Occam's Razor

JANUARY 7, 2007

So to make up for that this post covers some of the “technical” best practices around tracking with your web analytics tools, especially if you are using JavaScript tags. Often the job of implementation is left to the friendly neighborhood IT person and your web analytics vendor. This is sub optimal.

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ConversionXL

MAY 11, 2017

Knowing what the competitors are doing – how they are thinking about the market, what tactics they are using, how they are crafting messages and design – can make all the difference in the battle for the customers’ mind share and conversions. And it’s not just a CRO problem – it is a marketing-wide phenomenon.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 11, 2021

All companies that This Week in Startups’ audience of entrepreneurs, company founders, and marketers would be interested in. A well-thought-out strategy lays the foundations for your sponsorship efforts in the same way a marketing strategy guides your marketing campaigns. Your most obvious asset is the product itself.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 30, 2019

Knowing what the competitors are doing—how they’re thinking about the market, which tactics they’re using, how they’re crafting messages and design—can make all the difference in the battle for customers. And it’s not just a CRO problem—it’s a marketing-wide phenomenon. Competitor X is doing Y.

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Occam's Razor

JUNE 4, 2012

In this post I want to share with you three insightful custom reports for effective paid search (PPC) analysis. These insightful reports are from the six I'd created for my latest video for the Market Motive Web Analytics Master Certification course. One of the hallmarks of our course (my course!) Criminal behavior.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 29, 2015

The platform completely runs on the cloud which doesn’t require to download and install any specific software, making the app development process very faster. Infinite Monkeys uses the drag and drop feature to manage the location of the widgets on the screen and provides a dashboard facility to organize the analytics and messages.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Marketing metrics are a competitive advantage. In this article, you’ll learn which metrics to measure to understand and improve marketing performance. In this article, you’ll learn which metrics to measure to understand and improve marketing performance. Table of contents What are digital marketing metrics?

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Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Not only will I tell you about them, I'll give you downloadable links so you can get going right away! You can use them as is, or, better still, you can download and adapt them to your unique business needs. While I am using Google Analytics here, you can do custom reporting in pretty much any tool you have access to, be it Yahoo!

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

As an optimizer, it’s your responsibility to understand the implementation and analysis of digital analytics. Gone are the days of relying on the IT department to help you with basic analytics tracking. Just because it’s easy doesn’t mean you should load yet another marketing tag on the site.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

When WordStream began receiving complaints that the seven-day free trial of their PPC management software wasn’t long enough, the brand decided to A/B test 14-day and 30-day trials. Yet, this was a successful growth marketing campaign. What is growth marketing? Growth marketing is a data-driven approach to marketing.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 20, 2021

Reach Your Potential by Living Dangerously written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Tripp Lanier. In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Tripp Lanier. This episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast is brought to you by bant.io. Like this show?

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

With digital analytics , you have access to all the data you need to make smart decisions without solely relying on feelings. In this guide, you’ll learn how digital analytics can benefit your business and how to use it to communicate with stakeholders. Table of contents What is digital analytics and what can you gain from it?

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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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YoungUpstarts

JULY 26, 2020

However, as circumstances change, recessions hit, and markets adjust, businesses are faced with unexpected challenges. Employ Analytics. Analytics are the numbers that tell you how well your business’s online presence is performing. How does my PPC advertising campaign perform?

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 27, 2015

In fact, it’s easy to project the predicted ROI of optimization ( click here to download conversion optimization ROI calculator ). Time Period Comparison in Analytics (and Why It’s Wrong). If asked to measure improvement in conversion rate due to optimization efforts, most people would point to Google Analytics. Word-of-Mouth.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

Cutting out noise and creating a PPC strategy that drives business: It’s the goal of SEM professionals everywhere. Download a spreadsheet with this sample data: ( Google Docs | XLSX ). site analytics data. marketing material. Download a spreadsheet with this sample data: ( Google Docs | XLSX ).

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PPC Matching Technical Review Search 114

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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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). You can download a bunch more, that are not yet in the bundle above, by following the links at the end of this post. " Look, just grow the pie, just do better marketing.

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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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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

If your business has yet to develop a video marketing plan, you are likely already losing out to competitors savvy enough to incorporate video into their business development plans. With just a little careful planning, you too can reap the rewards of video messaging and marketing. Create Long-Term Video Marketing Strategy.

