Occam's Razor

AUGUST 9, 2016

The outcome of book smart is rarely better for analytics practitioners then folks trying to learn how to fly an airplane from how-to books. This is all the way from Aug 2009: Web Analytics Career Advice: Play In The Real World! And, happily, it has almost all of the Google Analytics features implemented correctly.

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 13, 2015

The 80/20 rule applies to our use of web analytics tools as well. I recommend that periodically you gather folks around you for lunch, pull up Adobe Analytics on the big screen in the conference room, let each person expose one hidden report or feature. Google Analytics Shortcuts: Save Your Complex Views. This hurts my feelings!

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Occam's Razor

MAY 2, 2017

#tearsofpain One way of removing silos and focusing on the entire business is to leverage Acquisition, Behavior and Outcome metrics. A small change I’ll make in this post is that when I recommend the metrics, I’ll follow the Outcomes | Behavior | Acquisition structure throughout this post. Ecommerce: Betabrand. I love Betabrand.

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 14, 2014

If you've read my first book Web Analytics: An Hour A Day, you know that I've advocated this strategy since 2008! Any big changes in your marketing/customer acquisition strategy over the last time period (more money doing Search, less money in Email, elimination Facebook as it does not work, etc., See Page 269. :).

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 8, 2011

99.9996253% of Web Analytics reports produced are utterly useless. partly because they are out of the box standard reports that web analytics vendors create for “average” people (and we both know that you are not average!), Here’s a blog post: 3 Awesome, Downloadable, Custom Web Analytics Reports. do visitors value more?

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 13, 2015

In Lean Analytics , Alistair Croll and Benjamin Yoskovitz gave a great example of the value of cohorts, using data from a hypothetical online retailer: January. So by segmenting your data, you can learn things you couldn’t from the aggregate data. How does retention differ among different acquisition channels?

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 21, 2014

about digital marketing and analytics. We will cover questions in four areas: business/strategy challenges, analytics/technical challenges, career/self-development questions and rampant speculation. Even the worst analytics configuration in the world will most likely allow you to measure cart and checkout abandonment rate.

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Nose to the grind "How do I" questions: David Walizer: How do you sell the value of web analytics to a skeptical client in 30 seconds or less? By doing multichannel analytics! More detail on those techniques, and three more, are in this blog post: Multichannel Analytics: Tracking Offline Conversions. Let's go!

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ConversionXL

MARCH 13, 2013

Analytics should guide your decisions – they should be actionable. They are often much harder to track than just switching on Google Analytics. One of the challenges in tracking actionable metrics is as put by Eric Ries, “ Most analytics packages are configured by default to provide mostly reports on vanity metrics ”.

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Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

The search queries by these users would hence be encrypted and not available to website owners via web analytics tools such as Omniture, WebTrends, Open Stats, Google Analytics etc. Most analytics vendors, including Google Analytics, reacted immediately to the change in order help us quantify the impact of this change in multiple ways.

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Occam's Razor

MARCH 23, 2010

There are more mistruths and F U D about Web analytics out there than I think is reasonable. Web Analytics, this beautiful child, was born just the other day in the midst of tumultuous times, quite literally, when everything changes every day. Here are ten web analytics ground truths… 1. Part of it fueled by Vendors.

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 12, 2013

There are few things more complicated in analytics (all analytics, big data and huge data!) I normally ask people to look at the Path Length report in the Multi-Channel Funnels standard report in Google Analytics (or equivalent tool if you are using SiteCatalyst or WebTrends or other web analytics tools). It is sweet.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 1, 2020

Research by McKinsey shows that 15% of online shoppers have subscribed to an ecommerce service: In general, the “subscription lifestyle” is good news for ecommerce stores. In this case, accurately measuring the holy grail of ecommerce metrics—customer lifetime value (LTV)—isn’t easy. Customer completes first purchase.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 21, 2015

Cost of customer acquisition = cost of visitor acquisition * conversion rate, if it is profitable: Increase the volume for the same traffic. Matt Gershoff ( Conductrics ): AB Testing, Predictive Analytics, and Behavioral Targeting. Simo Ahava ( Reaktor ): Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager Ninja Toolbox.

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Occam's Razor

JULY 18, 2011

For everything you do it is important to measure your effectiveness of all three phases of your effort: Acquisition. Optimal Acquisition Email Metrics. Most good email providers will do this automatically for whatever web analytics tool you use. So for our email campaign analysis let’s look at metrics using that framework.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

This post details the role that UTM parameters play in traffic attribution in Google Analytics. Here’s what I’ll cover: Why conversion attribution starts with traffic attribution How Google Analytics understands traffic sources What are UTM parameters? How Google Analytics understands traffic sources. HTTP Referrer.

