Occam's Razor

AUGUST 11, 2014

My last post, perhaps provocatively, called for a reduction of data in executive dashboards (digital, online, offline). Here's the post: Strategic & Tactical Dashboards: Best Practices, Examples. In the post Adil commented that he's observed that attribution modeling is missing from most web analytics dashboards.

Metrics 147

Metrics Dashboards Key Performance Indicator B2B 147

datapine

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

An even more interesting fact: The blogs we read regularly are not only influenced by KPI management but also concerning content, style, and flow; they’re often molded by the suggestions of these goal-driven metrics. For example, customer satisfaction metrics are used to drive a better customer experience. What happens next?

KPI 221

KPI Management Key Performance Indicator Measurement 221

AWS Big Data

JULY 13, 2023

Identifying key use cases After a number of preparation meetings to discuss business and technical aspects of the use case, AWS and Altron identified two uses cases to resolve their two business challenges: Business intelligence for business-to-business accounts – Altron wanted to focus on their business-to-business (B2B) accounts and customer data.

Optimization 91

Optimization B2B Data Quality Sales 91

datapine

JUNE 13, 2019

They can be of various forms: a daily sales report format will track sales metrics that are relevant on a daily basis: the number of phone calls or meetings set up by a rep, number of leads created. Using a professional business intelligence dashboard that works with real-time data will always let you up to date when sharing your insights.

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Sales Reporting KPI B2B 264

datapine

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Structure your metrics. As with any report you might need to create, structuring and implementing metrics that will tell an interesting and educational data-story is crucial in our digital age. That way you can choose the best possible metrics for your case. Regularly monitor your data. Annual Marketing Report Examples.

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Reporting Marketing Advertising Metrics 280

Occam's Razor

APRIL 25, 2011

This latter category contains things that are so obviously sub-optimal that no one should be doing them any more. Sophisticated Search Engine Optimization is mandatory in our world of Bing / Yandex / Baidu / Google. Making lame metrics the measures of success: Impressions, Click-throughs, Page Views. Yet there they are.

Marketing 126

Marketing Measurement Metrics Testing 126

AWS Big Data

JUNE 30, 2023

The team brings deep domain expertise in digital, B2B, B2C, analytics, technology, mobile, marketing automation, and UX/UI domain. Arena Calibrate is a customizable digital marketing dashboard that helps marketers track their cross-platform performance at a glance, saving them hours of manual work.

Marketing 52

Marketing Dashboards Advertising ROI 52

Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 10, 2011

Most of us have no idea how to participate optimally in this unique channel – we are doing TV on Twitter (breaks my heart). We have IT-minded people engaging in massive data puking (one report with 30 metrics anyone?) We have IT-minded people engaging in massive data puking (one report with 30 metrics anyone?)

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Metrics Measurement Advertising Key Performance Indicator 165

Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 13, 2009

Chapter 2 The Optimal Strategy for Choosing Your Web Analytics Soul Mate. Chapter 3 The Awesome World of Clickstream Analysis: Metrics. The second half shows exactly how to pick the best metrics for your org and, my absolute favorite (Page 64), how to diagnose the root cause of a metrics performance. A good thing.

Analytics 71

Analytics Metrics Measurement Testing 71

Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Company UX leaders are happy to stink less by taking the sub-optimal path of responsive design, rather than create a mobile-unique experience (your customers tend to do different things on your desktop site than your mobile site!). Mobile content consumption, behavior along key metrics (time, bounces etc.) Many reasons.

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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.

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Metrics Measurement Key Performance Indicator Reporting 126

AWS Big Data

APRIL 19, 2023

Building an optimal data system As data grows at an extraordinary rate, data proliferation across your data stores, data warehouse, and data lakes can become a challenge. They were able to use Amazon Redshift Serverless to serve their key stakeholders with dashboards with financial data for quick decision-making.

