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Benjamin Day Smith

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Measuring the Right Things, pt. 1: What do people click on?

People do not use our products and software in the way that we, the designers and builders, initially expect. In analyzing how web pages are used I wanted a quick way to determine what people are actually clicking on. We have web analytic tools that tell us total page views, link clicks, and form submissions, but is there more we should be looking for? And I had a hunch that users might be clicking on non-interactive elements, expecting something to happen, and experiencing more confusion than joy.

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tags: Product Analytics, Product, Heap, Boardable
categories: Frameworks
Tuesday 06.07.22
Posted by Ben Smith
 

Product-Qualified Lead (PQL) Scoring

This post walks through how to build a “product qualifying” model to identify which users of your product are most likely to buy. For explanations of why this is a great idea, and you should already be doing it, see this excellent article from Madkudu, or the Product-Led Growth book.

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tags: Product-Led Growth, SQL, Necessary, Sufficient, PQL, Heap, Recipe
categories: Frameworks
Tuesday 01.25.22
Posted by Ben Smith