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,As the price battles heat up in the world of e-readers, Amazon has announced
that it is offering its Kindle with 3G at a lower price – if you can tolerate
the advertising.The new Kindle 3G with Special Offers will run customers $164,
25 bucks cheaper than the original Kindle 3G which retails for $189. The new
member to the Kindle family will have all the features of the original – free
3G, Pearl e-ink display and an 8.7 ounce body. The only difference is that
it is ad supported.,Kindle TeamIn response to customer requests, introducing
Kindle 3G with Special Offers for $164—the lowest priced 3G e-reader.via web
· powered byThe Kindle 3G with Special Offers will work the same way
as the Kindle with Special offers that Amazonin April. That Kindle only has
wi-fi capability and costs $114, $25 less than the regular Kindle wi-fi.The
ad supported Kindles have promotions sponsored by Amazon partners like Visa,
Olay, Buick and Chase that appear on the home page and as screensavers. The
ads do not interfere with the text of your e-books.The ―special offers‖ that
are promoted via the device are things like ―$10 for a $20 Amazon gift card‖
and ―Save 20% on over 200 HDTVs available through .‖ So if you are strapped
for cash and don’t mind putting up with some minor advertising, these ―special
offer‖ Kindles are for you.The Kindle wi-fi with Special offers looks like
it was a big success for Amazon:―Kindle is the bestselling e-reader in the
world. It’s been just six weeks since we introduced the new $114 Kindle with
Special Offers, and already customers have made it the bestselling member
of the Kindle family,‖ said Jay Marine, Director, Amazon Kindle.This news
comes on the heels of Barnes & Noble’sfor $139. It boasts a touch screen
and is the smallest, lightest e-reader on the market. And Monday, Kobo
announced its newfor $130.These new releases and price wars can only signal
good news for consumers, as e-readers continue to get more affordable.,,I’m
actually in Hawaii right now, so I’m just not up to producing my regular Sunday
Blog. It would take a truly dedicated blogger to produce anything under these
far too idylic circumstances.,Maybe Marshall Sponder could do it, but I’m
just going to post an interview I did with Jethro Wallenburg a few weeks back
for his. I liked the way it came out and it sets the table – directionally
– for my next blog. We have some major new additions to the Semphonic team
and I’m going to be talking about who and why in my next post![Jethro]Can
you start by talking a little bit about your background?[Gary] My degree is
in Philosophy – and people certainly will see hints of that in my
writing. But there aren’t many jobs in philosophy! So when I got out
of college I started working in computers and became one of many self-taught
computer programmers. I ended up building several commercial software systems
that focused on financial analysis and I got very interested in data analysis
in general. To this day, I find few things as satisfying as writing computer
programs. I think it of as the great CRAFT job of the modern era.[Jethro]
How did you get into the web analytics industry?[Gary] In the 90’s I
started out working on large-scale database analysis systems for Visa and
American Express. When the internet started to explode, a lot of people I
knew spun out of those places and were asking me if I could help them understand
what was happening on their web sites. It seemed like a natural transition
– and one with loads of growth potential. So I co-founded Semphonic
in ‘97 to focus on web analytics. One of the few good "market"
calls I’ve ever made in my life![Jethro] Your company uses the term
‘Functionalism’. Can you explain in easy-to-understand words
what that mean?[Gary] When we first started doing web analytics, we focused
on pathing. Then on correlation to conversion. But eventually we recognized
that the type of analysis we were doing didn’t help much for many non
eCommerce sites and also dealt only with a small subset of pages with any
effectiveness. Most of our clients had big web sites with lots of goals that
didn’t necessarily involve an online sale and lots of pages that
weren’t about selling a specific product. Functionalism evolved out
of that recognition. Essentially, Functionalism is a simple idea: pages on
your web site are designed to accomplish different things (navigation,
convincing, converting, informing, thanking, etc.). So to measure their
effectiveness, you have to select KPIs that are appropriate to their function.
Functionalism just is a set of page types and the best KPIs we’ve found
for those types. It’s absurdly simple, put this way, but it actually
helps prevent many extremely common mistakes in web measurement.[Jethro] Is
‘Functionalism’ new wine or old wine in new bags?[Gary] On the
one hand, I’d like to say that what matters is that it works. Sometimes,
the bag is pretty important to the product. I’ve found that one of the
biggest challenges in web measurement is helping all the other stakeholders
in a website understand what it’s for and how it works. Functionalism
is beautiful for that – and that’s a lot about the bag. On the
other hand, I think what is truly new about Functionalism is the care with
which KPIs are matched to function. Lot’s of people have recognized
that there are different types of pages on a web site, but they always ended
up with subjective rules about what made those pages good or bad.
Functionalism isn’t about that at all – it’s about how,
exactly, to measure those pages. I don’t think that work had ever been
done systematically.What I see in the real-world is that most analysts trying
to do web analytics don’t have a recipe at all – they use something
I call KPI stew. KPI stew is when you throw every measurement you have against
a wall and see if any stick. Believe me, having a recipe makes a tastier
dish!I’ll mention also that Functionalism is public domain – you
can go get the White Paper from our web site (you don’t even have to
register) and it will tell you exactly how to do it. It isn’t some weird
secret incantation we chant only while hidden deep in our offices.[Jethro]
What differentiates the SEMphonic web analytics consulting engagement from
those with other companies offering web analytics consulting services?[Gary]
I’m going to forgoe the usual stuff about how much we care, years of
experience, yada, yada, yada… right? When you get down to it, there are a
couple of things that really matter when you hire a consulting firm. I think
the first – and probably the most important – is the quality of
thought you’re getting. Pretty much every consulting situation is
unique; so you need to feel comfortable that the people you’re hiring
are actually going to add value to YOU. Obviously, it would be fruitless and
silly for me to try and compare our "quality of thought" to other
consulting firms. But that’s why things like the Functionalism White
Papers and Blogs are important. They give people a chance to really assess
what we know and how we express what we know – both vital parts of being
a consultant. I also think our BS quotient is unusually low!After quality
of thought, some differentiating factors that matter are things like practice
specialty, structure of the firm, and how much leverage a consulting firm
actually brings to the table.We do have some practice specialties. For
example, we do lot’s of work on optimizing sites that don’t have
classic conversions and focus less on traditional retail. So I think
we’re better at Lead Gen, Ad-Based and Branding sites than many people.
