Klipfolio Blog

At Klipfolio, we believe in continuously learning and in continuously sharing what we learn. Our four blogs each offer a different focus— Happy Dashboarding offers advice on building world-class dashboards; Mindful Metrics provides insight on metrics and KPIs; Startup Founder is where our founder shares his thoughts; and Klipfolio Labs is where our dev team shares their wisdom about agile development and productivity.

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Mindful Metrics

The Top 10 Alternatives to Excel Spreadsheets

By Marisha Sesto — February 26, 2019

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Mindful Metrics

From Undone to Done: The Essential Guide to Workflow Diagrams

By Marisha Sesto — February 21, 2019

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Mindful Metrics

Team Building Activities

By Jonathan Milne — February 20, 2019

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Happy Dashboarding

Real-time dashboards are making work life easier for an Office Manager at Resolute Recruiting

By Mitch Dupuis — February 20, 2019

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Happy Dashboarding

The MagneticOne Group saves hundreds of hours per year by switching dashboard providers

By Mitch Dupuis — February 19, 2019

Mindful Metrics

Data hacks from the pros: business leaders who are killing the decision making game

By Mitch Dupuis, Stef Reid — February 14, 2019

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Happy Dashboarding

How to create a SQL dashboard that pulls in data from your database

By Chris Wolski — February 12, 2019

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Mindful Metrics

It's not about the database. It's about you. The biggest Klipfolio update ever.

By Allan Wille — February 6, 2019

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Mindful Metrics

How to write a proposal

By Stef Reid — February 5, 2019

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Mindful Metrics

Why are key performance indicators important?

By Danielle Poleski — February 4, 2019

Why KPIs fail

Mindful Metrics

Learn why KPIs fail and how to pick ones to fail

By Jonathan Taylor — February 4, 2019

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Mindful Metrics

The basics of KPI management

By Jonathan Taylor — February 4, 2019

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Mindful Metrics

Managing Your Data for Hypergrowth: Insights from a Data-Driven Agency

By Fiona Russell, Krishan Arora — January 30, 2019

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Happy Dashboarding

Performance dashboards keep Brickshare on track towards meeting their business objectives

By Mitch Dupuis — January 24, 2019

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Happy Dashboarding

Why you need to become a data storyteller

By Mark Brownlee — January 24, 2019

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Mindful Metrics

How (and when) to create a custom metric

By Mark Brownlee — January 23, 2019

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Real-time KPI dashboards help Gogoprint improve their NPS rating from 42% to 77% in less than one year

By Mitch Dupuis — January 23, 2019

Happy Dashboarding

Turn sales into an exciting adventure with leaderboards

By Aleksandra Vetrova — January 23, 2019

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VuPulse is monitoring performance on-the-fly using real-time dashboards

By Mitch Dupuis — January 22, 2019

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Mindful Metrics

Side hustle metrics: What you need to consider for side hustle success

By Mark Brownlee — January 21, 2019

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Mindful Metrics

How CMOs should visualize their ad spend data to gain real-time insight

By Dennis Mei , Michiel van Altena — January 21, 2019

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Klipfolio Labs

Why a learning culture is important – and why your organization needs one

By Ali Pourshahid, Gianna Mauro, Natalia Castillo — January 18, 2019

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Mindful Metrics

Make your company’s data the source of your next blog post

By Mark Brownlee — January 16, 2019

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Mindful Metrics

Employee retention metrics: The 5 metrics you should be measuring

By Mark Brownlee — January 14, 2019