{"id":37,"date":"2014-01-15T13:31:07","date_gmt":"2014-01-15T08:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unwiredlabs.com\/blog\/?p=37"},"modified":"2014-01-20T13:01:38","modified_gmt":"2014-01-20T07:31:38","slug":"karma-geolocation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unwiredlabs.com\/blog\/karma-geolocation\/","title":{"rendered":"Geolocation & the Karma metric"},"content":{"rendered":"

Of the twenty or so metrics we monitor at Unwired Labs, the\u00a0Karma metric<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0is the<\/em> most important one.<\/p>\n

What is the Karma metric, you ask? Embarrassingly simple, really. It’s our name for successfully serving a request to a customer – in our case, successfully geolocating a request.<\/p>\n

And Why is it so important? Because we believe in Karma<\/a>. Every time we geolocate a customer’s request, we’re helping them help someone<\/em> find their way in this world. And in time, we hope that means more requests from these customers, and at times, from their customers.<\/p>\n

\"Karma<\/a><\/p>\n

And it’s paying off.<\/p>\n

Over the last 60 days, our Karma rate has increased from 83.11% to 95.26%. That’s 95.26% good karma. And about 12% lesser bad Karma than 60 days ago.\u00a0Incidentally, our user base and revenue have grown at a much faster rate.<\/p>\n

What’s your Karma metric? Figure out what’s most important to your customer, quantify it and there you have it!\u00a0Do leave a comment with your thoughts!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Figure out what’s most important to your customer, quantify it and there you have it!\u00a0Do leave a comment with your thoughts!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-geolocation"],"yoast_head":"\nGeolocation & the Karma metric - The Unwired Labs Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/unwiredlabs.com\/blog\/karma-geolocation\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Geolocation & the Karma metric - The Unwired Labs Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Of the twenty or so metrics we monitor at Unwired Labs, the\u00a0Karma metric\u00a0is the most important one. 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