Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 11, 2021

Most of these startups spend the lion’s share of their marketing budget in today’s social media channels: Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, Snap, TikTok and so on because?—?no founders, marketers, investors?—?and no surprise?—?that’s that’s where the customers are. For these companies, it looks like a rosy picture.

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Founder Product Cofounder Acquisition 424

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. In fact smarter than you would be through any other channel on the planet!

Analytics 118

Analytics Web Metrics Channel 118

Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

This audience is immensely attractive to Brands and Marketers around the world. Increased investment in Facebook as an engagement/acquisition channel has translated into requests from CEOs, CMOs and other CxOs about the return on that investment. Facebook has an incredible audience, 950 million strong and counting.

Metrics 165

Metrics Advertising Marketing Social Media 165

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.

Analytics 60

Analytics Metrics eCommerce PPC 60

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 10, 2021

Use aggregated data from social media, professional market research, public sentiment, and key influencers for change analysis. The first step is to break the legacy silos and underground channels in the current organization, which usually means realigning executive leadership and roles.

Customer 434

Customer Social Media Demand Aggregator 434

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 23, 2017

This combinatorial model works because it’s diversified, can best withstand bear markets, benefits from technological synergies, and it’s the mix of products and services clients value. The speed and accuracy of research will be vastly improved with the application of big data and analytics.

Technical Review 154

Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Software Review IPO 154

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!

Analytics 94

Analytics Web Non-Compete Metrics 94

ConversionXL

MAY 13, 2020

For a long time, I considered standard Google Analytics reports to be the best way to get useful insights. From time to time, I struggled with sampling, limitations, and weird results, but I didn’t see a way around it—until I discovered Google Analytics 360 and raw data exports into Google BigQuery. Where do my users come from?

Analytics 85

Analytics Aggregator SQL Cloud 85

Occam's Razor

JULY 18, 2011

Email remains an immensely credible and profitable channel, with an immense reach to boot. To not have it as an active part of your marketing portfolio is sub-optimal. The only requirement is that your mental model (and indeed, company culture) should be solidly rooted in permission marketing. Every fiber of your being.

Metrics 137

Metrics Campaign Email Marketing 137

Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 20, 2010

The last blog post shared custom analytics reports that you can use to find amazing insights faster, enabling you to create a focused, truly data driven organization. I am an unabashed segmentation fan: Web Analytics Segmentation: Do Or Die! Web Analytics or WebTrends or. three awesome analytics data segments. #1:

Analytics 118

Analytics Web Social Media Search 118

Brandanew

JANUARY 8, 2016

2015 was a great year for Content marketers and brand owners. Social analytics and video marketing are likely to be the key marketing trends for 2016. We talked to global social media experts and influencers to share with us their top social analytics tools for the coming year.

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Analytics Social Media Marketing Media 100

Occam's Razor

MAY 20, 2013

" comfort zone, and out of your Google Analytics, Site Catalyst, WebTrends worldview silo. Part of the reason is that even if you work for a multi-channel company you are likely in the "web," "interactive," "internet," or "digital" division. The answer is simple: Aggregators.

Analytics 139

Analytics Aggregator Channel B2B 139

Occam's Razor

JULY 1, 2013

Would you believe me when I say that your digital analytics data, from Google Analytics or WebTrends et. We do have A LOT of data in our analytics tools. But sometimes going outside our analytics tools can yield non-normal insights that can deliver a competitive advantage. Neither is an example of just site analytics.

Search 135

Search Analytics PPC Green 135

Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

5 Reasons for Replacing Intuition with Data in Marketing written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Is marketing an art or science? The questions on everyone’s lips are: Will data dictate the way for marketing or will it support it? Benefits of using data driven marketing. Multiple channel strategy.

Artificial Inteligence 54

Artificial Inteligence Marketing Algorithm Social Media 54

Occam's Razor

MAY 2, 2017

That then takes us down the very best way to answer that question, to use the five-step process to build out the Digital Marketing and Measurement Model. For example, your company is shifting aggressively into leveraging Machine-Learning in your marketing strategies and hence have made a shift to Smart Display Campaigns a huge priority.

Metrics 141

Metrics Acquisition eCommerce Analytics 141

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.

Analytics 124

Analytics Channel Metrics Web 124

Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 21, 2013

This led to the problem we, Marketers, SEOs, Analysts, fondly refer to as not provided. Following revelations of NSA activities via Mr. Snowden, Google has now switched almost all users to secure search, resulting in even more user search queries showing up as not provided in all web analytics tools. No keyword data in analytics tools.

Search 154

Search SEO Analytics Engineer 154

Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

In fact I've gone so far as to say: "All data in aggregate is crap." " That's certainly a bit melodramatic, but beyond the most bare bones "ahh, I see something is happening" you are unable to get anywhere with aggregate data. Google Analytics: New Segmentation User Experience.

Analytics 145

Analytics Green Metrics Web 145

Occam's Razor

JUNE 4, 2018

I understand channel conflict, Timbuk2, but this is just plain not being hungry. Bonus: The best computation of conversion rate is orders divided by users (the default in your analytics tool is sessions). Go to the Multi-Channel Funnels folder in Google analytics and look at two other yummy reports: Time Lag and Path Length.

