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The web analytics wednesday in London last night was useful, interesting and fun. There must have been 40 web analysts who worked for well-known companies such as RBS, Morethan, BT, Boden, Total Jobs and analytics consultants, agencies and providers. Thanks to SCL Analytics for organising it all so well and the free drinks!
The meeting kicked off with a group discussion on general trends in the industry and then broke up into smaller group discussions.
Here were a few of things discussed. Please add it to this if you feel I have missed a few out.
Offline versus online integration. As we move from traditional web analytics to marketing performance management MPM (apologies for the acroynm), differentiating offline and online we are realising is less than meaningful as they are both contributing dire ctly and indirectly to the site’s performance. Why not call it non-line instead?
The value of surveys in web analytics – short three question surveys with a free text area prove most effective. In terms of usability, most visitors will be scared off by forms or surveys that look too long. In one client’s case, their site was achieving 50% completions of the short 3 question survey from the confirmation page.
To find what level you feel comfortable with your data, whether that’s 10% or 90% and then make decisions accordingly. Each analytics solution measures data and sessions in slightly different ways. Combined with the fact that we can not always get all the information from where conversions originated, ie phone conversions that originated from the web.
Gaps in the data which do not have a short term solution. For example, online test drive requests that result in car sales at the dealer which for various reasons primarily the nature of the dealership itself are near impossible to accurately track, for example Saab.
Price comparison sites/aggregators as significant sources of business to online insurance companies for example. In the case of Morethan, 17% of their conversions were from aggregators. Then a classic problem of how to maintain the loyalty of such a price-consious customer develops along side questions of when and how is the best way to contact them to encourage renewal of their annual insurance.
Social networks as meaningful referring sources to job sites for example Total Jobs. And developments in how to track and assess the importance of comment flow on a social network to directing traffic to a company and affecting conversion rates – the halo affect.
The importance of analysing PPC effectiveness by financial value rather than cost per acquisition (CPA).
And just a great feeling of being amongst fellow compatriots and friends whilst we shared our war stories. No photos (sorry). www.webanalyticsdemystified.com is the place to go for when and where all the WAW are happening across the globe.
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- 7 Ways to make web analytics work better in companies
- Measuring social media, influence, debate, buzz monitoring
- Web analytics winners and losers? It’s the people that make the difference.
- Simple segmentation for your website and better web analytics understanding
- Web Analytics Wednesday in London – the future of web analytics
- Digital cream: revealing debating at econsultancy’s marketing event
- Google Analytics Tip: Ecommerce tracking set up, screenshots and why it’s useful
- Reliving my customer’s experience and some nice screenshots
- Internal site search part 2
- The best charts ever and food for thought for us web analysts
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- Perry Williams: Hello Dear, I am strongly agree with your point that the web analytics is associated with the social...
- Philip Sheldrake: Nice overview Marianina. I wanted to post a link to an article in Business Week from June about the...
- Luisa Woods: Hi Marianina, I think you make a very good point about the importance of segmentation. I like to carry...
- Eric T. Peterson: Marianina, Nice to have seen you Monday in London! I just got this post so perhaps something odd is...
- Marianina Manning: Hi Luisa, Thanks for your thought-provoking comment! I agree that new ways of looking at web...
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December 3 2007
Hello, nice site
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