Knowledge-Based Creative

Part 5: Left-Brain Creative Creative and analytics teams are drastically different disciplines, driven by different personalities and workflows, which means that merging them takes purposeful planning. The timeline is the first big challenge. The creative team looks ahead, creating new campaigns to be launched in the future while analytics teams review the past, examining what […]

BREAKTHROUGH CREATIVE

Part 8: 7 Ways to Get Creative with Data You’ve planned the photoshoot down to the tiniest detail. You’ve carefully selected the merchandise. You’ve agonized over the creative concepts. Every email, every landing page, every catalog page looks better than ever! But what if I told you that each of these could work even harder. […]

Connect Data to Design

Let’s start with a something that we can all agree on: good information makes all of us smarter. And let’s take another step and agree that well-informed design tends to work harder and perform better. So far, it’s likely we agree on principle. But in practice, I still see a lot of analytics and creative […]

CH-CH-CH-CH-CHANGES

So…your metrics aren’t what you expected to see. It could be a sales slump (hmmm…) or perhaps an unexplained uptick – a thrilling problem to have, but you’d still like to know exactly WHAT is happening so you can keep the momentum going. Any given business model has a nearly endless number of variables that […]