Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

We'll start with digital at the highest strategic level, which leads us into content marketing, from there it is a quick hop over to the challenge of metrics and silos, followed by a recommendation to optimize for the global maxima, and we end with the last two visuals that cover social investment and social content strategy.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 24, 2020

However, it continues to poison marketing campaigns—and find its way into more and more courtrooms. This article explains what click fraud is, shows how it can impact your campaigns, and shares ways to reduce its impact on your marketing. Competing businesses may click on each other’s PPC ads to waste money. Click farms.

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

Every post is about unleashing the power of digital analytics (the potent combination of data, systems, software and people). But we've never stopped to consider this question: What is the return on investment (ROI) of digital analytics? Let's calculate the ROI of digital analytics. Let's fix that in this post.

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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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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

For many ConversionXL readers, PPC advertising is a big part of your business & in many ways it is just as critical to the conversion process as what’s happening on the page. You may have an exceptional page that would convert beautifully if your PPC ads were just a little more on topic. Enter Georgene: .

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Up and Running

MAY 3, 2021

According to a marketing report by Akamai, 40% of users will abandon a website if it takes longer than 3 seconds to load. To get this type of information, you need to use an analytics tool. Google Analytics is a free and popular tool that any business can connect to. Site speed. Are they local or from around the globe?

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ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2022

Ask 10 people what account-based marketing (ABM) is and you’ll get 10 different answers. Some see it as a sales tactic, while others view it as a content marketing strategy. What is account-based marketing? In his account-based marketing course , Watt goes on to unpack each of the adjectives in his definition: Sustained.

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ConversionXL

JULY 29, 2014

After reading some of our subscriber feedback , we noticed that many ConversionXL readers didn’t have a solid foundation with a proper Google Analytics setup. That’s a problem, because if your analytics isn’t properly configured from the beginning, how could you ever expect to gather any insight? image source.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 12, 2016

The fact is that a lot of the people relying on Google Analytics are relying on bad data. No, not because Google Analytics is awful. What’s a Google Analytics Health Check? In the past, we’ve covered setting up and using Google Analytics fairly extensively. Is PPC data showing in Google Analytics?

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

This post details the role that UTM parameters play in traffic attribution in Google Analytics. After reading this post, you’ll know more than 99% of marketers about how to use UTM parameters. Marketers must be able to reliably credit conversions (i.e. How Google Analytics understands traffic sources. HTTP Referrer.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Strategies span a range of methods, but we’re going to focus on PPC, social media, and search. 7 Ways that Predictive Analytics Is Transforming Ecommerce. Predictive analytics help you understand what your customers are going to buy before they do. *. *. You’d better understand— really understand—your target market.

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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. Let's go!

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

For digital marketers, these publications are considered to be the best platform of marketing information. These articles provide awareness, education, and marketing campaign ideas. Marketing is constantly evolving with the times as new technology enters the market every year. 1: Social Media Examiner.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 4, 2021

If you want to build a successful business, a strong email marketing strategy is one of the best ways to do it. Over a third of email marketers struggle with acquisition and close to a half say increasing engagement is their number one challenge. via B2B Marketing Alliance ]. However, it’s not without challenges.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

It’s not enough that your business has product/market fit. As an in-house Affiliate Marketing Manager, I’m part of the affiliate marketing team that’s running the affiliate partner program at Supermetrics. Launched at the start of 2018, our affiliate program has been an integral part of our marketing strategy ever since.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 3, 2016

The same is true of your data in Google Analytics. Many Google Analytics custom reports are configured incorrectly. More often, Google Analytics configurations are broken, rendering custom reports even less effective. Before you begin experimenting with custom reports, conduct a Google Analytics Health Check. Tweet It!].

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

You see if you don't implement your links properly the person shows up to your site without any tracking parameters and thus fail to help your web analytics tool to put that visitor in the right source bucket. You have purchased banner ads in various Android applications using AdMob to target high value analytics decision makers.

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Occam's Razor

JULY 1, 2008

This post bravely attempts to: 1 ] Highlight the importance of holistic multichannel analytics. That's why multichannel analytics is so important. You struggle to get budget to hire Analysts or Marketers. Not impossible. And for now it is equal parts quantitative, qualitative and faith. Two words: Primary Key.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2018

This is a comprehensive guide to Facebook Messenger Marketing using chatbots. But the truth is that chatbots can improve marketing and make marketers’ lives easier. If you want to supercharge your marketing and accelerate growth and revenue, you’ll love this guide. What is Messenger Marketing?

