Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Winners, well before they think data or tool, have a well structured Digital Marketing & Measurement Model. This article guides you in understanding the value of the Digital Marketing & Measurement Model (notice the repeated emphasis on Marketing, not just Measurement), and how to create one for yourself.

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Occam's Razor

MAY 2, 2017

The very best analysts are know what matter’s the most are not the insights from big data but clear actions and compelling business impact from usually a smaller subset of key data. People ask me this seemingly simple question all the time: What Key Performance Indicators should we use for our business ?

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 12, 2013

MCA-O2S covers the challenge of attributing the offline impact (revenue/brand value/butts in seats/phone calls/etc) driven by online marketing and advertising. MCA-AMS covers the challenge of attributing accurate impact of our marketing and advertising efforts across multiple devices (desktop, laptop, mobile, TV). Be a hero. :).

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Occam's Razor

JULY 6, 2015

There have been tons and tons of implementations around the world of my wonderfully profitable See-Think-Do-Care business framework. My hope is to better assist you in your own journey in using the framework to unlock imagination, build intent-based audience strategies, deliver joy to them and accelerate business profit. Thing One.

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 14, 2014

See step four in the process for creating your Digital Marketing and Measurement Model.]. should be 1,356,000), you've set a clear line in the sand as to what performance will be declared a success or a failure at the end of the measurement time period. In my case I'm looking at Social Media (boss LOVES social!),

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

The challenge is that you should have done enough work upfront to know what's important to the business, got a rough sense for things you can fix right away and their value, and then done some back of the napkin calculations about the Economic Value your fixes will add. That takes a few days of pain. I know you know that. :).

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 21, 2014

about digital marketing and analytics. For some answers, What is Avinash's typical day like? We will cover questions in four areas: business/strategy challenges, analytics/technical challenges, career/self-development questions and rampant speculation. Business/Strategy Challenges. Nothing changes for the business.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 13, 2013

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! crowdSPRING’s Small Business Spotlight of the Week: AMP – [link]. Steve Blank: Don’t Obsess Over Fund Raising | Business Insider – [link].

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Here's a graph that shows how US adults consume media, it shows time in hours. If you look at the mobile marketing strategies, you will see they don't reflect this shift to mobile. Media-Mix Modeling/Experimentation. Still, let me try to surprise you. Surely you are not surprised that digital finally beats TV.

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Culture is a stronger determinant of success with data than anything else. You want to win big with data, with marketing, with transformative digital yada yada and blah blah, evolve. When it comes to your Digital Marketing and Digital Analytics practice, I've advocated slow and steady evolution. Including data.

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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

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

It also contains multiple tabs full of specific computations of revenue incrementality delivered for various analytical efforts (Paid Search, Email Marketing, Attribution Analysis, and more). Businesses, by and large, don’t understand the ROI of analytics… the Return on Analytics , if you will. Marketing dollars (hopefully!)

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Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 6, 2010

You can use them as is, or, better still, you can download and adapt them to your unique business needs. ": What value was created by the content for our business? And by business I also mean non-profit, university, newspaper, government websites and chicken farmers! Super awesome right? worth of value. See what I mean?

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ConversionXL

MAY 24, 2013

A/B testing produces concrete evidence of what actually works in your marketing. So for your A/B testing to be successful, we will have to start from the beginning. 1) Define your business objectives. Goals come from your business objectives and are mostly strategic in nature. Step 1) Measure your website’s performance.

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

From there, it is only a hop, skip and jump to the most deadly question in analytics… What's the business solving for? Yet, few Marketers or executives take them seriously (because they don't know what the heck all that means to the business or their own paychecks!). Everything came to a screeching halt.

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Occam's Razor

JUNE 6, 2007

Competitive Intelligence (learn from your competitor's success) and Web 2.0. topic has a Why, What, How section to fuel your success. The book, like this blog, rips up that definition and provides a expanded and more realistic business focused world view. Each of this Web Analytics 2.0 Bonus: Interactive CD.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 30, 2012

When it comes to data analysis, you are usually more likely to see me share guidance on advanced segmentation or custom reports or advanced social metrics or controlled experiments or economic value or competitive intelligence or web analytics maturity or one of an infinite number of difficult, if hugely rewarding, things. " Boom!

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

We all have that one business blog that addresses our pain points and motivates us to press on. As an entrepreneur, there’s also need to stay informed about the latest trends in our respective industries where most of this information can be found on business blogs. My favorite business blog is definitely Ramit Sethi’s GrowthLab.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 8, 2018

Media mix modeling. If you are a reader of my newsletter, The Marketing < > Analytics Intersect , you’ve seen me apply it to metrics (last TMAI was on Bounce Rate), reports, frameworks and more. Condé Nast is in a world of hurt, along with everyone else in the print business. I was busy, and ultimately, I gave up.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 4, 2016

It also results in Marketers obsess about awful things like last-click conversions ( die last-click attribution die! ). They never consider Think or Care intent, all they obsess about is Do intent ( See-Think-Do-Care business framework ). The GA team has a wonderful Calculated Metrics User Guide you can read.

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Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Web Analytics blog was to pull us up 10,000 feet to do something we do less than 1% of the time in the web analytics world – look at the bigger business picture. Can I add any business value? Starting points for gaps in your online marketing efforts. The goal of my recent post on the Yahoo! Starting Right! Let's go!

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Occam's Razor

MARCH 7, 2011

Many of you are aware that I am the co-Founder of Market Motive, a delightful little labor of love whose mission in life is to provide bleeding edge education via quarterly, what we call, Master Certification courses. My hope with the letter is to set clear expectations about the course and how to maximize their chance of success in it.

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 19, 2010

Disclosure:] I am the co-Founder of Market Motive Inc and the Analytics Evangelist for Google. None of these tools vendors have any relationship with Market Motive either. To be an Analysis Ninja, and part of a successful web business, embrace Web Analytics 2.0 it is good to know what is out there and 2. The 10/90 Rule!

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

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! Social Strategy Effectiveness. Here's a rough guide from my experience (as you do this more, you'll form your own filters). How is competitive intelligence data collected?

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Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

I believe that every human with time to spare, and a connection to the web, should be on social media. But, what about businesses? Do the big gigantic numbers imply that your business should use these social media channels? Businesses were told: "The numbers are HUGE!" Humans, check.

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Occam's Razor

MARCH 7, 2016

I want you to sign up for something very, very special I'm doing: Writing short stories from the intersection of marketing and analytics. Some recent events made me wonder what the best strategy for a business is. My newsletter is called The Marketing < > Analytics Intersect. Please do sign up. Just Facebook has 1.2

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