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In a Q&A after a keynote a couple of years ago, I was asked: " When will traditional business analysis subsume the web analytics silo? " " My reply: " All business will ultimately be digital, so, if anything, web analytics will subsume business analysis! " MORE
I am insanely excited that we can track ad blocking behavior in Google Analytics, so easily. Setting Google Analytics front end elements (custom dimensions, advanced segments). Let now go and configure the Google Analytics front-end. Go to any report in Google Analytics. MORE
If you’ve ever dreamt of setting your own hours and being your own boss, consider switching to a career in business analytics. Turns out, just about every business from Main Street to Wall Street needs business analytics to maximize their potential growth. MORE
I've consistently complained about a fundamental flaw in Web Analytics tools: They incentivize one night stands , rather than engagements matching customer-intent. It is just how all of the Digital Analytics tools are configured at their very core. For the last decade (#omg!), MORE
If you’re not tracking form analytics, you don’t know. Form analytics can illuminate potential issues. Form analytics provide quantitative data on metrics such as field timings, field re-entries, last field before abandonment, completion rates by segment, etc. Digital Analytics MORE
Remember, when someone says mobile analytics, first ask the clarifying question: Do you mean mobile application or mobile website ? Then approach each separately (even though there are tools like Google Analytics that will do both). Analytics > Mobile > Overview > Devices. MORE
Progress in digital marketing and analytics in either scenario becomes painful (the organization / systems / thinking is simply not in the optimal position). In this post I want to arm you with the evolution you should undertake in your companies when it comes to marketing and analytics. MORE
By contrast, predictive analytics uses data patterns to make forward-looking predictions that guide you to where you should go next. According to Eric Siegel in the updated version of his classic book “ Predictive Analytics ,” it’s the power to predict who will click, buy, lie, or die. Additionally, predictive analytics can help make the best medical decision at the point of care. Big Data Eric Siegel predictive analytics startup MORE
This post covers an important evolution in Google Analytics' segmentation power. You are going to love analytics and analysis so much more by the time you are done with this post! Google Analytics: New Segmentation User Experience. Google Analytics: Cohort Analysis. MORE
Lean Analytics is the latest addition to the Lean Series. For example, in the revenue stage—where the company is busy growing revenues and pouring a percentage of them back into user acquisition—there are several places where analytics and iteration can help increase revenues. MORE
Very few vendors actually do that but transaction processing vendors are constantly claiming to add analytical capabilities. Us analysts like to ask vendors: what next? I am constantly asking them to verticalize. Analysts also love to create new market categories. Cloud Computing, SaaS MORE
By contrast, predictive analytics uses data patterns to make forward-looking predictions that guide you to where you should go next. According to Eric Siegel in his new book “ Predictive Analytics ,” it’s the power to predict who will click, buy, lie, or die. MORE
Funnel tracking in Google Analytics is one of the best ways to identify—in detail—where you’re going wrong. I’ll show you six funnel features in Google Analytics to boost your conversions by understanding where prospects falter in their journey. Custom Funnels in Google Analytics 360. MORE
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. MORE
It’s implications are far and wide, even in the narrow scope that I live in (marketing, analytics, influence). Machine Learning | Analytics. Machine Learning | Analytics. More and more humans are going to be transitioned out of the business of analytics. A rare post today. MORE
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? Analysts: Put up or shut up time! MORE
I want you to sign up for something very, very special I'm doing: Writing short stories from the intersection of marketing and analytics. My newsletter is called The Marketing < > Analytics Intersect. Happy analytics. Happy analytics. MORE
Cloud revenues are just 4% of total 2013 revenues. Three of its senior cloud executives from SuccessFactors and Ariba acquisitions have moved on in the last year. Its own internally developed BYD shows little traction after years of investment. Enterprise Software (IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP MORE
More enterprises are adopting data analytics over time. But there’s still a long way to go in terms of analytics maturity. Gartner still classifies more than 87 percent of businesses as having “low business intelligence (BI) and analytics maturity.” MORE
The universe of digital analytics is massive and can seem as complex as the cosmic universe. Even simple questions like “ How effective is our analytics strategy? Both pictures above are frighteningly complex because the analytics world we occupy is complex. MORE
For many, Google Analytics 360 is a black box. That disconnect exists because many, myself included, have understood Google Analytics 360 primarily as an expansion of the data caps we encounter with the free version. Google Analytics 360 overview. Digital Analytics MORE
