You’ll already know the core essentials of your customer base – demographics, spend patterns, frequency and so on. And you’ve probably got a segmentation model or two that helps you identify the customer groups to target for any given campaign. But it can be really...
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Analysis and Measurement
Analysis and Measurement
The importance of control groups
Given that we’re in the business of improving our clients’ marketing performance, it’s essential to know how their current marketing campaigns are performing. We tend to get a range of answers - “Good. We get a 10% response rate on average.” “Well they must be doing...
Once more unto the breach, dear friends…
The news that British Airways has been fined over £180 million for suffering a data breach is an important reminder to everyone who’s involved in handling data. The fine came after hackers stole data relating to 500,000 customers, including names and addresses, travel...
FastStats for beginners
Today’s marketing is all about understanding your customer. And that means understanding your data. Data collection is relatively easy. After all, there’s no shortage of data sources. Customer profiles, demographics, products bought, basket value, frequency, online...
Enhancing the Customer Journey – Step 1 Creating Awareness
Have you mapped out your customer journey communications? A well-thought-out customer journey can maximise results at each stage of the journey and generate huge increases in sales and profits by delivering more engaging, personalised communications. Not only do your...
All I want for Christmas…
Thanks to some great client teams, cutting-edge technology and some smart thinking, we’ve helped businesses to put all their customer data into one place, build great customer journeys that maximise sales and deliver personalised, real time communications. But it’s...
Ageas Insurance and R-cubed shortlisted for prestigious marketing award!
We’re delighted to announce that our work with Ageas on creating their Engagement Hub has been shortlisted for a Masters of Marketing Award. Data can be the driving force that gets you to where you want to be, so when Ageas asked us to help pull all of their data into...
Measuring brand advertising
Marketing can be complex. And it can certainly be expensive. But we do it because we love it, and it’s the thrill of making an impact that keeps us going. The new creative test that lifts your response rates, or a killer multi-channel campaign that brings sales...
Costa and R-cubed shortlisted for Data IQ award
Coffee. Analysis. What do they both have in common? The answer is that they both get us out of bed in the mornings. It’s what we live for. So imagine our delight when we were given the task of diving into the Costa Coffee Club data to maximise the returns from their...
Is Google about to put an end to Independent Attribution?
The news that Google is now raising the data drawbridge and removing access to DoubleClick IDs from 25th May has both clients and agencies alike struggling to see how on earth they can independently measure the £Millions spent on digital advertising and attribute...
How a Single Customer View makes GDPR compliance plain sailing
The GDPR has brought a new set of challenges for businesses to tackle, in ensuring that they collect, process and store data correctly. However, they all have one thing in common – the need to be in absolute control of your data. It’s impossible to be GDPR compliant...
White Paper – Multi-Channel Attribution
Why yours might be fatally flawed Accurate attribution is essential if you want to know what's working and what isn't. But the chances are that your attribution model isn’t giving you the right answers. Find out what you're missing in our free white paper. Read the...
Case Study – P&O Ferries
See how we helped maximise ROI with automated marketing for P&O Ferries. P&O Ferries needed to understand the incremental impact of all their marekting channels. Read our case study to find out what they learned. Read the case study here.
Case Study – Diageo
See how web interactions rocketed, social media engagement rose by 60% and email responses topped 28%. With hundreds of websites, Facebook fanpages and email campaigns, Diageo needed to find a way of measuring - and improving - the impact of their digital channels....
Case Study – Lands’ End
Do online customers need catalogues? Lands' End is classic catalogue business and its success has been built on the back of it. But in a changing world, they were keen to understand whether costs could be saved without losing sales. Read the case study here.
You’re employing the wrong analysts
When someone says ‘we do analysis’ you should immediately start looking for the hidden camera, because ‘data analysis’ means different things to different people. What’s more, an erosion of core statistical analysis skills has taken place. This means there is a very...