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See, Think, Do, Care Wining Combo: Content + Marketing + Measurement!

Occam's Razor

Not just your largest addressable audience , that leads to the omni-present spray-and-pray advertising on TV and in magazines. We can talk about Content AND Marketing AND Measurement. Once you have a critical-enough marketing budget (this could be $10k, really the bar is quite low), you should have measurement strategy.

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Managing CEO expectations is this year’s Priority No. 1

CIO Business Intelligence

Once upon a time, CEOs’ IT expectations legendarily came from in-flight magazines — a source that’s morphed from CIO irritant to quaint memory as the magazines faded into nostalgia-land. Because the cloud never did, and still won’t make sense as a general-purpose cost-saving measure. That’s if we’re lucky.

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Supply Chain Tips for Software Companies to Avoid Data Breaches

Smart Data Collective

PC Magazine reports that 422 million people were affected by data breaches last year. A growing number of companies are recognizing that they need to take proactive measures to help bolster their data security. Software companies are among those most heavily affected, so they are taking dramatic measures.

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Smart SMBs Are Taking Advantage of Major Advances in Data Security

Smart Data Collective

Sometimes the most advanced security measure you can take is to cover the basics. The numbers have been growing in recent months and with cybercrimes becoming more sophisticated, SMBs with legacy frameworks will be severely compromised. System updates and data backups.

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One of the Best Places to Work—and Getting Better

Alation

Magazine just named Alation one of 2019 best places to work! Employees from thousands of companies were asked to complete an assessment measuring their company on values such as trust in leadership, collaborative culture, personal engagement, and satisfaction of individual needs through great benefits and perks.

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Measuring Incrementality: Controlled Experiments to the Rescue!

Occam's Razor

This: You understand all the environmental variables currently in play, you carefully choose more than one group of "like type" subjects, you expose them to a different mix of media, measure differences in outcomes, prove / disprove your hypothesis (DO FACEBOOK NOW!!!), Measuring Incrementality: Controlled Experiments to the Rescue!

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The Surprising Benefits of Data Analytics for Furniture Stores

Smart Data Collective

RetailDive recently published an article titled Furniture retailer embraces digital marketing and measures its impact with analytics , which underscores the benefits that analytics offers. The furniture industry is among those relying more heavily on data analytics. The article cites a furniture store owner that discovered 16.8%