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.

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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!) than multi-channel attribution modeling. Here's the outline of our incredible multi-channel attribution modeling adventure: ~ Three Unique Attribution Challenges. ~ Multi-Channel Attribution Models. Grab a Red Bull.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

New media platforms are enabling a new creator type: Digitally Native Vertical Creators , Eric Feng. Creators decouple their non-standardised skills from the aggregator and hope to become themselves a brand. New media platforms are enabling a new creator type: Digitally Native Vertical Creator s, Eric Feng. ” Eric Feng.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

In liquid markets, most of the calories expended on technology and analytics are focused on trade selection, or “ origination ”. I walk through below how progressive investors are using technology and analytics throughout all of their operations. Point Nine Capital uses Mention for media monitoring. 1) Manage the firm .

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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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ConversionXL

AUGUST 19, 2016

Coined by Jason Goldberg over at Razorfish , the mobile gap is the time between consuming media on mobile devices (which is relatively high) and the amount of time, effort, and money brands spend working on and optimizing mobile (which is relatively low). Aggregate Audience Data. The Mobile Gap & The Problems It Causes. Mobile RTB.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Led by an accomplished management team from Yahoo/Right Media and Google/DoubleClick, AppNexus ( www.appnexus.com ) is the most advanced platform for buying display ads in real time.

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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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Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 14, 2012

There has been a lot of conversation recently on the future of the media industry, specifically drawing comparisons between TV and film and the shrinking music industry. In aggregate, the various revenue streams would continue to support the creation and distribution of high production value content. YouTube; Hulu. Subscription.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, August 24, 2009 Marching through quicksand I have been spending a lot of time lately talking to people in various media companies: editors and agents, executives, journalists, producers and directors. For established media empires, this is a scary fact.

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

Paid Search or affiliates or email or display or YouTube or whatever channel you end up choosing. [ See if you were able to get more traffic to arrive at your site, and if they were Existing Visitors or New Visitors (hopefully measured with a first party cookie in your website analytics tool). Web Analytics. 7 Best Practices ].

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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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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 17, 2016

How To Determine Which Online Channels are Delivering Sales Online and Off written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. It is based on anonymous, aggregated statistics created with modelled numbers using both current and past data on the number of people who click your ads and later come in store. How does it work?

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ConversionXL

JUNE 20, 2019

The best video hosting platform varies business by business, depending on factors like: How often you’re uploading; How you plan to use the video; The viewing experience you want to give your audience; The analytics you need; The cash you have to spend. Simply sign up using your Google account, create a channel , and upload your video files.

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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! There are four reasons, again from Web Analytics: An Hour A Day, from 2008 (!): This has never been true – not even for people who use the same analytics tool. See Page 269. :).

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Venture Chronicles

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Social Media Monitoring evolved out of the explosion of non-traditional media channels developed in the last decade combined with the increased velocity of information flow as a consequence of viral information sharing. In its most pure form social media monitoring is both listening and responding to social channels.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 16, 2010

Rashmi Sinha, co-founder and CEO of SlideShare , describes an early version of the analytics package that’s part of the Pro accounts the company announced today. Early this year, SlideShare launched custom channels. In the meantime, take a look at how SlideShare performed a significant pivot while still moving at full speed.

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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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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Leveraging the power of ML or Machine Learning, AI can help channelize your marketing spending in proper directions leading to a higher return on investment (ROI). If you plan to seek out funding , you’ll need to outline your marketing spend, as well as the channels and campaigns you intend to run. Pitch to investors. Do it yourself.

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Occam's Razor

MAY 2, 2017

Then, you would ensure the obsession your analytics strategy adopts this month/quarter/year for Assisted Conversion is to segment them for SDC to validate the impact of those high priority campaigns. Remember: All data in aggregate is crap, segment or suck. Small Business Ecommerce: Lefty’s Sports Cards & Collectibles.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 29, 2016

Many of these resources focus on tactics and analytics. Your strategy can be technically perfect and impeccably measured, but there’s an element to marketing along any channel that will always rely on subjective and immeasurable creativity and humanity. Of course folks are gonna want to know how to get it right.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 2, 2016

Your social media posts can be compared on the basis of impressions and engagement. Data segmentation, in particular, can help you do things like measure cost per lead relative to customer lifetime value by channel. Contextualize all available data relative to aggregate spend. Will this solve all of your analytics woes?

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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.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 19, 2020

The first step is to establish communication channels between teams and set expectations about when and how to use them. a top-line conversion or revenue target) and recognize both teams’ contributions—regardless of which channel generated the most conversions in a given period. Are we able to create incrementality across channels?

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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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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

For companies that build their analytics on Google products, purchasing Google Analytics 360 is a symbol of maturity. . As a business grows, it inevitably runs up against limitations of analytics tools. It’s one of many potential business needs that could affect your decision to upgrade to a Google Analytics 360 license.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 4, 2022

The respected industry body quickly pivoted to lamenting their findings that demonstrate eight of the top 12 KPIs being used to measure media effectiveness are exposure-counting KPIs. It is published 50x/year, and shares bleeding-edge thinking about Marketing, Analytics, and Leadership. Media Costs). A very good lament.

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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. What's possible to measure.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 22, 2020

How to channel your efforts and energy and stay informed. ( She, by the way, was busy on social media. But a lot of it is also just getting the data, aggregating it, being able to take action on it. The fact that we are rising to the occasion and getting it done, sometimes outside of normal channels, is very hopeful.

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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.

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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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Brandanew

JANUARY 8, 2016

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. 16 Top Social Analytics Tools For 2016. Tools 1 to 3: Native Analytics at Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook.

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Occam's Razor

JULY 18, 2011

With all the sexiness oozing out of social media it might seem insane to write about email. Email remains an immensely credible and profitable channel, with an immense reach to boot. I dare say even more than Search (and without a shred of doubt, more than Social Media). Your company cross-channel outcomes data.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 17, 2011

The key is channeling what you learn when you drive onto paper for retention purposes so you have to write it down soon afterward. I started to build this into a media & entertainment value chain that broke down the components of the industry into discrete parts. How does social media on Facebook & Twitter change things?

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Occam's Razor

MAY 19, 2014

None of the digital analytics tools make it easy to measure true profitability. And if you can pass that barrier (with, say, dimension widening using universal analytics), it is very hard to find this data inside the company (Finance department?), By channel] Conversions - Assisted Conversions. The whole thing is so painful.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

If you’ve worked in web analytics for a while, you’ve suffered the pain of building graphs and tables in spreadsheets and then, once a “decent” dashboard has been set up, trying to automate it. Or, perhaps, you’ve relied on in-product Google Analytics reports, with all their limitations. Our eyes are how we intake most analytics data.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 16, 2020

She is the CEO of Lately , an AI-powered social media writing software, that can be found at TryLately.com. We’re going to talk about social media, and maybe AI, and just, who knows what else? Short form, in this case, being social media posts. This is John Jantsch, and my guest today is Kate Bradley Chernis. Chernis: Yes.

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