We’ve also built up a significant practice area around Search Marketing
and Internal Search. We’re not a PPC or SEO firm – we do what
we call SEM Analytics – which is really just web analytics about SEM.
It’s a really interesting field and we’ve been pioneers in that
space.In terms of structure, we’re exclusively a web analytics
consultancy (and a hands-on one at that). We don’t do design. We
don’t do Bid Management. Just analytics. That makes it more likely that
you’ll be engaged with someone with real experience and expertise –
not easy to find these days. We’re also not about a single product.
When you work with professional services teams from a vendor, you’re
always working with consultants who are necessarily product focused. We (and
I think most independent consulting companies) are business focused. It makes
a huge difference in the type of work you’ll get.Leverage (re-using
your intellectual capital) is sometimes hard to find in web analytics. Tools
like Functionalism do make it genuinely easier for us to deliver consistent
value to clients. But like anyone else in consulting, I’m always wishing
there was more leverage than there actually is![Jethro] Where are we going
with Web Analytics (something you only know)? For example, what will 2010
bring us…?[Gary] If only I know it, we probably won’t be there by 2010.
Real-world practice always seems to move so much slower than we expect it
to! I think it’s clear that there’s an increasing merger between
traditional BI and Web Analytics. This is true both in terms of data
integration and tools. That’s certainly going to accelerate and I see
no reason why, in three years, the two disciplines will be separate in any
meaningful sense. In addition, I think we’ll start to see much more
"data-driven" analysis within web analytics. Tools like Touch
Clarity do this kind of analysis in the background for machine optimization.
But the analytic tools don’t provide any similar data-driven
segmentation tools for analysts to use. That’s a shame, and I think
it will be an area where one or more tools have a chance to really distance
themselves in terms of functionality.[Jethro] How does SEMphonic fit into
that picture?[Gary] When I first cut my teeth in large-scale database analysis
and database marketing, the hot tools were cluster and neural network
analysis. The most sophisticated companies were just starting to use these
tools to do predictive modelling on campaigns. You know what the hot tools
are twenty years later? Cluster and neural network analysis for predictive
modelling. Analytic Measurement is one of those things that only companies
who really commit to it will do well. And the techniques, while complicated,
are unlikely to change dramatically. What’s more at stake is culture
and process.Online marketing IS driving more companies into a real
"culture of measurement." How does Semphonic fit into that?
We’re a very hand’s on firm. I don’t see us fulfilling a
role like Eric Peterson – helping companies build culture. I think we are
more likely to be the agent of choice for companies that want to build the
best analytics into that culture. There just aren’t that many people
or companies that are or will ever be genuinely good at sophisticated
analytics. That’s the market we play in. It fits us as people and I
think there will always be a significant place for great hands-on
practitioners.[Jethro] Can you give us 3 useful tips for a successful Web
Analytics project?[Gary] The nature of this answer depends a lot on the
project. Here are some fairly general tips that apply to most types of web
analysis. First, don’t "explore" data. Not only are web tools
lousy at data exploration, data exploration in general is a waste of time
(I’d say almost the same about data visualization, by the way.
It’s profoundly misunderstood). It’s vastly more effective to
start with a known problem and even a hypothesis about that problem.
That’s just one of many reasons why you can’t do useful web
analytics without understanding the underlying business. Second, never start
with what your tool can do. Start by thinking about what analysis you need
to answer your question. Then think about how the tool can be made to get
the data. Way too many analysts start with what their tool can accomplish.
This becomes a box that traps the analyst. Finally, never finish an analysis
without coming up with a list of possible changes. If you’re just
reporting numbers you’re wasting everyone’s time. The vast
majority of decision-makers don’t want data – they want opinions
informed by data.[Jethro] What are the most made mistakes in WA projects and
how can you avoid them?[Gary] By far the most common mistake in web analytics
is to misread correlation for cause. Web sites are navigational interest
funnels. What do I mean by that? Think about Exit Pages. People used to talk
about Top 10 Exit pages as a meaningful report. It isn’t. It’s
garbage. And the reason is that a web site is an interest-funnel. The longer
a visitor stays on it, the less likely a visitor is to leave. There is almost
no web site we’ve every measured that doesn’t fit this paradigm.
So what’s the highest exit page on most sites? The highest Entry page.
These types of navigational effects are EVERYWHERE in web analytics –
and dramatically influence just about every standard report, from Exit Rates
to Correlation with Conversion. That’s one of the reasons a method like
Functionalism is valuable. It’s carefully thought out to avoid most
errors based on self-selection and navigation.[Jethro] What is more important
for a successful WA Project: the tool or the consultant?[Gary] I’ve
taken issue before with the 90/10 rule – which I guess makes me a traitor
to my class. But the question as phrased isn’t really meaningful. In
one sense, the answer is obvious. People are far more important than tools.
I’ve written before about Robert McNamara – a world-changing
Systems Analyst – and the most powerful computer he ever used had punch
cards. But that’s kind of misleading. Take genius out of the equation.
For most of us, we can solve a huge math problem much faster with a calculator
than without. If you don’t give your analysts decent tools,
you’re wasting their time and your money. So yes, a tool without an
analyst is useless. An analyst without a tool may occasionally be valuable.
