Your marketing’s most valuable player: using attribution. Imagine a typical customer journey for a business like TOMS, a shoe retailer that sells online. A user sees a sponsored Facebook post that was liked by a friend about TOMS, and clicks through to Tom’s site, browses for a while, then leaves. Later on, the user sees […]
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I’m going to let you in on a secret: Marketers are human, too. Don’t tell anyone I told you. Because marketers are human, we understand the richness of the customer journey, from initial inspiration or yearning to final sale. But dealing with that complexity is not always easy. As marketers, we have more ways to
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Sign up to gain access to thousands of marketing resources! Don’t worry … It’s FREE! Christine Vermes, vice-president of marketing at sales and marketing analytics company Full Circle Insights, has helped all kinds of organizations achieve marketing success. From serving as Intel’s corporate brand director—responsible for managing the company’s entire worldwide brand identity—to acting as
Global spending on media is expected to reach $2.1 trillion by 2019, according to McKinsey. But is all that money effective in producing improved ROI? Without knowing which channels are driving sales—or, more specifically, which individual efforts are working—marketing spending is like a black box. In today’s world of digital commerce, it’s not uncommon for
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There is an old saying: the only constant in life is change! Word on the street and from Google is they’ll stop supporting last click attribution sometime this year. This means advertisers will have to opt into one of several other attribution models available in Google. In this article, I’ll provide some general commentary on
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In early 2017, Yelp bought a Canadian company called Turnstyle Analytics, which provides free WiFi and email marketing services to local businesses. The company helps local businesses build lists and remarket to customers; it also has online-to-offline matching and attribution capabilities. Turnstyle was renamed Yelp WiFi and recently completed an offline attribution test with Canadian restaurant
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February 2, 2018 It’s safe to say we were all heartbroken when Peter O’Neill couldn’t make it to Hero Conf London 2017. But although his presence was missed, you can still hear his awesome content! Join us to hear Peter’s attribution presentation on Feb. 7th – webinar style! All attribution models are wrong, but some
An Attribution Test “Whodunit” is more than just a popular detective narrative, it is an important question in PPC as well. Attribution seeks to answer that question. So, choosing the right model for your account is important. In this blog, we’ll cover a quick overview of Google’s attribution, what led us to consider testing a
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Higher visibility into your attribution model means sales will trust the metrics more Is your marketing team celebrating their awesome quarter while your sales team suffers poor performance? This is usually due to a sales vs marketing attribution mismatch, particularly when marketing and sales are seen as two different entities. Ultimately this who-gets-credit-for-this-sale struggle is
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