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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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

With a plethora of digital media channels at our disposal and new ones on the way every day(!), How do you figure out which channels to invest in more and which to kill? Oh, and the killer question… if you invest in multiple channels, how much incrementality does each channel bring to your bottom-line?

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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. The effort you invest in measuring offline impact will finally help your company understand how valuable the online channel is (or not!). Not impossible. Two words: Primary Key.

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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!

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Occam's Razor

JULY 22, 2013

Identify gaps in our content/engagement/channel strategy on the web, 2. Ditto for PPC, your affiliate links (all likely in the Do stage), and your email marketing programs. Why is it that your Affiliate program is targeted only to the bottom of the Do stage? Oh, that makes sense. Don't we already book, tweet, plus a lot?

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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. Your company cross-channel outcomes data. Multi-channel customer purchase behavior, customer lifetime value. Your website data. More ideas here and here.

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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.

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Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 12, 2011

For Search it is in your Google Analytics or Omniture Site Catalyst reports. But for most other programs (Affiliate, Email, Social, Display) your Cost is likely sitting outside your web analytics tool. Standard metric in every web analytics tool worth anything. Or if you use Google Analytics: In Paditrack for free.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 9, 2012

Here's important context (before we get into the rules for revolutionaries)… The Fundamental Web Analytics Problem Is Not Data! If you are doing lame stuff, why try harder in an analytics context by asking for Economic Value or Visitor Loyalty or Conversation Rate or a thousand other super powerful and insightful metrics ?

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MARCH 11, 2013

Google Analytics. Site Pulse – Live Web Traffic Monitor and Analytics. SEO and Analytics Tutorials. Analytics review â?? mixpanel vs kissmetric vs google analytics review. Analytics blog â?? good analytics tutorials. Analytics Tools. Google Analytics â?? actionable analytics.

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