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Benchmarking Performance: Your Options, Dos, Don'ts and To-Die-Fors!

Occam's Razor

Any big changes in your marketing/customer acquisition strategy over the last time period (more money doing Search, less money in Email, elimination Facebook as it does not work, etc., and Organic Search Traffic (can't ever have enough of that!)… Outcomes of the conversations with your Finance team and Sr.

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Great Storytelling With Data: Visualize Simply And Focus Obsessively

Occam's Razor

This is a lot less pretty, but a lot more effective… The use of colors helps drag your eye to the column that's actually important, the red is effective at giving the core message (I should have made the 21 green, dang!), Here's a great example of this, check out this slide… It shows searches in some country in 2019.

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Data Visualization Inspiration: Analysis To Insights To Action, Faster!

Occam's Razor

No better way to optimize for all of search behavior, rather than the absolutely silly obsession with a few keywords (it is fatal when apply to single session conversion scenarios!). The green intensity drags our eyes to handful of cells we need to look first. I've used Sunbursts to do the same with keyword portfolios. Sugar cane.

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