Event marketing is a fascinating field of marketing that poses an especially difficult measurement challenge. It’s a field of marketing that thrives on the unique. While a traditional direct...
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Five Business Analytic Principles
Business analytic ideas and concepts are often presented as extremely complicated. There are a lot of tools on the market today that are supposed to help with this. Purveyors...
How Do Market Research Consultants Make Insights Actionable?
Market Research Consultant Insights: Over the last couple of years, business analysts have been highly focused on “consumer insights.” A lot of products and services have come to market...
How Do Market Research Consultants Make Insights Actionable (2 of 3) – Analyzing Data
Last week I wrote about how to organize your data to allow actionable insights to emerge. This article will discuss some ways of organizing that data once it is collected. ...
How To Measure Marketing (Article 3 of 3)
I once worked with a team of economists tasked with identifying and monitoring the economic impact of tourism for a state legislature. Their goal was to identify spending patterns among...
January 2010 Consumer Spend Appears Down
I’ve measured typical retail sales in January to be roughly 8.3% of the year’s total take. When compared to December (the previous month) we’d expect to see January...
What Makes for a Good In-Store Demonstration?
There has been a lot of news about Sam’s Club outsourcing product demos (see article by Chris Burritt at Bloomberg for just one of many examples). I read a quote in...
Maximizing Online Marketing Results is All About Reach
When you look at website statistics day in and day out, trends start to emerge. You’ll find that only some of the content on your or your client’s site...
Musing on Business Analytics at a Late Hour
(This post was pulled from an email I just sent to a client in which we were discussing if linear regression was the best analysis technique for a banking...
Premium Impressions
People love free stuff! It has long been the habit of marketers and Event Marketers in particular to brand anything and everything you can think of with a Client’s...