Occam's Razor

JULY 12, 2010

In this blog post I want to share four analytics tools that I have been playing with for a while… tools that solve an interesting problem… tools that point to what might be in terms of our near term analytical future… and in almost all cases they don't even know! First Some Context. Like in the image above.

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

A Facebook employee (FBe) gave a talk about measuring ROI/Value of Facebook campaigns. In the second part of the talk a large client joined FBe on stage to make the case for Facebook campaigns. From the data presented, there is no way to tell if the Facebook campaign worked or not. Attribute it all to the Facebook campaigns.

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Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 20, 2010

The last blog post shared custom analytics reports that you can use to find amazing insights faster, enabling you to create a focused, truly data driven organization. I am an unabashed segmentation fan: Web Analytics Segmentation: Do Or Die! Web Analytics or WebTrends or. three awesome analytics data segments. #1:

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 31, 2024

It excels in aggregating, sorting, and filtering data efficiently, crucial for applications in data analysis, business intelligence, and backend systems of many web services. If the data source says that a particular campaign was efficient, we would need to go in and spend time making sure that number was actually right.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 8, 2020

It evolved into a Swiss Army knife for data science and analytics—one that can help data professionals, including data-driven marketers, elevate their analytics game. After the acquisition, it started branching out into more areas of data science and analytics. What is Kaggle? Kaggle launched in 2010. Image source ).

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ConversionXL

MARCH 20, 2019

Ultimately, a successful ABM campaign needs to solve three problems. The analytics portal syncs with independent CRMs to wed engagement and sales data. The analytics data, in turn, prompts sales staff to follow-up with accounts that show increased interest based on browsing behavior, ad clicks, email opens, etc. Image source ).

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Nose to the grind "How do I" questions: David Walizer: How do you sell the value of web analytics to a skeptical client in 30 seconds or less? By doing multichannel analytics! More detail on those techniques, and three more, are in this blog post: Multichannel Analytics: Tracking Offline Conversions. Let's go!

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

The ability to slice and dice your Google Analytics data is the difference between mediocre, surface-level insights and meaningful, useful analysis. In this article we’ll show you how to setup your Google Analytics to unlock actionable insights. Setting up your Google Analytics. You can read a more in-depth guide here.).

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

This post details the role that UTM parameters play in traffic attribution in Google Analytics. Here’s what I’ll cover: Why conversion attribution starts with traffic attribution How Google Analytics understands traffic sources What are UTM parameters? How Google Analytics understands traffic sources. HTTP Referrer.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

This typically involves a CRM system or tool that helps automate and aggregate various customer touchpoints. This can help them better manage marketing campaigns with clear goals and objectives. It automates simple tasks, sets reminders and checkpoints, and even allows you to integrate directly with other analytics platforms.

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 13, 2012

A couple weeks back I'd requested the nice folks following me on Google+ and Facebook to submit their most important digital marketing and analytics questions. Some tools do pan-session analysis better than others, and there are a number of relatively new analytics solutions on the market today.

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 21, 2013

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. Aggregated search engine level analysis. Implications of Secure Search Decision.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

In liquid markets, most of the calories expended on technology and analytics are focused on trade selection, or “ origination ”. I walk through below how progressive investors are using technology and analytics throughout all of their operations. The 11 Steps of Investing in Private Companies. 1) Manage the firm . 3) Raise capital.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

If you plan to seek out funding , you’ll need to outline your marketing spend, as well as the channels and campaigns you intend to run. If you choose a platform where your target audience is not present, your marketing campaigns will become incredibly expensive and fail to deliver. Pitch to investors. Tools like Import.io

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 8, 2016

The ability to slice and dice your Google Analytics data is the difference between mediocre, surface-level insights and meaningful, useful analysis. As Avinash Kaushik famously wrote, “All data in aggregate is crap.” Setting Up Your Google Analytics. ” [Tweet It!]. You can read a more in-depth guide here.).

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VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

Through the powerful management & analytic tools, Applicaster empowers broadcast operations to work more efficiently and swiftly deliver competitive experiences to viewers on very large scales with no investments in infrastructure. Unlike other companies, we are a true digital record label, not aggregators.

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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. Digital Analytics Ecosystem: The Outputs. Let's go!

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 21, 2020

How do you coordinate the analytics setup of a web shop that sells their products all over the world—if you have to handle 10+ languages and currencies in over 80 countries? Aggregate them and consider how those needs transfer to your web analysis tool: What do you want to analyze? Can all data be stored within Google Analytics? .

