{"id":463,"date":"2013-08-22T16:22:47","date_gmt":"2013-08-22T16:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/?p=463"},"modified":"2013-08-22T16:22:47","modified_gmt":"2013-08-22T16:22:47","slug":"vanity-or-productivity-metrics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/vanity-or-productivity-metrics\/","title":{"rendered":"Vanity or Productivity Metrics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vanity metrics let you <em>feel good<\/em> about your business.<\/p>\n<p>Productivity metrics tell you the truth about your business. From <em>Running Lean<\/em>, by\u00a0Ash Maurya via the Lean Startup, here&#8217;s some productivity metrics:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Acquisition (how do users find you?)<\/li>\n<li>Activation (do they have a great first experience?)<\/li>\n<li>Retention (do they return?)<\/li>\n<li>Revenue (how do you make money?)<\/li>\n<li>Referral (do users tell others?).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Most people want to feel good, so they often select metrics that let them feel good. The people that excel choose metrics that tell them where and how to improve.<\/p>\n<p>You can chart either one with the QI Macros, but vanity charts aren&#8217;t going to help you improve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vanity metrics let you feel good about your business. Productivity metrics tell you the truth about your business. From Running Lean, by&nbsp;Ash Maurya via the Lean Startup, here&rsquo;s some productivity metrics: Acquisition (how do users find you?) Activation (do they have a great first experience?) Retention (do they return?) Revenue (how do you make money?) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lean","category-qi-macros"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":465,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463\/revisions\/465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}