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Marketing Quick Reads: Metrics & ROI

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  • Shake It Up, BabyMobile Marketing
    Based on the premise that data's no fun (and no use!) without insight, BrandZ has launched BrandZ 100, an iPhone app that takes its annual Top 100 Brands Report and ...
  • Fear Not, NumerophobicsHigh-Tech Mktg & Sales
    Speculate all you want about how successful an online marketing campaign has been. But once someone brings hard data to the table, all bets are off: The answers are plain ...
  • Who Invited You?Email Marketing
    Last summer, Morgan Stewart of ExactTarget quizzed 2,400 people on their attitudes toward marketing and made an interesting discovery. "70% of consumers who visit Facebook at least once a month ...
  • Getting Hot, Hot, HotterSearch Engine Marketing
    Does the URL to your Web page sizzle? In a recent Bloggapedia post, online marketer Bill Hartzer reports on the Alexa Toolbar's popular Alexa Hot URLs list. According to Hartzer, ...
  • Oh, so That's How It WorksMarketing Analytics
    It's happening less often these days, but you probably still encounter executives or colleagues who have trouble wrapping their heads around newer technology—how something works, for instance, and what it ...
  • The Ho-Ho Heat Is OnEmail Marketing
    "The holiday season is the most important time of year for retailers, when aggressive goals are set for increased traffic and sales, both in-store and online," says eROI's Alex Williams ...
  • Yeah, but What Does It Mean?Marketing Analytics
    "With free programs like Google Analytics," says Corte Swearingen in a post at the SmallBiz Marketing Tips blog, "acquiring data is not the issue—the challenge is finding a way to ...
  • Good Design Doesn't Just HappenSearch Engine Marketing
    Ever wonder how great search results end up that way? Well, in a recent post at the User Interface Engineering blog, Jared Spool says there are no shortcuts to search-result ...
  • Does This Look Like Spam to You?Email Marketing
    "We all have opinions about what constitutes spam," begins a post at the Marketance blog. Indeed, while some would argue that meeting the letter of the CAN-SPAM law puts you ...
  • You Don't Drive Me Nuts Anymore!Social Media
    What makes Twitter so useful is also what makes it difficult to navigate: everyone is spewing what they think, all the time, about anything imaginable. This is good for tracking ...
  • No ExcusesMarketing Analytics
    "One of the ultimate excuses for not measuring [the impact of marketing efforts] is: 'Oh, that's just a branding campaign,'" says Avinash Kaushik in a post at the Occam's Razor ...
  • Stay Tough, Stay TrendySearch Engine Marketing
    Want to boost search results? Try benchmarking based on the latest trends, says Performics' Michael Kahn in a Chief Marketer article. An analysis by Performics of data from more than ...
  • Just Show Me What You WantEmail Marketing
    When you have products or services that customers don't buy on a regular basis—for instance, big-screen televisions or luxury excursions on the Orient Express—targeted email offers based on previous purchases ...
  • They Like Us! They Really Like Us!Social Media
    Research coming out of Penn State reports that 20% of tweets—those wee messages published on Twitter—are brand-oriented. And not the way you'd naturally expect. While researchers originally thought they'd find ...
  • How a Minority Can Look Like a MajorityMarketing Analytics
    Let's say a travel company sends out a series of email messages with a variety of offers. Campaigns 1 and 3 produce average clickthrough rates of just over 4 percent; ...
  • Better Than a Magic 8 BallMarketing Analytics
    "It can be difficult to measure success of efforts that rely on emerging media," says Evan Gerber in an article at MarketingProfs. "[D]espite the fact that they are online channels, ...
  • This Will Be on the TestEmail Marketing
    "Something that we preach at eROI is to TEST TEST TEST," says Ryan Buchanan in a post at the company's blog. "We believe that testing should be an integral part ...
  • Put Your Metrics to Work for YouEmail Marketing
    In a recent article for MarketingProfs, Karen Talavera discussed the importance of measuring metrics that matter, and outlined the difference between process metrics and contribution metrics. In a follow-up article ...
  • Use the Right ToolsMarketing Analytics
    In a post at Harvard Business Online, Scott Anthony recalls a client who read a magazine article suggesting a focus on quantitative research for businesses with limited resources. He wanted ...
  • It Doesn't Have to Be Either-OrSearch Engine Marketing
    A question many small businesses face when money is tight is whether to invest in pay-per-click (PPC) search marketing or search engine optimization (SEO). The answer, says Claudia Bruemmer in ...
  • Fist-Bump Your Card-Stack Into OblivionSocial Media
    The sun is setting on the tyranny of business cards—that stack of stiffs that seems important as you add to it again and again, but which you never really get the ...
  • When the Honeymoon Is OverSearch Engine Marketing
    "Are you on an SEO honeymoon?" asks Ben McKay in a recent Search Engine Journal post. You know you are, he says. when you can think of simple ways to ...
  • Show Me the Numbers That CountEmail Marketing
    "It's high time email marketers assess campaign performance in terms of the business and marketing goals, objectives, and contribution expectations that matter," says Karen Talavera in an article at MarketingProfs. ...
  • You've Come a Long Way, BabyMarketing Analytics
    "The use of mathematics in marketing seems to be one of the hot topics today," begins a post at The DoubleThink blog. "But is it that new? Not really." The ...
  • Should I Stay or Should I Go?Marketing Analytics
    As your company joins the discussion in online communities, you might wonder whether your presence is welcomed or resented. In a post at the Daily Fix blog, Mike O'Toole reports ...

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