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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.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

The more well-known your company becomes, the harder it gets to directly impact primary KPI’s at the aggregate level because the majority of customers who buy are going to do so irrespective of if your button color is red or blue. For example, Adobe Analytics (Omniture) only allows the use of historical data for personalization.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 11, 2019

There are NO analytical models can truly explain WHY things happen. There is another method of text analytics called sentiment analysis or, sometimes, opinion mining. Text analytics uses an algorithm to convert text to numbers to perform a quantitative analysis. Even the user stories we gather. — ?? ?? Samuel Hulick ?? ??

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Occam's Razor

MAY 2, 2017

For example, your company is shifting aggressively into leveraging Machine-Learning in your marketing strategies and hence have made a shift to Smart Display Campaigns a huge priority. Remember: All data in aggregate is crap, segment or suck. Please be creative and don’t take no for an answer when it comes to the value of analytics.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 19, 2020

We’ve had clients report SEO metrics from Adobe Analytics, while PPC metrics came from Google Analytics (because of its native integration with Google Ads). There will always be discrepancies across analytics and media platforms. In the instance above, we ended up migrating Google Ads reporting to Adobe Analytics.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 21, 2014

Here are funnel analytics for the Bingo Card Creator new user experience: image source. Using an aggregated set of over 15 billion actions analyzed by Mixpanel each month during August, September, and October 2013, they were able to establish new, industry specific benchmarks for retention. The Research. Actionable Advice.

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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." Before we go any further I must clarify that I love branding campaigns just as much as the next guy. I love campaigns that Visa runs. are you doing the "branding campaign"?

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

I joined as employee 14 and spent a few years at this analytics startup, which was founded by Hiten Shah and Neil Patel. One time, we ran a bunch of tests on our drip email campaigns over a five-month period. Our new email subscribers would receive email campaigns for different products. The growth teams that I’ve built.

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Growthink Blog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

And it was an even greater coincidence that I ended up watching part of his “jobs” speech at the same hotel where many of his 2008 presidential campaign events were held. But in their tens of hundreds of thousands aggregate, well, these are the decisions that are the making of a vibrant, prosperous, and dignified entrepreneurial society.

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abovethecrowd.com

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Internet analytics can be roughly broken down into two simple activities – customer acquisition and customer optimization. The second activity, which I believe should be the obsession of all analytical startups, is customer optimization. You want to know what it is for each and every outreach campaign.

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Occam's Razor

MAY 20, 2013

" comfort zone, and out of your Google Analytics, Site Catalyst, WebTrends worldview silo. Part of the reason is that the data you to which you have access narrows your worldview – "Hey, all I have is Google Analytics, so all I'll look at is Google Analytics data!" The answer is simple: Aggregators.

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 19, 2010

" "What is a dimension in analytics?" There seems to be genuine confusion about the simplest, most foundational, parts of web metrics / analytics. The post will end with a Web Analytics Measurement Framework. experiment with p type of campaigns. " "What is segmentation?" " And many more.

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

In fact I've gone so far as to say: "All data in aggregate is crap." " That's certainly a bit melodramatic, but beyond the most bare bones "ahh, I see something is happening" you are unable to get anywhere with aggregate data. Google Analytics: New Segmentation User Experience.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 19, 2016

To start, both parties need to look at mobile usage separately and develop a more detailed variety of analytics for their mobile campaigns. Some analytics and metrics you should begin measuring to help capture a greater range of data are: Behavioral Cohorting. Create campaigns that connect with these personas.

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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. Ravage all the features.

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Occam's Razor

MAY 19, 2014

None of the digital analytics tools make it easy to measure true profitability. And if you can pass that barrier (with, say, dimension widening using universal analytics), it is very hard to find this data inside the company (Finance department?), Excellent Analytics Tip #26: Every Critical Metric Should Have A BFF!

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Occam's Razor

MAY 18, 2010

I have said: All data in aggregate is "crap" Because it is. One of my earliest blog posts extolled the glorious virtues of segmentation: Excellent Analytics Tip#2: Segment Absolutely Everything. Many paid web analytics clickstream analytics tools, even today (!), Of course Yahoo! All visits. Total revenue.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

Typical tasks included looking at how well a campaign performed, what the costs were and returns on investment. Will creativity and human touch still be part of the advertising process, or will they be completely replaced by algorithms? Data: between historical assessment and predicting the future. Challenges of data driven marketing.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

We have run very successful campaigns by brands such as Sony, NBC, Microsoft, Universal, Clicker and others. We have an analytics platform that helps advertisers discover information about the demographics of the follower base and the effectiveness of their campaigns. Early evidence is good. Enter RingRevenue.

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