Modern social media is a far cry from the “shiny new toy” it was a decade ago. From customer service to social selling, there’s a reason why brands both big and small are upping their investments in social media at large. That said, there’s still plenty of skepticism and struggle among brands when it comes to […]
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This post is for those of you who want to use Google Analytics, but feel a threshold to start with this tool. For everyone that wants to see the fun of Google Analytics, but is having a hard time finding that fun. This is a post for people that are scared to use Google Analytics because they’re afraid to
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Users can navigate most sites in a nearly infinite set of combinations. If you don’t have a set way to approach this data, trying to tie back how users got from point A to B to Z during their user journey can make you feel like a detective on the hunt for the truth. And
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At this point in time, almost every marketer has heard about the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), Europe’s sweeping data privacy legislation that went into effect at the end of May. US companies are bound by this law because it governs all European Union (EU) members, no matter where their data is collected. Under GDPR,
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Facebook has become a staple within marketing plans across many industries. The ability to reach their enormous user base using behavioral and demographic data allows you to expose your advertisements to an extremely targeted audience. Yet there are even more benefits to advertising on Facebook that many brands are not taking advantage of, perhaps because
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In my last post, I talked about how to use email to get even more out of your most valuable users (your customers!). Email is certainly a tried-and-true digital channel, but it’s also limited, especially in the case of app retention and engagement. In the go-go-go mobile world of 2018, adding any extra steps (e.g.,
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Roll-Up reporting combines data from multiple Google Analytics properties and lets you view them in a single one. For example, say you have a brand website (www.yourbrand.com), an ecommerce site (shop.yourbrand.com), a slew of paid search landing pages (www.yourbrand-marketing.com/Campaign-Name), and several international sites (www.yourbrand.eu, www.yourbrand.ca, www.yourbrand.co.uk), roll-up reporting merges data points — in the form
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Dashboards. There are a lot of people out there that absolutely love dashboards. And I agree, creating a good dashboard can save you a lot of time as an analyst. It’s very useful for monitoring data and reporting back to your colleagues. And dashboards can make clear when something’s off the charts, the moment for
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In the social marketing world, our unrelenting hunt for ROI stems from fear. The fear is that there is one definition of ROI for social media, but we’re just not advanced enough to know about it. If we haven’t found it yet, it’s coming. And we’d better be here to catch it when it does
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Quick question: how does your brand’s social presence stack up against your competition? Because if you’re looking at little more than followers and Likes as a measuring stick, you might be in the dark. The reality? While these surface-level metrics can be valuable, they don’t tell the full story of your social presence. Think about
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