As Tag Management Systems (TMS) have become ubiquitous technology in the web analytics and digital marketing space, there are multiple ways to approach using them. Regardless of the way your organization decides to use it, it is important to identify the methodology. Having spent the last several years using multiple TMS platforms and designing solutions revolving around them, those clients that don’t identify the methodology, or the best practices, their organization is going to adopt, the technology usually end ups in the same spot.
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Creating Custom Dashboards Using the Adobe Reporting API
Toward the beginning of the 4th quarter 2015, we had a global electronics retailer approach us looking for a solution to a business problem they had. This client is a major electronics retailer that operates online and brick-and-mortar stores for multiple brands. Our primary contact at the client, who manages the team responsible for analytics and insights, saw this problem while the rest of the business didn’t realize they even had a problem.
Designing Solutions – Be in a Strong Position by Optimizing Your Starting Point
Those that have worked with me over the years know that I often talk in sports analogies due to my love of sports. Many times with sports you hear folks say that it doesn’t matter how you got there as long as you have a successful finish. The thing is, if you want to have successful finishes more often than not, you need to make sure you and your team are starting in the strongest position possible. In my years designing digital analytics and marketing technology solutions, I’ve come across two schools of thought around starting engagements, either starting fresh with each new client or using the same prescribed templates each time.
TMS Governance – The often overlooked step during an integration
Tag Management Systems (TMS) have been available for quite some time now, but there is a key step that I often see organizations missing when integrating one into their ecosystem. Before we get to that step, let’s discuss the problem that these organizations are trying solve with a Tag Management System.
Are You Sharing Your Analytics Knowledge?
Whether you are a first year analyst or a 20 year industry veteran, you have something of value to share. And it is in that sharing that individuals, organizations, and entire industries move forward.
Tag Management: The ROI of Free
Ever since Google released a free version of Google Analytics, we have discussed the inherent trap of using a “free” analytics solutions — that trap being a lack of investment in the people needed to drive value from the solutions. And while many companies continue to fall into that trap, and fail to drive value from free solutions, the industry has reached a state of maturity where many other companies are in fact driving amazing value from free platforms.
Measuring Form Success Using Adobe DTM
For all sites, not just non-ecommerce focused sites, having an understanding of how your site visitors are utilizing your web forms, which have become for many sites the primary method of communication, is ultra critical.
Market Basket Analysis With Adobe Analytics And RSiteCatalyst
Any merchandiser can tell you their top-selling product. If you ask what the top product combination is sold on their website, they might actually know (there’s a lot of sharp people out there!), but you’re also likely hear a guess like “multiple variations of top-selling product.” Obvious, but not very insightful.
Avoid the Marketing Pixel Wasteland
With the rapid adoption of Tag Management Solutions (TMS), the ability to deploy marketing conversion pixels has never been easier. However, with that ease comes the potential danger of pushing marketing pixels to your site without regard to process or governance.
This undisciplined approach to pixel management often leads to sites becoming bloated with pixels, many of which are for campaigns that ended months, if not years, ago. A marketing pixel wasteland, if you will.
Learn how investing in some light-weight process to manage your marketing pixels will save you time and money.
Python for Business: Identifying Duplicate Data
Data Preparation is one of those critical tasks that most digital analysts take for granted as many of the analytics platforms we use take care of this task for us or at least we like to believe they do so. With that said, Data Preparation should be a task that every good analyst completes as part of any data investigation.