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.

Analytics 150

Analytics Slice and Dice KPI Metrics 150

Occam's Razor

AUGUST 22, 2022

Your analysis provides clear data that the campaign was a (glorious) failure. The KPI you chose for your brand campaign was Trust, it had a pre-set target of +5. The post-campaign analysis that compares performance across Test & Control cells shows that Trust did not move at all. Good campaign. Bad Success KPI.

KPI 105

KPI Metrics Measurement Marketing 105

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 21, 2009

Why just measure conversions as one purchase or conversions just as a submission of a lead or opening of an account on facebook / twitter / what ever? Why not measure Visitor behavior after that first purchase / lead / membership sign up (or the first super poke)? For your Search campaigns. Or your Display ads.

Measurement 75

Measurement Analytics Metrics Key Performance Indicator 75

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. That of course will mean more referring keyword data will disappear.

Optimization 154

Optimization Reporting Experimentation Metrics 154

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 Especially at the really simple and basic things.

Analytics 99

Analytics IT Statistics Metrics 99

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. People matter. You matter.

Analytics 96

Analytics Measurement Metrics KPI 96

Occam's Razor

AUGUST 8, 2011

99.9996253% of Web Analytics reports produced are utterly useless. Partly because of a lack of any tie to business strategy (ensure you have a Digital Marketing & Measurement Model !), Here’s a blog post: 3 Awesome, Downloadable, Custom Web Analytics Reports. Maybe not yet. Okay let me break down the components.

Reporting 122

Reporting Metrics Key Performance Indicator Optimization 122

Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

People familiar with your brand. People driven by your offline campaigns. If you were really smart you would use campaign tagged vanity url so you can segment them!]. Free, non-campaign, traffic. Most website tag and campaign tracking implementations are poor (to put it charitably). People driven by word of mouth.

Analytics 122

Analytics Metrics Data-driven Reporting 122

Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 4, 2010

Ask a famous blogger, a published author, a random twitterer or your mom how to succeed in web analytics, or how not to be a Reporting Squirrel. As if that was not painful enough, during the course of your employment the company made no actual decisions based on web analytics data. Then fulfill that need. It is a good answer.

Reporting 119

Reporting Metrics Sales Strategy 119

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:

Analytics 118

Analytics Reporting Measurement Data-driven 118

Occam's Razor

MAY 2, 2017

There is no golden metric for everyone, we are all unique snowflakes! :). That then takes us down the very best way to answer that question, to use the five-step process to build out the Digital Marketing and Measurement Model. and tell you what are the best key performance indicators (metrics) for them. Ecommerce: Betabrand.

Metrics 141

Metrics Key Performance Indicator B2B Measurement 141

Occam's Razor

MARCH 25, 2014

In a world of infinite choice, the ability to pick critical few metrics to focus on is, well…, critical. I recently had an opportunity to recommend to a group of CEOs everything they should measure for everything they should do with digital. Focus on all three with everything you do with digital analytics.

Metrics 155

Metrics Marketing Strategy Key Performance Indicator 155

Occam's Razor

APRIL 30, 2018

And I'm only talking about the small portion of your existence that is your marketing and analytics. The teams naturally gravitate towards optimization and measurement that spans their individual mini-universes. The teeny tiny micro infinitesimally small number of views of brand display ads will cause outcomes.

Advertising 117

Advertising Metrics Measurement Insurance 117

Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 16, 2007

It is also covered in detail in Web Analytics: An Hour A Day. Google Analytics's launch of internal site search analysis today is a great excuse to revisit the world of site search. Five Steps to Internal Search Analytics Nirvana : # 1: Understand Site Search Usage. # 3: Measure Internal Site Search Quality. #4:

Analytics 101

Analytics Metrics Measurement Reporting 101

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 24, 2011

The way OOD manifests itself is that in every website and web business I work with I am obnoxiously persistent in helping identify the desired outcomes of the site / business before I ever log into their web analytics data. Without goals and goal values you are not doing web analytics, you are doing web iamwastingyourlifeandminelytics.

Analytics 122

Analytics Finance B2B ROI 122

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 20, 2010

How do you measure success of a online webinar? End of a minor web analytics lesson on going beyond obvious metrics and never, ever, never forgetting context. How do you measure SEO performance on a page level? Every measurement question should start by taking one step back and thinking of goals. Back to our story.

Metrics 90

Metrics B2B Analytics Measurement 90

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.

Reporting 158

Reporting Analytics Metrics Key Performance Indicator 158

Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 10, 2011

I am going to break one of my unspoken cardinal rules: Only write about real problems and measurement that is actually possible in the real world. I am going to define a way for you to think about measuring social media, and you can't actually easily measure what I am going to recommend. So why not measure that?

Metrics 165

Metrics Measurement Advertising Key Performance Indicator 165

datapine

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

That being said, in this post, we will explain what is a dashboard in business, the features of strategic, tactical, operational and analytical dashboards, and expound on examples that these different types of dashboards can be used. Organizations can also further utilize the data to define metrics and set goals. Let’s get started.

