Attribution

Why Location Data is a Must-Have to Win Big in Retail
June 22, 2018 at 10:20 am

Was the search campaign, the Facebook ad or the TV spot the most impactful for the sale? Identifying attribution — i.e., which piece of marketing actually helped drive customers into stores and online shopping carts — is a hugely important challenge for Fortune 100 companies and startups alike. Yet brands aren't shying away from the…

Better Customer Understanding Leads Brands to Seek Better Insights
February 20, 2018 at 12:02 pm

Customer-obsessed marketing is here, and retailers and brands are evaluating an increasingly complex advertising world filled with new questions around metrics, search performance and audience quality. In a recent study from RetailMeNot and Kelton Research on connecting retailers, brands and agencies with priority customers, retail marketers weigh in on the essential nature of identifying and…

21st Century Branding: Is it a Hoax?
January 19, 2018 at 9:13 am

I smirk when anyone tells me that "branding" is the core of any campaign. Branding is to measurement what superstition is to science. You advertise to do one thing: move product — period. That product is sold either online or offline. Online measurement, while not perfect, is evolving. Offline, up until recently, not so much.…

Ensuring The Success Of Your Channel Incentive Program
December 20, 2017 at 3:14 pm

I smirk when anyone tells me that “branding” is the core of any campaign. Branding is to measurement what superstition is to science. You advertise to do one thing: move product — period. That product is sold either online or offline. Online measurement, while not perfect, is evolving. Offline, up until recently, not so much. […]

Shape Up, Ship Out and Shop On: O2O Thinking Could Solve the Retail ‘Crisis’
July 31, 2017 at 10:25 am

As we witness giants such as J.C. Penney and Macy’s close a number of locations, it can seem easy to draw conclusions that the end is near. The truth is that this decline in foot traffic has much less to do with what’s coming, but more with what was always on its way. Successful retailers…

Solving the Attribution Puzzle
June 22, 2017 at 1:17 pm

Catalogers rely on matchbacks to compare catalogs mailed against the response rates from their various housefile and prospecting list segments. However, matchback attribution rates, which are the percentage of orders that can be allocated back to a catalog mailing, are decaying. It’s important that the attribution of orders can be as high a percentage possible.…