It’s never too late to implement sound content tracking, measurement, and evaluation practices to prove the value of your content marketing program. The road to better content marketing measurement starts here. Continue reading
Why Marketers Need to Think Like Data Scientists (and How to Do It)
If your marketing team is not working with a data scientist or at least thinking like one, you’re missing the ability to say “I know” instead of “I think.” The distinction matters to data-driven organizations – and budget approval. Continue reading
The Smart (and Not-So-Smart) Ways to Use Vanity Metrics
Vanity metrics are helpful when they’re seen as optimization metrics. They are bellwethers for what your target audience finds valuable on that channel. Learn how to maximize their use and why they should not measure business goals. Continue reading
A Step-by-Step Process for Scoring Your Content
Think of a piece of content your team published recently. On a scale of 0 to 100, how would you rate it? And how would your rating help your company? Consider the method that Red Hat devised for scoring content performance.
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How to Establish the Best Social Media KPIs for Your Content Marketing Goals
Invest in creating a social media strategy tailored to your content goals. And that begins with establishing the right social media KPIs. To help get started, read what the author of Going Social and Getting to Like has to say. Continue reading
Designing for Better Analytics: 5 Decisions Web Designers Fail to Make
The bad news: If you fail to make an analytics-friendly website design, you won’t get the best analytics insight. The good news: It’s easy to make analytics-friendly design decisions. Here are five tips on how to do it. Continue reading
The Audience Valuation Engine: A New Model for Calculating the Value Per Subscriber
If audiences are the asset – how should we value them? Robert Rose shares an overview of a new framework – the audience valuation engine – that offers an asset-based approach to calculating the value per subscriber. Continue reading
101+ Key Performance Indicators – Pick the Best KPI Options
If you’re not actively measuring your KPI, you’re missing opportunities to improve your business’s bottom line. Carefully selected KPIs also can be a useful reporting metric for marketers wanting to strengthen support for their work. Continue reading
4 Brand Awareness Metrics to Track the Impact of Content Marketing
If you want to measure the impact of your content marketing on brand awareness, first think about the type of content. Next, think about the most helpful metrics and tools – start with these four measurement areas Continue reading
Analytics and Data
Learn which content marketing metrics to track, how to analyze performance data, and effective ways to turn your audience insights into increased marketing ROI.