Dashboards 263

Dashboards Analytics Key Performance Indicator Sales 263

Occam's Razor

JULY 22, 2013

Most of the frameworks we have also don't optimally capture the complexity of digital marketing and measurement. We (oh how I hate this) apply irrational and "narrow-view" measurement strategies toward understanding what is successful and what's not. The See – Think – Do Framework: Measurement Strategy.

Measurement 163

Measurement Marketing Key Performance Indicator Metrics 163

Occam's Razor

APRIL 21, 2014

about digital marketing and analytics. For some answers, What is Avinash's typical day like? We will cover questions in four areas: business/strategy challenges, analytics/technical challenges, career/self-development questions and rampant speculation. Hour-by-hour report please. :)? , They will show affection towards you.

Marketing Analytics 131

Marketing Analytics Marketing Analytics Measurement 131

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 7, 2019

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…. The Step Change Analytics Obsessions List.

Marketing Analytics 88

Marketing Analytics Marketing Analytics Strategy 88

Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Since you're reading a blog on advanced analytics, I'm going to assume that you have been exposed to the magical and amazing awesomeness of experimentation and testing. It is published 50x/year, and shares bleeding-edge thinking about Marketing, Analytics, and Leadership. Don’t test for a vanity metric. So delicious.

Experimentation 101

Experimentation Testing Optimization Marketing 101

Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

YouTube Marketing and Analytics Framework for Success. The only reason my kids know Evian or Volvo Trucks or TrueMove (Thailand), among many other brands, is because of their work on YouTube. The only reason I know loads of new people and brands is because of my subscription to their channels on YouTube. YouTube is magnificent.

Marketing 149

Marketing Analytics Advertising Measurement 149

Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Step 1: Optimal Metrics. When it comes to your Digital Marketing and Digital Analytics practice, I've advocated slow and steady evolution. You'll find it here: Digital Metrics Ladder of Awesomeness. The metrics ladder lays out a path that will get you there, step by step while ensure your org is coming along with you.

Metrics 146

Metrics Marketing Optimization Modeling 146

Occam's Razor

JULY 18, 2011

You just have to have the right mental model (see Seth Godin above) and you have to… wait for it… wait for it… measure everything you do! Analyzing email campaigns requires three important insights: 1. You must use metrics that are unique to the medium. Your campaign data. Optimal Acquisition Email Metrics.

Metrics 137

Metrics Marketing Measurement Cost-Benefit 137

Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 3, 2012

We like to believe that all there is to digital marketing is to do some search engine optimization, send out an email blast every once in a while, get our agency to create a flash-heavy "brand experience" website, or slap together a mobile app in the corporate-approved shade of eggshell white. Yes, some of these things can help.

Marketing 147

Marketing Advertising Strategy Optimization 147

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. Don't do paid search. Beat Motrin.

Marketing 165

Marketing Analytics Key Performance Indicator Optimization 165

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?

Modeling 161

Modeling Optimization Marketing Interactive 161

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.

Analytics 109

Analytics Metrics Reporting Strategy 109

Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Web Analytics blog was to pull us up 10,000 feet to do something we do less than 1% of the time in the web analytics world – look at the bigger business picture. It was called: Secret To Winning With Web Analytics? Secret To Winning Web Analytics: 10 Starting Points For A Fabulous Start! Starting Right!

Reporting 139

Reporting Metrics Strategy Measurement 139

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 9, 2012

Here's important context (before we get into the rules for revolutionaries)… The Fundamental Web Analytics Problem Is Not Data! Most companies are astonishingly blasé about data and possibilities of measurement. " Sad, unimaginative measurements of their sad, unimaginative campaigns.

Marketing 140

Marketing B2B Measurement Risk 140

Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

The term KPI is one that I hear far more than any other in this nascent field we call Web Analytics. Explain why, hopefully you'll have rules you can apply and check if your Web Metrics are indeed KPI's! Your Web Metrics: Super Lame or Super Awesome? KPI's are measures. Measures – Objectives.

Key Performance Indicator 123

Key Performance Indicator Metrics KPI Measurement 123

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. Yehoshua Coren: Best ways to measure user behavior in a multi-touch, multi-device digital world. What's possible to measure. Let's do this!

Modeling 124

Modeling Metrics Data Quality Data-driven 124

Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

But why blame others, in this post let's focus on one important reason whose responsibility can be squarely put on your shoulders and mine: Measurement. Create a distinct mobile website and mobile app measurement strategies. Then approach each separately (even though there are tools like Google Analytics that will do both).

Metrics 141

Metrics Reporting Analytics Marketing 141

Occam's Razor

JUNE 28, 2011

Web Analysts are blessed with an immense amount of data, and an amazing amount of valuable, even sexy, metrics to understand business performance. Yet our heroic efforts to report the aforementioned sexy metrics lead to little business action. Since crappy sounds bad, let's just say you are reporting super lame metrics.

Metrics 126

Metrics Measurement Key Performance Indicator Reporting 126

Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

When it comes to marketing because of the old world thinking from the worlds of sTelevision and Magazines, and when it comes to measurement because of the world of traditional web analytics. Stale marketing or measurement thinking applied to them results in terribly sub optimal results for all involved.

Metrics 124

Metrics Analytics Measurement Strategy 124