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People have been running experiments for a long time, not just in the chemistry lab or other fields of natural science, but also in marketing research and other offline business studies. Recently, with the rapid growing of online business and online marketing, people gradually realize the vital position of online testing for every business of any size. By learning so much from the offline experimentation techniques, online testing has much more advantages and much less limitations compare with offline experimentation.
According to Kaushik introduces in Web Analytics 2.0, online experiment and testing is “fast, cheap and scalable”. We can learn very important insights about the customers by their real behavior, get a clear answer from customer preferences when struggling in multiple options, and answer “the why” from the massive data we collected. The most important thing is that getting the result is fast and at a low cost. After failed for a few times and finally made appropriate changes, the business will achieve the magnificent success it deserved on its online marketing.
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Every testing program must start somewhere. Kaushik suggests in Web Analytics 2.0 to start with a free tool like Google website optimizer because it can offer 95 percent of any paid tool can do, or try some commercial tools such as Omniture Test & Target, Autonomy Optimost, and SiteSpect. Then, you can pick pages you want to fix and create a couple of versions for testing. Rather than launching a site with one idea, you can run experiments on your site with various ideas and let your customers tell you what works best.
There are some useful suggestions from experienced analysis about building a successful testing
When implemented correctly a Web Analytics tool offers more than just data or information, it can offer knowledge and insights. One can analyze the effect of a new background color, the effectiveness of a marketing campaign, the emotional impact of positive vs negative news feeds (Vindu Goel, June 9th 2014), or the effects of dynamic pricing based on demographic and personal visitor data insights (Greg Petro, April 17th 2015). With the correct data and information we can make the insights needed not just to know what has happened, but to influence events. As Kaushik said, “We’ve evolved from hits to page view to visits. Now, we have Outcomes.” (Kaushik, 2010,
Peg and Kris, LLC expect that the particular focus on the effectiveness of its current online market strategies will reveal a wealth of information that will be used by the company to evaluate its current marketing plan (K. May, personal communication, September 23, 2016). It is expected that the study will reveal how customers arrive to the company’s website (Soat, 2016). It is also expected that Peg and Kris, LLC will be able to determine what percentage of website visits convert to sales (Soat,
If the organization is unable to spend huge amounts on this web analytics tools and the corresponding resources it is better to spend some money on the
Barefoot and Szabo is that this part is one of the biggest problem in marketing. Because most of marketers do not design systems to measure offline
6. Kaushik, A. (2010). Web analytics 2.0: The art of online accountability & science of customer centricity. Indianapolis, IN: Wiley.
Avinash Kaushik in his blog proposed the 10/90 rule. [1] According to him, many large companies that have invested in web analytics tools still struggle to make any meaningful business decisions. Apparently, there is a no dearth of data that is collected via these web analytics tools for these companies. However, the caveat here is that there is no real useful information that is being analyzed from these data. In other words, there are not sufficient people with expertise in these areas working on these web analytics tools for these companies to make any meaningful suggestions from the data for the companies to implement and in return increase their profits or whatever they are trying to achieve/gain. The 10/90 rule suggests that for every $10 invested on web analytics tools, $90 should be invested on web analysts by the company to be able to expect positive results on their investment on web analytics tools. Primarily, the data collected from such web analytics tools is useless unless an expert is analyzing that data. It is the web analyst that is critical for the success from the ...
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The web analytic has evolved in massive way in recent past, because of which the companies have to deal with quantitative data, qualitative data, competitive intelligence marketing trends costumer behavior and many more, and to deal with these issues a company need a proper skilled analyst with the correct power of analytical tool. Now consider a situation that a company has invested a huge amount of money acquiring the most advance analytical tool and hired a very expensive web analytical contractor to set up the tackling strategy and utilized the ability of an in-house developer to implement the tool. But due to some reason the contractor has left and the in-house developer has been moved to some other project and the company is left with huge undefined numbers unanswered business queries and with one or two analysts. This is the best situation to use the 10/90 rule, according to which the company should have invested 10% on a web analytical tool (Omniture, Coremetrices etc.) and rest 90% should be spending on the people to analyse the numbers and on a team of web analysts to analyze and gain valuable
Google Analytics is a free web analytics tool by Google, providing statistics and basic analytical data for users who have a Google account and register their websites with Google. Cutroni (2010) has explained that “Google Analytics is a tool to quantitatively measure what happens on your website” (p. 1). To allow Google Analytics to collect information and track visitor behavior, a website owner needs to install a JavaScript tag generated by Google on the website. Some examples of information that can be obtained from Google Analytics are the number of visitors for a specified period, unique visitors, pageviews, demographics data (e.g. language and location), visit duration, traffic source, bounce rates and conversion rate. More importantly, the service enables users to create custom reports, define specific goals and filter particular metrics for the purposes of understanding customer behavior and SEO.
Many advantages can be gained from test marketing the urban areas with have large commuting populations. One advantage that can be gained is being able to test the product on a small scale before committing to a national launch of the product. This allows marketers to determine the market
Web analytics is the process of collecting, manipulating, processing and analyzing website data (Burby et al, 2007). Thus, companies will be able to figure out how customers are
Companies have transformed technology from a supporting tool into a strategic weapon.”(Davenport, 2006) In business research, technology has become an essential means that many organizations use in their daily operations. According to the article, Analytics is a major technological tool used. It is described as “the extensive use of data, statistical and quantitative analysis, explanatory and predictive models, and fact-based management to drive decisions and actions."(Davenport, 2006) Data is compiled to enhance business practices. When samples are taken, they are used to examine research and understand how to solve problems or why situations are as they are. Furthermore, in this article, Thomas Davenport discusses analytics from a business standpoint. He refers to organizations that have been successful in their usage of data and statistical analysis. In addition, he also discusses how data and statistics can be vital in the efforts to improve the operations of businesses.
Analytics can reveal insights about promotions, such as the value of placing a specific brand of clothing as a featured item on your site.
Now days, companies are searching for new ways of gathering data so that they can get useful data in order to make well informed decisions regarding the market they are operating in. Google analytics is considered one of the best tools offers extensive amount of data to business owners for free. However, the success of business is highly depended on how well they can arrange data and customize their collected data corresponded to their business priorities. Google analytics provides beneficial information for companies regardless of their extent of operation.
Sharing the information is particularly important in digital marketing because open communication will only help in speeding up the understanding and collaborative opportunities. It is also necessary to keep checking the effectiveness of the digital activity by performing interim digital audits. It includes checking the performance based on traffic, engagement and conversion and then benchmarking against previous results, targets and the competitor’s performance.