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Metric-ocracy: Less Data, More Insight

January 24, 2012January 24, 2012
John Quarto-vonTivadar
Analytics, Featured, Marketing

The start of a new year is a popular time for resolutions. Of course, even among marketing cognoscenti new year’s resolutions rarely involve analytics and key performance indicators (KPIs) — so I’d like to take this opportunity to outline a plan you can follow to slim down and shape up in 2012, metrics-wise.

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My New Column at Marketing Land

December 26, 2011January 4, 2018
John Quarto-vonTivadar
Analytics, Marketing

I’m happy to announce that I’ve been selected by the folks at Search Engine Land as one of their regular columnists for their new sister site, Marketing Land. I’ll be writing monthly articles on topics concerning metrics and analytics important

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Feeling Unhenged

November 23, 2010November 23, 2010
John Quarto-vonTivadar
Marketing

I’m a proud owner of a Hengedock — a wonderfully simple docking station for Mac laptops. Hengedocks lets the laptop stand sidewise while on your desktop and easily connect (and disconnect) from a bevy of devices, such a large full

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What Could Happy Billy Teach You About Your Business?

August 17, 2009May 20, 2010
John Quarto-vonTivadar
Headline, Marketing

During a recent visit with family and with the fuel tank showing a big red Empty, my Mom was insistent that we had to get gas from Billy. “Who the heck is Billy?”, I wondered? (Bear with me, this gets

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Hardee’s b-holes — do they sell?

July 3, 2009May 20, 2010
John Quarto-vonTivadar
Featured, Marketing

I recently viewed this Hardee’s Ad and thought, “Can this be real?” It seems Hardee’s now sells little breakfast items that compete with donut holes. And this ad takes a blind taste-test theme, wherein the participants choose between the “A-holes”

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Improvement Starts With (Bad) Habits

June 10, 2009May 20, 2010
John Quarto-vonTivadar
Featured, Headline, Marketing, Optimization & Testing

Occasionally we hear from clients after they’ve implemented some recommendation for improvement that they see a temporary dip in conversion. This seemingly goes against logic — after all, if you fix a problem, things should get better, right? — but

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Three Reasons The Easter Bunny Shouldn’t Be Your Marketer

April 10, 2009May 20, 2010
John Quarto-vonTivadar
Featured, Headline, Marketing

Despite the great press coverage, there are three excellent reasons why the Easter Bunny should not be your marketer

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Video Views Up, When Will Sales Follow?

January 27, 2009May 20, 2010
John Quarto-vonTivadar
Headline, Marketing, Research

Hot on the heels of a recent comScore report, we hear the interesting news that product videos views are up some 40%, year-over-year basis last October.  Now, that was done on a single rather small sample, but still this speaks

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A Sterne Look at 2009

January 17, 2009May 20, 2010
John Quarto-vonTivadar
Marketing

We’re pleased to replay Jim Sterne’s recent webinar with us, “Turn Web Analytics into 2009 Revenue”. Come watch the Chairman of the Web Analytics Association talk with Bryan Eisenberg (himself the Chairman Emeritus of the WAA) about proactively using Analytics

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Sell Me Something, Not Some Thing

November 13, 2008May 20, 2010
John Quarto-vonTivadar
Featured, Headline, Landing Page Optimization, Marketing

During recent casual browsing, I noticed the following magicJack ad (on the left): Now can anyone tell what the heck the product is? (I happen to know, since I also remember a late night commercial that explains it.)* Put yourself

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