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
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
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
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