Let’s take a first look at the branch of Marketing Analytics known as Digital Marketing Metrics (or Web Metrics), which sit within the category of Sales Metrics (see earlier posts here and here). That is, they relate specifically to sales, and their measurement and improvement leads to increased sales revenue for the business. They are also a kind of Dynamic Metric: one which is likely to change significantly in a short timeframe (within one month or less), and one which can be significantly impacted in the short term by actions the company can take now. For example, making small tweaks to the customer journey through the website may increase additional purchases, or shortening the number of steps, and hence time to checkout reducing cart abandonments, and so on. [Read more…] about Digital Marketing (Web) Metrics
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How Data Becomes Knowledge
Data questions and data analysis:
The journey from raw data to actionable knowledge takes us through various stages, each with a different kind of question we can ask of and analysis we can perform on that data, ranging from the simplest through to the very complex. But it will always begin with the question.
Descriptive analysis
This is the simplest kind of analysis, which describes some event or data set in order to get a better understanding of what has happened (descriptive step) and why it happened (interpretive step). This kind of analysis won’t be used to generate decisions as its difficult to generalise from the descriptive data, but is used instead to support understanding. [Read more…] about How Data Becomes Knowledge
Finding My Ideal Job
Growth Analyst
TransferWise
London
Job description
TransferWise is the clever new way to move money between countries. Co-founded by Skype’s first employee and backed by some of planet’s most experienced innovators, including Sir Richard Branson and PayPal founder Peter Thiel, we’re disrupting the world of international money transfer. That means flipping a gazillion dollar industry on its head and taking power away from banks and the establishment. [Read more…] about Finding My Ideal Job
Companies to Research
Akkroo
Modern data capture for mobile, tablet and web
www.akkroo.com
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Resources: Customer/Marketing Analytics
Articles
Knowledge@Wharton (Wharton Business School):
Are Your Customers ‘Clumpy’? What Binge-buying Means for Marketers
Predicting — and Monetizing — the Lifespan of a Tweet
Forbes:
Article and podcast on Customer Centricity
Academic Papers
Valuing Subscription-Based Businesses Using Publicly Disclosed Customer Data
Videos
Knowledge@Wharton video: Valuing Subscription-Based Businesses Using Publicly Disclosed Customer Data
Predictive Models
In Excel: http://brucehardie.com/notes/010/
R Package: https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/BTYD/index.html (BYTD = Buy ‘Til You Die)
Descriptive Customer or Marketing Analytics
Descriptive customer or marketing analytics are a way of linking the customer or the market to the business through information or data, specifically the kinds of useful data the business will require to allow it to make effective actionable decisions. The focus of descriptive analytics is always on what happened (and why it happened), and on the behaviour of the customer or market.
There are three kinds of descriptive analytics, each being used in a different kind of situation, or where the kind of decision management wishes to make varies. [Read more…] about Descriptive Customer or Marketing Analytics
Comprehensive Digital Marketing Strategy
1. Owned Media (WEB PROPERTIES: website, mobile site, blog, social media channels)
2. Earned Media (SHARING: mentions, shares, reposts, reviews)
3. Paid Media (ADVERTISING: pay-per-click, display ads, retargeting, paid influencers, paid content promotion, social media ads)
Digital marketing strategy:
Leverage owned, earned and paid media for cross-fertilisation [Read more…] about Comprehensive Digital Marketing Strategy