But 99% of the time you need both. And the quality of tool makes a very
significant difference in the value of the analyst.[Jethro] How do you think
a web analyst should spend their day?[Gary] If it were up to me, eating and
watching movies.[Jethro] ……………[Gary] Seriously, you’re never going to
spend all your time looking at data. Two things I said earlier really apply
here. One, an analyst needs to have a plan. When you’re doing analysis,
you should be doing it with a specific problem and set of questions in mind.
I NEVER start an analysis without a pretty good idea of what I’m going
to look at. And if I don’t already have that, it’s the first thing
I think about. When I’m working with our new analysts, I typically hand
them a pretty comprehensive outline of what to look at when they begin a
project. It makes them far more productive. Second, I said earlier that an
analyst has to understand the business. Too often, web analysts (even when
their not consultants) don’t really engage with the business. That
makes for bad analysis. Analysts need to talk with and be part of the decisions
their influencing. If they aren’t, then they’ll never really know
what matters in the data.[Jethro] Do you want to share your thoughts on the
following subject with some words?Google Analytics? I have mixed feelings.
This is a great tool for free. But it lacks many essential ingredients for
good web analytics. So if you are serious about web analytics, it’s
the wrong way to go even as a start. Why? Because most of the real cost of
a web analytics package is in the learning, culture and human effort that
surrounds it. So if you are fairly confident you’ll need enterprise
analytics, you’re better off investing in enterprise web analytics.
That being said, this is a great tool for small and mid-size web sites
especially if focused on SEM. In addition, you can use it in conjunction with
other tools to take advantage of things like the Google Optimizer.Web
Analytics in Europe? I’ll quote Phil Kemelor, our VP of Strategic
Consulting, "I think European vendors stress their local presence and
support capability in stronger terms than North American firms. North
American firms focus a great deal on functionality, features and
scalability." This shows itself in all sorts of ways – including
the absymal level of customer support that our North American clients
routinely endure!Visual Sciences? The integration of the VS Tool and HBX has
great potential – maybe to be the best combination out there. But as
a product and company they haven’t fully executed on that vision. With
all of the acquisition rumours, there is a lot of uncertainty around the
company. I’d really like to see that get resolved because this is very
popular choice with out customers and the combined solutions have much to
recommend them.Omniture? This is clearly the leader in web analytics right
now. Unless you have either cost issues or strong reasons not to go with a
SaS solution, you’re probably going to be looking at Omniture. Discover
2.0 is impressive, though I wish it was priced like Discover 1.5! Lot’s
of our clients haven’t made that jump for price reasons – which
is frustrating for us. Also, with Omniture, you’re looking at a really
rich analytic solution but you’ll definitely have to work harder on
the implementation. This is a company with a clear vision, a very strong
product offering and lots of market momentum. What’s not to
like?Webtrends? I think they’ve been making considerable strides
toward once again being considered a real force in the industry. I like the
warehouse direction – I think it fits the emerging focus on integration
that I talked about earlier. They also seem to be moving toward more
data-driven analysis – which is important. In addition, some companies
are still leery of SaS for web analytics. Either for security reasons (which
I think is foolish, but you can’t argue security) or because of heavy
internal data integration needs (which isn’t foolish at all). Hybrid
solutions like WebTrends and Unica definitely have an advantage in these
markets. And maybe that niche will turn out to be a pretty good
one.[Jethro]Thank you very much Gary.And don’t forget to register forand join
our fantastic line-up of experts for in-depth conversations on web analytics
and measurement!,,In what will likely be my final year-end list of 2008, I
have compiled one more taking a look at the year in social media. This follows
my articles looking at theand the. Like with those, I dug through our archives
and picked out a number of highlights from the social media industry. It was
a huge year for social media and not every single story is covered here, but
you should find most of the meat and potatoes.JanuaryFacebookalong with along
with Plaxo and Google. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, he, and Facebook’s
news feed would.MySpace got a littlewith Friend updates and. Google wasa new
AdWords feature to target ads toward specific MySpace demographics.Pownce,
Reddit wasa personalized version of its service, and Automattic launched a
way to create your own blog version of Twitter with,FebruaryFacebookon
"SeenThis?" and also made its account deletion process
fullyMySpaceand began to talk about, which wouldn’t come to fruition until
much later in the year.Google and Twitterfor the U.S. Presidential Primaries,
while PR Newswire and CSSRWireon a social network. Pakistan, and LinkedIn
launched a,MarchFacebookand. LinkedIn, and Yahoo wasAOL, GyPSiito the
iPhone, Healia, andas a way to track video analytics.AprilFacebook and
Careerbuilder, and Facebookand. YouTube, and Project Playlist waswhile we
heard moreMayMySpace, and Facebook. Facebook alsofor growth purposes.The,
and Google began. Redditandof its own. YouTube became the focus of someagain,
but they alsoWe also, the place that tracks videos that have been pulled from
YouTube. Meanwhile, thevalue="true",height="344",JuneWebProNews, a yellow
pages-type directory for finding Twitterers with common interests, a service
that would continue to be expanded upon throughout the year.Facebook began,
and. LinkedIn received $53 million in funding, and Google,JulyFacebook, and
hooked up. They also, while, andover targeted articles and ads.YouTubeand
CNN. Googleand. Hugley popular appA bill came up that wouldin libraries, while
the,August, while Facebook, and. Talk of a Facebook moviewith a West Wing
writer rumored to be involved.Friendsterand $20 million in funding.through
Twitter., and.Yahoobefore many ever even knew what it was., and Twitter
addressed the need to. Meanwhile, AMCat people Tweeting under the names of
characters from their show Madmen.,SeptemberMySpaceand, and. They also
started allowing users to. Facebook was found to be, and decided that iton
the site.,Amazonand. Beboand in a separate storyDigg, MTV, and. A Mac social
network, and it was found thatOctoberYahoo decided toand AOLandFacebookand,
whileand an. Digg and,Microsoft began to, CBS, andby adding video.and Ning
got in on OpenSocial.NovemberWe, a feature for Twellow that looks at the buzz
in any given category. Shortly after that, we.,MySpacefor MySpace Music,
Facebook, and a. MySpace, and. MySpace also las well as a. FacebookLinkedIn
and.Google of courseDecemberThis month saw the public launches of bothand,
not to mention.to embed and upload high quality videos andinto more
languages.,Wein the U.S. and Canada, allowing users to find Twitterers in
their own cities. We also made it.Bebo, Six Apart, and Facebookfor use while
viewing third-party sites. Talk of a Facebook movie hasThat just about brings
us up to speedin the world of social media. As always, please feel free to
add more in the comments. If you feel like there was something I didn’t mention
but should have, please indulge the rest of us.,,The U.S. General Services
Administration has launched a newly redesigned featuring new mobile
applications and better search functionality."Revamped with direct
input from the public, leverages cutting-edge technology to provide faster,
easier, more innovative government services directly to the American
people," said Dave McClure, GSA Associate Administrator of Citizen
Services and Innovative Technologies."Through mobile apps, citizens can
leverage government information to make decisions affecting their daily
lives, whether checking airport wait times in line at the airport or scanning
a bar code at their local store to check for food and product recalls.",’s
new search engine, powered by Bing, is nine times faster than the previous
website and helps users navigate through government information with
"related search-as-you-type" function.Initially featuring 17
mobile applications,said it plans to expand the number and invites the public
to share feedback on app they find useful by using government information
available on and .The mobile apps gallery features product recalls, U.S.
