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When Data Drives the News: A Look at Analytics Beyond the Page View

Below is a report on analytics and their role in the newsroom, one part of a continuing World Editors Forum blog series on the Trends in Newsrooms 2014 report. Read the other installments here: Part one, part two, part three and part four. Who is your audience? Is your content actually reaching your audiences? How are they...

Best of 2013

It’s hard to overestimate the importance of getting away. No matter how much you love your work, perspective comes from outside looking in, not inside looking out. Taking a week or two off to...

The Data Artist Balances the Art and Science of Marketing

I had the opportunity a couple of weeks ago to attend a conference on the Art of Marketing, hosted in my home city by the San Diego AMA. Surely, it’s a sign of the...

Making Your First 90 Days as an Analyst Count

Let’s say you’ve just stepped into an analytics role at a good-sized company and you want to prove to all and sundry that they made an excellent choice. We all know that after three...

Three Lies and One Truth About Social Media ROI

Over the past week, the Digerati has been all up in arms about a recent article in which a Coca-Cola executive publicly announced that social media has very little direct impact on short-term sales....

Conversion Rate Optimization Maturity: Knowledge

I’d like to continue with the the topic I started to write a few months ago – a CRO Maturity Model. I’ve promised to write a separate blog post about every pillar. Due to...

4 Ways to Fail at Conversion Rate Optimization Read

Up until a few years ago, conversion rate optimization (CRO) was a niche skill set. By and large, designers were worried about a website’s aesthetics; search experts were concerned about information architecture and keyword...

Marketing: Bigger, Better, Stronger, Faster with Big Data Analytics

I pity the marketing organization. It has to deal with a lot of change. First it was the pesky empowered consumer. Then it was understanding device proliferation and cross-media consumption. As if that wasn’t...

6 Basic Mistakes Marketers Make About Big Data

Sure, we’re all suffering from big data fatigue. But try to forget that for a moment. The real “eureka” behind big data is this: Having information is no longer confined to merely understanding the...