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Marketing Analytics: Attribution Is Not Incrementality

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When you open a report in any digital analytics tool, like Google Analytics, almost all the reports you look at attribute full credit for the Conversion to the referrer associated with the last session where the conversion occurred.*. (*For Bing gets all the credit for that conversion in your Analytics reports.

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Artificial Intelligence: Implications On Marketing, Analytics, And You

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It’s implications are far and wide, even in the narrow scope that I live in (marketing, analytics, influence). Most Deep Learning methods involve artificial neural networks, modeling how our bran works. They send out reports and dashboards. I have so much to tell you, stuff I’m scared about, and so much I’m excited about.

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Deliver Step Change Impact: Marketing & Analytics Obsessions

Occam's Razor

Does swapping out male model posters for cute animals triple sales? Throw away your custom attribution model. From the tens of hours saved per week, figure out how to feed offline data into your data driven attribution model. Hire an experienced statistician to be a part of your analytics team.

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Dear Avinash: Your Digital Marketing + Analytics Challenges Answered

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Hour-by-hour report please. :)? , We will cover questions in four areas: business/strategy challenges, analytics/technical challenges, career/self-development questions and rampant speculation. If there is anything you can measure, even with your broken analytics implementation, do that first. Don't make that silly mistake.

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Six Visual Solutions To Complex Digital Marketing/Analytics Challenges

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Frameworks, because if I can teach someone a new mental model, a different way of thinking, they can be incredibly successful. Make sure that every single report you create has acquisition, behavior and outcome metrics (download this example: Page Efficiency Analysis Report ). Two things I love a lot: 1. That's it.

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

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It is an investment in numerous report writers or data (puking) automation or hiring a small army in India or Philippines to do that, before investing in any smart Analyst. Make sure this comes with a commensurate 10/90 investment in smart, really smart analysts (and not report writers). Climb up the ladder some more.

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

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Setting Google Analytics front end elements (custom dimensions, advanced segments). Five Reports and KPIs that deliver critical insights from ad blocking behavior. And, of course I would not be as smart about digital marketing as I am without paying for Baekdal Plus. You see different models people use to make money there.

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