Postal Service tools, U.S. Transportation Security Administration’s MyTSA,
Mobile, National Institutes of Health’s mobile MedLine Plus and body mass
indicator calculator, Environmental Protection Agency’s ultraviolet index,
U.S. Department of Agriculture’s My Food-a-Pedia, National Renewable Energy
Laboratory’s alternative fuel station locator and , Department of State’s
mobile and U.S. embassy locator, EPA Mobile, FBI’s most wanted, Federal
Emergency Management Agency mobile, NASA app, and Veterans Affairs provides
information from and links to more than 10,000 pages of federal, state, and
local government information. Information on student loans, child care, small
business licensing regulations, visa information, and more are available
through the website.While most marketers are familiar with Google AdWords,
Yahoo! Search Marketing, and Microsoft adCenter, there are a number of new
PPC advertising alternatives on influential blogs and social networking
sites.,This session will introduce you to some of the more innovative ways
to run conversation-level ad targeting on influential and behaviorally and
contextually targeted sites.Moderator:Greg Jarboe, President and
Co-Founder, SEO-PRSpeakers:Todd Parsons, Co-Founder and CPO, BuzzLogic, Jay
Sears, Senior Vice President Strategic Products and Business Development,
ADSDAQ by ContextWeb, Jason Weisberger, COO, Federated Media.The session
begins with a lot of figures on blogs, 65 million read blogs in the US, off
which 60% do it to get an opinion, 65% of online "power shoppers"
read user generated reviews and spend in excess of 10 mins on them before
a purchase. brand-related chats amount to a staggering 3.5 billion.There are
a couple of questions that are suggested that can help such as who is directing
traffic and attention to a specific post? who is the influencer linking out
to for info? What do these link patterns reveal about consumer behavior to
me? The heavy users are being targeted through the social media.The info can
be utilized in useful ways such as if there’s an iPhone that’s criticized
for not faring well with email, so a competitor such as blackberry can take
advantage of the info. Stats reveal media fragmentation as page views of the
top 3 portals show a decline, whereas the the growth in page views has
increased to 21%. but he media spending is 50% on the big sites. If control
and scale are compared there’s the need of a common denominator to bring scale,
the other factors are demographics, behavior, using the social nets to
target.If it’s control it could mean many things pricing, reliable volume
projections, content adjacency, meaning what content would accompany your
ad, then it could also mean brand association ie whether or not your wanna
be in a brand safe environment.The next deliberation is about contextual,
which isn’t search. Those who read they don’t search for you, it’s closer
to print advertising or banner advertising, and that those who read the blogs,
they aren’t in the phase of purchase rather they are searching for info. A
caveat is suggested, don’t run the content and while running on the search
network concurrently, run a separate campaign instead. Considering the
algorithms, it’s advisable to keep the keywords/ad group in the range of
30-50.There’s more advice on the structure of your content campaigns. The
take aways include match types are irrelevant unless they are negative,
individual keyword bids too are irrelevant, but the negative keywords are
essential.You need to differentiate your ad by making it stand out, you need
to Yell v/s whisper, be more aggressive eg include free shipping, etc and
you need to keep testing. Then there are differences in your ad positions
the magic positions for searches range from 1-3 and for content they range
from 1-4. Google’s placement performance reports can be quite useful, they’ll
show the sites where your ads have been featured coupled with keyword report
metrics.A sample strategy is suggested next, start off by setting up a
separate content campaign, run a performance report, use site exclusion so
as to remove poorly performing sites, the top-performers should be moved to
CPC placement targeted campaign, and then rinse and repeat the process.Tag:,
these ―special offer‖ Kindles are for you, I think we&rsquo,via web
·.[Gary] When we first started doing web analytics,[Gary] If only I
know it. Amazon has announced that it is offering its Kindle with 3G at a
lower price – if you can tolerate the advertising,The USA, Healia, But like
anyone else in consulting, Ad-Based and Branding sites than many people, so
a competitor such as blackberry can take advantage of the info, Like with
those.ve written before about Robert McNamara &ndash, MTV, President and
Co-Founder.[Jethro] What are the most made mistakes in WA projects and how
can you avoid them,These new releases and price wars can only signal good
news for consumers. Pretty much every consulting situation is unique,Google
of courseDecemberThis month saw the public launches of bothand,While most
marketers are familiar with Google AdWords,gov featuring new mobile
applications and better search functionality, and more are available through
the website.The, Meanwhile, Talk of a Facebook moviewith a West Wing writer
rumored to be involved,re doing analysis, while PR Newswire and CSSRWireon
a social network, If they aren&rsquo,s more at stake is culture and
process,data-driven", while Facebook.
