It looks as though Peyton Manning’s final game will be a Super Bowl victory. The legendary quarterback’s future is in question, and many close to the star believe he will hang up the cleats following his second Super Bowl ring. Despite Manning getting credit for leading his team to victory over the Panthers, it was actually the Broncos defense that …
Sports Metric of the Week: Which NCAA Men’s Basketball Program Reigns Supreme?
Men’s college basketball has flown under the radar to start 2016, being overshadowed by the NFL playoffs and the growing popularity of the NBA. This year, certain traditional powers such as Duke and Kentucky have struggled, just barely hanging on to spots in the Top 25 rankings. On the other hand, Kansas and North Carolina are top five teams with …
Where Is Your Business’ Most Important Data Hidden?
Let me ask you a question: if your business receives X leads per day on average, and leads suddenly dropped 40%, how quickly would you know about it? Immediately? Within 24 hours? Within a week? Clearly, the sooner you knew about the issue, the better…so you can help resolve it. Now what makes this issue so much more complex and …
Sports Metric of the Week: Measuring the Success of the NFL’s Two Conferences
Super Bowl 50 will match the Carolina Panthers against the Denver Broncos in the San Francisco Bay Area on February 7th. Both the Panthers and Broncos flourished during the regular season and each earned the number one seed in their respective conferences. Despite the Broncos knocking off the reigning Super Bowl champions this past weekend, it is the Panthers that …
Sports Metric of the Week: Manning vs. Brady
On Sunday, the Denver Broncos will play the New England Patriots in the AFC Championship for the right to play in the Super Bowl. The match-up will feature Peyton Manning and Tom Brady, arguably two of the greatest quarterbacks in NFL history and undoubtedly the two best of this generation. Despite Manning’s five Most Valuable Player awards throughout his career, …
6 Benefits to Building Your Dashboard Today
The right dashboard can revolutionize both your success and enjoyment in running your business. Most specifically, the right dashboard will give you six key benefits as follows: 1. Total Visibility into Your Business With your dashboard, you will know exactly what’s going on in your business at all times. You know what’s working and what’s not working. For instance, your …
Sports Metric of the Week: Super Bowl Favorites Heading into Divisional Round
For the first time in NFL history, all four wild card teams went on the road during the first weekend of the playoffs and took home wins. All four now move on to face division champions on January 16th and 17th. Despite showing the ability to go on the road and get a playoff victory, never an easy task, the …
3 Ways to Methodically Improve Performance on Your Key Metrics
The first step to improving performance is to maintain your key performance indicators (KPIs) and business metrics in a dashboard, since the old adage, “you can’t improve what you can’t measure” is quite true. Once you have your dashboard established, do the following: 1. Split Test Split testing is experimenting with new variations. You can conduct tests with two variables …
Sports Metric of the Week: Wave of NFL Coaching Changes Expected
Being a head coach in professional sports is associated with extreme pressure from fans and ownership. Typically, a coach has a maximum of two or three years to show significant improvement in order to keep their job. No sport reflects this burden more than football, where coach turnover is rampant among mediocre teams. Over the past decade, only three coaches …
Three Overlooked Benefits of Tracking Your Metrics
Any professionally run organization tracks their metrics. These metrics range from your sales, to your number of leads, to the number of phone calls or website visitors you receive. Without knowing and tracking your metrics, you can’t improve them. Hence the popular saying “you can’t improve what you can’t measure.” While every business owner knows they need to track their …