Your game plan is worthless unless you can execute

Why are so few analytics experts freely sharing their knowledge? Is it a competition thing?   Whenever I hear of people closely guarding their analytics strategies, I can’t help thinking about the Utah Jazz in the days of “Stockton to Malone.”   Every team knew that the Jazz were going to continually run the pick […]

FIT Radio Partners with 33 Sticks to Better Visualize and Understand Their Data

We recently worked on a challenging project, with our client FIT Radio, to help them better understand how their pricing model impacts how their users upgrade from a free account to a premium account. Based on the insights we were able to provide them, FIT Radio was able to make actionable decisions that had a […]

Research In Creative Podcast: Data Based Decision Making

This week, I made a guest appearance on the Research In Creative Podcast where I talked about how:   Organizations need to do a better job collaborating data types to make holistic business decisions Social media offers the ability for organizations and individuals to create relationships that might otherwise never happen Analytics and digital optimization […]

Value Generated Is More Important Than Hours Worked

When we established 33 Sticks, one of the first, and most important, decisions we made was that we would charge our clients for the value we deliver rather than the hours we work.   I’m paraphrasing Alan Weiss, consultant/speaker/author, here as he says it best, any time you are charging by the time unit, you […]

Supercharging Your Optimization Practice With Satellite

“Can we run 8-10 optimization campaigns concurrently?”   It seems most executives must have attended the same optimization maturity workshop, as I’m often being approached by organizations, both large and small, to help them mature their optimization practices to a point where they are consistently running 8-10 optimization campaigns concurrently.   What I have discovered […]