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

Linking AdWords And Google Analytics Accounts Finally Gets Easier

Linking your AdWords and Google Analytics accounts opens up a whole new world of opportunity for campaign execution, management and analysis. Yet, the linking process has been cumbersome and not particularly intuitive. That is finally changing. In the …

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

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

Excellent Analytics Tip #23: Align Hits, Sessions, Metrics, Dimensions!

Web Analytics tools have become pretty feature rich, and the future promises to bring even more goodies (Universal Analytics anyone?). But these features bring with them new problems that we hadn’t imagined before. Mostly because the limitations in the tools meant we were unable to make these mistakes. Today’s post is about a new problem […]

Excellent Analytics Tip #23: Align Hits, Sessions, Metrics, Dimensions! is a post from: Occam’s Razor by Avinash Kaushik

Excellent Analytics Tip #22: Calculate Return On Analytics Investment!

Analysts: Put up or shut up time! This blog is centered around creating incredible digital experiences powered by qualitative and quantitative data insights. Every post is about unleashing the power of digital analytics (the potent combination of data, systems, software and people). But we’ve never stopped to consider this question: What is the return on […]

Excellent Analytics Tip #22: Calculate Return On Analytics Investment! is a post from: Occam’s Razor by Avinash Kaushik

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