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Brent Dykes
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Brent Dykes

Brent Dykes is the Evangelist for Customer Analytics at Adobe and is responsible for guiding and evangelizing the vision of Adobe’s analytics solutions. He has been focused on enterprise-level web analytics consulting for eight years, working with many industry leaders, including Microsoft, Sony, Dell, Comcast, and Nike. Dykes is also an author and recently published his first book, Web Analytics Action Hero, which outlines how to become a successful analyst who drives action from digital data. He has been involved in digital marketing for more than ten years, including positions at WPP’s Blast Radius, Lands’ End, and Microsoft. Dykes earned his MBA at Brigham Young University, where he was a Hawes Scholar. He earned his BBA (Marketing) degree from Simon Fraser University. Follow Brent on Twitter @analyticshero.

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The Elusive Web Measurement Strategy

Analytics · By Brent Dykes On August 31, 2009 · 6 Comments

Imag­ine tak­ing a class in col­lege with­out clearly know­ing what is expected by your pro­fes­sor or how you will be graded. Noth­ing could be more stress­ful to a recov­er­ing “grade whore” like me. You could lean over to an intelligent-looking class­mate beside you and ask their opin­ion of what is expected and how you...

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Has an Executive Sponsor Got Your Back?

Analytics · By Brent Dykes On July 30, 2009 · 5 Comments


In the off­beat com­edy “Napoleon Dyna­mite”, Napoleon learned the impor­tance of the buddy sys­tem from Rex, a self-defense instruc­tor. “[At] Rex Kwon Do, we use the buddy sys­tem. No more fly­ing solo. You need some­body watch­ing your back at all times!” In terms of your company’s web ana­lyt­ics pro­gram — whether...

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Will Data-Driven Organizations Please Stand Up

Analytics · By Brent Dykes On July 9, 2009 · 8 Comments

After exper­i­ment­ing with my own per­sonal blog over the past year, I fig­ured it was about time that I ven­tured into the world of cor­po­rate blog­ging. Some of you may have had the oppor­tu­nity of attend­ing my Omni­ture Sum­mit 2009 pre­sen­ta­tion on the “7 Keys to Cre­at­ing a Data-Driven Orga­ni­za­tion”. Oth­ers of you may...

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