Dave Fleet

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A Digital Lens on the U.S. Election

Dave Fleet

Twitter Triumphs over The New York Times”. One piece of Richard’s analysis got me thinking: his statement that “Twitter Triumphs over The New York Times.” Analytics Drives News. In recent months I’ve had a number of conversations with colleagues regarding the growing importance of analytics and measurement in our industry.

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A Digital Lens on the U.S. Election

Dave Fleet

Twitter Triumphs over The New York Times”. One piece of Richard’s analysis got me thinking: his statement that “Twitter Triumphs over The New York Times.” Analytics Drives News. In recent months I’ve had a number of conversations with colleagues regarding the growing importance of analytics and measurement in our industry.

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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. when comparing the traffic numbers for local analytics (google, omniture, etc) to the numbers on Compete.com.

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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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Reflections on the changing digital agency environment

Dave Fleet

Companies realized the opportunity presented by engaging with their customers through these new channels, but we were still in a time when simply creating a Twitter or Facebook account would make headlines. Twitter is following closely behind. Periscope, which is beginning to gain traction as Twitter integrates it further, is the same.

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Three Ways To Wag The Long Tail Of Content

Dave Fleet

As someone pointed out to me on Twitter, Google “good communications plan” and this post is the top result. While best practices around plan development will, I’m sure, evolve over time, this series should remain helpful for a long time. Optimize for search.

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Interview: Aaron Goldman – Everything I Know about Marketing I Learned From Google

Dave Fleet

You feature insights from numerous marketing luminaries in your book, among them Avinash Kaushik, Google’s analytics evangelist. How do you see web analytics fitting into the modern marketing system? Web analytics is one of the ways to do the tracking and measurement I just preached about.

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