Occam's Razor

JANUARY 30, 2012

It is painfully heartbreaking to realize that a very small tiny number of people who have access to web analytics tools actually use them. In-Page Analytics – Re-imagine Traveling Through Data. #5. Matched Query Type, Keyword Position, Day Parts: Sexier PPC Analytics. #7. I mean really use the tools. Ravage all the features.

Analytics 146

Analytics Dashboards Metrics Key Performance Indicator 146

Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Marketing broadly tends to obsess about Paid Media, they have to care about Owned and Earned Media as well – the latter will be the source of 70% – 75% of the incremental conversions! We’ll apply the methodology to Paid Media today – both Brand and Performance Marketing. Personal Bias: I prefer the word Scorecard over Dashboard.

Marketing Analytics 78

Marketing Analytics Dashboards Marketing Scorecard 78

Occam's Razor

JULY 22, 2013

The world does not need a new business framework. seconds)" for business framework on Google today. But most of the frameworks available to us solve for divisional silos. For example AIDA is from the siloed lens of Marketing (and full disclosure, I humbly believe serves company's own selfish perspective).

Measurement 164

Measurement Marketing Key Performance Indicator Metrics 164

Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 3, 2012

We like to believe that all there is to digital marketing is to do some search engine optimization, send out an email blast every once in a while, get our agency to create a flash-heavy "brand experience" website, or slap together a mobile app in the corporate-approved shade of eggshell white. " framework with you.

Marketing 149

Marketing Advertising Strategy Optimization 149

Occam's Razor

JULY 6, 2015

There have been tons and tons of implementations around the world of my wonderfully profitable See-Think-Do-Care business framework. Over the last year, I've also worked with many companies to drive new and rapid innovation in their digital strategies using the framework. This is immensely gratifying. Thing One.

Measurement 159

Measurement Marketing Metrics Strategy 159

Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Progress in digital marketing and analytics in either scenario becomes painful (the organization / systems / thinking is simply not in the optimal position). In this post I want to arm you with the evolution you should undertake in your companies when it comes to marketing and analytics. Don't do paid search.

Marketing 165

Marketing Analytics Key Performance Indicator Optimization 165

Occam's Razor

AUGUST 11, 2015

You can download them into your Google Analytics account via one click (along with some lovely Advanced Segments and a Dashboard). Many custom reports are wrong because we mess up the fundamental data model in analytics. This report demonstrates the power of getting something out of Google Analytics that you might know exists there.

Reporting 159

Reporting Analytics Metrics Key Performance Indicator 159

Occam's Razor

MARCH 12, 2012

Is there anything in the analytics space that is so full of promise and hype and sexiness and possible awesomeness than "big data?" Here's the "bigger web analytics data" picture from 2007… Multiplicity! Here's the keynote… [You can also watch this video on YouTube. No one quite knows.

Big Data 128

Big Data Data-driven Unstructured Data Marketing 128

Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

If you look at the mobile marketing strategies, you will see they don't reflect this shift to mobile. A majority of YouTube consumption is on mobile, yet if there is an advertising or content strategy inside a company for YouTube it rarely accommodates for this reality. Many reasons. CEOs still don't get it.

Metrics 143

Metrics Reporting Analytics Marketing 143

Occam's Razor

JUNE 7, 2017

To give you a sense of the depth and breadth of ideas I’ll cover today, here are the sections in this post: + The Promise of Marketing Utopia. + The Broken Promise of Marketing Utopia, Implications. + The Broken Promise of Marketing Utopia: Examples. + Is the Idea of Marketing Utopia Permanently Dead? Bottom-line.

Advertising 162

Advertising Marketing B2B Measurement 162

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. When you are done reading the post, you'll be super mad that your marketing strategy is not more influenced by your competitor's data!

Metrics 156

Metrics Reporting IT Advertising 156

Occam's Razor

MAY 5, 2016

I am insanely excited that we can track ad blocking behavior in Google Analytics, so easily. Setting Google Analytics front end elements (custom dimensions, advanced segments). I love YouTube Red (and get Google Play Music for free!!). Let now go and configure the Google Analytics front-end. Ad block: #wth.

Metrics 104

Metrics Reporting Analytics Advertising 104

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.

Analytics 110

Analytics Metrics Reporting Strategy 110

Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Since you're reading a blog on advanced analytics, I'm going to assume that you have been exposed to the magical and amazing awesomeness of experimentation and testing. It is published 50x/year, and shares bleeding-edge thinking about Marketing, Analytics, and Leadership. It truly is the bee's knees.

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Experimentation Testing Optimization Marketing 103

Occam's Razor

MAY 27, 2015

It saddens me deeply that they are not being able to take full advantage of all the new product, marketing, customer relationship opportunities in front of them. I love the shift to intent-based targeting (I cannot stress how massively important to the future of advertising and marketing). Magnificent.

Marketing Analytics 155

Marketing Analytics Marketing Analytics Advertising 155