40 Profitable Tools For Online Business & Digital Marketing

The marketing funnel is a model of how strangers become customers in stages, awareness, interest, consideration, purchase, with fewer people at each stage than the one before, used to decide which message, channel and measure belong to which stage.

Marketing attribution is the assignment of credit for a sale or a sign-up to the advertisements, searches, emails and visits that preceded it, according to a rule called an attribution model, so that each channel's reported results reflect its share of the outcomes it helped cause.

Return on ad spend is the revenue a campaign produced divided by what it cost, expressed as a ratio or a percentage: five pounds of sales for every pound of advertising is a ROAS of 5, or 500 per cent, and the number only becomes a decision once it is compared with the margin on those sales.

Data analysis is the practice of interrogating data to answer a specific question, and of establishing how much weight the answer can bear.

Data wrangling is the work of repairing and reshaping real records, and of deciding what their gaps and inconsistencies mean, until a table can be trusted with the question being asked of it.

Data visualisation is the practice of encoding numbers as position, length and colour so that a comparison a reader would otherwise have to calculate becomes something they can simply see.