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Facebook Advertising / Marketing: Best Metrics, ROI, Business Value

Occam's Razor

FBe's recommendation was (paraphrasing a 35 min talk): Don't invent new metrics, use online versions of Reach and GRPs to measure success. Because we don't understand the uniqueness, we fall back on profoundly sub-optimal old world metrics like Reach or Online GRP equivalents. Metrics are a problem.

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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. Are not just reporting "hits", rather coming up with clever metrics. Quantitative Metrics / Analyses.

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Your Web Metrics: Super Lame or Super Awesome?

Occam's Razor

Web Analysts are blessed with an immense amount of data, and an amazing amount of valuable, even sexy, metrics to understand business performance. Yet our heroic efforts to report the aforementioned sexy metrics lead to little business action. Since crappy sounds bad, let's just say you are reporting super lame metrics.

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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. ." And, you can see the all important metric of Conversion Rate. Nice report right?

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Multichannel Analytics- Tracking Online Impact Of Offline Campaigns

Occam's Razor

For most companies radio, tv, newspapers, magazines, catalogs, retail stores, call centers, etc still form a bulk of their business advertising and marketing expenditure. How do I know that it was a tv ad that drove you to the site or a magazine article or a banner by the side of a road etc. Why should care about offline at all?

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YouTube Marketing And Analytics: A Primer For Magnificent Success

Occam's Razor

I have TV for shouting, I have Facebook for Social, I have Vogue magazine because my wife reads it, I have Google for Search. This is just like buying ads in Time, Fortune or Puppy Chow magazines simply based on who you believe reads those magazines. Once we hit the Build stage you know what to do, much more standard metrics.

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5 KPIs and Metrics Membership-Based Businesses Must Track

Smart Data Collective

The subscription-based business model is no longer the preserve of magazines and home security systems. Five KPIs and Metrics Worth Tracking. In order to gain such insights, though, you have to home in on the appropriate key performance indicators (KPIs) and metrics. Here are a few that we recommend you try to keep tabs on: 1.

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