A Perfect Match?

Omniture and salesforce.com announced the launching of Omniture Closed-Loop Marketing on salesforce.com’s AppExchange.

This is a great example of aligning sales and marketing – working with sales, marketers will be able to follow simultaneous marketing campaigns and to ascribe credit to the specific campaigns resulting in a sale, transaction or a conversion.

salesforce.com + Omniture

Marketers should be all over this and sales should be demanding more campaigns. Even without the robust salesforce.com element, Marketers should be ecstatic about Omniture’s acquisition of Offermatica last week – that is also sure to be a great marriage of web analytics and multivariate testing. Companies that don’t have these types of tools will be surprised when they find out they are being outmaneuvered by competitors that do. This marriage of capabilities allows SMBs a better C4ISR Marketing capability and should get Marketers a little more respect from Sales.

The Quantitative to Qualitative Spectrum of Marketing Data

A couple weeks back, the Web Analytics Association hosted a webinar entitled “Web Analytics is Easy!” along with Eric Peterson’s Web Analytics Demystified. The title was ironic on purpose. Web analytics is complicated and just beginning to evolve.  One of the most interesting slides called “Web Site Optimization Ecosystem Technology” prompted The Marketing Consigliere to do a little quick and dirty research. [Read more...]