I'm Justin Huntsman, a field marketer on the SAS Customer Intelligence team. I'm the editor of the SAS Customer Analytics blog, where my colleagues, friends and I discuss the challenges today’s marketers face in finding profitable growth opportunities, taking the best marketing actions, and maximizing cross-business impact.
Today I’m highlighting our ten most popular blog entries in 2010. Two takeaways from this list: (1) videos are viewed most, and (2) social media is a topic with a lot of interest. No surprises there, right? At any rate, we are going to work to bring you more video
I’m excited to publish a new segment of our “Nuts & Bolts of Social Media” video series. In this interview, SAS’ Lori Schafer talks briefly with Michelle Thomas and Jaimee Newberry from Zappos. Michelle, a Senior Brand Marketing Manager, and Jaimee, a Product Manager & UI Designer, both offer up
Predictive analytics is not the easiest concept to wrap your head around. It’s all too easy to get lost in explanations about statistics, game theory, modeling, and the rest, and end up with a muddy understanding of a process that draws on historical facts, like customer data, to make predictions
I’m excited to publish a new segment of our “Nuts & Bolts of Social Media” video series. In this interview, SAS’ Deb Orton, host of this series, talks with Bernie Brennan and Lori Schafer, co-authors of the recently released book Branded! How Retailers Engage Consumers with Social Media and Mobility.
Attending DMA 2010? We’d love to have you as our guest at one or more of our three presentations, or at our book signing and networking event with Chris Brogan. Here are the details. Explore better ways to connect with customers in these presentations: First, we will present Enhance Consumer
~Contributed by Stacey Alexander, Social Media Intern, SAS~ I went to a Lunch-n-Learn a couple weeks ago on getting the most out of Google Reader and it’s applications. It was so informative, I was inspired to turn in my iGoogle dashboard for a Reader. Below is a recap of the
Our “Nuts & Bolts of Social Media” video series carries on with a new interview between SAS’ Deb Orton and Gary King, CIO of national clothing retailer Chico’s. Gary begins with a brief story of how Chico’s started as a small store selling folk art (Really? Yes, really.), before transforming
Earlier this year we took part in the eMetrics conference in San Jose, CA and sponsored a Marketing Lab about Social Media Metrics. We were fortunate to be able to plan & execute the session with Katie Paine (CEO of KDPaine & Partners), who presented with SAS’ Director of Media
Today I am happy to present a timely guest blog post from Toshi Tsuboi. Toshi is a SAS Customer Intelligence Product Manager, and is closely involved with the recently announced SAS and Sword Ciboodle partnership. When Toshi came to me to discuss a guest post on this topic, I couldn’t
A few weeks ago I posted 'Chris Brogan Talks About the Value and Measurement of Social Media', the fifth (of six) Chris Brogan videos taped when Chris was at our headquarters in Cary, NC. In this video, the sixth and final segment in the series, SAS' Deb Orton interviews Chris
