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Michael Halbrook
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Michael Halbrook

Michael Halbrook manages the business consultants serving retail & travel clients within Adobe Consulting. His career has been focused on encouraging, creating & measuring digital experiences. Halbrook started his career as an on-air talent and the online director at three radio stations in St. Louis, then moved on to start his own dotcom. Later, after three years as a senior interactive project manager at St. Louis's largest media production facility, he spent three years at ad agency Rodgers Townsend, responsible for strategy & execution of digital marketing programs for AT&T and Anheuser Busch. Michael carries several regional and national ADDY Awards and multiple DMA Arrow Awards. He architected & produced one of Marketing Sherpa's 2006 "Top 12 Viral Sites of the Year" and produced a 2005 microsite for charity Network For Good that drove a 400% increase in donation levels during a holiday period following a devastating tsunami, when extreme donor fatigue was expected. In recent years as a consultant, he was involved in some of the most innovative and successful new uses of Adobe Insight. Adobe client engagements with successful innovation and bottom-line results included Redbox, Best Buy, Target, Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group, Staples, Scottrade and Walt Disney Parks & Resorts Online. Today, Michael transfers that experience and passion into helping manage, grow and foster his team's success. He has lived and worked his entire life in the St. Louis metro area, but has never been to the top of the Gateway Arch. Tweet him at @Halbrook, but don't do it after 9 lest you incur the wrath of his loving wife and four amazing sons.

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Access to Profile Objects for Users/Groups [Analysis with Insight]

Analytics · By Michael Halbrook On May 26, 2011 · 2 Comments

This breaks “out of the box” of what I typ­i­cally choose to write about (analysis-related items related to Adobe Insight), but a good ques­tion came up on Twit­ter today from one of our clients (you fol­low the #AdobeIn­sight hash tag, right?) Although the ques­tion leans more technical/architectural, it’s an area where power ana­lysts / power users...

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Available Today: Adobe Insight 5.4 [Analysis with Insight]

Analytics · By Michael Halbrook On March 31, 2011 · Add Comment

There was a very excit­ing announce­ment today regard­ing the Adobe Online Mar­ket­ing Suite, pow­ered by Omniture:

The newest release of Adobe Insight, ver­sion 5.4, is now available!

I’ve been lucky to have sev­eral of my own day-to-day clients take an active role in the exter­nal cus­tomer beta process of Adobe Insight 5.4, and as...

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Adobe Insight at Omniture Summit 2011 [Analysis with Insight]

Analytics · By Michael Halbrook On March 2, 2011 · Add Comment

I’m stoked about Adobe Omni­ture Sum­mit next week! It sounds like we’ll have the chance to hang out and net­work with more users of Adobe Insight than ever before at a Sum­mit. We also have some excel­lent oppor­tu­ni­ties for Insight users & non-users alike to learn more about some of our show­case data inte­gra­tions...

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What’re Small Elements? [Analysis with Insight]

Analytics · By Michael Halbrook On July 15, 2010 · 3 Comments

One ques­tion that begin­ner Adobe Insight ana­lysts fre­quently ask is “What are Small Ele­ments?” Actu­ally, even advanced ana­lysts ask this from time to time, and it’s a good ques­tion with a rel­a­tively sim­ple answer.

Uniques Exceeded: The first 500,000 ele­ments in a month

If you’ve used Adobe Site­Cat­a­lyst, you’re likely famil­iar with the “Uniques Exceeded”...

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Excel to Insight Worksheets [Analysis with Insight]

Analytics · By Michael Halbrook On March 2, 2010 · 1 Comment

One of the very pow­er­ful and commonly-used visu­al­iza­tions in Adobe Insight is the Work­sheet visu­al­iza­tion. It allows an ana­lyst to cre­ate ad hoc met­rics and fil­ters. Like a stan­dard spread­sheet, every cell can con­tain a sta­tic value or a for­mula — includ­ing ref­er­ences to other cells. In addi­tion, though, Insight Work­sheet cells can con­tain for­mu­las...

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Insight at Summit 2010 [Analysis with Insight]

Analytics · By Michael Halbrook On February 25, 2010 · Add Comment

(Cross-posted on the Omni­ture Sum­mit 2010 Blog)

There’s an abun­dance of oppor­tu­nity for an online mar­keter at Omni­ture Sum­mit, and you cer­tainly have to care­fully choose what you’ll do to max­i­mize your time at Summit.

I’m hop­ing that every­one at Sum­mit will make some time to explore what Omni­ture Insight might be able to...

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Segments in 5 Minutes [Analysis with Insight]

Analytics · By Michael Halbrook On September 3, 2009 · 1 Comment

It’s quite com­mon that a cus­tomer start­ing to use Omni­ture Insight will tell us that one of the key busi­ness rea­sons for adding Insight to their tool set is for its power of Segmentation.

In Omni­ture Insight, Seg­ments are sim­ply user-defined, re-usable selec­tions of data. They’re quick to use and pow­er­ful in analy­sis when...

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Sure, Keep Your Data [Analysis with Insight]

Analytics · By Michael Halbrook On July 21, 2009 · 1 Comment

Last Fri­day, I noticed some­one on Twit­ter ask “Omni­ture is awe­some, but… We want to track an appli­ca­tion where we can’t have a third party get­ting per­sonal cus­tomer info. Any Ideas?”

The answer was obvi­ous to me, but I real­ize that for most of our cus­tomers, accus­tomed to hav­ing their data for most parts of...

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A Tale of Three Dataset Schemas [Analysis with Insight]

Analytics · By Michael Halbrook On July 14, 2009 · 6 Comments

When the solu­tion now called Omni­ture Insight became part of the Omni­ture Suite last year, mar­keters gained the pow­er­ful oppor­tu­nity to inte­grate exist­ing web (Site­Cat­a­lyst) data with other data points, includ­ing offline data. Many Omni­ture cus­tomers have already taken advan­tage of this oppor­tu­nity and are prov­ing that the “sky is the limit” as far...

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