I love conspiracy theories (I still have questions about the moon landing...check out the possibly fake picture beside this) and think that second guessing everything is generally a good way to get to the right answer. That is why I am always amazed by marketers who don't know the answers to common questions about their campaigns. Are they not at least questioning what they are doing or what has been done in the past?For an example from a conversation today, "Have you seen a substantial ROI from your television advertising?"; marketing director, "Well, we don't really know --- but I know that people are watching it and get to know our name." Really SIR? You know people are watching it? Are they...or are they running the kitchen during it? See that's the thing...the assumption that people are watching it and are taking away something from it is completely unfounded. That's where the importance of analytics comes into play...with internet marketing we can actually track visits, conversions and ROI down the dollar and every week are hearing more success stories of a great ROI from our client's blogging strategies!

Posted by: Brandon Lott on Thursday, May 1, 2008
Ok Jenni, conspiracy theories are cool and fun to ponder, but seriously the moon landing did happen. I am spending a lot of time currently learning more details on web analytic metrics, measures and other indices which can help me understand the traffic on my website. Looking at the trends to help me both develop and execute a strategy for optimal business development opportunities. One area that I know could help would be the content that blogging can provide the website and its visitors. But, I would be interested in seeing how blogging and benchmarking go to there for increasing ROI.