Are you ready for the most intense week of online marketing discussion ever? Connected Marketing Week is starting today and will kick off a full week of informative sessions, networking events, lively discussions, and after-hours partying on the grandest scale of them all in San Francisco. This is the one event that draws experts from all fields of marketing including SEO, PPC, web analytics, social media, online news, mobile, email marketing and more. With so much going on, it’s hard to keep it all the events in perspective, so I put together a handy list of events that cannot be missed this year at Connected Marketing Week: Read more…
Last week I was extremely fortunate to attend eMetrics Toronto 2010, which ran in parallel with SMX. Unfortunately, I had to make a choice: stick with my bread and butter online marketing peeps, or challenge my left brain and get analytical. Thankfully, my coworker Lisa Davis was joining me for the conference and wanted to attend SMX (her SMX review), so my fate was clear. Although I wrote up a fairly detailed review of eMetrics on my other blog, Analytics-Advice.com, there was one presentation that really stood out from the rest that incorporated strong correlations between analytics and marketing.
Conversion is something that’s talked about a lot, by experts such as Bryan Eisenberg, Tim Ash, Avinash Kaushik, and many others. Very few give real-world examples of how conversion is improved over time with proven methodologies that are measurable and repeatable. If you’ve dabbled in A/B or multivariate testing, you may not think airplanes have a lot to do with your conversion rate, but they do! Read more…
