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
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
YouTube Marketing And Analytics: A Primer For Magnificient Success
YouTube is magnificent. YouTube is amazing. YouTube is…. wait, let me quantify that. YouTube Marketing and Analytics Framework for Success According to Nielsen, YouTube reaches more US adults ages 18-34 than any cable network as of mid-2013. And rather than just being content you watch, it is content you watch, share and shape. How cool […]
YouTube Marketing And Analytics: A Primer For Magnificient Success is a post from: Occam’s Razor by Avinash Kaushik
Empowering Analysis Ninjas? 12 Signs To Identify A Data Driven Culture
Every indicator we have is that companies are investing more in every facet of analytics. Tools. People. Consulting. Processes. Yet, it is unclear if that increase in investment is being followed by a commensurate increase in value delivered to the organization’s bottom-line. A part of reason for this mis-match in value delivered is that there […]
Empowering Analysis Ninjas? 12 Signs To Identify A Data Driven Culture is a post from: Occam’s Razor by Avinash Kaushik
Digital Marketing And Analytics: Two Ladders For Magnificent Success
The most common mistakes digital practitioners and leaders make is to either do things in the wrong order, or to try and do too much at one time. Progress in digital marketing and analytics in either scenario becomes painful (the organization / systems / thinking is simply not in the optimal position). People become frustrated […]
Digital Marketing And Analytics: Two Ladders For Magnificent Success is a post from: Occam’s Razor by Avinash Kaushik
Search: Not Provided: What Remains, Keyword Data Options, the Future
In late 2011, Google announced an effort to make search behavior more secure. Logged-in users were switched to using httpS from http. This encrypted their search queries from any prying eyes, and kept from being passed on to websites the users visits after seeing search results. This led to the problem we, Marketers, SEOs, Analysts, […]
Search: Not Provided: What Remains, Keyword Data Options, the Future is a post from: Occam’s Razor by Avinash Kaushik
Six Visual Solutions To Complex Digital Marketing/Analytics Challenges
Two things I love a lot: 1. Frameworks, because if I can teach someone a new mental model, a different way of thinking, they can be incredibly successful. 2. Visuals, because if I can paint a simple picture about something complex it means I understand it and in turn I can explain it to others. […]
Six Visual Solutions To Complex Digital Marketing/Analytics Challenges is a post from: Occam’s Razor by Avinash Kaushik
Google Analytics Visitor Segmentation: Users, Sequences, Cohorts!
My love for segmentation knows no bounds. Weather you do online, offline, nonline analysis, or just randomly playing with data, insights arrive faster with segmentation. In fact I’ve gone so far as to say: “All data in aggregate is crap.” That’s certainly a bit melodramatic, but beyond the most bare bones “ahh, I see something […]
Google Analytics Visitor Segmentation: Users, Sequences, Cohorts! is a post from: Occam’s Razor by Avinash Kaushik
Multi-Channel Attribution Modeling: The Good, Bad and Ugly Models
There are few things more complicated in analytics (all analytics, big data and huge data!) than multi-channel attribution modeling. We have fought valiant battles, paid expensive consultants, purchased a crazy amount of software, and achieved an implementation high that is quickly, followed by a ” gosh darn it where is my return on investment from […]
Multi-Channel Attribution Modeling: The Good, Bad and Ugly Models 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
Two Amazing Bar Charts: % Content Consumption, % Share of Search
Would you believe me when I say that your digital analytics data, from Google Analytics or WebTrends et. al., might be hindering your ability to make some important strategic decisions? Would you believe me if I said that even leveraging cool features like custom reporting and smart advanced segments might be insufficient in some cases? […]
Two Amazing Bar Charts: % Content Consumption, % Share of Search 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
Excellent Analytics Tip #24: Obsess About Real Business Profitability
The art of analysis often fails to deliver ginarmous success simply because of how limited our worldview is when we go about identifying bottom-line impacting insights. Hence, this is a post on a simple concept that will drag you out of your current “what is happening on my website?” comfort zone, and out of your […]
Excellent Analytics Tip #24: Obsess About Real Business Profitability is a post from: Occam’s Razor by Avinash Kaushik
Eight Silly Data Things Marketing People Believe That Get Them Fired.
It turns out that Marketers, especially Digital Marketers, make really silly mistakes when it comes to data. Big data. Small data. Any data. In the last couple months I’ve spent a lot of time with senior level marketers on three different continents. Some of them are quite successful, sadly many of them were not. In […]
Eight Silly Data Things Marketing People Believe That Get Them Fired. is a post from: Occam’s Razor by Avinash Kaushik
7 Incredible Web Design, Branding, Digital Marketing Experiences
We are surrounded by incredible digital experiences. Masterful design, branding and marketing. Yet, it would be fair to say we are also drowning in awful digital experiences – or, at the very minimum, experiences that seem to be stuck in 1991. As a Digital Marketing Evangelist you can imagine how much that pains me. When […]
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Google Analytics Tips: 10 Data Analysis Strategies That Pay Off Big!
In the coming year, based on current announcements, Google Analytics is set to go through an almost unprecedented amount of evolution. My postulation is that by this time next year the tool will be almost unrecognizable. [My favorite is Visitor Analytics, and visitor level segmentation that will be pervasive throughout the product. This is insanely […]
Google Analytics Tips: 10 Data Analysis Strategies That Pay Off Big! is a post from: Occam’s Razor by Avinash Kaushik
Is Your Brand Magnificent At Digital Marketing? A Diagnostic Framework.
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. A small bang here, […]
Is Your Brand Magnificent At Digital Marketing? A Diagnostic Framework. is a post from: Occam’s Razor by Avinash Kaushik