And, as if unlimited is not enough, nearly every month your analytics vendors release new features, you discover new analytics solutions, and as your business is more successful (hurray!) What guarantees that agility and innovation are present in your analytics practice? MORE
Instead, we’re comparing Mixpanel and Google Analytics in the terms that drive business growth—identifying the core use cases for each tool and the business problems they solve, while highlighting the features that make it possible. Google Analytics excels at revealing your traffic sources. MORE
A relatively new concept, data analytics is the wave of the business current and future. Safety is another advantage of data analytics. For example, Beantown looks to data analytics jobs Boston police can rely upon to determine where in the city crime occurs for officer distribution. MORE
Recently, I’ve been working with a few of our portfolio companies to help them think about how to recruit and interview their first analytics hire. Analytics vs. Finance?—?what’s When to make your first analytics hire. What to look for in your first analytics hire. MORE
With a single click, a user can destroy Google Analytics data: Moving from an AMP page to the main site or the main site to a payment processor can turn one visit into multiple sessions, mucking up source data along the way. Analytics code changes. Digital Analytics MORE
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. Standard reports stink. Custom reports rock! MORE
I spent a few hours at Anaplan’s annual Hub conference in Vegas. It is my first time at an Anaplan event and I sensed the buzz of a vendor going through a phase of rapid growth and having to manage. Cloud Computing, SaaS Enterprise Software (other vendors MORE
We hear a lot about the use of analytics to measure online statistics or in social media, but how using it to improve education? Others analytics data anaylytics education intelligent data learning online education MORE
The world of digital analytics seems to be insanely complicated. I led a discussion the other day with a collection of people who were brand new to the space and some who were jaded long-term residents of Camp Web Analytics. Digital Analytics Ecosystem: The Inputs. MORE
By contrast, predictive analytics uses data patterns to make forward-looking predictions that guide you to where you should go next. According to Eric Siegel in his newly updated book “ Predictive Analytics ,” it’s the power to predict who will click, buy, lie, or die. MORE
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! Go to the Analytics Help Demo Account page. MORE
Nate Silver, the election forecaster was on CNN this morning. Try as hard as he might, Fareed Zakaria could not get very specific answers about November from Nate. I found that segment part frustrating because of Nate’s evasiveness, part fascinating MORE
I spent a few hours at Anaplan’s annual Hub conference in Vegas. It is my first time at an Anaplan event and I sensed the buzz of a vendor going through a phase of rapid growth and having to manage. Cloud Computing, SaaS Enterprise Software (other vendors MORE
by Andrew Wells and Kathy Chiang, co-authors of “ Monetizing Your Data: A Guide to Turning Data into Profit-Driving Strategies and Solutions “ Data and analytics have redefined the way we compete. There are five keys to leading in the age of analytics: 1. MORE
My professional areas of interest cover Customer Service, User Experience and Finance, though here on Occam’s Razor my focus is on influencing incredible Marketing through the use of innovative Analytics. First… The Analytics top ten things to focus on to elevate your game this year…. MORE
Very few vendors actually do that but transaction processing vendors are constantly claiming to add analytical capabilities. Us analysts like to ask vendors: what next? I am constantly asking them to verticalize. MORE
With this transition, data becomes the underpinning factor and companies are to concern themselves what data they need, how it is shared, where it stored, how fast it moves and the analytical power to trigger the next business decision. by Lynette Seah, founder of Alpha7. MORE
If you don't have goals, you are not doing digital analytics. We were brain storming about the next cluster of coolness for Analytics, the conversation quickly went to what Analysts need to look at on a daily, weekly and monthly basis. MORE
Like this blog, it will be particularly relevant for those who are in digital analytics and digital marketing. The first two are from editions of my newsletter, The Marketing – Analytics Intersect (it goes out weekly, and is now my primary publishing channel, sign up!). MORE
Luckily, much of the guesswork in measuring ROI has become much more easy to track: analytics allow you to establish data-driven goals and measures across marketing channels, streamlining and focusing your efforts. Analytics can also point out market limits. by Lewis Robinson. MORE
More than ever, businesses need to take full advantage of automation, data, and analytics to run their business more productively and competitively. Let the data and the analytics suggest the questions you need to ask, not the answers. Keep your eye on the data and the analytics. MORE
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. MORE
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JUNE 10, 2019
More enterprises are adopting data analytics over time. But there’s still a long way to go in terms of analytics maturity. Gartner still classifies more than 87 percent of businesses as having “low business intelligence (BI) and analytics maturity.”
