Strategic Marketing Analytics: CMO Dashboards That Rock!
An extraordinary amount of time, effort, $$$ are spent on building dashboards/scorecards for CMOs… Yet, the end result, nearly always, is a useless data puke. It turns out boiling the ocean is hard. To build an effective big picture scorecard for the CMO, that is not data pukey, there are three crucial challenges that have […]
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Transform Data’s Impact: Pick The Right Success KPI!
Your analysis provides clear data that the campaign was a (glorious) failure. It could not be clearer. The KPI you chose for your brand campaign was Trust, it had a pre-set target of +5. The post-campaign analysis that compares performance across Test & Control cells shows that Trust did not move at all. (Suspiciously, there […]
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Increase Analytics Influence: Leverage Predictive Metrics!
Almost all metrics you currently use have one common thread: They are almost all backward-looking. If you want to deepen the influence of data in your organization – and your personal influence – 30% of your analytics efforts should be centered around the use of forward-looking metrics. Predictive metrics! But first, let’s take a small […]
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Simple Tricks To Up-level Your Analytics Reports.
Like you, I consume a whole lot of reports every day – company data, public data. Many are acceptable, some are very good and all the rest leave me extremely frustrated with both the ink and the think. People make so many obvious mistakes. Sometimes repeatedly. Just yesterday I was quietly seething because none of […]
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Five Strategies for Slaying the Data Puking Dragon.
If you bring sharp focus, you increase chances of attention being diverted to the right places. That in turn will drive smarter questions, which will elicit thoughtful answers from available data. The result will be data-influenced actions that result in a long-term strategic advantage. It all starts with sharp focus. Consider these three scenarios… Your […]
Five Strategies for Slaying the Data Puking Dragon. is a post from: Occam’s Razor by Avinash Kaushik
The Very Best Digital Metrics For 15 Different Companies!
The very best analysts distill, rather than dilute. The very best analysts focus, when most will tend to gather. The very best analysts are display critical thinking, rather than giving into what’s asked. The very best analysts are comfortable operating with ambiguity and incompleteness, while all others chase perfection in implementation / processing / reports. […]
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Be Real-World Smart: A Beginner’s Advanced Google Analytics Guide
Being book smart is good. 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. Hence, I have been obsessed with encouraging you to get actual data to learn from. This is all the way from Aug 2009: Web Analytics Career […]
Be Real-World Smart: A Beginner’s Advanced Google Analytics Guide is a post from: Occam’s Razor by Avinash Kaushik
Be Real-World Smart: A Beginner’s Advanced Google Analytics Guide
Being book smart is good. 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. Hence, I have been obsessed with encouraging you to get actual data to learn from. This is all the way from Aug 2009: Web Analytics Career […]
Be Real-World Smart: A Beginner’s Advanced Google Analytics Guide is a post from: Occam’s Razor by Avinash Kaushik
Ad Block Tracking With Google Analytics: Code, Metrics, Reports
You don’t use an ad blocker, right? Of course not! You would never want to take away the opportunity a content creator has online to monetize their work via ads. I know that at least some of you think I’m being sarcastic. I am not, and this post is all about getting the data to […]
Ad Block Tracking With Google Analytics: Code, Metrics, Reports is a post from: Occam’s Razor by Avinash Kaushik
Rock Analytics More: Obsess About Goals And Goal Values!
If you don’t have goals, you are not doing digital analytics. You are doing i am wasting earth’s precious oxygenalytics. Let’s back up. Let me start with a story. We were brain storming about the next clustseeer of coolness for Analytics, the conversation quickly went to what Analysts need to look at on a daily, […]
Rock Analytics More: Obsess About Goals And Goal Values! is a post from: Occam’s Razor by Avinash Kaushik
Excellent Analytics Tip #27: Chase Smart Calculated Metrics!
For the last decade (#omg!), I’ve consistently complained about a fundamental flaw in Web Analytics tools: They incentivize one night stands, rather than engagements matching customer-intent. This leads to owners of digital experiences (insanely) expecting all visitors to their websites to convert right away – anything less than that is a failure. Damn the intent […]
Excellent Analytics Tip #27: Chase Smart Calculated Metrics! is a post from: Occam’s Razor by Avinash Kaushik
Great Storytelling With Data: Visualize Simply And Focus Obsessively
The difference between a Reporting Squirrel and Analysis Ninja? Insights. As in, the former is in the business of providing data, the latter in the business of understanding the performance implied by the data. That understanding leads to insights about why the performance occurred, which leads to so what we should do. [Sidebar] I’m experimenting […]
Great Storytelling With Data: Visualize Simply And Focus Obsessively is a post from: Occam’s Razor by Avinash Kaushik
Speed, Focus, Smart Insights: 5 Google Analytics Custom Reports FTW!
