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Measuring Incrementality: Controlled Experiments to the Rescue!

Occam's Razor

The company truly has a portfolio strategy when it comes to marketing. It is possible to compute incrementality of adding or removing marketing strategies. Having read this post what might be the biggest downside to experimentation? This is a multi-channel example. They mail catalogs and they send emails.

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6 generative AI hazards IT leaders should avoid

CIO Business Intelligence

Generative AI in particular is amplifying issues that previously existed but were not whole-heartedly addressed,” warns Matt Baker, SVP AI strategy for Dell Technologies (which offers services to help customers build AI systems with Microsoft 365 Copilot or open access models like Llama2).

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Digital Marketing & Analytics: Five Deadly Myths De-mythified!

Occam's Razor

In a recent set of keynotes and consulting engagements in the US, UK and Canada, I've had an overwhelming feeling that in very fundamental ways some companies make imprecise choices when it comes to their digital strategy. A data-first strategy is a winning formula. How about magazines? The web is dead. Mobile web is dead.

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Cookies To Humans: Implications Of Identity Systems On Incentives!

Occam's Razor

Helps shine a light on the ability to do clever targeting, the content in the messages/ads, and smartness in bidding strategies. It also has massively delicious implications in your data, acquisition and retention strategies (ignoring the sweet, heavenly, implications on your customers). World peace will be hastened by a millennia.

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The 2015 Digital Marketing Rule Book. Change or Perish.

Occam's Razor

A huge part of the last few years for me have been about bringing more data, better strategies, more powerful tools, ever more impactful keynotes to people around the world. Get the senior-most people in the largest companies in the world to unlock their imaginations when it comes to their digital existence via impactful digital strategies.

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7 Incredible Web Design, Branding, Digital Marketing Experiences

Occam's Razor

A really nice way to do a multi-channel strategy. But a vast majority of TV commercials, or magazine ads or even billboards, are clever/beautiful/joy-evoking. It also happens to include textual explanations for those amongst us who want to know more (and of course delightfully will help the company's SEO strategy).

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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. That is a cheaper systems/platform/data strategy. Silly not in their eyes, silly in my eyes. Neither should you Ms./Mr.

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