
The Value Of Nothing
When is nothing worth something? Turns out, just about all the time. Whenever you look at your metrics, consider that a metric is, in...

Google Results Position: How Much Is First Place Really Worth?
Google page position has long been considered one of the holy grails for site owners, advertisers, or marketers running campaigns to...

The Shortest Distance From Data To Insights
In our rapidly evolving world of marketing analytics, especially with the daily articles on “Big Data” streams, predictive analytics and...

Social Media Metrics: Measuring Business Value When Sales Take Place Offline
Social media marketing can be an effective way to generate exposure among potential new customers. Done right, that exposure can be...

The Price Of Perfection
Somehow they figure that the simpler tools on the market (such as Google’s free Content Experiments tool) won’t be able to handle their...

What To Do When 87.5% More Queries Are Blocked: Coping With Firefox 14
One of the more notable changes (from both the user and the marketer’s perspective) is that Firefox will now encrypt all searches made...

Taking Action on Mobile Marketing Analytics
According to eMarketer, there will be more than 106 million smartphone users in the U.S by the end of this year, and that number is...

7 Enemies Of Social Media Measurement
If you are serious about measuring social media, here are seven pitfalls that can lead you down the dark path to frustration and failure...

Would You Tip You?
Waitresses are great at this. And as far as I can tell, the over-worked ones at diners and dives often have the best 6th-sense for how to...

How Marketers Can Reach And Capitalize On “Second Screen” Audiences
According to Gartner, smartphone shipments reached 472 million units in 2011, propelled by record setting success of the iPhone and...

Prompting Facebook Fans To Share Leads To 77% Higher Share Rate
The average Facebook user has nearly 250 friends, according to research conducted by The Pew Internet And American Life Project. Have you...

Social Media Metrics That Matter
Social networks are unique in that they facilitate interaction with consumers in a common language and culture native to the platform....

Fifty Shades Of Social Media Measurement Tools
At least once a week I run across an article or blog post about tools for measuring social media. Headlines like “5 Social Media...

Measuring The Impact Of Conversion Lift
Astute readers will recall I began a series on calculating the impact of your continuous improvement efforts a few months ago, called...

Making Sense Of Key Pinterest Metrics And Analytics Tools
Pinterest, the visual-focused social sharing startup, has taken the online world by storm over the last year. According to the latest...

Bridging The Digital Divide – Two Underlying Factors Will Reshape The Digital Marketing Landscape
In my last article, I wrote about getting back to the core of digital marketing effectiveness by focusing on the consumer. That article...

Measuring Social Engagement: 3 Ways To Identify High Value Content
Today’s internet users are bombarded with content. As a result, they are tuning out the noise and raising the bar on the content they...

Bridging The Digital Divide – From Consumer Data To Consumer Engagement
Consumer behavior has been in constant flux since the beginning of the Internet, but perhaps more than ever before, consumers today are...

Comprehensively Track, Segment Site Performance With New Google Analytics Feature
Last week, Google made further improvement to its Analytics platform by adding Site Speed reports to help users analyze their site’s page...
