Conversion 124

Conversion eCommerce Artificial Inteligence Aggregator 124

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 4, 2022

The paper from the respected body made me open PowerPoint and create a visual that would make the case for never identifying Conversion Rate or ROAS the Most Important KPI in your company / practice of analytics. It is published 50x/year, and shares bleeding-edge thinking about Marketing, Analytics, and Leadership. Media Costs).

Conversion 127

Conversion Analytics .Net Metrics 127

Occam's Razor

MAY 19, 2014

The problem is that it does not provide any incentive to the marketing team to ensure the rest of the experience for the user is great. So the marketer is now incentivized to get lots of the right people to the site (better more relevant ads!) None of the digital analytics tools make it easy to measure true profitability.

Metrics 159

Metrics Analytics SEC Acquisition 159

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

The more well-known your company becomes, the harder it gets to directly impact primary KPI’s at the aggregate level because the majority of customers who buy are going to do so irrespective of if your button color is red or blue. For example, Adobe Analytics (Omniture) only allows the use of historical data for personalization.

Chad 112

Chad Mobile Technical Review Aggregator 112

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 28, 2013

Masterful design, branding and marketing. As a Digital Marketing Evangelist you can imagine how much that pains me. A really nice way to do a multi-channel strategy. Not just the online + offline part (though they all want multi-channel desperately), but the whole cart experience. It is impossible to understand.

Web 164

Web Design Marketing Security 164

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2018

Use aggregated data from social media, professional market research, public sentiment, and key influencers for change analysis. The first step is to break the legacy silos and underground channels in the current organization, which usually means realigning executive leadership and roles.

Demand 179

Demand Customer Social Media Aggregator 179

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 4, 2011

If you can break this down by channel that you’ve acquired them from this is obviously better. The next step after measuring the customers you’re adding is to add the “cost to acquire” by channel. How many social networks, picture sharing sites, new aggregators or blogs can we really spend time on? How many through SEM?

Metrics 346

Metrics Startup Acquisition SEM 346

VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

The UK is Israel’s second largest export market following the US, but Israeli startups often ‘forget Europe’ when it comes to Internationalizing their product. Brandsforce is a plug & play social media marketing platform that generates conversations, engagements and measurable actions on social networks.

Securities and Exchange Commission 133

Securities and Exchange Commission Technical Review Software Review 133

ConversionXL

AUGUST 19, 2016

Marketers need to face mobile optimization head on by identifying the barriers that prevent your users from converting and taking action against them. Some marketers try looking at conversion as a solo metric of determining how their CTAs perform on mobile. This number increased by 27.1% in 2013 to 1.43 Image Source. Image Source.

Mobile 48

Mobile Technical Review Software Review Metrics 48

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2018

Use aggregated data from social media, professional market research, public sentiment, and key influencers for change analysis. The first step is to break the legacy silos and underground channels in the current organization, which usually means realigning executive leadership and roles.

Demand 140

Demand Customer Social Media Aggregator 140

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 13, 2014

Use aggregated data from social media, professional market research, public sentiment, and key influencers for change analysis. The first step is to break the legacy silos and underground channels in the current organization, which usually means realigning executive leadership and roles.

Customer 242

Customer Social Media Aggregator Analytics 242

VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Creators decouple their non-standardised skills from the aggregator and hope to become themselves a brand. According to Graphtreon , a site visualising Patreon analytics, there are 176,000 creators on Patreon with at least one patron and approximately 9 million individual pledges a month paying out approximately $20 million a month.

Aggregator 207

Aggregator Vertical Audience Seed Stage 207

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.

Analytics 145

Analytics Metrics API Web 145

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. Affinity & In-Market Segments: Understand Your People Better.

Analytics 60

Analytics Web eCommerce Metrics 60

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. Improve marketing effectiveness. " "What is segmentation?" " And many more.

Analytics 138

Analytics Metrics Web Framework 138

Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Half-way through this post, you'll seriously wonder why you've spent so much time obsessing with Adobe/Google Analytics/Chartbeat or other web analytics tool. When you are done reading the post, you'll be super mad that your marketing strategy is not more influenced by your competitor's data!

Metrics 60

Metrics Analytics Non-Compete Search 60

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 10, 2011

This post is a collection of six things I wish I knew before I started my career in decision support systems (of which web analytics is just the latest incarnation). The smallest part of my success, and yours, will come from having the prefect implementation of the Omniture Marketing Suite or Google Analytics. Get over it.

Analytics 120

Analytics Web Agile Campaign 120

This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Every day, Monetate ( www.monetate.com ) helps major online retailers like QVC, Casual Male, and Urban Outfitters, to make the most of their online marketing dollars. Because people live, shop, and buy in real time, Monetate products enable e-commerce web sites to market in real time.

Part-Time VPE 92

Part-Time VPE CTO Hire Engineer Sales 92

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 (!), Of course Yahoo! All visits. Total revenue.

Analytics 123

Analytics Web Acquisition Metrics 123