ONLINE MARKETING TRENDS FOR 2012

Avinash Kaushik – Web Analytics Faculty Chair

Avinash Kaushik is the Analytics Evangelist at Google, and the author of Web Analytics 2.0 and the best-selling book Web Analytics: An Hour A Day. Avinash works with some of the largest companies in the world to help them evolve their online marketing strategies to become data-driven and customer-centric organizations.

SoMoLo will continue to rise in importance
Social. Mobile. Local. SoMoLo will drive a ton of disruption when it comes to finding the most relevant customers and offering them something of value.

Marketing as providing utility
Marketing models that provide constant value to the customer — regardless of whether they intend to buy anything or not — will accelerate when compared to Shouting (yelling at people hoping you catch them at the moment of purchase).

The downfall of dashboards
People in the Analytics world whose primary contribution is to puke data will find themselves with fewer and fewer contracts/jobs. People who provide a list of actions to take, rather than a puke of data in “dashboards,” will find they are richer than they anticipated.

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