Bloggers Digest 1/16/09

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• Thinking about launching video on your site for 2009? Check out 25 examples of retailers using video.

• Web analytics is a bit like accounting, even if you're not the web analyst you need to have a basic understanding of what it is and why you need analytics. Avinash Kaushik posted 3 videos from internet marketing gurus on Segmentation, Site Search and Quantifying Economic Value that you should check out even if you're not the full time web analyst.

• A very important (but more complicated) task in web analytics is solving the problem of ROI attribution which is complicated when the web drives phone sales, for example. Ryan Gibson from Rimm Kaufman Group asks "What would your paid search program look like if it was missing 50% of the sales dollars that it was generating?" and of course, answers the question.

• Hunter Boyle at the Marketing Experiments Blog lists the top 14 free marketing tools available from Marketing Experiments - these tools can help you with metrics for various marketing activities like conversion testing and PPC.

• Good start to the year for Elastic Path, our CEO Harry Chemko was named to Business in Vancouver's Top 40 Under 40, and Get Elastic is holdin' up the #89 spot on the AdAge Power 150 (here's a list of the "Twitter Power 150")