Empirical Path Web Analytics & Market Research

 

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.

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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 media, finance, retail, not-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.