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marketing data analysis
marketing data analysis
Analytics

How to analyze frequency data

Frequency data is vital for understanding how frequency can drive an impact on your results. The first step is understanding how the frequency data was collected, especially if you are combining multiple data sources. You need to make sure that you are combining and analyzing the right things. We call this, having a good data foundation. Then take apart your data and sort it into clusters, what was the impact at each level of frequency. Was there an… Continue reading

Ben Young
Ben Young
January 17, 2020
marketing data analysis
marketing data analysis
Analytics

How to analyze trends

Identifying trends in your data is useful to map the trajectory of whatever your dataset is measuring. Typically Google Sheets and Excel include the ability to add a trend line, which is the most basic example of doing so. What you want to think about though in exploring trends are, is the dataset significant enough? Do we have accuracy in the data? Is the duration or timeframe long enough? Taking your data and visualizing it is the easiest… Continue reading

Ben Young
Ben Young
January 17, 2020
measuring marketing success
measuring marketing success
Analytics, How To

How do you measure Content Marketing success

Defining success is ground in your content marketing strategy. What is it we are doing and why are we doing it. Then measuring success, gets a lot easier. You will want to make sure you have an analytics system installed, typically with a piece of javascript. That enables the platform to measure your content. Of the content marketing metrics, some that should help inform if your content is doing the work it should be is: Attention, how long… Continue reading

Ben Young
Ben Young
January 17, 2020
measuring marketing success
measuring marketing success
How To

How to measure content performance

Use a specialist marketing analytics tool that enables you to measure the things you need to measure. Specialist tools like Nudge, take all the learnings from the whole market, synthesize them and help establish the best practices. What are the most important things to be tracking? These enable you to measure how the content is performing, what is working, what isn’t working. To install these, it typically involves signing up, giving permission to access your social channels and installing code… Continue reading

Ben Young
Ben Young
January 17, 2020
measuring marketing success
measuring marketing success
How To

How to measure success of digital marketing

Install a third-party tracking system that will measure how well your digital marketing is going. This enables you to just focus on the insights and improving your digital marketing. Then work backward from the digital marketing strategy, what is our aim here? How do we measure that? Then link this to your metrics. For example, if your aim is to attract new customers, what is a meaningful amount of potential customers? Then use your measurement to see how… Continue reading

Ben Young
Ben Young
January 17, 2020
data driven marketing
data driven marketing
Strategy

Data driven storytelling

Data-driven storytelling is about using data to support and move a story along. It adds weight. It adds depth. It adds credibility. Knowing that someone robbed a bank is interesting. Knowing that someone robbed a bank but got away with no money. It is more interesting. Use data to support and build your story. To add that extra color. Which makes it engaging. Continue reading

Ben Young
Ben Young
January 17, 2020
data driven marketing
data driven marketing
Analytics

Data driven insights

We all love a good insight, those magic moments which help you dramatically improve or understand what’s going on in the market. Typically these were research-based, through surveys and panels. But increasingly data collection is now providing real-time insights that mean marketing can be adjusted on the fly. With tools like Nudge, they will create insights for you, analyzing the data and surfacing the most meaningful insights. And that is the best part now, getting from insight… Continue reading

Ben Young
Ben Young
January 17, 2020
data driven marketing
data driven marketing
Strategy

Data driven digital marketing

Digital marketing tends to be very data-centric. That is using data as a feedback loop to continually refine, improve and adjust directions. Data-driven digital marketing is about making sure this is front and center. This means, reviewing the data each week, making small adjustments. Reviewing the data each month and quarter for making bigger adjustments. The tighter that feedback loop to meaningful data, the faster the work can improve. Continue reading

Ben Young
Ben Young
January 17, 2020
data driven marketing
data driven marketing
Strategy

Data driven creative

It’s a cliche to say creatives don’t like data. But they do. It’s just that often data isn’t framed up in the right way. Data helps provide insights to push off, to put limitations or constraints, both of which help create better creative. Creatives should soak it up, mull it over, and let it guide the creative. But like any inputs don’t let it overrule the whole process. Continue reading

Ben Young
Ben Young
January 17, 2020
data driven marketing
data driven marketing
How To

How to create data driven content

How you can use data to create better content, that’s what marketers mean when they reference data-driven content. To do this you need solid content analytics, to measure and provide accurate data on your content. Are people reading it? Are they sharing it? Where do they find it? All of this helps inform and create better data-driven content. Continue reading

Ben Young
Ben Young
January 17, 2020