{"id":1197,"date":"2007-09-21T13:58:27","date_gmt":"2007-09-21T18:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/09\/the-web-is-watching-you\/"},"modified":"2007-09-21T13:58:27","modified_gmt":"2007-09-21T18:58:27","slug":"the-web-is-watching-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/09\/the-web-is-watching-you\/","title":{"rendered":"The Web Is Watching You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a big fan of online purchases mainly because I can get exactly what I want, click to order and forget about it.&nbsp; I&#8217;m not a big tracking guy either &#8211; I pick the slowest, cheapest method for shipping and the stuff usually arrives within 1 week.&nbsp; Fire and forget.<\/p>\n<p>Now Inc.com offers up <a href=\"http:\/\/www.inc.com\/news\/articles\/200709\/products0920.html?partner=rss\" target=\"_blank\">Ever Wish You Could Read Your Customers&#8217; Minds?<\/a>&nbsp; Get a load of this new software:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Proclivity is a consumer predictive engine technology that is able to analyze a customer&#8217;s online activity and identify their interest in certain types of merchandise.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>For example, if an online clothing retailer wants to launch a campaign around jeans, Proclivity will quickly generate a list of customers based on the analyzed data that predicts how many customers would buy jeans and how much money the company would make in a given amount of time. The company can then decide how much to invest in certain campaigns.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I may be in the minority here, but I don&#8217;t mind if they track my visit.&nbsp; I personally enjoy having items of interest to me appearing on the site.<\/p>\n<p>This would be an interesting tool if it could be used by B2B companies too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a big fan of online purchases mainly because I can get exactly what I want, click to order and forget about it.&nbsp; I&#8217;m not a big tracking guy either &#8211; I pick the slowest, cheapest method for shipping and the stuff usually arrives within 1 week.&nbsp; Fire and forget. Now Inc.com offers up Ever Wish You Could Read Your Customers&#8217; Minds?&nbsp; Get a load of this new software: Proclivity is a consumer predictive engine technology that is able to analyze a customer&#8217;s online activity and identify their interest in certain types of merchandise. &#8230; For example, if an online clothing retailer wants to launch a campaign around jeans, Proclivity&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/09\/the-web-is-watching-you\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,5],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-jj","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->