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Data and Analytics
Smart Home Market Forecast 2019
Smart home products are beginning to come into their own, and there is a long way to go before they reach their full potential. Amazon Echos and Google Home units that flew off the shelf last year (and continue to do so) are doing more than making for an easy gift for your tech-minded friend. Smart home devices stand as [...]
Leveraging Data Analytics to Transform Your Marketing Strategy
Big data is not a fad. As business and marketing leaders work to increase value for consumers and measure the results of their advertising efforts, spending on data analytics continues to rise—and it’s not predicted to slow down any time soon. According to the Data & Marketing Association (DMA), becoming data-centric continues to be a priority for U.S. marketers and [...]
Behind the Process of Website Design
To the untrained eye, a well-designed website is just a pretty face. As a web designer, I can tell you first hand that high-quality web design is about a lot more than appearances. There’s quite a bit of depth behind all those good looks. Maybe you’ve heard of user experience (UX) and user interface (UI). These are the design principles [...]
A Guide to Recognizing Insight
For companies looking to best understand their brand and improve the connection with their customers, a useful piece of consumer insight can pave the way to marketing success with memorable messaging that effectively attracts new customers. In our data-rich age, the abundance of readily available facts about customer behavior and preferences would make it seem that consumer insights would be [...]
Building a Data Rosetta Stone
I love analyzing data. For some clients that means taking data from one source. For others, it means sorting through multiple data sources with different formats from different data platforms. When that happens, a once easy data analysis project becomes a bit more difficult. More difficult, but not impossible. Luckily, one thing I love as much as analyzing data is [...]
ConversionXL Live 2018: Growth, Optimization & Testing
CXL Live is a digital conference about growth, optimization and testing. This year, 400 people attended from 22 different countries! I interacted with people from Norway, Japan, Netherlands, Australia, Taiwan, Hungary and Canada. This was my second year attending this conference and the speakers were again, incredible. The very first speaker of the conference, Bryan Eisenberg, ended up being one [...]
Becoming Data-Centric: How Companies are Leveraging Data for Results in 2018
“Big data” is everywhere. More and more data is available to companies every day, and with it an increasing demand for new progress in attribution and insight. Over the next three years, it’s estimated that spending on marketing analytics will increase by almost 200%. Clearly, companies are not only looking for ways to obtain data, but discovering ways to leverage [...]
A Year in Review: Direct Marketing and Analytics at Strategic America
As another year closes out, we take a little time to reflect on what has transpired in our industry and what we can learn from it in order to improve in the new year. The infographic below shows a snapshot of Strategic America’s 2017 direct marketing and analytics efforts. U.S. companies spent $10 billion in 2017 on third-party audience data [...]
Data-driven design is the new redesign
“I don’t like the way our site looks. We should redesign the whole thing!” When the word “redesign” is muttered, thoughts rush our brains with new coats of paint, enhanced functionality, new messaging … but what for? Why is this redesign even on the table? Without data, decisions are based only on our thoughts. Data gives us the what and [...]
Dashboard Makeovers: Three Redesign Tips
At Strategic America, we strive to “find a better way” in everything we do. As a data scientist and dashboard designer it’s a guiding principal for the work I do every day for SA clients. In the world of data visualization, always striving for improvement, is the driving force behind dashboard makeovers. Often a dashboard may be put together on [...]