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

One of the ultimate excuses for not measuring impact of Marketing campaigns is: "Oh, that's just a branding campaign." See if you were able to get more traffic to arrive at your site, and if they were Existing Visitors or New Visitors (hopefully measured with a first party cookie in your website analytics tool).

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Up and Running

MARCH 14, 2017

You must conduct client interviews, website usage tests, and maybe even set up a small PPC campaign to figure out whether or not the market is interested in you offering. However, it goes beyond the Lean Planning process: The lessons learned from validating your idea can also be applied for investor pitching and market entry strategy.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

You can download a white paper on the structured approach advocated by RedEye and Econsultancy (who conducted the conversion study mentioned above). Be clear on your business goals, benchmark your competition for ideas, dig in your web analytics data, conduct customer surveys, analyze search behavior on your site. What about here?

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Conversion Framework Technical Review Sales 109

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

JANUARY 20, 2010

I recently did a webinar for the Search Engine Strategies conference (I am doing the opening conference keynote at SES London and SES New York ) and my Market Motive co-faculty member Greg Jarboe sent me this KPI via email: "Your webcast was a big success. Log into the Advanced Segmentation tool in your web analytics tool.

Analytics 90

Analytics Search SEO Metrics 90

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 28, 2015

Inbound marketing service provider HubSpot recently released its first ever State of Inbound Report for Asia – which surveyed some 400 marketing and sales professionals at virtually all levels and across all industries in Asia to compile some of the most comprehensive analysis on online marketing in this part of the world.

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 22, 2011

Here you'll find all my blog posts categorized into a structure that will hopefully make it easy for you to discover new content, find answers to your questions, or simply wallow in some excellent analytics narratives. " ~ Digital Analytics: "Am I thinking right? Digital Marketing: "What is amazing out there?

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ConversionXL

MARCH 3, 2021

When launching a digital brand, PPC can be a great way to immediately break into a new market and start generating website traffic. But with rising CPCs and unmitigated click fraud, PPC can also get really expensive quickly. Even the most skilled digital marketers can struggle to run profitable Google Ads campaigns.

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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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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 14, 2014

See step four in the process for creating your Digital Marketing and Measurement Model.]. If you've read my first book Web Analytics: An Hour A Day, you know that I've advocated this strategy since 2008! Any big shifts in investment (marketing, customer experience, team sizes, tools). See Page 269. :).

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

It’s not enough that your business has product/market fit. In addition to trial users, you can leverage the remarketing strategy for webinar participants , ebook downloaders, and podcast subscribers, for example. Launched at the start of 2018, our affiliate program has been an integral part of our marketing strategy ever since.

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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 30, 2012

It is painfully heartbreaking to realize that a very small tiny number of people who have access to web analytics tools actually use them. In-Page Analytics – Re-imagine Traveling Through Data. #5. Matched Query Type, Keyword Position, Day Parts: Sexier PPC Analytics. #7. I mean really use the tools. Ravaging data.

Analytics 145

Analytics Metrics API Web 145

Occam's Razor

AUGUST 12, 2013

There are few things more complicated in analytics (all analytics, big data and huge data!) 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. than multi-channel attribution modeling. Do You Have an Attribution Problem?

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Channel Analytics Campaign Conversion 161

YoungUpstarts

JULY 1, 2015

Do you know what Inbound Marketing is? Keen to use inbound marketing to improve your marketing ROI? Pioneered by co-founders of HubSpot Brian Halligan and Dharmesh Shah, inbound marketing is a leading Business-to-Business (B2B) digital marketing strategy. What is Inbound Marketing?

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Software Review Marketing Social Media B2B 100

Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 31, 2011

If you use Omniture's Site Catalyst or Google Analytics or whatever, they do a good job of collecting clean data into those two segments. Depending on what you choose the data is completely ignorable or deserving of insane additional analytical love. But because this is the default view in Google Analytics everyone uses is.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

For most ecommerce entrepreneurs, building a business is all about optimizing the website, fine-tuning PPC advertising, and relentlessly perfecting email strategy. Mobile apps can store assets like photos locally on the device, meaning they won’t have to call that data from a server and download it each time like a website will.

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eCommerce Mobile Developer Retention 60