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

Occam's Razor

[A benchmark for you: In 2013 if 30% of your time, Ms./Mr. 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. They get you fired.

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Benchmarking Performance: Your Options, Dos, Don'ts and To-Die-Fors!

Occam's Razor

Here's the complete year 2013… While the numbers for individual month are different, you can see that October spiked and then things came down to below Sept performance by December. Conversion rate is one of those metrics that I strongly encourage you only create benchmarks for from your own data. or Weightwatchers.co.uk