WebResults - Web Analytics Monthly Newsletter
OCTOBER 2006
Marketing Performance Management: The Art and Science of Marketing
Idea-making and number-crunching. Right brain and left brain. Art and science. It's not only possible to bring these two sides of marketing together, it's mission-critical in today's shifting landscape. That's why we've created resources to help marketers build out a measurement framework on their marketing to help them continually optimize their return on investment.

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Marketing Performance ManagementDiscover the essential guide for web-smart marketers, designed to help businesses thrive in the changing world. Your organization can take advantage of web analytics as part of a Marketing Performance Management framework to measure—and tame—the wild marketing world. Get solutions to many of the challenges marketers face every day:
  • Quantify your site's effectiveness, even if you don't sell on the web
  • Generate online leads and tracking them to offline sales
  • Use web analytics to target email marketing campaigns
  • Use your web site to target different audience segments
  • Segment strategies for successful email marketing campaigns
Plus, learn which technologies are the ones to watch for web marketers, such as RSS, video, blogs, and more.

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Headlines

The Web Numbers Game, Ken Magill (Multichannel Merchant) - "Multichannel retailers who have grown up with direct marketing discipline are the retailers who get it the best," says Jason Palmer, vice president of marketing for WebTrends. "They are the ones who are used to measuring their businesses in a way that is complementary to online marketing."

Data Smog: The Too-Much-Data Problem, Jason Burby (ClickZ) - In no other industry is data smog a greater issue than in Web analytics and the related site data that goes with it.

Snare E-Mail Addresses on Landing Pages, Robert W. Bly (DM News) - Most Internet marketers use landing pages to promote both conversion and search engine optimization. Wise Internet marketers are also concerned with a third performance metric: e-mail address capture.

Targeted tactics drive response, Carol Krol (BtoB) - Relevant. Targeted. One-to-one. BtoB Senior Reporter Carol Krol held a virtual roundtable with three top direct marketers to solicit their views on trends in targeted marketing and changes within the direct marketing industry.

Myths of Magazine Engagement, Robert Passikoff, Ph.D (Chief Marketer) - An article in a recent "Ad Age" noted that "engagement" has begun to resemble a Holy Grail of magazine metrics, and we agree. But only if you define it properly...

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WebTrends Marketing Performance in Action Conference

More speakers, more information, more fun! Check out the recently added updates to the
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Bryan Eisenberg book signing: Get a free copy and meet the author
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TIA Marketing Outlook Forum
Oct 11 - 13
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Responsys Leaders Forum
November 2 - 3
The Westin St. Francis, San Francisco
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Customer First 06
Oct 25
Brussels, Belgium
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Marketing on Tour
Oct 26
Zurich, Switzerland
Oct 31
Frankfurt, Germany
Nov 16
Munich, Germany


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