CFOs and CMOs alike have a right to be frustrated when they talk about marketing performance. Marketers are often armed with fragmented dashboards and attribution models that make sense internally but don’t translate cleanly into CFO language: net profit, margin, and ROI.
Read MoreThe principle of the Nirvana Fallacy holds that if perfection can’t be attained, why bother trying?
It’s easy to associate this with business cultures that are intolerant of failure or averse to new ideas. But certainty is also demanded from more forgiving organizational cultures. On the face of it, this expectation of certainty seems reasonable. If you are to invest a great deal of time and effort into a particular venture, shouldn’t you be very certain, or at least very close to it?
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Brand marketers have jumped at the chance to do something with the Alexa Skills platform, but have struggled mightily. To this point, they are almost all failures: Sloppy user experience, poor branding, and limited usefulness abound.
Why have so many brands failed? One simple fact: they approaching Alexa with too much advertising baggage.
Read MoreIf you run marketing campaigns on Facebook, you might be frustrated by their limited built in reporting — or reliant on massive Excel spreadsheets to do your campaign analysis.
We decided to build a package for our favorite data science tool — R Studio — that pulls Facebook campaign insights directly from their marketing API.
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