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Depends on how quick is "quickly".

If anything, they seem to be doubling down on this. From my discussions on the subject with people "in marketing", they are really convinced that not only is the data "accurate enough", but that collecting and exploiting it is actually for the client's benefit.

I wonder how one would go about quantifying the usefulness of all this tracking, because I doubt it's cheap. The best I could get was "we're able to see changes in sales which correlate to marketing campaigns". I can totally buy that and it seems somewhat more advanced of an answer than the more common one of "If didn't work they wouldn't be doing it".

What I wonder though is how they would go about quantifying how much better a tracking-based campaign worked than a "traditional" one would have.



What if most of the marketing is useless in the first place? And most of the data are useless too.

How would they know?




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