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

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

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. The success metric, ACT, did go down. The qualitative surveys measuring unhappiness went down even more than before. Reporting/dashboards were terribly created ( CDPs anyone? ).

Key Performance Indicator 106

Key Performance Indicator Metrics Measurement Advertising 106

Occam's Razor

JUNE 1, 2010

Or for that matter magazines or newspapers or radio. But when it comes to measuring success of our marketing efforts all of these channels are largely faith based initiatives. Consider how we measure success of our TV campaigns. " Or: "TV is really hard to measure, those boxes just don't connect or share."

Marketing 92

Marketing Measurement Advertising Metrics 92

datapine

AUGUST 29, 2022

With that in mind, we have prepared a list of the top 19 definitive data analytics and big data books, along with magazines and authentic readers’ reviews upvoted by the Goodreads community. By using the right metrics, you can determine which products or services to focus on or build – and how to market them.

Big Data 263

Big Data Data Analytics Analytics Data mining 263

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 9, 2012

Most companies are astonishingly blasé about data and possibilities of measurement. " Sad, unimaginative measurements of their sad, unimaginative campaigns. How good can it possibly feel to do unimaginative things that barely even worked on TV/radio/magazines/catalogs? Fill it with the best web metrics to measure success.

Marketing 140

Marketing B2B Measurement Risk 140

Occam's Razor

MAY 27, 2015

How about magazines? Yes, you can get some weak demographic or, a bit better, psychographic signals from surveys TV channels or magazines did. In large measure that is because of the rise of programmatic buying. Make sure this comes with a commensurate 10/90 investment in smart, really smart analysts (and not report writers).

Marketing Analytics 153

Marketing Analytics Marketing Analytics Advertising 153

Domino Data Lab

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

The ability to measure results (risk-reducing evidence). To outline that caveat, I count four main points in the article describing necessary conditions which a successful organization must put into practice: Position data science as its own entity—make it its own department, reporting to the CEO. Let’s roll the clock back ~65 years.

Data Science 66

Data Science Experimentation Data-driven Machine Learning 66

Occam's Razor

APRIL 23, 2012

You know the drill: Measure. While there is a great deal of appreciation for the power of metrics/data, I've come to realize that Sr. Leaders don't quite appreciate the deep, and often corrosive, consequences of choosing metric x over metric y as a key performance indicator (KPI). What does Page Views measure?

Measurement 152

Measurement Key Performance Indicator Metrics KPI 152

Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

. + Traffic Trends Key Metrics Analysis. Onsite Behavior Key Metrics Analysis. The post outlines eight sources vendors use to collect data: Toolbars, panels, ISP data, search engines, self reported, scraped/indexed, hybrid, and external voc. Traffic Trends Key Metrics Analysis. Visitor/Audience Type Profile Analysis.

Metrics 155

Metrics Reporting IT Advertising 155

Occam's Razor

APRIL 29, 2013

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 expensive from a systems/platforms/data processing/data reporting perspective. It is a really good metric.

Marketing 166

Marketing Metrics Advertising Measurement 166

Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

Success Metrics. In my Oct 2011 post, Best Social Media Metrics , I'd created four metrics to quantify this value. For the rest of this post, I'm going to use the first three to capture the essence of social engagement and brand impact, and one to measure impact on the business. It is not that hard.

B2B 167

B2B Metrics Testing Recreation/Entertainment 167

Occam's Razor

MARCH 7, 2016

You rent audiences on TV, Magazines, Search, Display, etc. Of course, measure that using the four best social media metrics !) Here's the very first newsletter I'd sent, two weeks ago, and it touched on a confusion I find common, and frustrating… TMAI #1: Metric or KPI, how do you decide? A good one.

Marketing Analytics 86

Marketing Analytics Marketing Analytics KPI 86