
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...

How to drive real, measurable value with purchase intent analysis
Of all the tricks in the predictive analytics bag, purchase intent can be one of the most exciting, mostly because in the digital world,...

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...

6 custom Google Analytics reports you should use for every CRO project
As a bonus: It’s free. GA offers excellent reports that provide an overview of key metrics for a particular period. But the...

Predictive data & ABM: How to move from account lists to account contacts
Predictive marketing holds tremendous promise, especially in identifying the optimal accounts and prospects to engage. According to the...

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...

From leads to data: how changes in the media business affect B2B marketers
For B2B demand marketers, media has until recently been synonymous with impressions, maybe clicks and hopefully, leads. Historically,...

Stop scattering chum: Use intent data to catch big fish with your marketing automation platform
Marketing automation software (MAS) is all the rage among B2B marketers. Frost & Sullivan predicted the MAS sector will expand by a...

Beyond clicks: Keys to online-to-offline tracking and attribution discussed at SMX West
But, of course, customers don’t only live online (not even Millennials!). At SMX West in San Jose, California, this year, two industry...

The 5 KPIs that define a successful social CMO
So you say you’re a socially savvy marketer — and you’re checking the boxes to ensure that you’re not just talking the talk but walking...

Is it time to “cut the cord” on traditional web analytics? 4 questions to ask
When Coca-Cola set out to up its data management game and learn more about its customers, the company looked to “cut through the digital...

What “human-in-the-loop computing” means for marketers
Even in uncertain economic times, marketing technologies continue to flourish. Overworked marketers facing a shortage of hours in the day...

Beyond audience data: The critical need for better business intelligence in digital media
In the case I’m referring to, the data simply didn’t exist — or if they did, they were in so many places that it was almost impossible to...

Data Danger: How The Wrong Campaign Metrics Can Break Your Mobile Strategy
Let’s start off with a story that will sound all too familiar to the data-driven marketer. You’re tasked with improving the results of...

Using Data.gov And Open Data To Develop Actionable Consumer Insights
data.gov, a platform for open, machine-readable digital data sets. The site, managed and hosted by the US General Services...

Is A “High” Bounce Rate Always Bad? Plus: How To Improve Bounce Rates
When we ask prospective customers if they know how their website is performing, they often quote a Bounce Rate percentage or some other...
























