Announcing Current Data in SiteCatalyst 15

- Bret Gundersen

Have you noticed that there are 67 days until Christmas? That means 34 days until Thanksgiving, and 35 days until Black Friday. I’ve spoken with a few retail analysts who’s palms start to sweat when they think about 12 hour sessions in a war room, urgent text messages from executives, and constant requests for sales and promotion updates.

Do you publishers sit back and chuckle at the stress over the holiday season? You deal with this every day!

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How to Get Data In and Out of SiteCatalyst — Part II

- Brent Dykes

In the previous post in this two-part series, I described the various methods of getting data into SiteCatalyst. Once you’ve collected the necessary data for your business needs, you’ll next be interested in putting the data to use for reporting, analysis, or optimization purposes. There may be many different ways you’d like to leverage your SiteCatalyst data so I think it’s important to understand what options you have at your disposal so that you can achieve your business objectives as efficiently as possible.

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Five Hidden Gems in SiteCatalyst 15

- Ben Gaines

Recently, two bright and well-trained SiteCatalyst 15 users asked me to point out some lesser-known or lesser-used features which help analysts and marketers run a really tight ship. SiteCatalyst 15 looks fairly similar to SiteCatalyst 14, but beyond the obvious platform improvements (e.g., segmentation, unlimited subrelations, etc.) it does contain a number of features that can be easy to miss but which either save users a lot of time/frustration or enhance the analysis that you can do in the tool. Today I’m going to share five things that I would advise all users of SiteCatalyst 15, both newbies and veterans, to consider trying out.

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Combining Statistics, SiteCatalyst, and Test&Target for Massive Conversion Lift

- Trevor Paulsen

Both SiteCatalyst and Test&Target are amazing and powerful tools that allow a digital marketer to better understand the traffic on their site and test their marketing ideas among groups of users.  However, business users often wonder how to make sense of the titanic amount of data that is collected and actually use it to increase conversion on their site.  What I’m going to show you today is that you can actually build a statistical model to find the users who are most likely to complete a conversion using SiteCatalyst, and then target those exact individuals using Test&Target to really get some amazing conversion lift!

To explain how this works, let me break the process down into the following steps that I’ll explain in more detail:

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How to Get Data In and Out of SiteCatalyst — Part I

- Brent Dykes

One of the key benefits of using Adobe SiteCatalyst for digital analytics is the variety of options you have for moving data in and out of the tool. On the input side, your company may have a variety of digital properties and initiatives that it would like to track with digital analytics—websites, mobile apps, web-based kiosks, campaigns, etc. It may also want to combine its digital data with useful metadata and offline data to enrich the analysis of its visitors. Adobe gives you different options for collecting, grouping, and appending data, which provides your business greater flexibility and more actionable insights.

On the output side, data that is locked up in silos won’t drive your business forward. Your digital data needs to be shared, analyzed, integrated, and ultimately used to improve business performance. Adobe gives you multiple ways to unleash your digital data.

In this two-part post, I’ll provide a high-level overview of the various input and output options that you have with SiteCatalyst. I’ll also share use cases for each option so you can better evaluate how each can be best applied within your organization. In addition, I’ll try to point you to places for further information on each input/output method.

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Using SiteCatalyst to Build Media Mix Models

- Trevor Paulsen

Adobe’s Digital Marketing solutions are now opening doors to predictive marketing optimizations that were previously only available to huge companies that spend millions of dollars constructing complex economic models to explain the reach of their marketing spend.  These large models typically include surveys, studies, panels, and hosts of other expensive outside resources to deliver statistical optimization to your marketing budget that will maximize your return on spend.

With Adobe’s recent acquisition of Efficient Frontier and recent advancements in predictive consulting, SiteCatalyst customers are able to unleash the full potential of their web analytics data in ways that have not been possible before.

One particular customer Adobe Consulting recently engaged with wanted to determine how to best allocate their digital marketing budget based on several years of historical performance.  Their digital marketing channels included SEO, SEM, affiliates, media advertising, social media, network partners, and email campaigns.  Because the performance of these channels had been thoroughly recorded across several years, Adobe Consulting was able to use this data to form statistical performance models around each of these marketing channels.

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Unleashing the Full Power of eVar Subrelations

- Trevor Paulsen

Time and time again I’m amazed by the power that a subrelated eVar report can provide.  Believe it or not, if you’re clever (as you will be after reading this), you can actually use Adobe Report Builder to find interesting data anomalies for you!  First of all, if you’re not familiar with what an eVar subrelation is, let me explain:

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Ben Gaines mailbag #6

- Ben Gaines

Mailbag time! It’s been quite a while. I’ve been getting some great questions from really talented analysts and marketers. Seriously, everyone is getting smarter. I’m barely keeping up. Here are just a few of these questions, collected from e-mail, Twitter, and in-person conversations… and here’s hoping I don’t go another 17 months between mailbags, eh? Please send me your questions via the comment form on this blog, or tweet at me (@benjamingaines).

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SiteCatalyst Finance Fundamentals: External Campaign Performance (part 2)

- Tucker Christiansen

Welcome back to the SiteCatalyst Finance Fundamentals blog series.  In this series we are discussing the implementation basics and example analysis of each fundamental solution that Financial Services customers should consider leveraging.  Stay tuned and please feel free to contribute your thoughts/experience as we discuss each solution.

In the previous External Campaign Performance post we covered implementation.  In today’s blog post, we will dive into the reporting/analysis side of this fundamental solution.

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SiteCatalyst 15.4: Rollups, Mobile Networks, and More

- Ben Gaines

If you use SiteCatalyst 15 regularly, you may have noticed when you logged in for the first time on July 20 that we did another product update in the late afternoon MDT on July 19. This introduced a number of bug fixes as well as some new functionality—and also some old functionality that we’re brought back by popular request. In this post I will briefly introduce some (but not all) of the changes that we made. You’ll see more on these features in subsequent posts on this blog and elsewhere. As always, if you have any questions feel free to leave me a comment or hit me up on Twitter (@benjamingaines)!

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