It's Not the Size of the Data -- It's How You Use It : Smarter Marketing with Analytics and Dashboards

Koen Pauwels, consultant and expert on marketing ROI (Return on Investment), describes why smarter marketing can help drive up sales profits for any company. How is big data affecting marketing trends today? In many ways it sets the benchmark for marketing to be held more accountable for business profits. And with analytics becoming such an essential component to any business, companies need to get smarter. Pauwels offers several examples on how his methodology for smarter marketing, detailed in his book It's Not the Size of the Data -- It's How You Use It: Smarter Marketing with Analytics and Dashboard published by AMACOM, has actually helped companies, including saving a major corporation $150 million in advertising for a green product. AMA is a world-class leadership development provider in more than 40 countries worldwide. Our training is internationally recognized by 9 professional associations and the majority of the Fortune 500 companies. Did you know that your business already has the world’s greatest information-tracking team working tirelessly for you 24/7 to gather all the info you could possibly need to find your next customers? Between brand tracking, CRM programs, and online behavior tracking, as well as the always-dependable trade shows and satisfaction studies, mounds of marketing metrics are being generated for you across various touchpoints and channels. The numbers available to you are mind-blowing--but the amount itself can be mind-numbing. Where can one begin to filter through it all to find what is most beneficial for their company?Locked in the vast quantity of information are accurate, data-driven answers to every marketing question--and analytic dashboards are the key to finding it all. In It’s Not the Size of the Data--It’s How You Use It, marketing expert Koen Pauwels introduces readers to these transformative web-based tools that gather, synthesize, and visually display essential data in real time, directly connecting marketing with performance. He then supplies a simple yet rigorous methodology that explains step by step how to:• Gain crucial IT support • Build a rock-solid database • Select key leading performance indicators • Design the optimal dashboard layout • Use marketing analytics to improve decisions and reap rewardsThere is simply too much customer-produced information out there today for marketing teams to go with gut decisions or the same old standbys. Dashboard analytics will bring scientific precision and insight to the marketing efforts of any size organization, in any industry, and turn this eye-popping data into a specific plan of attack. In this invaluable resource, discover how to conduct smarter marketing strategies using analytics and dashboards to get the most out of your data. Did you know that your business already has the world's greatest information-tracking team working tirelessly for you 24/7 to gather all the info you could possibly need to find your next customers? Between brand tracking, CRM programs, and online behavior tracking, as well as the always-dependable trade shows and satisfaction studies, mounds of marketing metrics are being generated for you across various touchpoints and channels. Locked in the vast quantity of information are accurate, data-driven answers to every marketing question—and analytic dashboards are the key to finding it all. In It's Not the Size of the Data—It's How You Use It, marketing expert Koen Pauwels introduces you to these transformative web-based tools that gather, synthesize, and visually display essential data in real time, directly connecting marketing with performance. He then supplies a simple yet rigorous methodology that explains step by step how to: Gain crucial IT support Build a rock-solid database Select key leading performance indicators Design the optimal dashboard layout Use marketing analytics to improve decisions and reap rewards There is simply too much customer-produced information out there today for marketing teams to go with gut decisions or the same old standbys. Dashboard analytics will bring scientific precision and insight to the marketing efforts of any size organization, in any industry, and turn this eye-popping data into a specific plan of attack. Brand tracking, CRM programs, trade shows, online behavior tracking, satisfaction studies. 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Koen Pauwels, winner of the 2010 Google/WPP Research Award, explains why you should create and use a marketing analytics dashboard. His basic chapters will help anyone who is exploring these easy-to-read graphic presentations of metrics. If you already use a marketing analytics dashboard, Pauwels will sharpen your focus and help you use it more effectively. This worthy data management handbook also provides tools for information-based decision making. Pauwels's advice and tactics will help anyone who is ready to adopt a more analytical approach to marketing, as well as those interested in planning and decision making Brand tracking, CRM programs, trade shows, online behavior tracking, satisfaction studies ... mounds of marketing metrics are generated across touchpoints and channels. For marketers drowning in data, dashboard analytics bring order to sprawling numbers, and accurate answers to questions about what's working and what's not. These web-based tools gather, synthesize, and visually display essential data in real time, directly connecting marketing with performance. With its rigorous methodology, wealth of case studies, and step-by-step instructions, this substantial guidebook explains how to set up The data is all there--but how can you cipher through it to find what can be used to take your marketing to all new levels? Koen Pauwels. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.