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Search Advertising And Auction Transparency

What do the Federal Reserve's Quantitative Easing program (which ends this month) and online paid search have in common? More than you might think--as pricing for both use a form of auction models. READ»

Your Brand Has Thousands of Facebook Fans--How Much Is That Worth?

The viral video of a cat on a trampoline often seeks nothing more than the bragging rights of the number of views that it generates. In contrast, well executed brand-based social media campaigns strive to raise consumers' awareness and improve brand opinion--while driving trial and conversion. READ»

The Passive Search Conversation Rate and the Value of "Free" Media

Just because search impressions are difficult to directly measure doesn't mean we can't employ some creative modeling solutions to gauge their impact. There are several statistical techniques we can use to measures correlations between search impressions and other online behavioral data. READ»

Predicting the Growth of Your Social Network

The ability to gauge a marketing campaign in action is essential and exists for most traditional channels. The most glaring exception is social media. Organic's Steve Kerho unveils a new way to examine an initial campaign splash to determine whether to expect a tidal wave or just a few ripples in the water.READ»

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Your Brand Website Metrics: Why They Matter

Every CMO's monthly schedule now includes the requisite meeting with the digital team to review last month's brand Web site dashboard. But let's be honest, how informative are these meetings and what are we really learning?READ»

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Digital Media Director 2.0: Jack-of-all-Trades, Master of Many

In today's marketing environment, few positions are more challenging than that of the digital media director. Successful directors need a mastery of multiple and diverse specialties; they are the new "Swiss army knife" of marketing. READ»

Marketing Efficiency Is Only Half of the Equation

The hallmark of a great marketer is the ability to consistently drive both marketing efficiency and effectiveness simultaneously. Here's how all marketers can achieve the best of both worlds.READ»

How Long Does Your Ad Have an Impact?

If the speed and number of commitments for this year’s network TV upfronts are a bellwether for the economy, then better times may be on their way. It is encouraging to see marketers increase their media spend and focus on messaging other than “buy now” and “we are having a sale.”READ»

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Google Your Web Analytics

Primary Search Engines such as Google, Yahoo and BING have customized their sites to accommodate the 240-million American consumers performing local searches daily. Initial results displayed on all major search engines are local ...READ»

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The Time is Now for Brand Building – And Upper Funnel ROI

Organic’s Steve Kerho believes that as the economy progresses towards recovery, it is important for marketers to take a step back and utilize upper funnel tactics to build their brand. In this article, he discusses why now is the time to invest in brand-building activities as well as provide readers with smart ways to establish a successful upper funnel ROI strategy.READ»

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It Takes a Village to Drive Predictive Analytics

It’s a brave new analytics world and combining the right team players with the right data types can yield highly accurate models that quantify the complex relationships between marketing activities, sales and the economy. Organic, Inc.'s Steve Kerho shows you how to manage all of these predictive modeling factors.READ»

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Getting Started With Online Marketing – Web Analytics – Part II

Web analytics can be complicated - but you can get started quickly. This is what you need know.READ»

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Compete vs Quantcast and gAnalytics vs paid apps (anything going on w/ this group?)

Are you availing of services like Quantcast, Compete.com and Google Trends for Websites? Which ones and why?On various sites, we've got embedded tracking code from Urchin / Google Analytics,Quantcast, HBX, and Omniture for ...READ»

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Getting Started With Online Marketing – Web Analytics – Part I

In continuation of my last post about Getting Started with Online Marketing, this post will start you on your way with web analytics. First of all, what are “web analytics?” In simple terms, web analytics represent a ...READ»

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Pouring the Predictive Analytics Foundation

Famed Russian novelist Vladimir Nabokov once said, “There is no science without fancy and no art without fact.” This brilliant quote sums up the unique experience of developing predictive analytics models -- which involves equal parts art and science – and just a tiny bit of guess work. Steve Kerho guides brands through the first stage of building predictive analytics models.READ»

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With Analytics in Your Rear View, You’ll Never See Your Future

Given the tectonic shifts in the marketing landscape, a siloed ROI approach that is only rear-view mirror focused can lead to poor decision making. Marketers cannot afford to stifle their innovation by employing an “it worked in the past” mindset. READ»

Quantcast, Compete.com and Google Trends for Websites?

Are you availing of services like Quantcast, Compete.com and Google Trends for Websites? Which ones and why? On various sites, we've got embedded tracking code from Urchin / Google Analytics, Quantcast, HBX, and Omniture for ...READ»

My first post in on the incoming/upcoming/already there company NUECONOMY...

All the info I gathered so far: http://www.techcrunch.com/tag/nuconomy/ http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=4933 ...READ»

Current analytics options?

Which tool(s) are you using currently?   I'm using HBX and Google Analytics.   I'm looking at NuConomy.com and others.   What are you using that you'd recommend? READ»