Be an Analytics Change Agent in 2014
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Be an Analytics Change Agent in 2014

10y Jim Sterne

Be an Analytics Change Agent in 2014

Stop being that annoying, buzzing insect in 2014 and commit to becoming a Change Agent instead. Columnist Jim Sterne offers tips on earning buy-in. Re...

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Conversion Optimization Prioritization
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Conversion Optimization Prioritization

10y Jim Sterne

Conversion Optimization Prioritization

There's no end to the data you can collect. There's no end to the tests you can run. There's no end to the analysis you can toy with. Read More...

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Retiring Reports & Deleting Dashboards
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Retiring Reports & Deleting Dashboards

10y Jim Sterne

Retiring Reports & Deleting Dashboards

Remember when you were first bit by the analytics bug? That joy of insight discovery? That feeling of being a data detective, uncovering the obvious b...

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A New Marketing Metric: Personally Provided Information
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A New Marketing Metric: Personally Provided Information

10y Jim Sterne

A New Marketing Metric: Personally Provided Inform...

The growing sophistication of the work is outstripping management's ability to determine whether the marketing department is doing a good job or not. ...

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It's Too Late for Data Governance
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It's Too Late for Data Governance

10y Jim Sterne

It's Too Late for Data Governance

The more data sources your analysts can trust, the more insights they can derive and that will always be worth the effort. Just don't wait until it's ...

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Persuading Senior Executives With Data
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Persuading Senior Executives With Data

10y Jim Sterne

Persuading Senior Executives With Data

When Steve Patitpas, general manager of Microsoft.com, shares advice on how to engage and win the support of higher-ups in an organization, marketers ...

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Is It Wrong to Love Analytics This Much?
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Is It Wrong to Love Analytics This Much?

10y Jim Sterne

Is It Wrong to Love Analytics This Much?

Digital marketers share what they love about analytics and the industry in general, with columnist Jim Sterne. Read More...

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What Machines Haven't Learned Yet
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What Machines Haven't Learned Yet

11y Jim Sterne

What Machines Haven't Learned Yet

Machine learning is really, really powerful and it opens up new ways of doing analysis with Big Data. But, it cannot act alone. Read More...

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Frequency Capping for the Love of God
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Frequency Capping for the Love of God

11y Jim Sterne

Frequency Capping for the Love of God

For now, I just want one thing: the ability to turn off ads for a specific product. Read More...

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Getting People to Buy Less
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Getting People to Buy Less

11y Jim Sterne

Getting People to Buy Less

What if you use the analytics generally employed to get people to buy more, to get people to buy less, cutting the cost of processing the original sal...

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What to Measure? Start at the Top
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What to Measure? Start at the Top

11y Jim Sterne

What to Measure? Start at the Top

Just because you can measure every online thing these days, should you? Read More...

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Digging for Data Diamonds
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Digging for Data Diamonds

11y Jim Sterne

Digging for Data Diamonds

Be careful that you start with the proper type and the highest quality of data before you begin slicing, dicing, polishing, and mounting. Otherwise, n...

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How Do You Measure Transmedia?
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How Do You Measure Transmedia?

11y Jim Sterne

How Do You Measure Transmedia?

Whoever has the definition wins a prize. Read More

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Mitch Joel Says Reboot, a Book Review
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Mitch Joel Says Reboot, a Book Review

11y Jim Sterne

Mitch Joel Says Reboot, a Book Review

Do not throw the baby out with the bath water. Do not drop everything. Do not reinstall the operating system - just reboot. Read More...

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$3.25 Million to Assess Audience Engagement
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$3.25 Million to Assess Audience Engagement

11y Jim Sterne

$3.25 Million to Assess Audience Engagement

How the Lear Center is trying to improve the quality of digital data collection and analysis for media organizations and help marketers make better-in...

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Dissuasion Marketing: OMG, RH.com, What Were You Thinking?
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Dissuasion Marketing: OMG, RH.com, What Were You Thinking?

11y Jim Sterne

Dissuasion Marketing: OMG, RH.com, What Were You T...

How Restoration Hardware is killing trees...and its customer service at the same time. Read More...

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Profitable Newspaper: Hold the Presses!
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Profitable Newspaper: Hold the Presses!

11y Jim Sterne

Profitable Newspaper: Hold the Presses!

How did the San Diego Union-Tribune become a double-digit profitable newspaper? Read More...

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All Models Are Wrong
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All Models Are Wrong

11y Jim Sterne

All Models Are Wrong

We can only hope to create an attribution algorithm that is suggestive and directional, to create a model that helps us test theories, and to create a...

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Analytics Is Like Driving
Analytics

Analytics Is Like Driving

11y Jim Sterne

Analytics Is Like Driving

When there are too many roads, when they are inconsistently paved, insufficiently identified, and inefficiently connected, you will get lost. Read Mor...

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That's Oddly Homologous
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That's Oddly Homologous

11y Jim Sterne

That's Oddly Homologous

When different parts of our marketing efforts are acting too similar and mimic each other too closely numerically speaking, there may be cause for con...

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Building Models on Quicksand
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Building Models on Quicksand

11y Jim Sterne

Building Models on Quicksand

How often do you start with a clean slate and rebuild your model because the variables themselves have changed? Read More...

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The Creative Mastermind and the Analytical Subordinate
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The Creative Mastermind and the Analytical Subordinate

11y Jim Sterne

The Creative Mastermind and the Analytical Subordi...

How the one who has turned to data and algorithms and the one who has become CMO see things differently. Read More...

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When Privacy and Business Collide
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When Privacy and Business Collide

11y Jim Sterne

When Privacy and Business Collide

The time has come where we have to define intellectual private property. Read More...

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Digital Metrics 2013 Quick Start Guide
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Digital Metrics 2013 Quick Start Guide

11y Jim Sterne

Digital Metrics 2013 Quick Start Guide

Quickly browse the following five tips as you reboot the 2013 version of your marketing measurement efforts. Read More...

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Where's My Freakin' Data You B@stards?
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Where's My Freakin' Data You B@stards?

11y Jim Sterne

Where's My Freakin' Data You B@stards?

What is the value of my data? Read More

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Making Analysts Even More Indispensable
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Making Analysts Even More Indispensable

11y Jim Sterne

Making Analysts Even More Indispensable

If you set out to make your analytics team better and better, they will get better and keep getting better and finally, they will want to be better......

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It's Not an Exact Science
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It's Not an Exact Science

11y Jim Sterne

It's Not an Exact Science

Machine learning and big data heavy lifting do not depend on certainty, but on approximations. Read More...

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