Analytics & Testing
Analytics and testing are essential components of any successful digital marketing strategy. By leveraging tools and platforms that provide valuable insights into user behavior, businesses can make data-driven decisions to optimize their websites, campaigns, and overall customer experience. Key subtopics within analytics and testing include web analytics (GA4), A/B testing (A/B Testing), multivariate testing, conversion rate optimization (CRO), and user experience (UX) monitoring. Implementing a robust analytics and testing framework can help you identify areas for improvement, measure the impact of your marketing efforts, and ultimately drive better business results. Dive into the articles below to discover how analytics and testing can help you take your marketing to the next level.
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Moneyball: 7 Marketing Lessons Learned From A Book About Baseball
Michael Lewis’s Moneyball is often cited as a sports story. Still, at its core, it is a management and analytics parable that applies just as directly to marketing as it does to baseball. The book chronicles how the Oakland Athletics,…
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The History of Web and Social Analytics (Through 2011)
We love infographics... and if you haven't noticed, we now have a category just for the Infographics . We love infographics so much that we've started to develop and design our own infographics and some for our partners and clients.…
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Without the Right Tools…
Years ago, I grabbed dinner with my friend Adam Small. After catching up, we decided to see a 3D movie. The theater was packed, the previews ended, the lights dimmed—and then the immersive experience abruptly stalled. A man somewhere behind…
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The Business Impact of Early Adoption and Change
I'm reading Kevin Eikenberry's book, Remarkable Leadership , and I will have coffee with Kevin tomorrow. It's a fantastic book - and one chapter hit home with me on championing change . Kevin discusses change in great detail. One of…
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Navigating the Currents of Business Leadership
Rivers, like businesses, are constantly changing. Yet we often struggle to perceive this ongoing change, instead focusing on snapshots or isolated periods. This limitation in our perception can lead to misunderstandings about the true nature of rivers and organizations. Imagine…
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Marketing to Intent, Not Eyeballs
Old school marketers always seem to get hung up on the number of eyeballs . I've always been a database and direct marketer, so I liked getting the right eyeballs rather than pushing advertisements in front of all of them.…
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The Engagement Illusion: Why Comments Don’t (And May Never) Equal Conversions
I did some analysis of my blog this weekend to look for a correlation between my search engine results, my most popular blog posts, the posts with the most comments, and the posts that actually resulted in revenue due to…
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The Keyword Research Tool That Finds Real Search Opportunities
Every business wants to capture the right traffic, but that starts with understanding what people are actually searching for. Keyword research remains one of the most impactful steps in any SEO strategy, yet it’s also one of the easiest to…
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Marketing Has Evolved Beyond The 40/40/20 Rule
I was organizing my bookshelf this morning and flipped through an old Direct Marketing book, Direct Mail by the Numbers. The USPS published it and was a pretty good guide. When I was running a direct mail business full time,…
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In the Next 25 Years, My Predictions
It's fun to think about the future and what it might bring. Here's a collection of my predictions... Computer monitors will be flexible, light, wide, and inexpensive. Primarily made of plastics, the manufacturing processes will get cheaper and cheaper. The…
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Godin: Intuition vs Analysis
Seth Godin asked a great question that is usually quite a point of contention for SaaS or technology companies and their product managers.... Do you go with Intuition or Analysis ? My personal view on this is that it's a…
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Scope Creep: Less = More
I've wanted to follow up on my Open = Growth post for a while. Described in that post is the likelihood of success when folks concentrate on how their solutions can be integrated with other solutions. There's a flip side…
