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Why Shouldn’t You Only Look at Metrics

Companies have been developing reports and dashboards to perfect their business intelligence for years, but with buzz around the “Big Data,” all of a sudden everyone seems to pay way too much attention simply on metrics, reports, or dashboards to diagnose business performance. And that’s just wrong. Former business professor Aaron Levenstein once said, “Statistics […]

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Do Your Infographics Make Sense?

Infographics have been prevalent for quite a while, but few publishers or users really grasp data visualization. (Check out the New York Times “The Year in Graphics“) You see pretty charts with color graphics, but after a close look into the data, it’s hard to tell what the visualized data convey. (Check out this infographic […]

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This is a Teaser: Are You the Next Donald Draper?

According to eMarketer (emarketer.com), US total media ad spending next year is going to exceed $170 billion, indicating a 3% growth, while digital spend is going to increase by 14%. This is a figure that makes the online advertising industry look quite promising in the future. Don’t you think? Maybe it’s too soon for us […]

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Can You Learn Everything From Work?

About three months ago I had a career change from do-it-all-marketing to focused-driven-analytics. While trying to immerse myself in the new agency culture, I also find myself at the crossroad of defining my skillset for advancing my career and providing more valuable service to future clients. “You should be able to learn everything from work” […]

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From Ice Cream Hunt to Branding Ideas, Are You Just Another Commodities?

This past Sunday afternoon I made my first visit to Plum Market in West Bloomfield searching for my favorite Jeni’s ice cream. I found Jeni’s out-of-the-state distribution location from a Twitter conversation I had with @jenisicecreams a week ago. Long story short, one can only imagine my excitement when I found lines of different flavors […]

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