I recently had the opportunity to see Adrian Ho of Zeus Jones speak. His firm does exceptional things in marketing that are non-traditional and approach social marketing in a way that is seemingly at odds with many of the “Best practices” floating around. Here’s the video and below that is the slide deck.
Category Archives: Observing what happens
Facebook changing business pages
Just a quick heads up that Facebook is changing some things about business pages. Here’s a slide deck to help you adjust: Fb Pages Transition Jan2010 View more presentations from Alisa Leonard-Hansen.
Two Yoast google-analytics-plugin hacks for WordPress
Image by Getty Images via Daylife I love WordPress. And I love Yoast’s Google Analytics plugin for WordPress. It makes installation of GA so much swifter. And I really hate hacking plugins because that means I have to be careful when I upgrade them. But there are two things that really stick in my craw: […]
A small case for qualitative analytics.
Image via Wikipedia A lot of the work I do is focused on web analytics. When making things for online consumption, one of the few ways to know whether anything is working as intended is via web analytics. It’s our only way to observe how humans are really interacting with the things we make. And […]
Twitter as Oral History Project: 1YR old retweets
Image via Wikipedia The project outline of the 1YrAgo Twitter handle. [Warning: navel-gazing ahead] One of the salient features of Twitter is its ephemeral nature. We post our short snippets of life or thought and then on we go. Our post gets buried and eventually forgotten in the piles of others’ thoughts and life-snippets.
Web tool reviews
As some of you know, I write a weekly column over at Inman News. I tend to write about either my take on a web marketing concept (with a heavy dose of web analytics) or review some piece of technology (with a heavy dose of web analytics). The column comes out on Tuesday mornings for […]
Sneak previews and beta stuff
Image via CrunchBase I write a weekly column on marketing, technology and analytics in highly competitive lead generation business of real estate for Inman News. One of the fun things about doing the column is looking at new tools and technology. Even more fun is determining how these tools might be used to generate revenue […]
Improving Social Media via Web Analytics: Observations on Satisfaction
Observing Satisfaction in social media can be tricky but rewarding.
Improving Social Media via Web Analytics: Observations about Conversion
Social media opens up a lot more in-boxes of conversion data.
Improving Social Media via Web Analytics: Putting Acquisition data in context
Putting customer acquisition data in context helps you refine your social media campaign.