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

One of these days my hope is that Web Analytics vendors will A] Make it easier for us to add the annotations and/or B] Mine other sources and automatically add context / tribal knowledge as Google Trends does today. In aggregate trends can hide insights and hence "dirty" the data. Get the tribal knowledge, paste it in.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 30, 2012

It is painfully heartbreaking to realize that a very small tiny number of people who have access to web analytics tools actually use them. In-Page Analytics – Re-imagine Traveling Through Data. #5. Matched Query Type, Keyword Position, Day Parts: Sexier PPC Analytics. #7. I mean really use the tools. Ravage all the features.

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 13, 2012

A couple weeks back I'd requested the nice folks following me on Google+ and Facebook to submit their most important digital marketing and analytics questions. Some tools do pan-session analysis better than others, and there are a number of relatively new analytics solutions on the market today.

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 19, 2010

" "What is a dimension in analytics?" There seems to be genuine confusion about the simplest, most foundational, parts of web metrics / analytics. The post will end with a Web Analytics Measurement Framework. It is possible that some Analytics Tool Goals directly measure your business objectives or goals.

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Occam's Razor

MAY 18, 2010

I have said: All data in aggregate is "crap" Because it is. One of my earliest blog posts extolled the glorious virtues of segmentation: Excellent Analytics Tip#2: Segment Absolutely Everything. Many paid web analytics clickstream analytics tools, even today (!), Acquisition. Of course Yahoo! All visits.

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Occam's Razor

JULY 15, 2014

Just imagine how useful it would be in a non-analytical environment like a museum. And I don't want you to think that the problem is that the above is a dashboard in a digital analytics tool and has just two graphs. Here's another example: Those of you who've read Web Analytics 2.0 They are data pukes.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 26, 2014

While Google Analytics is so widely used, most marketers only scratch the surface when it comes to the reports they use. Brian Massey, the Conversion Scientist : One of our more unusual Google Analytics reports is the buyer persona report. 1: Advanced Segments Based On Buyer Personas. 1: Advanced Segments Based On Buyer Personas.

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

The term KPI is one that I hear far more than any other in this nascent field we call Web Analytics. Even if you and I are in the same sector (ecommerce) or the same business (social networking) it is important to know that we will usually drive different objectives, and hence different KPI's. Key Performance Indicators!

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Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 12, 2011

Use my Acquisition, Behavior and Outcomes framework to ensure an end-to-end view of important activity and 2. Acquisition: Clicks? Cost Per Acquisition. For Search it is in your Google Analytics or Omniture Site Catalyst reports. Standard metric in every web analytics tool worth anything. But not to worry.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

If viewed holistically, this data is just a generalized aggregation of disparate data points. For example, let’s say you’re an eCommerce marketer, and the following CRM report just came across your desk: Unique users: 13,020,403. One reason this doesn’t happen is that customer acquisition often takes precedent.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 23, 2020

If call leads are important to your business, you’d be wise to rethink mobile analytics all-together, as understanding a person’s behavior when they have their phone in their hand is a hell of a lot more complex than when they’re tethered to a desk somewhere. Pillar 3: Optimize for call quality. Salesforce ).

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 7, 2014

Every indicator we have is that companies are investing more in every facet of analytics. There is an analytics ladder of awesomeness each company needs to climb, and it just takes time. 11: Close to zero aggregated analysis exists, everything's segmented. #10: You know what your Return on Analytics is! Consulting.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 3, 2010

Saving money online has been a real driver of ecommerce growth in 2010. Putting fun into ecommerce. The first generation of ecommerce sites were focused on functionality, getting the dog to talk better. The first generation of ecommerce sites were focused on functionality, getting the dog to talk better.

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 29, 2013

You end up paying substantial amounts of money to your analytics/big data vendor – for questionable value. Measuring Visits and Conversions in aggregate first and segmented by keywords (or even key word clusters) will get you on the path to showing real impact. Here's why… Real-time data is very expensive.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Google Analytics. Site Pulse – Live Web Traffic Monitor and Analytics. SEO and Analytics Tutorials. Analytics review â?? mixpanel vs kissmetric vs google analytics review. Analytics blog â?? good analytics tutorials. great web customer acquisition tutorials. Analytics Tools.

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