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How to Measure Small Business Website Performance

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To get this type of information, you need to use an analytics tool. Google Analytics is a free and popular tool that any business can connect to. It can be complicated to use which is why someone without much technical expertise would do well to use an analytics plugin that automatically creates reports that you can use.

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5 Effective Ways for Startups to Lower Customer Acquisition Costs

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In addition to trial users, you can leverage the remarketing strategy for webinar participants , ebook downloaders, and podcast subscribers, for example. As an in-house Affiliate Marketing Manager, I’m part of the affiliate marketing team that’s running the affiliate partner program at Supermetrics.

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Excellent Analytics Tips #19: Identify Website Goal [Economic] Values

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The way OOD manifests itself is that in every website and web business I work with I am obnoxiously persistent in helping identify the desired outcomes of the site / business before I ever log into their web analytics data. Without goals and goal values you are not doing web analytics, you are doing web iamwastingyourlifeandminelytics.

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Rock Analytics More: Obsess About Goals And Goal Values!

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If you don't have goals, you are not doing digital analytics. We were brain storming about the next cluster of coolness for Analytics, the conversation quickly went to what Analysts need to look at on a daily, weekly and monthly basis. Let's say you work at www.adobe.com and you've just started to use Google Analytics.

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Speed, Focus, Smart Insights: 5 Google Analytics Custom Reports FTW!

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You can download them into your Google Analytics account via one click (along with some lovely Advanced Segments and a Dashboard). You can download a bunch more, that are not yet in the bundle above, by following the links at the end of this post. Bonus: There's lots of goodness that is hidden in Google Analytics.

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Be Real-World Smart: A Beginner's Advanced Google Analytics Guide

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The outcome of book smart is rarely better for analytics practitioners then folks trying to learn how to fly an airplane from how-to books. This is all the way from Aug 2009: Web Analytics Career Advice: Play In The Real World! And, happily, it has almost all of the Google Analytics features implemented correctly.

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Need To Know: Answers To The Questions That Every First-Time App Developer Asks

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Apps are increasingly becoming a vital part of how businesses deliver services and goods to consumers, in fact Gartner predicts that by 2017 apps will generate more than $77 billion in revenue and be downloaded more than 268 billion times. When you check your web analytics are you seeing more visitors from Android or iOS devices?

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