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

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

Best Metrics For Digital Marketing: Rock Your Own And Rent Strategies

In a world of infinite choice, the ability to pick critical few metrics to focus on is, well…, critical. It is the difference between plodding along, or winning big. But choosing what to focus on is extremely hard. You have to have a deeper understanding of the business, an expansive knowledge of what is possible […]

Best Metrics For Digital Marketing: Rock Your Own And Rent Strategies is a post from: Occam’s Razor by Avinash Kaushik

7 Data Presentation Tips: Think, Focus, Simplify, Calibrate, Visualize++

There are three elements to our “big data” efforts, or unhyped normal data efforts: Data Collection, Data Reporting, and Data Analysis. (More on that here: DC-DR-DA: A Simple Framework For Smarter Decisions .) We are all aware that the best companies in the world have an optimal DC-DR-DA allocation when it comes to time/money/people: 15%-20%-65%. […]

7 Data Presentation Tips: Think, Focus, Simplify, Calibrate, Visualize++ is a post from: Occam’s Razor by Avinash Kaushik

See-Think-Do: A Content, Marketing, Measurement Business Framework

The world does not need a new business framework. I get “About 269,000,000 results (0.25 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). […]

See-Think-Do: A Content, Marketing, Measurement Business Framework is a post from: Occam’s Razor by Avinash Kaushik

Excellent Analytics Tip #25: Decrapify Search, Social Compound Metrics

Everyone likes chasing big shiny objects all the time. What’s not to like. They are big. They are shiny. :) But a lot of progress in life comes from doing the everyday small things better. A small improvement, every single day, to move the ball a little more forward. A best practice I’ve developed is […]

Excellent Analytics Tip #25: Decrapify Search, Social Compound Metrics is a post from: Occam’s Razor by Avinash Kaushik

The Lean Analytics Cycle: Metrics > Hypothesis > Experiment > Act

This should not be news to you. To win in business you need to follow this process: Metrics > Hypothesis > Experiment > Act. Online, offline or nonline. Yet this structure rarely exists in companies. We are far too enamored with data collection and reporting the standard metrics we love because others love them because […]

The Lean Analytics Cycle: Metrics > Hypothesis > Experiment > Act is a post from: Occam’s Razor by Avinash Kaushik