deal architect
MARCH 14, 2018
I spent a few hours at Anaplan’s annual Hub conference in Vegas. It is my first time at an Anaplan event and I sensed the buzz of a vendor going through a phase of rapid growth and having to manage. Cloud Computing, SaaS Enterprise Software (other vendors
Startup Professionals Musings
FEBRUARY 6, 2019
By contrast, predictive analytics uses data patterns to make forward-looking predictions that guide you to where you should go next. According to Eric Siegel in the updated version of his classic book “ Predictive Analytics ,” it’s the power to predict who will click, buy, lie, or die. Additionally, predictive analytics can help make the best medical decision at the point of care. Big Data Eric Siegel predictive analytics startup
YoungUpstarts
JANUARY 23, 2019
If you’ve ever dreamt of setting your own hours and being your own boss, consider switching to a career in business analytics. Turns out, just about every business from Main Street to Wall Street needs business analytics to maximize their potential growth.
deal architect
MAY 24, 2018
Very few vendors actually do that but transaction processing vendors are constantly claiming to add analytical capabilities. Us analysts like to ask vendors: what next? I am constantly asking them to verticalize.
View from Seed
FEBRUARY 27, 2019
Recently, I’ve been working with a few of our portfolio companies to help them think about how to recruit and interview their first analytics hire. Analytics vs. Finance?—?what’s When to make your first analytics hire. What to look for in your first analytics hire.
YoungUpstarts
SEPTEMBER 3, 2012
We hear a lot about the use of analytics to measure online statistics or in social media, but how using it to improve education? Others analytics data anaylytics education intelligent data learning online education
Startup Lessons Learned
MARCH 21, 2013
Lean Analytics is the latest addition to the Lean Series. For example, in the revenue stage—where the company is busy growing revenues and pouring a percentage of them back into user acquisition—there are several places where analytics and iteration can help increase revenues.
Startup Professionals Musings
MARCH 24, 2017
More than ever, businesses need to take full advantage of automation, data, and analytics to run their business more productively and competitively. Let the data and the analytics suggest the questions you need to ask, not the answers. Keep your eye on the data and the analytics.
YoungUpstarts
MAY 16, 2018
A relatively new concept, data analytics is the wave of the business current and future. Safety is another advantage of data analytics. For example, Beantown looks to data analytics jobs Boston police can rely upon to determine where in the city crime occurs for officer distribution.
Occam's Razor
MARCH 30, 2017
It’s implications are far and wide, even in the narrow scope that I live in (marketing, analytics, influence). Machine Learning | Analytics. Machine Learning | Analytics. More and more humans are going to be transitioned out of the business of analytics. A rare post today.
Occam's Razor
JULY 24, 2018
The universe of digital analytics is massive and can seem as complex as the cosmic universe. Even simple questions like “ How effective is our analytics strategy? Both pictures above are frighteningly complex because the analytics world we occupy is complex.
ConversionXL
SEPTEMBER 13, 2018
Instead, we’re comparing Mixpanel and Google Analytics in the terms that drive business growth—identifying the core use cases for each tool and the business problems they solve, while highlighting the features that make it possible. Google Analytics excels at revealing your traffic sources.
Startup Professionals Musings
MARCH 12, 2013
By contrast, predictive analytics uses data patterns to make forward-looking predictions that guide you to where you should go next. According to Eric Siegel in his new book “ Predictive Analytics ,” it’s the power to predict who will click, buy, lie, or die.
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? Analysts: Put up or shut up time!
deal architect
MARCH 14, 2018
I spent a few hours at Anaplan’s annual Hub conference in Vegas. It is my first time at an Anaplan event and I sensed the buzz of a vendor going through a phase of rapid growth and having to manage. Cloud Computing, SaaS Enterprise Software (other vendors
Startup Professionals Musings
FEBRUARY 18, 2016
By contrast, predictive analytics uses data patterns to make forward-looking predictions that guide you to where you should go next. According to Eric Siegel in his newly updated book “ Predictive Analytics ,” it’s the power to predict who will click, buy, lie, or die.
deal architect
MAY 24, 2018
Very few vendors actually do that but transaction processing vendors are constantly claiming to add analytical capabilities. Us analysts like to ask vendors: what next? I am constantly asking them to verticalize. Analysts also love to create new market categories. Cloud Computing, SaaS
deal architect
DECEMBER 9, 2013
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Occam's Razor
DECEMBER 12, 2016
And, as if unlimited is not enough, nearly every month your analytics vendors release new features, you discover new analytics solutions, and as your business is more successful (hurray!) What guarantees that agility and innovation are present in your analytics practice?
ConversionXL
DECEMBER 13, 2018
For many, Google Analytics 360 is a black box. That disconnect exists because many, myself included, have understood Google Analytics 360 primarily as an expansion of the data caps we encounter with the free version. Google Analytics 360 overview. Digital Analytics
ConversionXL
NOVEMBER 5, 2018
Funnel tracking in Google Analytics is one of the best ways to identify—in detail—where you’re going wrong. I’ll show you six funnel features in Google Analytics to boost your conversions by understanding where prospects falter in their journey. Custom Funnels in Google Analytics 360.
