
How To Turn Data Into Dollars: 3 Stages To Activate Your Data
The digital age is well upon us. But as marketers, if we step back just a bit and examine these exciting times we’re living in, we also...

Marketers, Is Your Data Scalable?
While “big data” was once seen as a buzzword, the conversation has grown tremendously over the past several years. Data now holds the...

How To Simplify Manual Campaign Tracking In Google Analytics
Want to avoid lumping all your earned editorial links and marketing campaigns into one murky bucket of clicks? Connect Google Analytics...

3 Refreshing Ways To Look At Marketing Analytics
My numbers are down. After spending my last few columns in deep dives on report sampling, tracking account holders, and measuring video,...

Facebook’s New Analytics For Apps: A Look Under The Hood
Facebook’s F8 conference for developers has become an event that’s closely watched for announcements of new directions the company is...

Why B2C Ad Metrics Are Ruining Your B2B Campaigns
Every week, we get an automated email from one of display ad vendors with this subject line, “Rachel, you could get more clicks by...

Marketing Stats Toolbox: Mobile Activity By City To Keep You Ahead
“Location, location, location,” the long-time axiom of the real estate market — and, more recently, one of the largest trends in online...

Amazing Ways Marketers Can Use First-Party Data
In the first article in this series, I introduced the concept of sharing data in your digital marketing channels. To dive even further...

How To Take Your Marketing Analytics To The Next Dimension — Literally
Many of you have probably heard the term “dimensions” used in the context of marketing. Whether they’re geographies, customer segments or...

3 Steps To “Persona”-lized Marketing
“Batch and blast email marketing is dead.” So say an increasing number of marketers (ourselves included). But if this is the case, teams...

Everything’s Bigger In Texas: Sampling & Google Analytics Reports
Howdy, ya’ll. Since before our friends in Alaska became the biggest state (by area), we Texans have been saying that “everything is...

Marketing Stats Toolbox: Mapping Tablet Usage Rates By State
Properly addressing tablet users presents an interesting challenge to marketers. In Google AdWords, for instance, traffic from desktops,...

Strategy Before Code: A Process For Valuable Analytics
I’ll start with a bold statement: In 2015, you can no longer afford to live with a web analytics deployment that was slapped on by your...

DIY Enterprise-Level Marketing Data For Every Size Business
If you’ve been reading these pages, you’ve heard a lot about omni-channel marketing, data integration, and other tech-driven marketing...

7 Ways To Use Emotion To Drive Conversions
Illogical and unlikely as it seems, decision-making in humans is ruled by the emotional brain. People decide first based on how they...

If You’re Not Using These Data Types, You Risk Falling Behind
Q1 is a time of fine-tuning for the year to come. In performance marketing, data has been the largest contributor to our...

Maximizing Lead Scoring & Analytics: How To Use Big Data In B2B
Modern B2B marketing and sales teams rely on several techniques to maintain customer interest throughout the buying process. Rather than...

7 Limitations Of Big Data In Marketing Analytics
As everyone knows, “big data” is all the rage in digital marketing nowadays. Marketing organizations across the globe are trying to find...

Why The Quality Of Your Data Is Crucial For Content Marketing In 2015
Do you know what content your target audience wants to read — and where they want to read it? If the answer is no, you’re not obtaining...
























