Venture Chronicles

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Brand Marketing Meets PPC: In most companies marketing exists in two forms, brand management and promotional marketing. On the latter we have seen a revolution in how companies advertise, increasingly around the notion of pay-per-click (PPC) that provides immediate and detailed performance metrics upon which ROI can be calculated.

PPC 32

PPC Social Network Mobile Campaign 32

Occam's Razor

JULY 22, 2013

My solution to these problems was to create a simple framework we can use to put our customers first, evaluate our marketing programs, and right-align our view of success (metrics). Ditto for PPC, your affiliate links (all likely in the Do stage), and your email marketing programs. What consideration state might someone be in?

Framework 163

Framework Marketing Metrics Audience 163

Occam's Razor

APRIL 21, 2014

If you can fix that, more revenue will immediately flow into your client's bottom-line. I believe these two posts with a collection of some of my favorite metrics will inspire you: 1. Best Metrics For Digital Marketing: Rock Your Own And Rent Strategies 2. Best Web Metrics / KPIs for a Small, Medium or Large Sized Business.

Analytics 131

Analytics Marketing Campaign Metrics 131

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. The outcome in either scenario is a restructuring of the organization that is exquisitely geared towards taking advantage of portfolio optimization. From a Venn -diagram.

Channel 161

Channel Analytics Campaign Conversion 161

Occam's Razor

JULY 1, 2008

conversion rate (average as reported by shop.org) and you are dutifully reporting our revenue of $1 million as a result. While you might be doing great in terms of direct revenue impact of your website, pause and consider what in God's name is happening to that other 98.3% "unconverted" traffic on your site?

Analytics 116

Analytics Conversion Campaign Redemption 116

Occam's Razor

MAY 20, 2013

At ZQI U, a vast number of students enroll into online-only courses (just like our analytics, PPC, mobile, and SEO Master Certification students at my awesome Market Motive ). Digital advertising and marketing is a key part of ZQI's multi-channel acquisition portfolio. They do everything. for a while.

Analytics 139

Analytics Aggregator Channel B2B 139

Occam's Razor

APRIL 23, 2012

While there is a great deal of appreciation for the power of metrics/data, I've come to realize that Sr. Leaders don't quite appreciate the deep, and often corrosive, consequences of choosing metric x over metric y as a key performance indicator (KPI). It is a standard metric. Revenue vs. Economic Value.

Metrics 152

Metrics Analytics Search Channel 152

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 7, 2014

An example is: "We should add these 80 keywords to our PPC portfolio with a max bid of $14." If the company has the revenues or size, it is important to hire for both roles to ensure the ROA will be positive. Total revenue. For example, which countries contributed to total revenue. " Kisses.

Analytics 140

Analytics Web Metrics DC 140

Occam's Razor

APRIL 29, 2013

Many used some data, but they unfortunately used silly data strategies/metrics. And silly simply because as soon as the strategy/success metric being obsessed about was mentioned, it was clear they would fail. If it take ten days to make a decision to change bids on our PPC campaigns, let's go with that data cycle. "

Metrics 166

Metrics Marketing Search SEO 166