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Measurement and Attribution

Solidify your marketing attribution efforts in an omnichannel world. Know the latest in cross device tracking, connecting offline behavior to online activity, paid/owned/earned media, and more.

In-Person Course

Data & Marketing Analytics

2 days — See Dates

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Course Description

Solidify your foundational knowledge about the history of measurement and attribution and assess its future trends and aspirations in this course. Understand the latest in cross device tracking, connecting offline behavior to online activity, and paid/owned/earned media – while learning the tools and techniques used to measure attribution. Connect what you already know about relevant industry activities to your own organizational readiness for starting/improving such activities.

After attending this course students will be able to:

Define the business value of measurement and attribution practices

Recognize the distinguishing characteristics of organizational readiness for measurement and attribution activities

Identify these characteristics in your own organization and use them to assess your company’s organizational readiness for measurement and attribution activities

Assess the performance of marketing channels using fundamental attribution techniques

Recognize the similarities and differences between readily-available and proprietary online attribution tools

Conduct an attribution analysis of a sample data set to determine recommended media allocation

Instructors

Don Hinman

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Day One

Overview & Introduction

Context/the need for measurement and attribution (attribution modeling?)
How we got here (historical stages of measurement and attribution)
Current state of the art for attribution modeling

Emerging Online Trends (What does the future look like?)

Holy Grail: Cross Device tracking
Connecting Offline activity with Online activity
Increasing power of the human being channel
What does “good” look like?

Attribution Techniques (what you know now)

Paid, Owned, and Earned media overview
Overview of Demand-Side-Platforms (DSP’s)
First Touch, Last Touch, Fractional Touch
Differentiate the ability to measure something and the reasoning principles behind your attribution activities

Use Cases

Use Case: Macy’s omnichannel approach
Aligning attribution to the customer decision journey

Incorporating critical thinking (how to deal with ambiguity)

Drawing reasonable inferences in the absence of 100% data
All buyers have their own customized decision journey

Assessing organizational readiness for measurement and attribution activities

Day Two

Types of Modeling

Correlation Analysis
Linear Regression Modeling
Sampling and Confidence Intervals
Hands-on activities with Excel

Online attribution tools

Google Analytics
SiteCatalyst
WebTrends

Attribution Work Session – Business Challenge: How to allocation 2017 budget based on 2016 results

Class media assessment
Class media recommendation

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