When to adopt "Groups" in Analytics
A misunderstood concept in Analytics is "Grouping" or "Groups". In analytics, Groups can be companies, organizations, accounts, projects, teams, or whatever other grouping is relevant for you.
Startups often struggle to know WHY and WHEN they should adopt "Groups".
Here is a quick explanation ??
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Groups are used to stitch users together ??
Groups are whatever grouping is relevant for your business. In the majority of the cases though groups are used to group users into companies.
They are 3 situations where groups are extremely relevant to adopt.
1. Multi-player products ??
Some products are multi-player.
This is the case for most B2B SaaS like Linear where users can invite colleagues to work.
If this is your case then implementing logic in your code to "group" users is critical to remove the noise.
2. Multi-account products ??
In some products, users can belong to multiple accounts.
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While ?? user-level metrics help you understand how users perform individually, ?? company-level metrics help you make sure companies that use your product are healthy
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3. For success teams at B2Bs SaaS ??
Traditionally Success teams at B2B SaaS need to understand the engagement with their product by an organization.
B2B SaaS sell to organization, not users.
What matters is that an org remains active, not individual employee's movements.
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Hope this quick thread helped you get a better understanding of how "groups" are used in Analytics ?? ??
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2 年Enzo, really like that!
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3 年Thanks for sharing. If someone wants to dig deeper, this guide can help: https://dataled.academy/guides/entities-and-event-data/
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3 年Good post. What do you in general think about the "Groups" terminology. We currently use it, but our customers often mistake Groups for being segments. I see a lot of companies switching to use "Companies" or "accounts" instead to make it a more user friendly terminology. I.e. Groups is maybe a term that worked for data analysts, but as sales, product, marketing, customer success and many others need to use analytics the Groups terminology no longer works.
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3 年100% we see so many startups come in without the group call who would really benefit from it. B2B Sales is often account-based and without the group call, you can't identify product usage rolled up at the account level!