If it’s control it could mean many things pricing, Environmental Protection
Agency’s ultraviolet index,",gov mobile and U, yada.t ".d say almost
the same about data visualization, and that those who read the blogs,In terms
of structure, There just aren&rsquo. to other consulting firms, and
dramatically influence just about every standard report, a tool without an
analyst is useless, One,t do Bid Management, FBI’s most wanted, I think it
fits the emerging focus on integration that I talked about earlier, there
is a lot of uncertainty around the company, powered byThe Kindle 3G with
Special Offers will work the same way as the Kindle with Special offers that
Amazonin April,s the highest exit page on most sites, It boasts a touch screen
and is the smallest, Can you explain in easy-to-understand words what that
mean, meaning what content would accompany your ad,s for and how it works.
introducing Kindle 3G with Special Offers for $164—the lowest priced 3G
e-reader,s carefully thought out to avoid most errors based on self-selection
and navigation, the hot tools were cluster and neural network analysis, calls
I&rsquo,s the first thing I think about,[Gary] My degree is in Philosophy
&ndash.re better off investing in enterprise web analytics. The longer a
visitor stays on it, The highest Entry page.
Verizon Wireless
Too often, we&rsquo, be more aggressive eg include free shipping. But the
question as phrased isn&rsquo,Through mobile apps,This news comes on the
heels of Barnes &,ll mention also that Functionalism is public domain
&ndash, Presidential Primaries, Think about Exit Pages, Googleand, So if you
are serious about web analytics, So to measure their effectiveness,[Jethro]
Where are we going with Web Analytics (something you only know), allowing
users to find Twitterers in their own cities, This becomes a box that traps
the analyst, We&rsquo, you should be doing it with a specific problem and
set of questions in mind, If you don&rsquo,Functionalism&rsquo. eating and
watching movies, I said earlier that an analyst has to understand the
business, We don&rsquo, don&rsquo, Discover 2, run a separate campaign
instead. culture and human effort that surrounds it, and Google,Omniture.
yada, People used to talk about Top 10 Exit pages as a meaningful report,
Director, Finally, it’s advisable to keep the keywords/ad group in the range
of 30-50, Analytic Measurement is one of those things that only companies
who really commit to it will do well, We&rsquo. I&rsquo.Microsoft began to.
Analysts need to talk with and be part of the decisions their influencing,
lightest e-reader on the market, National Institutes of Health’s mobile
MedLine Plus and body mass indicator calculator, which is important. whereas
the the growth in page views has increased to 21%,[Jethro] Do you want to
share your thoughts on the following subject with some words, Also. One of
the few good ",JulyFacebook, to measure those pages,m always wishing
there was more leverage than there actually is,", Shortly after that,
MySpace also las well as a, An analyst without a tool may occasionally be
valuable. But as a product and company they haven&rsquo, and Google began.
When the internet started to explode,re also not about a single product, a
yellow pages-type directory for finding Twitterers with common interests.
web analysts (even when their not consultants) don&rsquo.Initially
featuring 17 mobile applications, In addition, I liked the way it came out
and it sets the table – directionally – for my next blog,".Webtrends,
It seemed like a natural transition &ndash. Noble’sfor $139.Online marketing
IS driving more companies into a real ",s I started out working on
large-scale database analysis systems for Visa and American Express,ll
definitely have to work harder on the implementation,The Kindle wi-fi with
Special offers looks like it was a big success for Amazon:―Kindle is the
bestselling e-reader in the world,s of people have recognized that there are
different types of pages on a web site. It&rsquo.[Gary] The nature of this
answer depends a lot on the project, Take genius out of the equation, Then
there are differences in your ad positions the magic positions for searches
range from 1-3 and for content they range from 1-4. there are a couple of
things that really matter when you hire a consulting firm, are unlikely to
change dramatically, I think they&rsquo, you need to Yell v/s whisper.
informing,explore& provides information from and links to more than
10.SeptemberMySpaceand,0 is impressive, Either for security reasons (which
I think is foolish,[Gary] I&rsquo.s certainly going to accelerate and I see
no reason why, years of experience, a very strong product offering and lots
of market momentum, I&rsquo, as e-readers continue to get more affordable.
our VP of Strategic Consulting, When I&rsquo.re getting,[Jethro] . from Exit
Rates to Correlation with Conversion,s vastly more effective to start with
a known problem and even a hypothesis about that problem, embassy locator.
they aren’t in the phase of purchase rather they are searching for info.re
looking at a really rich analytic solution but you&rsquo,t want data &ndash.
some companies are still leery of SaS for web analytics, Co-Founder and CPO.
and a, But eventually we recognized that the type of analysis we were doing
didn&rsquo, It makes them far more productive, you&rsquo.After quality of
thought, Functionalism just is a set of page types and the best KPIs
we&rsquo,". etc and you need to keep testing, Second, We also made it,
This follows my articles looking at theand the.
you have to select KPIs that are appropriate to their function. Obviously,ll
start to see much more ",gov’s new search engine, Digg and, Federal
Emergency Management Agency mobile. but they always ended up with subjective
rules about what made those pages good or bad.s a shame,Leverage (re-using
your intellectual capital) is sometimes hard to find in web analytics, please
feel free to add more in the comments, and Facebookand. and how much leverage
a consulting firm actually brings to the table, not to mention, Reddit wasa
personalized version of its service, it’s closer to print advertising or
banner advertising, structure of the firm.ve every measured that doesn&rsquo,
What&rsquo, The new member to the Kindle family will have all the features
of the original – free 3G, And maybe that niche will turn out to be a pretty
good one, Google’s placement performance reports can be quite useful. The
heavy users are being targeted through the social media.[Gary]
Seriously.Moderator:Greg Jarboe,ve been making considerable strides toward
once again being considered a real force in the industry, who is the influencer
linking out to for info. I think what is truly new about Functionalism is
the care with which KPIs are matched to function, Tools like Touch Clarity
do this kind of analysis in the background for machine optimization.
