Tag Archives: analysis & intelligence

Now Hiring: Super-Smart Marketing Analysts

Do you “see” marketing? Where other people may notice catchy slogans or clever copy, are you picturing the crew back at HQ sitting around a conference table, arguing about metrics and goals and how this billboard or that TV ad relates to their online campaigns? Do you see annoying ads on the websites you visit [...]

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Analytics are People, and other lessons from my internship at [meta]marketer

I came on as an intern with [meta]marketer about 9 months ago, about to graduate college and ready to make my attempt to conquer the world. Like many college grads, I was fairly clueless about “the real world”, especially when it came to marketing analytics. My concept of marketing analytics was solely constructed around the [...]

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Klout and the business of vanity analytics

The Tennessean newspaper ran a front-page piece this weekend called Klout measures online influence. It examines the role of Klout, an online influence measurement service, in social media usage and cites a number of Nashville-area social media heavy users (including myself and my good friends Dave Delaney, Rex Hammock, Courtenay Rogers, and Steve Chandler) and their relatively high Klout scores. Whenever the [...]

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How does your company capture institutional knowledge?

Here at [meta]marketer, we’ve begun using an Evernote notebook called “[m]m smartzz” to flesh out some thinking around concepts that surface repeatedly in client interactions, so we have a shared understanding of these areas. The one I was just adding today is about taxonomies. It begins: A taxonomy organizes concepts and presents a representation of categories [...]

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Consistency does not mean conversion effectiveness

Blurted out during a planning session and presented here for your consideration: “Consistency is almost never a factor in conversion effectiveness.” By that I meant that just because a button works on one page, it won’t necessarily be the winning button for another page. Just because a message resonates with one audience, it won’t necessarily be [...]

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