Measuring the Non-Profit: From Planning to Implementation

Every non-profit needs to define a measurement plan to better understand their performance.

This is a post that I’m excited to write. I was talking to my friend Leslie, who does marketing for Google for Non-Profits. She helps non-profits use Google tools to be more successful. We were chatting about a framework that they can use to measure their non-profit more effectively. Let’s walk through the measurement planning [...]

Tracking Ecommerce Transactions with Universal Analytics

Tracking Ecommerce Transactions

We all know that tracking business outcomes, or conversions, is absolutely critical. If you sell a product that means tracking transactions. Let’s walk through tracking ecommerce transactions with Universal Analytics. How Ecommerce Tracking Works In general, Universal Analytics ecommerce tracking functions the same way as the standard Google Analytics ecommerce tracking. Google Analaytics collects the [...]

Tracking Websites with Universal Analytics

Place the Universal Analytics tracking code on every page of your site.

Universal Analytics is the evolution of Google Analytics. In addition to tracking mobile apps and almost any other device. Let’s tracking websites with Universal Analytics and demystify how the tracking works. Note: if you’re a beginner, and you just want to get started, all you need to know is this: get the Universal Analytics tracking [...]

Migrating to Universal Analytics

Universal Analytics: The next generation of Google Analytics

Universal Analytics is the next generation of Google Analytics. Announced in October, 2012, and previously available in Beta form, it is now rolling out to all new Google Analytics users. Just to be clear, as of March 2013, Universal Analytics is a choice when you create a new web property. You can use the current [...]

New: Managing Google Analytics User Permissions

There are three types of Google Analytics user permissions: Edit, Manage Users and View.

Finally! For the first time EVER, yes, EVER, Google Analytics has made a change to it’s access controls and user permissions. Some may think Google Analytics user permissions is not a very sexy topic, but this is going to make a big difference to those that manage Google Analytics accounts. There are two big changes [...]

A PR Dashboard for Google Analytics

PR Dashboard - Google Analytics

I recently wrote a post about Google Analytics for PR pros. After walking through what metrics I thought were important, I included a link to a PR dashboard for Google Analytics that anyone can add to Google Analytics. Here’s an explanation of the dashboard. Automatically add the Google Analytics PR dashboard to your Google Analytics [...]

Google Analytics for PR

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This week I had the opportunity to speak to a Public Relations class at Champlain College about measurement, public relations and Google Analytics. After rambling for an hour, I through it would be a good idea to jot down my advice in hopes that others can use it or, more importantly, improve on it. Let [...]