This document discusses bridging the gap between customer engagement and user metrics. It defines customer engagement as interaction between customers and a company/brand. User metrics are standards used to measure efficiency, performance, progress or quality. User metrics differ between businesses and aren't always traditional accounting metrics. The document provides examples of how a photo sharing app and forum site could use user metrics like number of posts and top contributors to improve customer engagement. It emphasizes identifying influencers and capturing feedback. Overall, the document promotes using specific user metrics tailored to a business to monitor engagement and refine activities over time.
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Bridging the gap between Customer Engagement and User Metrics
2. Customer Engagement
Customer engagement (CE) is the engagement of customers with one
another, with a company or a brand. The initiative for engagement can
be either consumer- or company-led and the medium of engagement
can be on or offline.
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5. User Metrics Can Differ From Business To
Business
They arent like traditional business or accounting metrics (profit,
loss, EBITDA etc)
You can get bogged down looking at the wrong metrics
There isnt one holy grail User Metric for all businesses
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User Metrics can help you understand and validate what is happening
in your business.
6. Heres an example
In 2010 there was a location
based App call Burbn
It had features such as the
ability to check in to locations,
take photos and tag your
location
It secured $500,000 Seed
Funding
What happened next?
7. An Example of marrying Customer
Engagement and User Metrics
It pivoted to just focus on its photo sharing ability
And sold to Facebook for $1 Billion
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Instagram
8. 200,000 Users
1 Million posts per month
20+ forum sections
Volunteer Team
10. What User Metrics are
important in this scenario?
Number of posts per forum section on
a weekly / monthly basis
List of Top 10 Users by posts
contributed
List of Top 10 Users by posts
contributed by forum section
11. Identify & Engage Influencers &
Evangelists
Capture of relevant product feedback
& ideas
Enabled individual Brand-Consumer
relationships to be built
12. B2B software platform
CRM powered by Salesforce
On-boarding program
Knowledge Base
13. Base User Metrics
Number of Knowledge Base logins per
User
Number of Platform logins per User
Frequency & Recency of visits
14. What User Metrics are
important in this scenario?
List of specific content viewed in
Knowledge Base by User
Number of times each piece of
content was viewed
The most frequently viewed pieces of
content
15. Improved Trial Conversions
Improved On-Boarding process
Dedicated/Tailored training and support
per User
16. Mobile App for Conference
Calls
UK Tech Start-up
B2B Focus
17. Base User Metrics
Number of downloads, number of
Users
Number of calls made
Average length of calls
18. What User Metrics are
important in this scenario?
Users who made the most calls
Users who made no calls
Call type (national vs. international)
20. User Metrics in your business
Confirmthe top 3
factors or stages involved in
securing and renewing
business (e.g. free trial, sales
demo, off-book charges)
IdentifyUser Metrics for
each of these factors (e.g. off-
book charges the User Metric
may be the number of creative
requests per month)
Monitorthose metrics
over a 3-6 month period,
analyse and then refine your
business activities. Rinse and
Repeat.