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Raw Data & Google Analytics: A Game Changer

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After a few hours playing around with SQL , I was already able to deliver insights I never could have with aggregated Google Analytics reports. What’s the difference between raw and aggregated data in Google Analytics? Google Analytics, in the free version, provides only aggregated data. Where do my users come from?

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Google BigQuery: A Tutorial for Marketers

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Alternatives include Amazon Redshift , Snowflake , Microsoft Azure SQL Data Warehouse , Apache Hive , etc. The solution is to give every lead and every purchase a userID (like an encrypted email), to pull CRM and Google Analytics data into your BigQuery data warehouse, and then—with a simple SQL query—join the two tables.

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A Quick Primer on B2B Conversion Optimization

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So the process in B2B looks a bit like this (simplified): Visitor → MQL → SQL → customer. There you want to look at things in clumps and aggregates. In addition, Bill explained, people tend to over optimize for email list subscribers without qualifying the leads. Account-Based Marketing.

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Takeaways from our first V1 Data Team Hangout

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Let’s think about the typical (and simplified) data flow in a company: raw data is aggregated, normalized or processed and then stored in a data warehouse. For example, marketing has email data – so if you need email data, you can go to the designated data liaison in marketing for help with this information.

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Google Analytics vs. Google Analytics 360 (Based on a Decade of Implementations)

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For example, while the data aggregation process in Google Analytics seems like a “normal” feature, it might be a hurdle if your business needs to process data at the hit level instead of by sessions or campaigns. An enterprise data warehouse for fast SQL queries. The root of this problem is hidden in the logic of both tools.

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Lessons Learned: Sharding for startups

Startup Lessons Learned

If youre of the type of organization that doesnt use db access objects directly, but simply passes SQL statements through a central API, you can try this: consider the entity identifier as part of the statement itself. Nearly every SQL query I see has a join. The actual directory itself is straightforward. E, How is WoW sharded?

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Multichannel Attribution: How to Measure the Unmeasurable

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email marketing platforms, call tracking systems, mobile analytics systems, CRM and ERP systems, etc. Offer loyalty cards that must be activated online with an email address and are connected to a user ID, phone number, etc. Using SQL queries, the Ile de Beaute team combined all data collected in BigQuery into a single table.