Occam's Razor

AUGUST 9, 2016

The outcome of book smart is rarely better for analytics practitioners then folks trying to learn how to fly an airplane from how-to books. This is all the way from Aug 2009: Web Analytics Career Advice: Play In The Real World! And, happily, it has almost all of the Google Analytics features implemented correctly. Let's go!

Analytics 109

Analytics Metrics Reporting Strategy 109

Occam's Razor

MARCH 7, 2016

I want you to sign up for something very, very special I'm doing: Writing short stories from the intersection of marketing and analytics. My newsletter is called The Marketing < > Analytics Intersect. Of course, measure that using the four best social media metrics !) Please do sign up. Should you own or rent?

Marketing Analytics 86

Marketing Analytics Marketing Analytics KPI 86

Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 12, 2011

In fact a data driven life is sexiest digital life you can imagine. I am going to attempt to significantly simply your life by recommending the critical few metrics you should use to analyze performance of your digital marketing campaigns and website. Recommend metrics / KPIs you can use based on the size of your company.

Metrics 151

Metrics Key Performance Indicator Measurement Optimization 151

Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Half-way through this post, you'll seriously wonder why you've spent so much time obsessing with Adobe/Google Analytics/Chartbeat or other web analytics tool. CIA also formed one of five foundational elements in my best-selling book Web Analytics 2.0. Traffic Trends Key Metrics Analysis. What is the sample size?

Metrics 155

Metrics Reporting IT Advertising 155

Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 12, 2016

And, as if unlimited is not enough, nearly every month your analytics vendors release new features, you discover new analytics solutions, and as your business is more successful (hurray!) What guarantees that agility and innovation are present in your analytics practice? It is not even an analytics tool.

Analytics 141

Analytics Data-driven Strategy Consulting 141

Occam's Razor

MARCH 10, 2015

In a Q&A after a keynote a couple of years ago, I was asked: " When will traditional business analysis subsume the web analytics silo? " " My reply: " All business will ultimately be digital, so, if anything, web analytics will subsume business analysis! " No digital. Business analysis.

Strategy 151

Strategy Analytics Measurement Business Analysis 151

Occam's Razor

APRIL 13, 2015

The 80/20 rule applies to our use of web analytics tools as well. I recommend that periodically you gather folks around you for lunch, pull up Adobe Analytics on the big screen in the conference room, let each person expose one hidden report or feature. Google Analytics Shortcuts: Save Your Complex Views. This hurts my feelings!

Analytics 155

Analytics Reporting Metrics Slice and Dice 155

Occam's Razor

JULY 22, 2013

Most of the frameworks we have also don't optimally capture the complexity of digital marketing and measurement. My solution to these problems was to create a simple framework we can use to put our customers first, evaluate our marketing programs, and right-align our view of success (metrics). Then there is Agile for engineering.

Measurement 163

Measurement Marketing Key Performance Indicator Metrics 163

Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

A vast majority of occasions where data is presented (reports, executive dashboards, conference presentations, or just plain here's a automated emailed thingy from Google Analytics ) end up being abject failures because most of the discussion is still about the data. Yes, cost per click is metric. Don't rush. You do the math.

Visualization 144

Visualization Key Performance Indicator Dashboards Metrics 144

Occam's Razor

JULY 1, 2013

Would you believe me when I say that your digital analytics data, from Google Analytics or WebTrends et. We do have A LOT of data in our analytics tools. But sometimes going outside our analytics tools can yield non-normal insights that can deliver a competitive advantage. Or maybe, beyond-our-blinders analytics.

Marketing 135

Marketing Statistics Strategy Consulting 135

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 31, 2017

Very often the output of our work with Big Data or Small Data, Google Analytics or R, will end up in a few cells of a spreadsheet or a table in Word/Keynote/PowerPoint. There is only one simple message above, and just two metrics that matter. We throw off a lot of data as a subtle way of earning a great job performance review.

Visualization 148

Visualization IT Strategy Key Performance Indicator 148

Occam's Razor

JUNE 1, 2010

The raw innovation and empowerment that a connected digital world has unleashed is the reason I lovingly refer to it as "God's gift to humanity" To truly appreciate some of this let us consider the world where marketing is done on faith. These are not "loser" metrics like visits and pageviews! That hurts.

Marketing 92

Marketing Measurement Advertising Metrics 92

Occam's Razor

MARCH 7, 2022

In posts about advanced segmentation , in posts about how to build strategic dashboards that don’t suck , in encouraging you to reimagine how you pick metrics to obsess about using the magnificent Impact Matrix , and on and on and on. In our world – marketing research and analytics – that word has come to represent data puking.

Key Performance Indicator 101

Key Performance Indicator Strategy Marketing Publishing 101