Digital Strategy
How To Set Up Goals In Google Analytics – And Why You Need To
WATCH READ In order to truly make data driven decisions in your marketing campaigns, you have to set up Google Analytics Goals. It’s important to understand the concepts behind setting up these goals. Let’s start with the basic level. Google Analytics Goals will help you identify quality visits to your website or app vs.…
Read MoreDigital Marketing Hack: 30 Minutes A Month
WATCH READ Every marketing person should check out Google Analytics for 30 minutes every month. There is so much valuable data to look for, and if you can focus on a core set of things, it will be a good use of your time. Don’t get sucked in or fall down the rabbit hole. Look…
Read MoreDon't Make Changes To Your Website Without Reading This! Google Analytics Behavior Reports.
WATCH READ It’s different for every business, but at some point in time, whether weekly, monthly, quarterly or annually, your organization wants to make changes to the website. Sometimes it’s wanting to get strategic and improve for conversion optimization, such as moving around elements of various pages, changing button placements, updating web copy and imagery…
Read MoreWhere Is Your Web Traffic Coming From? Google Analytics Acquisition Reports
WATCH READ When businesses ask me how they can get more web traffic, my mind immediately goes to one place – get me your Google Analytics access so I can drill down into your Acquisition Reports to see where your web traffic is coming from. We all want more web traffic, but the best place…
Read MoreKnow Your Web Users: Google Analytics Audience Reports
WATCH READ I’ve written about the importance of Google Analytics and how to get started setting it up on your website. Now it’s time to dig into how to use it. The best place to start is what everyone wants to know – HOW MUCH WEB TRAFFIC AM I GETTING? This information can be found…
Read MoreYour Resolution Should Be: Use Google Analytics in 2018
WATCH READ Get ready folks, because my 2018 New Year’s Resolution is to blog every day. Yep, that’s right. 365 Paul Hickey blogs. My sincere hope is that each and every one of them provides some value for you in some way to improve your business. Kicking off 2018 is a subject I’m extremely passionate…
Read MoreSEO Talk: Behind The Scenes
WATCH READ Such a common problem in the SEO Client Services Game is a lack of communication with the client about what’s really happening. Too many SEO Service Providers simply send a report every month and don’t communicate. This is the easy way out, and the quick way to recurring revenue for the provider, but…
Read MoreThe Data Behind Black Friday: Please Unsubscribe From My Email List
WATCH READ Please unsubscribe from my email list! This is basically what many marketers are saying to their customers on Black Friday and Cyber Monday. It’s important to understand the data, psychology and user behavior behind the impact of marketers waiting until the one time a year when they believe they have consumer attention to…
Read MoreDigital Content Strategy: Authenticity Wins
WATCH READ I get it. You hear all the time that you have to be funny or engaging on social media. It’s extremely intimidating to think about how to be funny. And funny is freaking subjective as hell. You’re too busy running your company, build your team, drive revenue and track cash flow to worry…
Read MoreWhy Google Analytics? See What Marketing Channels Are Performing Best
WATCH READ Flat out, Google Analytics is the most underrated platform. It’s more overlooked and passed on than Kurt Warner, but it actually can win you a Super Bowl, or whatever your business equivalent is. Google Analytics is free, and our data says while 85-95% of websites have it installed, near 100% of business personnel,…
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