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.

Project Capsule: Insurance Company


Empirical Path consultants customized and enhanced WebTrends implementation for insurance client of world’s largest interactive agency. Created custom reports based on unique website work flow and goals to measure business impact.  Specified tagging requirements for client and agency development teams to ensure proper categorization of pages and complete capture of user interaction with external links, videos, and other non-page events.  Documented customizations for client and agency training and support.

Project Capsule: Advocacy Groups


Empirical Path consultants led a recurring study to explain trends in public service advertising to government and advocacy groups on behalf of a social marketing agency.  Wrote, designed, and coded questionnaires to gather feedback from television and radio station media directors on PSA airtime, issues, and features.  Oversaw phone and online fielding using a custom database of station contacts. Compiled and analyzed responses to identify noteworthy segments and findings.  Wrote and published a report that attracted media attention and prospective agency clients.

Project Capsule: Consumer Packaged Goods


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.

Project Capsule: Cable Television Networks


Empirical Path consultants measured the impact of affiliate marketing promotions for cable television networks on behalf of their promotions agency.  Designed a telephone survey to compare recurring metrics to established baselines and capture responses to each promotion’s unique features.  Customized a shared Access database for centralized data collection.  Trained and supervised a staff of telephone researchers to build rapport with survey targets.  Analyzed findings to identify gains and setbacks against prior surveys for key market segments, then suggested improvements for upcoming promotions.

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Empirical Path's Market Research Practice is led by Peter Howley, a seasoned consultant, entrepreneur, and manager.  Howley has advised diverse companies, from household names to startups, in publishing, television, not-for-profit, and technology.

Howley developed Empirical Path’s data-driven approach at Bain & Company and Harvard Business School.  He started the Research and Analysis practice at Washington, DC social marketing agency Noral Group International.

Howley led alliance development and market research at washingtonpost.com and Newsweek.com, then headed marketing effectiveness products at the largest online ad network.

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.  A certified Google Analytics expert, Snyder has led implementation, configuration, and analysis projects for publishers and marketers in Silicon Alley and Silicon Valley.

Snyder built his deep experience in web analytics, content, and marketing in production and research roles with Weather.com, Yale University, and Georgia Tech; he also holds an MBA from the Georgia Tech College of Management.

Snyder began his web publishing career as part of the launch team for CNN.com.  His technical skills include SQL, SPSS, Oracle, SQL Server, PHP, and Java.

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