Metrics Articles in MCM

Metrics That Matter to Your E-Commerce Site

For the most part, the metrics that matter for your e-commerce site are the same as or similar to metrics that were around long before “click to buy” became a familiar phrase. There are, though, a few twists of which you should be aware....

Metrics for Managing Your Co-op Database Circulation

For most mailers, understanding the cooperative databases is a big part of managing a catalog’s circulation, as the databases have become a larger and larger part of the prospect universe....

E-mail Metrics That Matter

E-mail metrics have been subject to changes in fashion during the past 10 years. For instance, open rates were once a killer metric. But as e-mail inbox providers increasingly block HTML — the graphics that also allow senders to know when an e-mail gets opened — open rates are becoming devalued as a metric....

The Top 5 Metrics for Your Business

Each functional area of your company should have a set of key measurements that you can review frequently to take the pulse of the business and assess for early signs of trouble or opportunity. If you don't already monitor key metrics on a regular basis, you can start now. ...

The Four Key Metrics for Predicting Sales

Response metrics are more than just a measure of how your most recent mailing performed. They are also your most powerful, predictive tools as a direct marketer....

The Sweet Metrics of Success

Any cataloger that has branched off into brick-and-mortar retailing knows that retail is a “fundamentally different kind of business, requiring different performance metrics...

Examining the Realities: An Analysis of Today’s Call Center Metrics

In recent years, much interest has focused on the adoption of business intelligence (BI) tools to improve the management of contact centers, and provide deeper insight into how these complex systems work (or sometimes don’t work!). But it’s important to realize that BI tools are only as useful as the level of expertise in the domain-specific metrics that are available. ...

Metrics Studies and Trends

In Search Metrics, ROI Is Often MIA

Two related surveys on the way search marketers handle their metrics, specifically in calculating the return on investment (ROI), and more specifically the ROI on search engine optimization....

DoubleClick: E-Mail Metrics Improving

Despite growing concerns about over-e-mailing and the proliferation of spam, e-mail performance metrics remain stable, according to marketing tools provider DoubleClick....

Live from Shop.org: Monday Morning Metrics

In the Shop.org session “Which Numbers Do Multichannel Retailers Look At Each Monday Morning” here on Oct. 11, experts detailed some of the metrics marketers should pore over every Monday....

Metrics Resources on the Web

Shop.com

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Metsig.org

The Mission of the Metrics SIG is to monitor the various state-of-the-art approaches to metrics of project management regardless of industry or sector in order to promote and share the most useful and relevant techniques, procedures and theory regarding how the science of metrics can advance any performance issue....



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