Getting Started with Measuring Brand Awareness
Few people dispute that brand awareness is an important consideration for companies of all sizes – there’s a half-trillion dollar global advertising industry built largely on that premise, after all.
Artificial Intelligence: Implications On Marketing, Analytics, And You
A rare post today. It looks a little further out into the future than I normally tend to. It attempts to simplify a topic that has more than it’s share of coolness, confusion and complexity. While the phrase Artificial Intelligence has been around since the first human wondered if she could go further if she […]
Artificial Intelligence: Implications On Marketing, Analytics, And You is a post from: Occam’s Razor by Avinash Kaushik
Cookies To Humans: Implications Of Identity Systems On Incentives!
A story where data is the hero, followed by two mind-challenging business-shifting ideas. At a previous employer customer service on the phone was a huge part of the operation. Qualitative surveys were giving the company a read that customers were unhappy with the service being provided. As bad customer service is a massive long-term cost […]
Cookies To Humans: Implications Of Identity Systems On Incentives! is a post from: Occam’s Razor by Avinash Kaushik
It’s Not The Ink, It’s The Think: 6 Effective Data Visualization Strategies
Ten years, and the 944,357 words, are proof that I love purposeful data, collecting it, pouring smart strategies into analyzing it, and using the insights identified to transform organizations. In the quest for that last important bit, I am insanely obsessive about 1. simplification and 2. pressing the right emotional buttons. The reasons are that […]
It’s Not The Ink, It’s The Think: 6 Effective Data Visualization Strategies is a post from: Occam’s Razor by Avinash Kaushik
Five Key Elements For A Big Analytics Driven Business Impact
There is, almost literally, an unlimited number of things you could focus on to create a high impact data-influenced organization. And, as if unlimited is not enough, nearly every month your analytics vendors release new features, you discover new analytics solutions, and as your business is more successful (hurray!) there is a new mobile app […]
Five Key Elements For A Big Analytics Driven Business Impact is a post from: Occam’s Razor by Avinash Kaushik
Five Key Elements For A Big Analytics Driven Business Impact
There is, almost literally, an unlimited number of things you could focus on to create a high impact data-influenced organization. And, as if unlimited is not enough, nearly every month your analytics vendors release new features, you discover new analytics solutions, and as your business is more successful (hurray!) there is a new mobile app […]
Five Key Elements For A Big Analytics Driven Business Impact is a post from: Occam’s Razor by Avinash Kaushik
How to Diagnose and Fix a Self-Referral in Google Analytics
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A self-referral in Google Analytics is a session where the source is your own site.
Spot Data Issues From the Start With Weekly Analysis
When marketers think of weekly analysis, the focus is almost always on understanding how a campaign performed. This could be the number of leads generated, the CPA (cost per acquisition) metric, or anything that measures the different aspects of a mark…
The Handy Guide to Setting Up Scroll Depth Tracking
How would your marketing approach change if you knew that 80% of your users were only scrolling 25% of the way down your homepage?
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
The Google Analytics Audit Checklist
Google Analytics out of the box seems relatively straightforward. Place a piece of code on all your web pages and watch the data roll in.
When is a Session not a Session?
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Sessions are pretty arbitrarily defined, all too easily inflated, and far more complex than most realise.
Four Stories: A Decade of Writing Occam’s Razor!
An off-topic post this week, to celebrate this incredible outpost you’ve helped create on the web, Occam’s Razor. This month my beloved blog is ten years old. T. E. N! It feels more like five. But, I’ve already celebrated the blog being five years old! I have to admit life has been a tad bit […]
Four Stories: A Decade of Writing Occam’s Razor! is a post from: Occam’s Razor by Avinash Kaushik
Four Stories: A Decade of Writing Occam’s Razor!
An off-topic post this week, to celebrate this incredible outpost you’ve helped create on the web, Occam’s Razor. This month my beloved blog is ten years old. T. E. N! It feels more like five. But, I’ve already celebrated the blog being five years old! I have to admit life has been a tad bit […]
Four Stories: A Decade of Writing Occam’s Razor! 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
Panic Time or False Alarm? A Beginner’s Guide to Traffic Drop Analysis
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Have you ever been in a situation when your or your client’s traffic has dropped and you’re not sure what to do? How do you know if it’s a real problem or just seasonality?
How to fix discrepancies in your web analytics data
Google Analytics, like every web analytics tool, does not deliver accurate data. Here’s how you can fix that.
A Great Analyst’s Best Friends: Skepticism & Wisdom!
Here’s something important I’ve observed in my experience in working with data, and changing organizations with ideas: Great Analysts are always skeptical. Deeply so. This was always true, of course. But, it has become mission critical over the last few years as the depth, breadth, quantity and every other dimension you could apply to data […]
A Great Analyst’s Best Friends: Skepticism & Wisdom! is a post from: Occam’s Razor by Avinash Kaushik
A Comprehensive Guide to Tracking Offline Interactions in Google Analytics
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The trouble with web analytics is the possibility of it telling you lots about your website but nothing about your business.