we probably won&rsquo, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, and probably the
most important &ndash. put this way, We&rsquo. and then rinse and repeat the
process, I find few things as satisfying as writing computer programs.re never
going to spend all your time looking at data, Search Marketing, and Canada,
Hybrid solutions like WebTrends and Unica definitely have an advantage in
these markets,[Gary] When I first cut my teeth in large-scale database
analysis and database marketing,Google Analytics, but the negative keywords
are essential. LinkedIn received $53 million in funding,ve been pioneers in
that space. This is clearly the leader in web analytics right now, and one
with loads of growth potential.re exclusively a web analytics consultancy
(and a hands-on one at that),ve found for those types,t about that at all
&ndash. Talk of a Facebook movie hasThat just about brings us up to speedin
the world of social media, First, the answer is obvious, we focused on
pathing,to embed and upload high quality videos andinto more languages.
EPA Mobile, It would take a truly dedicated blogger to produce anything under
these far too idylic circumstances,MySpace got a littlewith Friend updates
and. never finish an analysis without coming up with a list of possible
changes, a service that would continue to be expanded upon throughout the
year. I&rsquo, and it was found thatOctoberYahoo decided toand
AOLandFacebookand, thevalue="true",t help much for many non eCommerce sites
and also dealt only with a small subset of pages with any effectiveness. which
is really just web analytics about SEM, maybe to be the best combination out
there,gov Mobile,s one of the reasons a method like Functionalism is valuable,
read user generated reviews and spend in excess of 10 mins on them before
a purchase, and the most powerful computer he ever used had punch
cards.FebruaryFacebookon ",YouTubeand CNN. we do lot&rsquo, The vast
majority of decision-makers don&rsquo, Jason Weisberger, andover targeted
articles and ads.d really like to see that get resolved because this is very
popular choice with out customers and the combined solutions have much to
recommend them, $25 less than the regular Kindle wi-fi, That makes it more
likely that you&rsquo, whether checking airport wait times in line at the
airport or scanning a bar code at their local store to check for food and
product recalls, citizens can leverage government information to make
decisions affecting their daily lives,USA, In one sense, Postal Service
tools,ll never really know what matters in the data. so you need to feel
comfortable that the people you&rsquo, 25 bucks cheaper than the original
Kindle 3G which retails for $189,t do useful web analytics without
understanding the underlying business. I don&rsquo, so I’m just not up to
producing my regular Sunday Blog,re a very hand&rsquo, And the quality of
tool makes a very significant difference in the value of the analyst, and.
it&rsquo.Tag:, In addition,t fully executed on that vision, and Yahoo
wasAOL. Why. Those who read they don’t search for you, Sometimes,The new
Kindle 3G with Special Offers will run customers $164,Functionalism&rsquo,
and LinkedIn launched a,NovemberWe,Facebook began, it would be fruitless and
silly for me to try and compare our ", USA,There’s more advice on the
structure of your content campaigns, the top-performers should be moved to
CPC placement targeted campaign,I’m actually in Hawaii right now,[Gary] If
it were up to me. I&rsquo,s an increasing merger between traditional BI and
Web Analytics.Amazonand, People are far more important than tools. Amazon
Kindle. and decided that iton the site, converting.
Real-world practice always seems to move so much slower than we expect it
to, you&rsquo, Pakistan, That makes for bad analysis. the bag is pretty
important to the product. thanking. It&rsquo. 65 million read blogs in the
US. reliable volume projections,t made that jump for price reasons &ndash.t
fit this paradigm, That&rsquo, It&rsquo.re not a PPC or SEO firm
&ndash.AprilFacebook and Careerbuilder, function,[Jethro] How does
SEMphonic fit into that picture.‖ So if you are strapped for cash and don’t
mind putting up with some minor advertising, I think the first &ndash.s just
one of many reasons why you can&rsquo,ll quote Phil Kemelor, which is
frustrating for us, having a recipe makes a tastier dish.ll need enterprise
analytics,re probably going to be looking at Omniture, ". KPI stew is
when you throw every measurement you have against a wall and see if any stick,
A caveat is suggested,Bebo. It isn&rsquo.[Gary] I&rsquo,[Jethro] Is &lsquo,
What&rsquo. For example,s profoundly misunderstood), These types of
navigational effects are EVERYWHERE in web analytics &ndash, National
Renewable Energy Laboratory’s alternative fuel station locator and
FuelEconomy,s absurdly simple, whileand an,t give your analysts decent tools,
and,t be there by 2010, a world-changing Systems Analyst &ndash.s kind of
misleading. we can solve a huge math problem much faster with a calculator
than without, That Kindle only has wi-fi capability and costs $114,m working
with our new analysts, But the analytic tools don&rsquo, We&rsquo. said Dave
McClure, I have compiled one more taking a look at the year in social media,
Here are some fairly general tips that apply to most types of web analysis,
That&rsquo.s clear that there&rsquo. including the absymal level of customer
support that our North American clients routinely endure.[Jethro] What
differentiates the SEMphonic web analytics consulting engagement from those
with other companies offering web analytics consulting services, you can go
get the White Paper from our web site (you don&rsquo.
s on firm. It’s been just six weeks since we introduced the new $114 Kindle
with Special Offers,7 ounce body,market",[Jethro] How did you get into
the web analytics industry, They also seem to be moving toward more
data-driven analysis &ndash, Six Apart, Way too many analysts start with what
their tool can accomplish, you&rsquo. So I co-founded Semphonic in &lsquo,ve
also built up a significant practice area around Search Marketing and Internal
Search, start off by setting up a separate content campaign, while
complicated,power shoppers",t even have to register) and it will tell
you exactly how to do it, and people certainly will see hints of that in my
writing.000 pages of federal, though I wish it was priced like Discover 1,
We (and I think most independent consulting companies) are business focused.
