Dave Fleet

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A Privacy-First Digital Marketing Landscape

Dave Fleet

This wound is mostly self-inflicted and the outcome of many compounding activities, but can be distilled to this: Marketers took advantage of the near-limitless data available as people spent more and more time online, but didn’t always stop to think about how people would feel about it. Data with empathy.

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Compete Responds To Criticism

Dave Fleet

My primary concern was that, after seeing nearly a 90% variance between their numbers and those from Google Analytics on my own site, I couldn’t trust that their numbers for other sites would be correct. We have a small sample warning on your website, which means we have limited data on your domain.

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Sysomos Audience Moves Towards Measuring Social Media ROI

Dave Fleet

At first glance it seems similar to Google Analytics in nature – in fact, I previously under the incorrect impression it simply connected social media traffic to web analytics. Sysomos Audience is an addition to the Heartbeat monitoring and engagement tool. In doing so, you gain a relative value for each visitor to your site.

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Forrester: Email and search drive online sales, not social

Dave Fleet

Research recently released by Forrester entitled “ The Purchase Path of Online Buyers in 2012 ” indicates that email and search dominate the online space in driving online sales. Essential when it comes to effective research, but not in consuming it for broad communications trends. Email matters most for repeat customers.