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Ad Block Tracking With Google Analytics: Code, Metrics, Reports

Occam's Razor

Take thi second example from Forbes magazine on mobile… They are absolutely well within their rights to create a firewall around their site for people who use ad blockers… But think about their text in green for a moment. I'm curious to see the evolution of Optimal, a startup working on a similar solution.

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Cookies To Humans: Implications Of Identity Systems On Incentives!

Occam's Razor

A Key Performance Indicator (KPI), our industry’s lingo for what becomes The metric, has massive influence. Additionally, I passionately believe that optimal metrics help solve for more than an individual’s behavior. While not optimal, it was understandable given the evolutionary stage they were at. Humans are pavlovian.

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Social Media Analytics: Twitter: Quantitative & Qualitative Metrics

Occam's Razor

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. Twitter is not that.

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You Are What You Measure, So Choose Your KPIs (Incentives) Wisely!

Occam's Razor

Leaders don't quite appreciate the deep, and often corrosive, consequences of choosing metric x over metric y as a key performance indicator (KPI). Choose the wrong one and they'll create self-serving, sub optimal, non-competitive, tear-inducing outcomes that will, slowly over time, bleed the business to death.

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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. You'll get fired.

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