking the right KPIs for your business
By Jonathan Taylor — March 29, 2016
What Are The Top 10 LinkedIn Analytics Metrics?
By Mark Brownlee — July 27, 2018
The basics of KPI management
By Jonathan Taylor — February 4, 2019
Landing page metrics and the 5 stories they tell
By Jonathan Milne — May 2, 2017
Your guide to KPIs for non-profits
By Mark Brownlee — January 23, 2018
The 25 must-have KPIs for Call Centre Managers
By Katya Zeisig — October 5, 2017
How to present a KPI report
By Jonathan Taylor — June 23, 2017
What is a KPI, Metric or Measure?
By Jonathan Taylor — February 22, 2017
International Women's Day 2021
By Emily Hayward — March 8, 2021
4 must-have metrics for your Instagram analytics
By Katya Zeisig — July 28, 2016
25 Metrics to Track in a Product-Led SaaS Company
By Allan Wille, Co-Founder — March 11, 2020
Identifying the right ABM metrics
By Mark Brownlee — May 30, 2018
19E fulfills dashboard reporting requirements with Klipfolio
By Mitch Dupuis — November 26, 2019
Events and Marketing: 5 Key Metrics to Gauge Success
By Maggie Greene — February 27, 2020
Essential ABM metrics
By Mark Brownlee — May 29, 2018
From Cookies to Cohorts: The end of third-party cookies and what it means for marketers
By Emily Hayward — April 21, 2021
Employee retention metrics: The 5 metrics you should be measuring
By Mark Brownlee — January 14, 2019
The emerging importance of Advocacy Marketing - 3 Takeaways from Advocamp 2016
By Valerie Hamilton — March 9, 2016
How to manage and track team productivity while working remotely
By Mitch Dupuis — March 18, 2020
Disciple Media streamlines their sales journey and customer experience with Klipfolio
By Mitch Dupuis — November 5, 2018
The Ultimate Guide for Marketing Your Brand on TikTok
By Emily Hayward — January 11, 2022
What are some good KPIs in Facebook?
By Jonathan Taylor — June 13, 2017
Back to basics: The fundamental metrics for a software-as-a-service (SaaS) business
By Allan Wille, Co-Founder — May 20, 2016
Why you need to become a data storyteller
By Mark Brownlee — January 24, 2019
Klipfolio helps save 10 days of marketing report building efforts per month
By Mitch Dupuis — October 9, 2019
The journey to HubSpot Metrics
By Scott Lawrence — May 28, 2019
Decisions made with Klipfolio lead to 300% growth for Venture Harbour
By Mike Pascoe — June 24, 2019
A true no coding experience: Building metrics with BigQuery and Cervinodata in under two minutes
By Erik van Dorp — July 15, 2019
17+ Key Metrics Every Successful Business Leader Should Know
By Cameron Conaway — June 18, 2017
Key metrics for agile development teams
By Ali Pourshahid — July 17, 2015
How to establish key business metrics
By Jonathan Milne — June 20, 2017
How to identify your KPIs
By Jonathan Taylor — July 25, 2017
25 Days of Metrics: 2021 Year in Review
By Priyaanka Arora — December 16, 2021
How to start tracking historical Twitter data for free
By Emily Hayward — February 3, 2021
Grow your business with these six live chat metrics
By Yaakov Karda — August 19, 2019
Top cybersecurity KPIs to track for risk mitigation
By Matt Shealy — November 25, 2019
The Real Time Strategy Dashboard
By Brett Knowles — September 6, 2018
Two reasons why you should leverage self-service BI
By Pam Buffone — August 20, 2019
5 tips to understand (and organize) your restaurant data
By Saleem Khatri — December 11, 2019
If You’re Not Capturing These Three Metrics, You’re Doing Lead Gen Wrong
By Dave Moll — July 16, 2018
The Starter Guide to Business Intelligence
By Emily Hayward — May 26, 2021
The metrics any SaaS software development team needs to monitor
By Ali Pourshahid — October 16, 2019
Understanding social media interaction KPIs
By Tilo Kmieckowiak — August 22, 2017
6 QuickBooks metrics every small business needs to track on their accounting dashboard
By Jonathan Taylor — February 8, 2016
Top 6 KPIs to track for enterprise e-commerce organizations
By Brian Dainis — January 3, 2020
Side hustle metrics: What you need to consider for side hustle success
By Mark Brownlee — January 21, 2019
3 KPIs that carriers & shippers should be tracking
By Sydney Wess — January 9, 2020
Beyond Vanity Metrics: Share of Influence Vs. Share of Voice
By Jonathan Taylor — February 29, 2016
Are your 'Key Results' undermining your 'Objectives'?
By Brett Knowles — October 18, 2019
The 5 most important help desk KPIs
By Niraj Ranjan Rout — March 15, 2017
Reddit Marketing KPIs: The ultimate guide
By Mark Brownlee — November 13, 2018
Real-time financial metrics that keep your business out of the dark
By Stacey Shrout — October 13, 2015
The top 10 most valuable metrics for marketing managers
By Danielle Poleski — May 16, 2017
Planday tracks top SaaS KPIs with new dashboard technology: PowerMetrics
By Mitch Dupuis — March 22, 2019
Blood, sweat and metrics: Creating an online KPI/metrics community
By Allan Wille, Co-Founder — September 20, 2019
Metric Driven Change Management
By Ali Pourshahid — November 11, 2015
Marketing momentum metrics and startup productivity
By Cameron Conaway — June 29, 2017
Essential marketing metrics defined - Web traffic sources
By Jonathan Taylor — March 12, 2015
The most important marketing agency KPIs
By Jonathan Milne — July 12, 2017
The Evolution of Analytics
By Allan Wille, Co-Founder — December 3, 2020
Inside the mind of a successful data-driven startup founder
By Melinda Elmborg — December 5, 2019
Sales Analytics: How To Use Sales Analysis To Grow Your Business
By Katya Zeisig — February 20, 2018