Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 13, 2009

I am absolutely thrilled that my book Web Analytics 2.0 I only had one job, at Intuit, when I wrote my first web analytics book. The Pitch: I invite you to consider buying my second web analytics book. It is not just a business book, though every dna strand in this book is more about online marketing than online analytics.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 6, 2010

As we spring to action full of passion I wanted to share with you all a short list of things that will expand your little world of online marketing & web analytics. Change is hard, even if we know that we should be executing a multiplicity strategy to win in the web analytics 2.0 That's sucking. That's sucking.)

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ConversionXL

JULY 8, 2020

If you want examples of good PPC ad copy (with explanations), check out this article. And despite their potential, PPC automation isn’t guaranteed to outperform manual bids. For destination URLs, you have four options, similar to what you see in Google Analytics Goals: Equals to. Each path comes with a 15-character limit.

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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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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 21, 2013

This led to the problem we, Marketers, SEOs, Analysts, fondly refer to as not provided. Following revelations of NSA activities via Mr. Snowden, Google has now switched almost all users to secure search, resulting in even more user search queries showing up as not provided in all web analytics tools. No keyword data in analytics tools.

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

As a result, businesses will require digital marketers to assist customers in understanding their new or modified offerings. Experiential marketing campaigns, such as live streaming of events, may attract a big audience to a business. As a result, marketing techniques must be altered to accommodate this new sort of search language.

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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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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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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

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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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

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

One of the ultimate excuses for not measuring impact of Marketing campaigns is: "Oh, that's just a branding campaign." Remember: Engagement is not a metric, its an excuse. ]. The ideal metrics for this desired outcome are Visitor Loyalty & Visitor Recency. " Admit it, you've heard it.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

To craft a PPC ad that’s so compelling people are happy to click it. If PPC has been around since 1996 , why doesn’t it happen more often? The Current State of PPC. Not only 78% of marketers feeling “really good” about their PPC success in 2015, but 60% believe the PPC market has improved over 2014.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 19, 2020

It’s the same for search engine marketing. PPC has a role. Too often, marketers find themselves managing multiple agencies or internal teams, each of which is trying to accomplish their goals. Ask the following six questions to help SEO and PPC teams collaborate—and achieve better results than either could on their own.

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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? How many shopping carts are abandoned?

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 27, 2015

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. However, you have to have a predictable traffic stream (ie PPC) and even then it is rough. How, indeed, did they demonstrate ROI? Word-of-Mouth.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 29, 2016

To do so, they reached out to Mercenta (a retargeting software company) to help get more website visitors into their local Mazda dealerships by way of some smart PPC ads. Just like Mazda improved their retargeting ads with proximity, Watchfinder did so with audience granularity from Google Analytics. Key Takeaways. Key Takeaways.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Enable Google Analytics tracking. You just have to sign up for Google Analytics, get your account number, and plug it into your site. Use Googles built-in Analytics/AdWords integration, to track the effectiveness of each ad you run. Labels: customer development , search engine marketing 13comments: Jim Lindstrom said.

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Occam's Razor

MAY 14, 2012

A lot of digital analytics focuses on direct response (conversions, leads, etc.). But there is an additional valuable, and sexy, focus of our marketing we don't give enough analytical love: Branding! there is such little accountability to brand marketing and 2. No eBay PPC ad or SEO listing showed up.

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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.

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 21, 2014

about digital marketing and analytics. We will cover questions in four areas: business/strategy challenges, analytics/technical challenges, career/self-development questions and rampant speculation. Even the worst analytics configuration in the world will most likely allow you to measure cart and checkout abandonment rate.

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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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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2016

If you’re moving slowly or have yet to implement search engine optimization (SEO) strategies as part of your overall marketing efforts, you’re falling behind your competitors. Let’s take a look at the top ten things you can do to make SEO an effective part of your 2017 marketing strategy: 1. image credit: hetemeel.

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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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Up and Running

AUGUST 31, 2021

Brand awareness is a marketing term that is used to describe the degree of consumer recognition of your business and/or product. From social media campaigns to PPC advertisements, there are many strategies companies use to promote brand awareness. You could use qualitative market research or quantitative market research.

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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

Custom reports allow you to deeply focus (by eliminating the rif-raf metrics and dimensions, they save time and show just what you want). You can download them into your Google Analytics account via one click (along with some lovely Advanced Segments and a Dashboard). We mis-align metrics and dimensions across Users, Session, Hits.

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Analytics Customer Metrics eCommerce 60

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Customer acquisition cost (CAC) is an important metric for any ecommerce business. This calculation goes beyond marketing costs and advertising dollars to include product costs, labor costs, shipping costs, and any other expenses that contribute to attracting and securing customers. What is ecommerce customer acquisition cost?

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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. site analytics data. marketing material. Another worthwhile exercise is sitting down with the marketing team or sales team to discuss the descriptive language used to attract & close customers.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 13, 2015

In Lean Analytics , Alistair Croll and Benjamin Yoskovitz gave a great example of the value of cohorts, using data from a hypothetical online retailer: January. Did one group see one marketing message that the other didn’t? Customers that converted in the last year that came in through a bottom-of-the-funnel marketing campaign.

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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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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? " ~ Web Metrics: "What is a KPI?

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 28, 2006

How many metrics can you call adorable? Site abandonment rate is an adorable metric, to me : ), for these reasons: Money, money, money baby. IMHO there isn't a metric out there that can tell you a lot so quickly and any improvement you make to it will directly and immediately impact the bottom-line. My hypothesis is that.

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Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 6, 2010

In a world where we are overwhelmed with data and metrics and key performance indicators and reports and dashboards and. I must forewarn you that my hidden agenda is also to expose to you metrics you might not be using, views of data that you might be ignoring, best practices that are of value and teach you how to fish. Come back here.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

The Science of Marketing with Neil Patel written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Neil Patel. Patel founded, operated, sold, and recreated several very successful ventures and shares a ton of lessons learned in what amounts to a university level course in online marketing.

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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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trada.com

APRIL 7, 2010

Trada Blog: Paid Search Marketing, Online Advertising and Small Biz Trada's blog for small businesses making paid search, online advertising and social media easier to understand. Being external these days is about participating in a conversation with the market. Every new thing you take on requires time and effort.

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