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Archive for September, 2009

How Google Analytics Can Help Improve Marketing Campaigns

Friday, September 4th, 2009

Google Analytics provides multiple different tools to see who is visiting you site and how effective your marketing really is.

Do you wonder how effective your marketing initiatives really are? Google Analytics provides free statistical reports on website visitors. It can be used in conjunction with other Google services, such as AdWords and AdSense, so that users are able to truly track marketing efforts and their value.

Custom reporting allows users to create a customizable dashboard that can be e-mailed to others. It also allows for advanced segmentation including choices like “Paid Traffic.” By isolating specific groups, patrons can analyze subsets individually and compare them to current or historic data. Other elements of custom reporting include the ability to create custom reports, export data to other sources such as Excel or CSV, multiline graphing, and more.

Discover more about your advertising ROI by integrating with AdWords and AdSense. Determine which keywords are most lucrative and successful and also which site content creates the most income. Not only can you follow your other Google applications, but you can also track your email campaigns and banner advertisements, etc. With loyalty and latency metrics, you are capable of identifying your best profit sources.

Cross channel and multimedia tracking is also provided in Google Analytics. Use internal site search to understand what your customers want and speed up conversion rates. Flash, video, and social network application tracking is also available.

Visualizing data allows you a new perspective into the mind of your audience. Motion charts allow you compare and expose data relationships that would typically not be as easy to recognize. Other available services include geo targeting to identify your more profitable markets, funnels to help you fix leaks, and many more options.

Google Analytics provides a vast array of tools to help professionals, specifically those in marketing, ensure their efforts are profitable and successful.

To learn more about Google Analytics, visit http://www.google.com/analytics/

Do You Have A Written Plan?

Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009

Learn how having a written marketing plan can help you earn 10 times more than the competition.

Real business growth comes from writing out the goals you plan to achieve – and then putting the things in place to achieve those goals.

Many times we get so caught up in day to day survival we can only take things one step at a time. Although that may get us through the day or even the week, it’s simply surviving. It’s not growing your business.

My standard answer when asked the single greatest thing a business can do to separate itself from the competition is to have a written marketing plan with established goals, strategies, tactics, and measurements. It’s been estimated that less than 3% of the population has written goals and they earn on average 10 times more than the rest.

If you truly want growth and improvement in your company or career, take the time to develop a marketing plan. Then, hold yourself and your company accountable for that plan and its objectives.

Quit taking things a day at a time. Have a plan.

 
  
 

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