Contents

Chapter 1 Ecommerce Analytics Creates Business Value and Drives Business Growth

Chapter 2 The Ecommerce Analytics Value Chain

Identifying and Prioritizing Demand

Developing an Analytical Plan

Activating the Ecommerce Analytics Environment

Preparing and Wrangling Data

Analyzing, Predicting, Optimizing, and Automating with Data

Socializing Analytics

Communicating the Economic Impact of Analytics

Chapter 3 Methods and Techniques for Ecommerce Analysis

Understanding the Calendar for Ecommerce Analysis

Storytelling Is Important for Ecommerce Analysis

Tukey’s Exploratory Data Analysis Is an Important Concept in Ecommerce Analytics

Types of Data: Simplified

Looking at Data: Shapes of Data

Analyzing Ecommerce Data Using Statistics and Machine Learning

Using Key Performance Indicators for Ecommerce

Chapter 4 Visualizing, Dashboarding, and Reporting Ecommerce Data and Analysis

Understanding Reporting

Explaining the RASTA Approach to Reporting

Understanding Dashboarding

Explaining the LIVEN Approach to Dashboarding

What Data Should I Start With in an Ecommerce Dashboard?

Understanding Data Visualization

Chapter 5 Ecommerce Analytics Data Model and Technology

Understanding the Ecommerce Analytics Data Model: Facts and Dimensions

Explaining a Sample Ecommerce Data Model

Understanding the Inventory Fact

Understanding the Product Fact

Understanding the Order Fact

Understanding the Order Item Fact

Understanding the Customers Fact

Understanding the Customer Order Fact

Reviewing Common Dimensions and Measures in Ecommerce

Chapter 6 Marketing and Advertising Analytics in Ecommerce

Understanding the Shared Goals of Marketing and Advertising Analysis

Reviewing the Marketing Lifecycle

Understanding Types of Ecommerce Marketing

Analyzing Marketing and Advertising for Ecommerce

What Marketing Data Could You Begin to Analyze?

Chapter 7 Analyzing Behavioral Data

Answering Business Questions with Behavioral Analytics

Understanding Metrics and Key Performance Indicators for Behavioral Analysis

Reviewing Types of Ecommerce Behavioral Analysis

Chapter 8 Optimizing for Ecommerce Conversion and User Experience

The Importance of the Value Proposition in Conversion Optimization

The Basics of Conversion Optimization: Persuasion, Psychology, Information Architecture, and Copywriting

The Conversion Optimization Process: Ideation to Hypothesis to Post-Optimization Analysis

The Data for Conversion Optimization: Analytics, Visualization, Research, Usability, Customer, and Technical Data

The Science Behind Conversion Optimization

Succeeding with Conversion Optimization

Chapter 9 Analyzing Ecommerce Customers

What Does a Customer Record Look Like in Ecommerce?

What Customer Data Could I Start to Analyze?

Questioning Customer Data with Analytical Thought

Understanding the Ecommerce Customer Analytics Lifecycle

Defining the Types of Customers

Reviewing Types of Customer Analytics

Segmenting Customers

Performing Cohort Analysis

Calculating Customer Lifetime Value

Determining the Cost of Customer Acquisition

Analyzing Customer Churn

Understanding Voice-of-the-Customer Analytics

Doing Recency, Frequency, and Monetary Analysis

Determining Share of Wallet

Scoring Customers

Predicting Customer Behavior

Clustering Customers

Predicting Customer Propensities

Personalizing Customer Experiences

Chapter 10 Analyzing Products and Orders in Ecommerce

What Are Ecommerce Orders?

What Order Data Should I Begin to Analyze?

What Metrics and Key Performance Indicators Are Relevant for Ecommerce Orders?

Approaches to Analyzing Orders and Products

Analyzing Products in Ecommerce

Analyzing Merchandising in Ecommerce

What Merchandising Data Should I Start Analyzing First?

Chapter 11 Attribution in Ecommerce Analytics

Attributing Sources of Buyers, Conversion, Revenue, and Profit

Understanding Engagement Mapping and the Types of Attribution

The Difference between Top-Down and Bottom-Up Approaches to Attribution

A Framework for Assessing Attribution Software

Chapter 12 What Is an Ecommerce Platform?

Understanding the Core Components of an Ecommerce Platform

Understanding the Business Functions Supported by an Ecommerce Platform

Determining an Analytical Approach to Analyzing the Ecommerce Platform

Chapter 13 Integrating Data and Analysis to Drive Your Ecommerce Strategy

Defining the Types of Data, Single-Channel to Omnichannel

Integrating Data from a Technical Perspective

Integrating Analytics Applications

Integrating Data from a Business Perspective

Chapter 14 Governing Data and Ensuring Privacy and Security

Applying Data Governance in Ecommerce

Applying Data Privacy and Security in Ecommerce

Governance, Privacy, and Security Are Part of the Analyst’s Job

Chapter 15 Building Analytics Organizations and Socializing Successful Analytics

Suggesting a Universal Approach for Building Successful Analytics Organizations

Determine and Justify the Need for an Analytics Team

Gain Support for Hiring or Appointing a Leader for Analytics

Hire the Analytics Leader

Gather Business Requirements

Create the Mission and Vision for the Analytics Team

Create an Organizational Model

Hire Staff

Assess the Current State Capabilities and Determine the Future State Capabilities

Assess the Current State Technology Architecture and Determine the Future State Architecture

Begin Building an Analytics Road Map

Train Staff

Map Current Processes, Interactions, and Workflows

Build Templates and Artifacts to Support the Analytics Process

Create a Supply-and-Demand Management Model

Create an Operating Model for Working with Stakeholders

Use, Deploy, or Upgrade Existing or New Technology

Collect or Acquire New Data

Implement a Data Catalog, Master Data Management, and Data Governance

Meet with Stakeholders and Participate in Business Processes, and Then Socialize Analysis on a Regular Cadence and Periodicity

Do Analysis and Data Science and Deliver It

Lead or Assist with New Work Resulting from Analytical Processes

Document and Socialize the Financial Impact and Business Outcomes Resulting from Analysis

Continue to Do Analysis, Socialize It, and Manage Technology While Emphasizing the Business Impact Ad Infinitum

Manage Change and Support Stakeholders

Chapter 16 The Future of Ecommerce Analytics

The Future of Data Collection and Preparation

The Future Is Data Experiences

Future Analytics and Technology Capabilities

Bibliography

Index