Occam's Razor
MARCH 10, 2015
In a Q&A after a keynote a couple of years ago, I was asked: " When will traditional business analysis subsume the web analytics silo? " " My reply: " All business will ultimately be digital, so, if anything, web analytics will subsume business analysis! "
ConversionXL
JANUARY 3, 2019
With a single click, a user can destroy Google Analytics data: Moving from an AMP page to the main site or the main site to a payment processor can turn one visit into multiple sessions, mucking up source data along the way. Analytics code changes. Digital Analytics
Occam's Razor
JANUARY 12, 2015
The world of digital analytics seems to be insanely complicated. I led a discussion the other day with a collection of people who were brand new to the space and some who were jaded long-term residents of Camp Web Analytics. Digital Analytics Ecosystem: The Inputs.
ConversionXL
APRIL 10, 2019
If you’re not tracking form analytics, you don’t know. Form analytics can illuminate potential issues. Form analytics provide quantitative data on metrics such as field timings, field re-entries, last field before abandonment, completion rates by segment, etc. Digital Analytics
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.
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. Standard reports stink. Custom reports rock!
Occam's Razor
SEPTEMBER 9, 2013
This post covers an important evolution in Google Analytics' segmentation power. You are going to love analytics and analysis so much more by the time you are done with this post! Google Analytics: New Segmentation User Experience. Google Analytics: Cohort Analysis.
YoungUpstarts
APRIL 17, 2017
by Andrew Wells and Kathy Chiang, co-authors of “ Monetizing Your Data: A Guide to Turning Data into Profit-Driving Strategies and Solutions “ Data and analytics have redefined the way we compete. There are five keys to leading in the age of analytics: 1.
Occam's Razor
OCTOBER 12, 2017
Like this blog, it will be particularly relevant for those who are in digital analytics and digital marketing. The first two are from editions of my newsletter, The Marketing – Analytics Intersect (it goes out weekly, and is now my primary publishing channel, sign up!).
deal architect
JANUARY 10, 2014
Cloud revenues are just 4% of total 2013 revenues. Three of its senior cloud executives from SuccessFactors and Ariba acquisitions have moved on in the last year. Its own internally developed BYD shows little traction after years of investment. Enterprise Software (IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP
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! Go to the Analytics Help Demo Account page.
deal architect
SEPTEMBER 9, 2012
Nate Silver, the election forecaster was on CNN this morning. Try as hard as he might, Fareed Zakaria could not get very specific answers about November from Nate. I found that segment part frustrating because of Nate’s evasiveness, part fascinating
YoungUpstarts
MAY 1, 2017
Luckily, much of the guesswork in measuring ROI has become much more easy to track: analytics allow you to establish data-driven goals and measures across marketing channels, streamlining and focusing your efforts. Analytics can also point out market limits. by Lewis Robinson.
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.
YoungUpstarts
JANUARY 28, 2018
With this transition, data becomes the underpinning factor and companies are to concern themselves what data they need, how it is shared, where it stored, how fast it moves and the analytical power to trigger the next business decision. by Lynette Seah, founder of Alpha7.
Occam's Razor
MAY 5, 2016
I am insanely excited that we can track ad blocking behavior in Google Analytics, so easily. Setting Google Analytics front end elements (custom dimensions, advanced segments). Let now go and configure the Google Analytics front-end. Go to any report in Google Analytics.
Occam's Razor
SEPTEMBER 15, 2014
Remember, when someone says mobile analytics, first ask the clarifying question: Do you mean mobile application or mobile website ? Then approach each separately (even though there are tools like Google Analytics that will do both). Analytics > Mobile > Overview > Devices.
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. My newsletter is called The Marketing < > Analytics Intersect. Happy analytics. Happy analytics.
Occam's Razor
JANUARY 4, 2016
I've consistently complained about a fundamental flaw in Web Analytics tools: They incentivize one night stands , rather than engagements matching customer-intent. It is just how all of the Digital Analytics tools are configured at their very core. For the last decade (#omg!),
Occam's Razor
FEBRUARY 10, 2016
If you don't have goals, you are not doing digital analytics. We were brain storming about the next cluster of coolness for Analytics, the conversation quickly went to what Analysts need to look at on a daily, weekly and monthly basis.
Occam's Razor
DECEMBER 9, 2013
Progress in digital marketing and analytics in either scenario becomes painful (the organization / systems / thinking is simply not in the optimal position). In this post I want to arm you with the evolution you should undertake in your companies when it comes to marketing and analytics.
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