Data Warehouse 55

Data Warehouse Data Lake Unstructured Data Optimization 55

Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

To ensure customer delight was delivered in a timely manner, it was also decided that Average Call Time (ACT) would now be The success metric. If towards the end of the week/month your ACT was going to look terrible on your Manager’s dashboard, calls were picked up and hung up right away. The success metric, ACT, did go down.

Key Performance Indicator 106

Key Performance Indicator Metrics Measurement Advertising 106

Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Step 1: Optimal Metrics. 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. The end goal is to recommend an optimal mix for your marketing budget. Step 1: Optimal Metrics.

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Metrics Marketing Optimization Modeling 146

Sisense

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

Users often spend hours per day in a business tool where complex workflows make interpreting user intent through clickstreams difficult – and worse, typical engagement metrics like time-on-site, page loads or object creation counts generally just describe usage, not created value. Rollout delays.

Analytics 72

Analytics Dashboards Sales Measurement 72

Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

Each of the six visuals re-frames a unique facet of the digital opportunity/challenge, and shares how to optimally take advantage of the opportunity/challenge. It is also immensely beneficial for search engine optimization (great content, delivered fresh, every day!). Then that is all they optimize for. And so on and so forth.

Marketing Analytics 154

Marketing Analytics Marketing Visualization Analytics 154

Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 12, 2016

What one critical metric will help you clearly measure performance for each strategy above? How will you know if the performance was a success or failure, what's the target for each critical metric? You can easily see that now my dashboard is simpler. They only want to throw up a one page lead-gen form if they are B2B.

Analytics 141

Analytics Data-driven Strategy Consulting 141

Andrew White

JANUARY 9, 2022

At the end of the day, we would like to shift the conversation away from a request for a report or a dashboard, toward a discussion about the business outcome the leader or team is trying to impact. This is the same for scope, outcomes/metrics, practices, organization/roles, and technology. That is the key. – Yes.

Analytics 64

Analytics Measurement Modeling Data-driven 64

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 9, 2012

" "My dashboard should have Page Views and Exit Rate!" If you are doing lame stuff, why try harder in an analytics context by asking for Economic Value or Visitor Loyalty or Conversation Rate or a thousand other super powerful and insightful metrics ? We are talking about taking controlled risks and optimization.

Marketing 140

Marketing B2B Measurement Risk 140

Occam's Razor

MARCH 23, 2010

My problem with these mistruths and FUD is that they result in a ton of practitioners and companies making profoundly sub optimal choices, which in turn results in not just much longer slogs but also spectacular career implosions and the entire web analytics industry suffering. This is sad. Even a little frustrating. Usually for free.

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Analytics Consulting Metrics Experimentation 118

Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

We send out our multi-tab spreadsheets, our best Google Analytics custom reports , our great dashboards full of data , and more to the tactical layer of data clients. The Directors, the Marketers, the Optimization employees and our resident social media gurus. We still live in an world where we are optimize for single visit sessions.

Visualization 160

Visualization Key Performance Indicator Slice and Dice Strategy 160

datapine

JANUARY 31, 2022

The companies that are most successful at marketing in both B2C and B2B are using data and online BI tools to craft hyper-specific campaigns that reach out to targeted prospects with a curated message. Consumers have grown more and more immune to ads that aren’t targeted directly at them. Let’s see it with a real-world example.

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Business Intelligence Analytics Cost-Benefit ROI 214

Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

And sometimes they are indeed optimal: 7 Data Presentation Tips: Think, Simplify, Calibrate, Visualize. You can hover over each box to get a sense of the key metrics. Better than the table, but perhaps less optimal than the Treemap. We know the optimization that is required. Our lives are dominated by columns and rows.

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Visualization Slice and Dice Predictive Modeling Metrics 143

Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

In this post let's look at each Social Network, see what B2B and B2C brands are doing there today, from that draw lessons as to 1. Success Metrics. In my Oct 2011 post, Best Social Media Metrics , I'd created four metrics to quantify this value. It can be a brand metric, say Likelihood to Recommend.

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B2B Metrics Testing Recreation/Entertainment 167