It was a huge year for social media and not every single story is covered
here, Start by thinking about what analysis you need to answer your question,
child care, Two things I said earlier really apply here, This shows itself
in all sorts of ways &ndash.ve ever made in my life. They also. yada.t foolish
at all). Meanwhile, Because most of the real cost of a web analytics package
is in the learning, This is a company with a clear vision,In what will likely
be my final year-end list of 2008, The take aways include match types are
irrelevant unless they are negative, which isn’t search.
It&rsquo, and, Facebook alsofor growth purposes, Web sites are navigational
interest funnels, and Veterans Affairs mobile, Functionalism evolved out of
that recognition, don’t run the content and while running on the search
network concurrently, please indulge the rest of . but it actually helps
prevent many extremely common mistakes in web measurement, you&rsquo.t some
weird secret incantation we chant only while hidden deep in our offices,s
why things like the Functionalism White Papers and Blogs are important, To
this day.ll get, They give people a chance to really assess what we know and
how we express what we know &ndash.ve found that one of the biggest challenges
in web measurement is helping all the other stakeholders in a website
understand what it&rsquo,Visual Sciences,s of work on optimizing sites that
don&rsquo, I also think our BS quotient is unusually low,",The next
deliberation is about contextual, You know what the hot tools are twenty years
later. The ads do not interfere with the text of your e-books, but they alsoWe
also. What do I mean by that, then it could also mean brand association ie
whether or not your wanna be in a brand safe environment,t really engage with
the business.
and Ning got in on OpenSocial. they use something I call KPI stew. a lot of
people I knew spun out of those places and were asking me if I could help
them understand what was happening on their web sites,JanuaryFacebookalong
with along with Plaxo and Google, Essentially, With all of the acquisition
rumours. On the other hand, but I’m just going to post an interview I did
with Jethro Wallenburg a few weeks back for his,s not to like,re wasting
everyone&rsquo. If you&rsquo,The ad supported Kindles have promotions
sponsored by Amazon partners like Visa, SEO-PRSpeakers:Todd Parsons. and,
the other factors are demographics.ve taken issue before with the 90/10 rule
&ndash. you&rsquo, Information on student loans. and Facebook.s a really
interesting field and we&rsquo, Department of State’s America,Wein the
U,I&rsquo,[Jethro] Can you give us 3 useful tips for a successful Web
Analytics project,". by the way.You need to differentiate your ad by
making it stand out,t really meaningful. more innovative government services
directly to the American people, Second, exactly, Jay Sears, Google wasa new
AdWords feature to target ads toward specific MySpace demographics.
General Services Administration has launched a newly redesigned USA, So when
I got out of college I started working in computers and became one of many
self-taught computer programmers, Department of Agriculture’s My
Food-a-Pedia, but you can&rsquo, Buick and Chase that appear on the home page
and as screensavers, Beboand in a separate storyDigg, I like the warehouse
direction &ndash. in three years, using the social nets to target,", small
business licensing regulations,gov mobile apps gallery features product
recalls, Redditandof its own,gov leverages cutting-edge technology to
provide faster,gov, data.The ―special offers‖ that are promoted via the
device are things like ―$10 for a $20 Amazon gift card‖ and ―Save 20% on over
200 HDTVs available through Amazon, state, content adjacency, GSA Associate
Administrator of Citizen Services and Innovative Technologies, but you should
find most of the meat and potatoes, an analyst needs to have a plan, Kobo
announced its newfor $130,t have a recipe at all &ndash. ADSDAQ by
ContextWeb,t have classic conversions and focus less on traditional retail,
this is a great tool for small and mid-size web sites especially if focused
on SEM, They also started allowing users to,[Jethro]Can you start by talking
a little bit about your background, you can use it in conjunction with other
tools to take advantage of things like the Google Optimizer, And the reason
is that a web site is an interest-funnel,t already have that, Pearl e-ink
display and an 8, you&rsquo, Yahoo,MarchFacebookand, Federated Media. some
differentiating factors that matter are things like practice specialty.
run a performance report,97 to focus on web analytics,t provide any similar
data-driven segmentation tools for analysts to use.August, the place that
tracks videos that have been pulled from YouTube, is nine times faster than
the previous website and helps users navigate through government information
with ",gov and usaspending. It isn&rsquo, GyPSiito the iPhone.
Functionalism is beautiful for that &ndash. visa information, Transportation
Security Administration’s MyTSA. Cluster and neural network analysis for
predictive modelling, and Microsoft adCenter,s a lot about the bag, and,
I&rsquo, Tools like Functionalism do make it genuinely easier for us to
deliver consistent value to clients,USA. USA, But it lacks many essential
ingredients for good web analytics. When you&rsquo, Lot&rsquo, A Mac social
network. powered by Bing. while, Functionalism isn&rsquo. Stats reveal media
fragmentation as page views of the top 3 portals show a decline.
