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Why Marketing Analytics And Metrics Are Related But Not The Same

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Many marketers use the terms metrics and analytics in the same sentence and sometimes even interchangeably. Operational metrics – cost per lead and leads per rep. Analytics involves applying statistics and mathematics to data in an effort to see patterns in the data. This is wrong, because they are not the same. .

Analytics 100
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Forget Vanity Metrics: How To Get Serious About Marketing Analytics

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With the steadily increasing importance of marketing analytics and metrics, it’s very easy for B2B marketers to hone in on “vanity metrics.” Let’s review some activities important to marketing, but rethink how to measure marketing analytics and metrics. Social Media. PPC Campaigns.

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How High Growth Companies Use Marketing Analytics to Their Advantage

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Recent research on the efficacy of web and marketing analytics tools like Google Analytics for professional services marketers makes the lesson clear. Like blogging, search engine optimization, and social media, marketing analytics tools aren’t being utilized nearly as often by average growth firms. .

Analytics 100
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Mick Hollison, InsideSales.com CMO: How To Accelerate Sales Using Marketing Analytics [Podcast]

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Not only have buyers in B2B markets often been led up to 70% through the sales funnel by marketing before they ever speak to a sales person, but now sales people are also engaging in social media and marketing analytics technologies that are normally the domain of marketing. ADD’-ing to the Speed of Sales: In the rapid, “A.D.D.

CMO 100
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Digital Display Advertising in the Data Analytics Age (with Jennifer Davis, VP Marketing and Product Strategy at Planar Systems)

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The practice of using data analytics in go to market strategy, already par for the course online and in mobile, is finding its way into channel marketing and real world engagement. Highlights include: Pinball wizards: Jennifer explains how Planar tracks leads through its sales cycle.

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Lance Walter, Host Analytics CMO: Quarterly Financial Planning: How to Budget Better By Understanding Marketing Intelligence [Podcast]

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As Lance Walter, CMO of financial intelligence technology company Host Analytics suggests, there is a better way. Lance Walter is Chief Marketing Officer for Host Analytics and leads the company’s global marketing efforts.

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Ren?? Bonvanie, Palo Alto Networks CMO: 5 Strategies That Increase Revenue Using Marketing Analytics [Podcast]

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Calling it a crime for marketers not to use marketing analytics on the rich data lake available to them, and predicting that CMOs will spend more money on IT than CIOs in a few years, Ren shares with Moneyball for Marketing how marketing analytics produces often surprising insights that dramatically increase revenue.