
10 New Year’s Resolutions For Marketers
It’s the Eve of a New Year. Aside from the celebrations, it’s a fine time to spend a few minutes contemplating goals for the New Year...

2013 In Analytics & Marketing: Our 10 Most Popular Columns
From Annie Cushing’s series on how to get the most from Excel to Nan Dawkins’ musings on Google’s Universal Analytics and Social Media...

Monetizing Your Website’s Real Fans & The “Bandwagon”
In the New England area, Red Sox fever came to a head once again with the October World Series victory this year, and it was clear that...

‘Twas The Week Before Christmas [The Digital Marketing Version]
Every person was busy, a few ready to scream. The landing pages were published to the website with care, In hopes that buyers soon would...

Analytics: A Beginner’s Guide To Data Visualization
Lately, I have been writing about taking a closer look at your marketing data, and my last piece discussed the design of meaningful...

Google Analytics Day & Hour Metrics Provide Valuable Insights
Recent work has led me down the path to finding out when traffic is hitting a website, and tying that traffic to the customer service my...

An Expensive E-Commerce Game: Product Page Roulette
Like so many online shoppers, we sometimes have trouble making buying decisions here at Conversion Sciences. However, most online...

4 Data-Fueled Insights On How People Are Using Gmail’s Tabbed Inbox This Holiday Season
The Christmas shopping season is officially upon us. Inboxes are stuffed with special email promotions that will hopefully result in...

Marketing Technologists Are The Secret Weapon Of Conversion Optimization
I’ve been working in the conversion optimization space for over seven years. (My company offers a software platform for creating and...

Behavior Flow: Better Insights, Better Marketing
While there are thousands of different pieces of data available in Google Analytics, unfortunately there aren’t thousands of hours in...

Identifying Customer Lifetime Value Trends In AdWords
In this post, I’ll touch on a basic way to look at those CLV numbers in AdWords for those conversions you are currently monitoring:...

Your Homepage Is THE Landing Page
Your homepage is probably the most visited page on your website — in fact, for the majority of websites, it typically receives more than...

Using Proxy Metrics As KPIs? Learn The Myths & Limitations
There are various marketing channels today, some more suited for building awareness and brand equity while others are better for direct...

How To Design Analytics Dashboards From Google Webmaster Tools Data
SEO Chaos! That was my topic last month. Ever since Google blacked out keyword-level data, people have been scrambling to substitute or...

Marketing Power Processes: Tracking Email To The Dollars
This is another article in a series I’m calling “Power Processes.” Power Processes not only make marketers better, they demonstrate their...

Comprehensive Guide To Creating Branded Templates In Excel
Wrapping up my series on dashboards, I want to address an issue I see in just about every spreadsheet I’ve seen in my career as a...

No, Really, You Should Test That
“You should test that.” It’s a phrase that Chris Goward, founder and CEO of marketing optimization agency WiderFunnel, has probably...

What Happens After The Conversion
Woohoo! Someone filled out a form for your whitepaper or webinar! You’ve given them what they asked for, but now what? This one...

Is Not Provided A Good Thing?
It’s been a few weeks since Google rocked our worlds and stripped keyword-level data from the referrer, so it’s time to examine the...
