Standard reports stink. Custom reports rock! If you are a regular reader of this blog, you are quite familiar with this sentiment. I’ve expressed it often. :) [Sidebar] I’m experimenting with sharing short stories via an insightful newsletter. I’d love for you to sign up: The Marketing Analytics Intersect. Thanks! [/Sidebar] The primary reason is […]
Speed, Focus, Smart Insights: 5 Google Analytics Custom Reports FTW! is a post from: Occam’s Razor by Avinash Kaushik
See, Think, Do, Care Winning Combo: Content +Marketing +Measurement!
There have been tons and tons of implementations around the world of my wonderfully profitable See-Think-Do-Care business framework. This is immensely gratifying. Over the last year, I’ve also worked with many companies to drive new and rapid innovation in their digital strategies using the framework. In the process, I’ve learned a whole lot more, evolved […]
See, Think, Do, Care Winning Combo: Content +Marketing +Measurement! is a post from: Occam’s Razor by Avinash Kaushik
Data Visualization Inspiration: Analysis To Insights To Action, Faster!
Like a vast majority on planet Earth, I love data visualizations. Ok, so perhaps as the author of two bestselling books on analytics I love it a little bit more! There is something magical about taking an incredible amount of complexity and presenting it as simply as we possibly can with the goal of letting […]
Data Visualization Inspiration: Analysis To Insights To Action, Faster! is a post from: Occam’s Razor by Avinash Kaushik
Magnificent Mobile Website And App Analytics: Reports, Metrics, How-to!
Nothing I can tell you about the importance of having an incredible mobile strategy will surprise you. Mobile devices (phones, tablets, wearables) are transforming how we behave, how we buy, how we consume content, and dare I say how we become happy or we become sad. You after all have all of the aforementioned devices, […]
Magnificent Mobile Website And App Analytics: Reports, Metrics, How-to! is a post from: Occam’s Razor by Avinash Kaushik
Smart Dashboard Modules: Insightful Dimensions And Best Metrics
My last post, perhaps provocatively, called for a reduction of data in executive dashboards (digital, online, offline). More English (IABI, specifically) would lead to a smarter understanding of performance, and of course glory for data practitioners. Here’s the post: Strategic & Tactical Dashboards: Best Practices, Examples. In the post Adil commented that he’s observed that […]
Smart Dashboard Modules: Insightful Dimensions And Best Metrics is a post from: Occam’s Razor by Avinash Kaushik
Digital Dashboards: Strategic & Tactical: Best Practices, Tips, Examples
I’m excited about the power of a well created dashboard. It is a thing of beauty and a source of immense joy. Oh, and of course a critical element for any company’s path to glory. Dashboards are every where, we will look at a lot of them in this post and they are all digital. […]
Digital Dashboards: Strategic & Tactical: Best Practices, Tips, Examples is a post from: Occam’s Razor by Avinash Kaushik
Excellent Analytics Tip #26: Every Critical Metric Should Have A BFF!
There is unlimited amount of data thrown off our digital existences. (Or to use sexy term du jour , we have big data!) Our leaders (companies, agencies, teams) have to deal with an incredibly complex landscape, and they don’t have enough time. The very natural outcomes is this ask of us: “Can you make it […]
Excellent Analytics Tip #26: Every Critical Metric Should Have A BFF! is a post from: Occam’s Razor by Avinash Kaushik
Dear Avinash: Your Digital Marketing + Analytics Challenges Answered
Every once in a while I take a pause and answer your questions, your burning questions (!), about digital marketing and analytics. I’d requested you to submit questions on my Facebook or Google+ pages and am always delighted at the wide range of challenges you share. For some answers, What is Avinash’s typical day like? […]
Dear Avinash: Your Digital Marketing + Analytics Challenges Answered is a post from: Occam’s Razor by Avinash Kaushik