Be honest, what is it that you really want for Christmas? It’s a more effective marketing operation, right? One in which you can make quick, informed decisions based on data. Let this be your year.
Marketers are drowning in spreadsheets, especially marketers who are overseeing performance campaigns. Even those who have sophisticated tools are still spending an exorbitant amount of time with manual reporting processes because different systems create disparate data buckets that must be manually merged.
These inefficiencies are costing you in more ways than one. You are losing time — time that could be spent analyzing data instead of trying to clean it up — and you are making important budget allocation decisions based on suboptimal insights.
The holidays are hectic, but trust me, it’s worth stepping back to evaluate your data processes, and to make changes that will set you up for success in 2018.
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About The Author
Stefan Benndorf is COO & Managing Director at AppLift, making sure that business operations run smoothly. He previously co-founded appiris (which was acquired by AppLift).