Set in 2016-17, the case involves an email marketing company (anonymized) that used paid search campaigns and tracked keyword performance over a one-year period to understand how different keywords influenced impressions, clickthroughs, and sales. The analyses using Excel’s Pivot Tables and Panel Regression of a large data set helps in articulating tactical and strategic changes to the company’s paid search campaign for the next year.
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Managerially complex
50%
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Technically complex
100%
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Recent
80%
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