Agency Partners

Advertising and interactive agencies often partner with Empirical Path — on a disclosed or white-label basis — to provide flexible, specialized expertise on client proposals and projects. Keep reading for project capsules that illustrate our alliances with agencies, and contact us about using numbers to deepen client relationships.

Client: Hospital

Empirical Path consultants mapped a regional hospital's constituents for its new ad agency.  Leveraged social media interaction, demographic, geographic, and web analytics data, including page views, search terms, and referring sites, to understand visitor behavior and context.  Identified themes and mapped their relative importance on-site vs. off-site and in search vs. website vocabulary.  Compared visits against the online population in states, DMAs, counties, and cities to highlight potential targets.  Proposed roles for each theme in discovery and exploration of the brand, plus tactical improvements to the site.  Read the full case study.

Client: CPG

Empirical Path consultants recommended refinements to websites and campaigns for numerous CPG clients of a traditional advertising agency.  Established tracking of AdWords and other online campaigns, then designed and delivered regular reports to update management on campaign and website performance.  Captured referrals to online retail partners from Flash website and created visitor segments for further analysis based on preferred retailer type.  Merged Google Analytics data with coupon download and redemption data to measure success.

Client: Beverage

Empirical Path consultants inaugurated a web analytics program to measure five websites for a beverage client of the world’s largest interactive agency. Created Key Performance Indicators based on interviews with client management and marketing campaign objectives. Configured dozens of profiles to report on customized goals for specific business stakeholders. Detailed requirements for development team to tag Flash-based sites with Quantcast and Google Analytics code in order to capture visitor demographics and interactions such as playing and sharing a viral contest.

Client: Credit Card

Empirical Path consultants created the web measurement strategy for the credit card acquisition business of major bank on behalf of an interactive agency.  Recommended specific features and tiers of WebTrends and TeaLeaf software to meet and exceed client business requirements, including detailed visibility into the online conversion funnel.  Planned implementation process to ensure availability of metrics by client deadlines.  Created Key Performance Indicators to guide report and dashboard creation based on client interviews and industry best practices.

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Empirical Path was founded in 2002 by Peter Howley, a seasoned consultant, strategist, and manager.  Howley has advised diverse organizations -- from household names to startups -- in mediafinanceretailnot-for-profit, and government.

Howley developed Empirical Path’s data-driven approach while at strategy consultancy Bain & Company and in the MBA Program at Harvard Business School.  He started the Business Research and Analysis practice at social marketing firm Noral Group International.

Howley led market research and web analytics at washingtonpost.com, then headed the advertising effectiveness product line at the internet's largest ad network.  He has earned Omniture and Google Analytics certifications.

Contact Peter Howley at (505) 856-6131 or via email.

 

Empirical Path's Web Analytics Practice is led by Jim Snyder, a veteran of web publishing and technology and a certified Google Analytics expert.  Snyder has led numerous implementation, configuration, and analysis projects for content sites and marketers from Silicon Alley to Silicon Valley.

Snyder built his deep experience in web analytics, content, and marketing in development and measurement roles with Weather.com, Yale University, and Georgia Tech.  He began his web publishing career as part of the launch team for CNN.com.

Snyder's technical skills include SQL, SPSS, Oracle, SQL Server, PHP, and Java.  He also holds an MBA from the Georgia Tech College of Management.

Contact Jim Snyder at (203) 804-4509 or via email.