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Which Online Performance Metrics Matter Most in US?

“Digital marketers today are drowning in metrics, but they don’t know which ones are important or how to connect the dots in a meaningful way that will drive marketing performance” said Ramsey, eMarketer CEO and co-founder. Currently US marketer rely on CTR, Traffic to website, Lead generation...

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Inbound Marketing University – 16 Training Courses

Posted by Martin Kovac | Posted in Email marketing, Measurement, Online advertising, PPC advertising, SEM, Social Media | Posted on 24-05-2010

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HubSpot is kindly sharing 16 great marketing courses, which are MUST to every online marketer.

If you are interested in becoming certified Inbound Marketing Certified Professional, you can register here.

Below you can watch all training courses:

Inbound Marketing University Certification Program

1: How to Blog Effectively for Business

Professors: Ann Handley & Mack Collier, MarketingProfs

2: SEO Crash Course to Get Found
Professor: Lee Odden, TopRank Online Marketing

3: Social Media and Building Community
Professor: Chris Brogan, New Marketing Labs

4: Successful Business Uses for Facebook and LinkedIn
Professor: Elyse Tager, Silicon Valley American Marketing Association

5: Viral Marketing and World Wide Raves
Professor: David Meerman Scott, author of New Rules of Marketing & PR and
World Wide Rave

6: Advanced SEO Tactics: On Beyond Keyword Research
Professor: Rand Fishkin, SEOmoz

7: Calls to Action and Landing Page Best Practices

Professor: Jeanne Hopkins, MECLABS, Marketing Experiments

8: Inbound Lead Nurturing

Professor: Brian Carroll, MECLABS, InTouch

9: Successful Email Marketing

Professor: Eric Groves, Constant Contact

10: PR for Inbound Marketing
Professor: Todd Defren, SHIFT Communications

11: Twitter for Business

Professor: Laura Fitton, Pistachio Consulting, co-author of Twitter for Dummies

12: Advanced Marketing Analytics

Professor: Avinash Kaushik, Google and author of Web Analytics 2.0

13: Passion-Inspired Video & Other Creative Content

Professor: Gary Vaynerchuk, Wine Library TV, and author of Crush It!

14: Social Media for Big Business

Professor: Paula Berg, Southwest Airlines, Linhart PR

15: Internet Marketing Comprehensive Review
Professor: Mitch Joel, author of Six Pixels of Separation

16: Midway Inbound Marketing Review

Professor: Mike Volpe, HubSpot

US marketers still rely on CTR

Posted by Martin Kovac | Posted in Measurement, Online advertising | Posted on 20-05-2010

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A March 2010 survey by Chief Marketer showed that CTR is till the most used metric to measure effectiveness of online campaigns.

- 60% of US marketers reported they measure interactive marketing performance in click-throughs.
- Just 38.4% measured return on investment.
- Only one third measured brand awareness or reputation.

Social media measurement (video)

Posted by Martin Kovac | Posted in Social Media | Posted on 12-05-2010

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Amy Martin from Digital Royalty explains in 6 minutes, how to measure the impact of social media on a brand’s popularity.
There are two important things to do, when you are measuring your social media efforts:
1. establish your KPIs
2. measure these KPIs

Return On Influence: Cold Metrics & Warm Metrics
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