Campaign Measurement

Web analytics and market research methods combine to let Empirical Path reveal the return on investment of your advertising campaigns, email marketing, and social media marketing. Keep reading for our campaign attribution services and case studies that illustrate our approach to marketing measurement, and contact us to discuss how you can track and optimize your advertising.

Campaign Attribution

For a flat fee, Empirical Path delivers the process, tool, training and reports to track campaigns in detail. Campaign attribution lets marketers see which channels, placements, and messages best drive visitation and conversion. You can finally compare email, social media, pay-per-click (PPC) search engine marketing (SEM), affiliates, and display ads.

Read our popular post on tagging landing pages to get the whole marketing team on one page. Or contact us to start making decisions using reliable data on every campaign.

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Client: Career Education

Empirical Path consultants planned, executed, and measured the consumer marketing campaign for a career education program serving college students.  Built a database of school characteristics to select high-potential campuses based on admissions competitiveness, student hometowns, advertising costs, and on-campus recruiting.  Tested multiple online advertising approaches — from display and text ads to email sponsorships — to optimize cost per lead.  Employed Webtrends to track site visitation patterns, then adjusted site navigation to drive visitors toward sign-up.  Read the full case study.

Client: Federal Agency

Empirical Path consultants led a pay-per-click search engine marketing campaign for a Federal public health advertising campaign and its advertising agency, increasing visitation by more than a third.  Tracked impact on website traffic and engagement using Webtrends, Google AdWords, and Yahoo! Sponsored Search.  Designed and led tests of alternate landing pages to improve user engagement with content by measuring time spent and pages viewed per visit and single-page visitation.  Created clear, periodic reports that explained progress and next steps to a lay audience.

Client: House Wares

Empirical Path consultants increased a home fixtures retailer's revenue from PPC advertising by identifying high-performing elements on other pages for inclusion on a key SEM landing page.  Measured downstream revenue for each link on AdWords landing page and flagged low-performing links and related copy and graphics for removal.  Audited Google Analytics implementation to ensure that all pages, forms, rich media, and transactions were reported.  Designed pre-post methodology that proved test landing page boosted revenue and order size.

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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.