analytics - and choosing your optimization goals
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Setting optimization goals: You want to create marketing scenarios, where you can predict an organizational aligned outcome with a high level of confidence.TRANSCRIPT
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YAHOO! CONFIDENTIAL 1
Analytics - and Choosing your
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optimization goals
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Author Blogger WAA Yahoo! Entrepreneur
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Choosing Why is this important ?
optimization goals.
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You must serve the overall
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purpose of the organization (of course)
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KPIs The goals of most organizations are usually set as
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KPI duplicates ?
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Are your optimization goals,
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NOT KPI duplicates,
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If optimization goals are
KPI derivatives ?
surely they are
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NOT KPI derivatives,
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If optimization goals are
KPI derivative proxies ?
they must certainly be
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None of the above – then what ? Certainly not CTR or Visits :-)
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The further away your optimizations goals are from your organizational KPIs
– the higher the risk of applying direct harm.
(turning decent marketing initiatives into organizational de-optimization exercises)
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Assuming we have an optimization goal metric,
that is well aligned with organizational KPIs
* we should be home safe, yes ?
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An optimization goal is inheritably aligned with
(multiple online channels, and generally a changing universe)
attribution choices
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attribution modeling ? Does the optimization goal apply for respectable
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Assuming we have perfect organizational aligned goals,
that can be accurately attributed their fair success
* we should be home safe, yes ?
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online marketing initiative. An online optimization goal in likely to be built into an
(mixing online and offline)
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Media Mix Modeling ?
Does the optimization goal apply for respectable
attribution modeling in conjunction with
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Example: Let’s have a look at how people attack PPC optimization goal setting
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Impressions
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CTR
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Visit-to-Sales Conversion
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Visitor-to-Sales Conversion
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Revenue per Visit
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Revenue per Visitor
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Profit per Visitor
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Lifetime Value of a Visitor
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Customer Lifetime Value
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In conclusion
Setting optimization goals:
You want to create marketing scenarios,
where you can predict an organizational aligned outcome
with a high level of confidence
AND it’s not easy
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Want to know more about
VisualRevenue.com/blog or Twitter.com/DennisMortensen
Analytics, Media and Marketing?
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Thank you Dennis R. Mortensen, Director of Data Insights at Yahoo! | [email protected]
Blog: http://visualrevenue.com/blog
Book: http://visualrevenue.com/blog/yahoo-analytics-book
Twitter: http://twitter.com/DennisMortensen