
A look at Facebook’s carousel ad and the latest pricing trends on the network
Facebook dropped its hard and fast 20 percent text limit for ad images. During that now-lapsed policy, ads with more than 20 percent text...

Designing dashboards people will actually use
data visualization are hot-button topics in the analytics industry, and for good reason. Effective dashboards can democratize access to...

Personas, polls and personalization: What’s behind the election of our lives?
If you’re a fan of “House of Cards,” you know what a plot twist Pollyhop was in season four (and if you’re not caught up, SPOILER...

Customer journeys, blind spots & burgers: Lessons from fast-food marketing
For marketers, customer journey analysis often results in accidental narcissism. Analytics are supposed to illuminate our blind spots,...

Tired of broken promises from politicians? Demand KPIs!
The older I get, the more cynical I become about politics. And I’m not alone. The percentage of Americans who trust the federal...

Improve B2B marketing results with Google Analytics
In this article I offer several get-started tips to help digital marketers analyze website traffic, engagement and conversion — by...

Graphing trends can make you better at calling A/B tests
A/B test is designed to be binary. We want to know if one of our ideas results in an improvement in performance and advances our...

A brief introduction to data visualization theory for marketers
I’ve been thinking a lot about data visualization lately and how it applies to our roles as marketers. As marketers, it is typical for us...

Contribution margin: How to tell if your marketing makes cents
You may have heard the old one-liner, “We lose money on every sale, but we make it up in volume!” It sounds absurd. That’s why it’s a...

Leverage your marketing data: 9 FAQs to get you started
Remember the year of mobile? (Could have been 2013, 2014 or 2015, depending on how early an adopter you were.) Well, 2016 is most...

Blinded by data: 5 ways to deal with data overload
For marketers, the mandate to drive revenue has led to an explosion of analytics solutions. There’s a dashboard for virtually every...

What does intent data mean for the data-driven marketer?
As big data increasingly becomes more accessible, marketers are looking for ways to make it more scalable and actionable in order to...

Google’s Optimize 360 creates exciting opportunities for testing & personalization
By now, you’ve probably heard a bit about Google’s new Analytics 360 Suite of products, designed to give enterprises a truly integrated...

Using data science to improve your enterprise paid search marketing results
If you’ve been in the enterprise search game for as long as I have, you’ve seen many of the same vendors dominate the ecosystem for the...

Adjusting to Google’s ad layout change with attribution tools
Instead of ads on the right sidebar and on the top and bottom, Google search results pages will now feature only the ads on the top and...

How to write a digital data & analytics RFP
The dreaded request for proposal. It can be time-consuming, stressful, with a sometimes disappointingly low return on investment. And...

The complete guide to mastering conversion optimization
One of the primary goals of web marketing is to drive new, targeted traffic to the website. Today, we have so many avenues to generate...

Three golden rules for forecasting
Ah, forecasting — it’s a task I personally enjoy, but I know it’s not a universally loved process. That said, forecasting demand is an...

4 key Facebook trends e-commerce advertisers need to know in 2016
With an increasingly robust international user base, and more direct response-type ad products available than at any point in its...
























