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Five Data Analytics Mistakes Marketers Make (And How to Avoid Them)

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However, as Deven states, avoiding data insights and going with your gut is like choosing all the wrong answers on a test despite your professor giving you the right ones. When you discover data that means something, you need to be agile enough to make experimental changes.”. Mistake #3: Making vanity metrics your main event.

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The 2015 Digital Marketing Rule Book. Change or Perish.

Occam's Razor

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 ? How good can it possibly feel to do unimaginative things that barely even worked on TV/radio/magazines/catalogs?

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How To Suck At Social Media: An Indispensable Guide For Businesses

Occam's Razor

Higher Order Bits: Human vs. Business, Success KPIs, S-T-D-C Framework, MoR Test. Success Metrics. In my Oct 2011 post, Best Social Media Metrics , I'd created four metrics to quantify this value. I believe the best way to measure success is to measure the above four metrics (actual interaction/action/outcome).

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Eight Silly Data Things Marketing People Believe That Get Them Fired.

Occam's Razor

Many used some data, but they unfortunately used silly data strategies/metrics. And silly simply because as soon as the strategy/success metric being obsessed about was mentioned, it was clear they would fail. It is a really good metric. There are many spectacular reasons for why Like (and +1s, Followers) is a horrible metric.

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