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Analytics

Guide to Engagement Analytics

Engagement analytics is the process of tracking, measuring and processing of engagement actions on a webpage. The data is then shown in an online dashboard.   Why are Engagement Analytics important? Seeing how audiences engage, rather than passively view, a webpage or piece of content, helps to understand what is going to drive demand. Audiences seek out & share engaging content. Thus companies want to be able to tell if their content is engaging. In 2023, Google Search algorithms have… Continue reading

Ben Young
Ben Young
March 25, 2023
Analytics

How to measure engagement with Nudge

Nudge enables you to collect engagement analytics on any webpage or content. Simply sign up, install the code, and view the data in the online dashboard. This post details how to get set up to measure engagement metrics. This can work on any browser based experience where javascript can be installed. Nudge enables you to get customer insights with ease, diving straight into how customers are engaging, what they’re paying attention to, where they’re coming from, on what devices. Continue reading

Ben Young
Ben Young
March 25, 2023
Commentary

Challenging Times

Edition #397 On the challenging market, new content studios, payment for AI to use content in its models and the latest from MacPac. I saw this tweet earlier in the week, MORGAN STANLEY: what happens when one or more of these five things are happening? MORGAN STANLEY: what happens when one or more of these five things are happening? 1) $SPX forward earnings declining 2) yield curve inverted3) Unemployment… Continue reading

Ben Young
Ben Young
March 24, 2023
Analytics

Guide to Conversion Rate

Conversion rate is the rate at which potential customers take action after engaging with marketing & advertising initiatives. Conversion rate is calculated by taking the total number of conversions, divided by people that engaged with an experience, multiplied by 100%. i.e. 10 conversions, from 100 people, is 10%.   This post includes: Why is conversion rate important? What is a good conversion rate? How to track conversion rates How to Improve your conversion rate Why… Continue reading

Ben Young
Ben Young
March 21, 2023
Analytics

Guide to Marketing Measurement

Marketing measurement is the process of measuring & collating data on marketing efforts. Analytics is the analysis of this data. There is often confusion between measurement and analytics. Strictly speaking analytics looks at the market and derives data from it, measurement is a direct measure of action. Colloquially though, marketers tend to intermingle the terms.   Why is marketing measurement important? Marketing measurement is important, as it means marketers aren’t operating in the dark. They have access to direct data… Continue reading

Ben Young
Ben Young
March 21, 2023
how to measure
how to measure
How To

How to measure content effectiveness

This post dives into how to measure content effectiveness. There are discrete measures but often it can fall into areas of ‘it depends’. This helps to give the reader the tools to help answer the question – is this effective? Marketing effectiveness seeks to understand how well the work is producing the desired results. Before going further, these posts may be of help: Guide to Content Measurement Guide to Content Marketing Analytics Guide to Content Marketing & … Continue reading

Ben Young
Ben Young
March 17, 2023
Product Updates

Main Thing

Edition #396 Spotify to buy TikTok? Kottke turns 25 and Lifehacker sold. TikTok has been told to divest its US business, in light of security concerns about its data. Notably the US has asked TikTok to do this before and backed down. It’s hard not to see this as a bit of a geopolitical baton. Which it is. But Matt Weinberger of Insider Tech put out a tweet Wednesday morning, who would be the funniest company to… Continue reading

Ben Young
Ben Young
March 17, 2023
Analytics

How to track scroll analytics with Nudge

Nudge is a web analytics platform that is focused on attention and engagement from audiences. Tracking scroll metrics comes out of the box. Read on to see how to enable scroll analytics for your experience. You might use this for content marketing, native / programmatic advertising or just understanding how audiences scroll through your pages.   Sign up to Nudge First you need to sign up to Nudge, click the sign up button.  Enter your email and a… Continue reading

Ben Young
Ben Young
March 14, 2023
Content Marketing, How To

How to create a content marketing strategy that works

Content marketing strategy is a marketing strategy that seeks to leverage content marketing to deliver on an organization’s marketing objectives. The plan of action, enables organizations to be more effective in their content marketing efforts and communicate areas that they want to change. Elements of a content strategy are: Objective, what it is you are trying to achieve. Audience or target market, who you are trying to impact. Insights or… Continue reading

Ben Young
Ben Young
March 13, 2023
Strategy

Guide to Content Retargeting

Content retargeting is serving content ads to people who have already read your content. It’s a new tool in the content marketers toolkit and allows you to manage your content funnel more effectively. Matching content to the buyers journey. For example: Someone reads your thought leadership piece. You then retarget a summary of your industry research. For those that read that research you retarget some of your latest case studies or customer interviews. The intention being to shift someone closer to being… Continue reading

Ben Young
Ben Young
March 10, 2023