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Interview with a Startup Co-Founder: How Tracking KPIs Could Have Saved LayerVault

Success stories are always inspiring, but sometimes we learn the most from failures - our own and from...

  • by Laura Tyson

Customer Support: 6 Metrics and KPIs to Improve Self-Service

Editor's note: this is a guest post by Adam Rogers, content marketer at Kayako. The more...

  • by Laura Tyson

6 Hacks for Creating a Transparent Culture at Your Company

It’s easy enough to talk about having a transparent culture and the benefits are certainly compelling. Transparency...

  • by Laura Tyson

Choosing Metrics: How to Keep Your KPIs Simple

KPIs are the business equivalent of a compass. They show where your company is headed (orientation) and how...

  • by Laura Tyson

Benchmarks: how to set challenging but realistic business goals

Imagine you want to breed bunnies. (Why not? Bunnies are adorable!) If you don’t know how quickly...

  • by Laura Tyson
Turn your Salesforce reports into live TV dashboards to inform your team

Turn your Salesforce reports into live TV dashboards to inform your team

  • by Nick Smith

Salesforce reporting basics: building, aggregating, segmenting and formatting reports

The Salesforce reporting feature is really powerful. However, if you’re just starting out, it can also be...

  • by Tom Randle

How to Use Iterative Design to Keep Your Dashboard Relevant

Imagine having a dashboard with beautiful, easy-to-read visualizations and data from five years ago that’s for a...

  • by Laura Tyson

Should I have this KPI on my dashboard? The IPA rule

One of the most common questions I hear is “Should I have this KPI?” The answer is found...

  • by Laura Tyson

Using spreadsheets for communicating data? Here are 4 reasons you shouldn’t

We all love spreadsheets, right? They’re great for manipulating and analyzing your business’s data on Key...

  • by Geckoboard Staff

What do you mean I'm not supposed to use Pie Charts?!

Pie charts are completely ubiquitous - especially in business. It can therefore come as a shock to hear...

  • by Tom Randle

Two business dashboard books you must read before building your own

Here at Geckoboard HQ, nothing (except maybe doughnuts) makes us happier than a well put together business dashboard...

  • by Adele Simor

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