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Adam Egbert
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Adam Egbert

Adam Egbert is an Adobe Consulting Manager and a Web Analytics Junkie. His industry contributions include several articles, presentations at industry conferences, book contributions, and activity in social media channels. He assists clients (including many of the Internet Retailer 500, such as eBay, Walmart, Nike, REI, The Gap, and Home Depot) in establishing analysis-centered organizations and utilizing web analytics to drive site optimization. He is passionate about data-driven decision making and information design. Adam graduated from Brigham Young University with a bachelor’s degree and has a Master’s of Business Administration in International Business from Thunderbird University. He is an avid hiker, backpacker, and rock climber. He lives in Payson, Utah with his wife, 3 sons, and one adorable baby girl.

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Retail Holiday Tips — ‘Tis the Season to be Jolly, Not Cranky!

Analytics, Retail & Travel · By Adam Egbert On November 19, 2012 · Add Comment
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As the hol­i­day approaches, are you look­ing for­ward to some fam­ily feasts, merry-making, and good cheer?  If you are a retailer, these might be the sub­jects of dis­tant mem­o­ries only.  More often than not, hol­i­days mean rush­ing projects, headaches, long days, and sleep­less nights.  The good news is, it doesn’t have to be that...

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Site-Jumping: How to plan for a portfolio of sites [Inside Adobe SiteCatalyst]

Analytics · By Adam Egbert On February 29, 2012 · Add Comment

When I was young, we used to take trips to a cabin my grand­fa­ther built.  It was a favorite des­ti­na­tion because of the poten­tial for adven­ture every­where.  One year, adven­ture came unin­vited.  A rel­a­tively quick warm­ing in the spring caused a runoff flood that threat­ened our fam­ily cabin.  I remem­ber tread­ing water on what...

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15 for 15: A Stitch in Time Saves… Visitors

Analytics · By Adam Egbert On November 23, 2011 · Add Comment

With this post, we will be con­clud­ing this series of blog posts specif­i­cally around Site­Cat­a­lyst 15. (If you haven’t been count­ing, this one is num­ber 15!)  We hope you have found some great infor­ma­tion here.  We will con­tinue to pro­vide updates and tips for Site­Cat­a­lyst and the Dig­i­tal Mar­ket­ing Suite in var­i­ous blog...

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15 for 15: Your Kiss is on my List (Var)!

Analytics · By Adam Egbert On September 8, 2011 · 1 Comment

It’s not just a great 80’s song from a great 80’s band with great 80’s hair. We use lists for all sorts of things on a day-to-day basis. Birth­day Lists. To-do Lists. Gro­cery Lists. Even Jolly Ole St. Nick makes his list and checks it twice. Is it any won­der that we do the...

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15 for 15: Processing Rules and Context Data Variables

Analytics · By Adam Egbert On June 1, 2011 · Add Comment

My sis­ter had an expe­ri­ence while rais­ing her three-year-old son that has given me some perspective.She was try­ing to explain the impor­tance of rules in the house­hold and said, “These are the rules!Do you under­stand the rules?”My nephew looked back at her with a side­ways glance and said, “Rules?I like Cin­na­mon Rules!”

The release...

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SiteCatalyst Implementations – Give ‘em props! (or eVars) [Inside Adobe SiteCatalyst]

Analytics · By Adam Egbert On March 31, 2011 · 5 Comments

If you have had any expe­ri­ence with Adobe Site­Cat­a­lyst imple­men­ta­tions, you have had the plea­sure of get­ting to know the Site­Cat­a­lyst vari­ables. There are two basic types of vari­ables used in Site­Cat­a­lyst: Traf­fic Vari­ables and Con­ver­sion Vari­ables. (Known to their friends as “props” and “eVars” respec­tively :) One of the most basic yet...

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Becoming Spider-Man:Testing Search Engine Traffic [Inside Adobe SiteCatalyst]

Analytics · By Adam Egbert On March 3, 2011 · Add Comment

One of the cool out-of-the-box fea­tures of Adobe’s Site­Cat­a­lyst is the abil­ity to track how vis­i­tors are find­ing your site. There are numer­ous meth­ods by which vis­i­tors might come to your site. Some know your site’s domain or have your site book­marked. Some come to your site via links from other sites. One...

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Fashionably Late – The Retail Adoption Life Cycle [Retail Web Analytics]

Analytics, Retail & Travel · By Adam Egbert On February 24, 2011 · Add Comment

As indi­cated in my pre­vi­ous retail blog post, there are a num­ber of dif­fer­ences between retail web­sites and other web­sites. Tech­nol­ogy adop­tion is one area that is espe­cially poignant. Con­sider the exhibit on the right.

Does this graph indi­cate that users have a lit­tle desire to pur­chase on their web-enabled phones? Prob­a­bly not. What dri­ves...

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Retail Web Analytics – What’s the hype all about? [Retail Web Analytics]

Analytics, Retail & Travel · By Adam Egbert On February 2, 2011 · 2 Comments

The Online Retail indus­try is a $135 bil­lion behe­moth that will grow to $234 bil­lion by 2014 in the US. E-commerce rep­re­sents 3.7% of all retail sales in the US and is expected to increase to 5.5% in 2014. It is one of the few seg­ments that enjoyed a pos­i­tive growth rate in the year 2009....

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