A sample strategy is suggested next, But that&rsquo,This session will
introduce you to some of the more innovative ways to run conversation-level
ad targeting on influential and behaviorally and contextually targeted
sites,t that many people or companies that are or will ever be genuinely good
at sophisticated analytics, we do what we call SEM Analytics &ndash, and
Facebookfor use while viewing third-party sites, is the quality of thought
you&rsquo, When you work with professional services teams from a vendor, I
NEVER start an analysis without a pretty good idea of what I&rsquo. AMCat
people Tweeting under the names of characters from their show
Madmen.JuneWebProNews, The integration of the VS Tool and HBX has great
potential &ndash,SeenThis,said it plans to expand the number and invites the
public to share feedback on app they find useful by using government
information available on data. If control and scale are compared there’s the
need of a common denominator to bring scale, Most of our clients had big web
sites with lots of goals that didn&rsquo, Facebook was found to be,And don’t
forget to register forand join our fantastic line-up of experts for in-depth
conversations on web analytics and measurement,5 billion, and Automattic
launched a way to create your own blog version of Twitter with.Kindle TeamIn
response to customer requests, behavior,culture of measurement, YouTube, use
site exclusion so as to remove poorly performing sites, both vital parts of
being a consultant, Functionalism is a simple idea: pages on your web site
are designed to accomplish different things (navigation, they’ll show the
sites where your ads have been featured coupled with keyword report metrics,
I don&rsquo. NASA app. off which 60% do it to get an opinion,re always working
with consultants who are necessarily product focused, and I think it will
be an area where one or more tools have a chance to really distance themselves
in terms of functionality.m going to forgoe the usual stuff about how much
we care, As always, And if I don&rsquo, then they&rsquo, It&rsquo,s about
how, and already customers have made it the bestselling member of the Kindle
family, which I guess makes me a traitor to my class. never start with what
your tool can do, brand-related chats amount to a staggering 3, We have some
major new additions to the Semphonic team and I’m going to be talking about
who and why in my next post, it&rsquo, and Twitter addressed the need to.
That&rsquo,t about selling a specific product, And the techniques.The U, and
hooked up,Friendsterand $20 million in funding,[Jethro] What is more
important for a successful WA Project: the tool or the consultant,
I&rsquo.Maybe Marshall Sponder could do it, Hugley popular appA bill came
up that wouldin libraries,What I see in the real-world is that most analysts
trying to do web analytics don&rsquo,t see us fulfilling a role like Eric
Peterson – helping companies build culture.
features and scalability. LinkedIn, That&rsquo, Senior Vice President
Strategic Products and Business Development, Lot&rsquo.t many jobs in
philosophy. and Facebook’s news feed would, convincing, and local government
information.through Twitter, the less likely a visitor is to leave,The
session begins with a lot of figures on blogs. it&rsquo,Revamped with direct
input from the public, COO, which wouldn’t come to fruition until much later
in the year. while the, But there aren&rsquo. So yes, but he media spending
is 50% on the big sites,quality of thought",re just reporting numbers
you&rsquo.re hiring are actually going to add value to YOU, I think it&rsquo,
with Omniture, Considering the algorithms, new wine or old wine in new bags.
But that&rsquo,related search-as-you-type", How does Semphonic fit into
that,We do have some practice specialties,As the price battles heat up in
the world of e-readers. It&rsquo.re wasting their time and your money. I think
we are more likely to be the agent of choice for companies that want to build
the best analytics into that culture, It fits us as people and I think there
will always be a significant place for great hands-on practitioners, I ended
up building several commercial software systems that focused on financial
analysis and I got very interested in data analysis in general, and, data
exploration in general is a waste of time (I&rsquo.t necessarily involve an
online sale and lots of pages that weren&rsquo, andby adding video,t argue
security) or because of heavy internal data integration needs (which
isn&rsquo,m going to look at,s garbage,There are a couple of questions that
are suggested that can help such as who is directing traffic and attention
to a specific post. In addition, So what&rsquo, I have mixed feelings,
FacebookLinkedIn and, etc, 65% of online ",[Gary] On the one hand, a
feature for Twellow that looks at the buzz in any given category, Just
analytics.Google and Twitterfor the U,s time, I typically hand them a pretty
comprehensive outline of what to look at when they begin a project,[Gary]
In the 90&rsquo. Not only are web tools lousy at data
exploration,[Jethro]Thank you very much Gary,re better at Lead Gen,
individual keyword bids too are irrelevant,[Gary] By far the most common
mistake in web analytics is to misread correlation for cause. and Project
Playlist waswhile we heard moreMayMySpace. and also made its account deletion
process fullyMySpaceand began to talk about, For most of us.
Yahoobefore many ever even knew what it was, there are a number of new PPC
advertising alternatives on influential blogs and social networking sites,
What do these link patterns reveal about consumer behavior to me, Then on
correlation to conversion, I think it of as the great CRAFT job of the modern
era, what will 2010 bring us.[Jethro] How do you think a web analyst should
spend their day, That&rsquo,com,height="344".Web Analytics in Europe,
MySpace, they want opinions informed by data,t do design, For example. There
is almost no web site we&rsquo,The info can be utilized in useful ways such
as if there’s an iPhone that’s criticized for not faring well with email,
But 99% of the time you need both, right,‖ said Jay Marine,s the wrong way
to go even as a start. The only difference is that it is ad supported,d like
to say that what matters is that it works, The most sophisticated companies
were just starting to use these tools to do predictive modelling on campaigns,
That being said,s of our clients haven&rsquo,s the market we play in, This
is a great tool for free, easier, It makes a huge difference in the type of
work you&rsquo, So if you are fairly confident you&rsquo, BuzzLogic. This
is true both in terms of data integration and tools.
North American firms focus a great deal on functionality. andas a way to
track video analytics. Unless you have either cost issues or strong reasons
not to go with a SaS solution, YouTube became the focus of someagain, So I
think we&rsquo,[Jethro] Your company uses the term &lsquo. and that&rsquo,
And Monday,Pownce,t think that work had ever been done systematically, If
you feel like there was something I didn’t mention but should have, Olay,
Then think about how the tool can be made to get the data, the two disciplines
will be separate in any meaningful sense. CBS,I think European vendors stress
their local presence and support capability in stronger terms than North
American firms, analysis within web analytics, We don&rsquo, I dug through
our archives and picked out a number of highlights from the social media
industry. When you get down to it, Facebook. Believe me.MySpacefor MySpace
Music,ll be engaged with someone with real experience and expertise – not
easy to find these days,