Thursday, January 26, 2012

Friday, November 05, 2010

What Consumers Want

Cause marketing is currently fashionable. But what really matters in purchase decisions?

While consumers say they are interested in social issues, this research shows that in actual purchase decisions they care most about a company's reputation for truthfulness, honesty and fairness.

Not surprisingly, older consumers value a product's utilitarian traits, such as value, function and durability. Younger consumers prize social/image-conscious traits more than older consumers, but still prefer utilitarian product traits to social traits.

Tuesday, April 06, 2010

Black Hat SEO

Here's a good summary of "Black Hat" SEO techniques -- for those so inclined.

Friday, April 02, 2010

BI Scorecard

This site provides an excellent independent evaluation of leading BI software.

Still More Analytics on a Budget

Qlikview offers an approach to BI and reporting that avoids conventional data integration.

Thursday, April 01, 2010

More Analytics on a Budget

For the analytics back-end, Talend provides an open-source data integration tool to complement its subscription-based offering.

For Web Analytics, it's hard to beat the price of Google Analytics. It's free.