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web analytics - image copyright broadly.com A cornerstone in your marketing activities is to work with the data you have. You don't need to be a senior web analyst or a data scientist to do this. Today a Marketing Manager or CMO need to have the knowledge about key metrics and the competence to harness the power of data to transform it into ROI action for the business they market and work for. Larger companies have already started working with more advanced techniques, such as Machine Learning, predictive analysis and so forth and every company, no matter how large or small, will have to improve the way and also increase the understanding of data, to be part of the future. Being data driven is now a competitive advantage and in the very near future it will be standard procedure for being able to stay within the competition for a customers attention or will to purchase. Here is a simple framework that anyone can master that will help you start working with data, to turn it into insight and action. Without being complicated.

Image copyright: http://www.purpleriot.co.uk/ I've written a few articles on the global marketing subject before, this article includes a bit of repetition however it's aimed at a company with a prescense in 4 or more countries, that want to start out with digital marketing activities but feel unsure of where to start and where to invest and how to prioritize a large batch of markets.

These are my key take aways from helping global brands who has never done any digital marketing activities to more experiences brands, this advice is suitable for both B2B and B2C to manage global marketing activities.

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Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.
- Andy Warhol   My first article in the series of agency life will focus on three economy terms you need to get familiar with. (there are more, however these four are the most important to get familiar and comfortable with to get the basis of agency business acumen in place) And also a framework for calculating a monthly target for your Account Directors (or Project Managers, department managers or whatever is applivcable to yourcompany). When you run a creative agency and work with creativity, either it be data, design, marketing or technology related. I.e offer a service of some sort generated by delivering it as a result from intellectual work and emotional labour, you need your foundation in place for understanding the incoming value of your work as well as indicators of success or warning signs in client relationships, way or working/teams and accounts. If you work a lot of hours you should get a lot of value generated back from that, otherwise you need to understand why this is and be able to change something. In this article I cover: Billability Burn rate Baseline How to calculate a monthly target for your department or team of Account Directors