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Occam's Razor

JULY 22, 2013

For example AIDA is from the siloed lens of Marketing (and full disclosure, I humbly believe serves company's own selfish perspective). Most of the frameworks we have also don't optimally capture the complexity of digital marketing and measurement. We don't think about our marketing expansively enough.

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 11, 2015

You can download them into your Google Analytics account via one click (along with some lovely Advanced Segments and a Dashboard). Many custom reports are wrong because we mess up the fundamental data model in analytics. This report demonstrates the power of getting something out of Google Analytics that you might know exists there.

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Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 13, 2009

I am absolutely thrilled that my book Web Analytics 2.0 I only had one job, at Intuit, when I wrote my first web analytics book. The Pitch: I invite you to consider buying my second web analytics book. It is not just a business book, though every dna strand in this book is more about online marketing than online analytics.

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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 6, 2010

As we spring to action full of passion I wanted to share with you all a short list of things that will expand your little world of online marketing & web analytics. Change is hard, even if we know that we should be executing a multiplicity strategy to win in the web analytics 2.0 That's sucking. That's sucking.)

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 12, 2013

I’ve been playing the marketing game for over twenty-five years and the term “integrated marketing” has been around at least that long. But then online channels, social behavior and customer voice came along and fragmented even the best attempts at integration. photo credit: ecstaticist via photopin cc. the Wendy’s ad hit.

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

As a result, businesses will require digital marketers to assist customers in understanding their new or modified offerings. Omni-channel messaging will become even more crucial as more organizations adopt this strategy, especially during a pandemic. Again, personalization will become more prevalent in product design and marketing.

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

We can supply them with reliable, real-time data, allowing them to receive specifics on comparables and get a holistic market perspective. Using technology such as automation and analytics tools can make a huge difference in making your business run efficiently without the risk of making mistakes. Photo Credit: Sai Blackbyrn.

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ConversionXL

MAY 22, 2014

While this series is by no means exhaustive, we’ll make every attempt to look at the most common & critical areas in the marketing funnel, and how you can take a data-driven approach to improve each area of the funnel. Before We Get Started – Understand Your Target Market, REALLY Understand It. image source.

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ConversionXL

MAY 19, 2016

Gone are the days of simple funnels and so there are many external factors that influence a purchase decision, such as content marketing or social media. It’s only going to get more complicated and it’s important to have the right analytics software that can handle it. Or all of their touch points.

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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.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

Digital marketing is becoming popular, as many consumers buying or researching products online, but many firms don’t know many digital marketing advantages, including knowing the basic consumer research. The clean answer is digital marketing. In this article, we will discuss 6 benefits of digital marketing for businesses.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Like many marketers, you may fantasize about the amazing things you could do if you learned to code. Python is a better fit for marketers who specialize in data analysis and visualization. Here are some practical marketing use cases for Python: RFM modeling. Predictive analytics. Python for data and automation geeks.

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

My normal recommendation to address this supremely corrosive issue is to encourage each company to go through the process of creating a Digital Marketing and Measurement Model. No touching Google Analytics. No going to web analytics conferences. Don't open Google Analytics or Yahoo Web Analytics yet!

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 23, 2012

Helps make marketing better. Choose the right metric and they'll create the most glorious digital experience in the universe, the perfect acquisition campaign, the most amazing customer service channel. Visitor Loyalty is not in every single report in your Digital Analytics tool. Yes, data is important. Blah, blah, blah.

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 24, 2016

You want to win big with data, with marketing, with transformative digital yada yada and blah blah, evolve. I'll say this again at the very end… As a Marketer or an Analyst, there is nothing you'll attempt that will be more complex and challenging than what you are about to read in this post. Evolution works.

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ConversionXL

MAY 16, 2017

It’s all about asking the right digital analytics questions. Sure, in the right context, you can probably get by doing what Avinash Kaushik refers to as “data puking,” but you won’t excel as an analyst or marketer that way. But in digital analytics, it’s crucial. For instance, is your Google Analytics data sampled?

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ConversionXL

JULY 11, 2016

Amy Harrisson – The Science of Screenwriting for Online Marketers and Copywriters. Most of the time companies invest in traffic, sites, analytics, but not user research to find out about the the true/implicit motivation of their customers (reasonable would be at least 85%/15%). Use marketing to amplify your product.

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