Category: Digital Analytics

Paraphrasing my colleague Eric Peterson, I’ll do my part to demystify, in this case, the digital marketing. We are all talking about how wonderful and beneficial it is, for both online and offline. Everything that it is online is cool, is the future, offline it’s old fashion, the past, something that sooner or later will be done, finished, and we are gonna be all happy about that. As we say this kind of things we are reading the newspaper (the “offline” version), watching tv and listening the radio. If we lose the cable signal, we don’t receive the newspaper or

Stop doing that annoying noise about analytics and it’s glamorous terms and go to work. Switching to an Analytical culture it’s so hard than just a few companies are achieving it. Understanding the metrics or information tools is the less important and complicated step for switching to a Data Driven culture. The most complicated one is the political cost, that since to be high for most of the managers. Since 2006 approximately which began to appear more strongly the “Web Analytics” term (Digital analytical) in the Internet industry. We’ve been talking a lot about it this five years but we’ve

Ten years ago or so, talking about Analytics was something interesting for a couple of nerds and geeks, and not just in Latin America, but in the world. Two weeks ago I was Invited to talk about the Digital Analytics job in one of my favorite TV programs, “Argentina para Armar”. Tom (from Intellignos) and I were talking probably for the very first time to a non nerdy audience about what is Digital Analytics about. And you know what? I received dozens of emails asking for more information about this “profession”! If you are in this industry probably sometimes you

I’m wonder why some people starts a measurement project from the end, the implementation of a measurement tool. So, let’s talk a little bit about the previous step of a measurement project. The measurement Object: First of all it is vital to define what are you gonna measure, in every case you will measure a system so you have to understand how that system looks like. So if you have system, the main thing you have to understand is the main objetive of it, in this case let’s say earned money, benefits, not just quantity of sales. In this step

Before making the “most logic” decision, remember those meetings where nobody agrees with you (own experience 🙂 ).

On June 25, 2012 I was honored to be invited to present Meta Analytics, Configuring the web analyst’s mind at the eMetrics Chicago. The first thing I have to mention is the exquisite organization of the event, everything works fine as a Swiss clock. Tiffany Harris was running behind the speakers to be sure that all was going perfect. Terry Cohen was the host and coordinator of my presentation, thanks for that Terry! You can see the tireless Jim Sterne everywhere, making sure that everything goes perfect in the event. You can feel how much Jim enjoy eMetrics, not just like the

If you are reading this blog you probably reported or you’ve being reported more than once. Reporting is the last step of the digital analytics process that begins with Measurement, Collection, Analysis and Reporting. Analyst sometimes confuse the third and fourth step but they are very different. One thing is analyzing information and identifying patterns of behavior or insights that trigger decisions, another very different thing is telling someone else about the insight you found. If you are an analyst your daily work is about chewing and digesting information, so you are normally very familiar with the information and with the process