14 Tools To Track Key Performance Indicators For Your Business
Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) measure how well your organization is achieving its goals. Because of this, it's important to get powerful software that gives you a view of your business as a whole, not just individual departments.
The Young Entrepreneurs Council (YEC) is an invitation-only organization of the world's most promising young entrepreneurs. In partnership with Citi, YEC recently launched a free virtual mentoring program called BusinessCollective.
We asked 14 YEC members who had tried multiple programs to track their KPIs, which was their first choice. These favorites offer everything from integrations with other company dashboards to third-party KPI reports. You may not realize how ineffective your current method is until you try one.
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1. Hekaboard
We use Geckoboard to get a visual overview of what's happening with all of our company's KPIs. We also use Google Analytics and Hubspot to track the performance of our marketing campaigns. - Lindsay Mullen, Prosperity Strategies
2. Sales Personnel
We live in Salesforce with dashboards. In fact, we've put a lot of effort into creating personalized dashboards for each employee, so department-wide and company-wide dashboards can show performance in all aspects of Voices.com life. This gives us a 360 degree view that keeps us all accountable and on the same page to achieve our goals. - David Ciccarelli, Voice.com
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3. Development
Boosting is an easy-to-use expert dashboard. It allows me to connect to Google Analytics, AdWords, Facebook, Quickbooks, etc. To create a dashboard anyone can understand. - Eric Siu, A Grain
4. Table
Tableau is a great data analysis and KPI tool for customer/retailer engagement. It has an intuitive user interface and two standout features: real-time reports and data integration. Tableau connects to our database and uses up-to-date data for timely scoring and integrates data from sources such as Excel, Google Analytics and Salesforce. - Dusty Wunderlich, Bristlecone Holdings
5. Alation
Nothing is worse than crashing your expensive BI software. This usually means spending a lot of money and learning new software. Olation is a bit different as it is OS agnostic and cross platform. It integrates "predictive analytics" into your business practices, so you don't have to play with multiple spreadsheets, just have one solution. - Cody McClain, Ninja support
6. Simple KPIs
Simple KPI is a very useful resource to track key performance indicators for my business. At Fortune Cookie Advertising, it is important that we have access to a variety of data to test our new marketing strategies. I like the simple cloud-based KPI software because it allows us to access everything from anywhere. When I need to show important stats, I just make a chart. -Sean Porath, fortune cookie ad
7. Statistical Mix
With StatsMix you can automate KPI reporting and easily share it with other team members (including business partners). Monitoring of internal and external KPIs. - Andrew Schrage, Money Crash's Personal Finance
8. Minimize
Asana is a great tool for tracking your company's KPIs because it's accessible to everyone in the company. It also allows you to track the sub-tasks required to achieve a specific KPI. - Randy Rice, Venture Pact
9. Market leader for WordPress
Lidin does the right tracking - not too much and not too little analysis. I recommend it to people doing WordPress lead generation. -Patrick Ulaskavit, Hurd.
10. Old school desk
For critical KPIs, I prefer a simple spreadsheet. I can merge it from any source, it's easy to share and everyone knows how to use it. I even like to enter data manually. The review process gives me a chance to think about the KPIs every day and makes them easy to remember for a quick question. - William Hogben, fast payment
11. I have done this
Respond to the evening reminder email with information about what you did that day. Get a summary of what everyone in the group did the next day. iDoneIt is an easy way to share and track what team members do every day to work on business-critical KPIs. - Brett Farmillo, Marketing
12. Mo
Inbound marketing is complicated. Moz makes it easy. A set of modern dashboards and analytics is a must for any business website. At $99, Moz Pro is a steal; The plan comes with 12+ tools to track and improve your SEO, social media, branding, link building, and content marketing efforts, including Moz Analytics, OpenSite Explorer, Followerwonk, and more. - Matthew Kapala, Search Decoder
13. Spray it
A surge that allows me to easily view KPIs at events near me and on social media. - Alexis Levine, Savvy Media
14. HubSpot
ZinePak uses HubSpot to track all sales and marketing activity. It's great that our CRM and COS are integrated into one smart tool. At any time, I may review the relationship between members of my organization and our customers, whether those customers visit our website or use our online content. My only regret is not subscribing to HubSpot sooner. - Brittany Hodak, Zinpak

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