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All of our content marketing content, including attribution, guides, glossary, metrics.

Notable content includes Analytics, Metrics, Strategy and the State of Content in data points.

How To

How to Measure Digital Marketing Effectiveness

Using a third-party specialist marketing analytics tool will enable you to measure your effectiveness. In particular, when marketers reference effectiveness, understanding benchmarks is helpful. Where am I sitting as an organization against my competitors? Because yes, you need to be effective in driving results but are we doing better than our competitors (or not). This is useful nuance and context. Because hey, who doesn’t want to beat their competitors? Technically you are going to need a few things… Continue reading

Ben Young
Ben Young
January 17, 2020
How To

How to measure email marketing effectiveness

Email marketing is a smart way to continually drive engagement from people who already know (and hopefully) trust you. So understanding effectiveness is looking at – how many people opened the email, how many clicked through, how many unsubscribed, how many new people signed up, how many people shared the newsletter. Often email marketing platforms will help by providing benchmarks. Which is a useful starting point, are people opening my newsletter as much as my peers. Then, of course,… Continue reading

Ben Young
Ben Young
January 17, 2020
How To

How to analyze an ad

Load up all the data you have on an ad. How many people saw it, what was the click-through rate, what was the view ability or attention on it? Then compare that against your average or your benchmark. Is that good, is that bad? Did the ad drive conversions? More than you expected or less? Answering these questions will help understand whether it is working or not. Continue reading

Ben Young
Ben Young
January 17, 2020
Analytics, How To

How do you measure Content Marketing success

Defining success is ground in your content marketing strategy. What is it we are doing and why are we doing it. Then measuring success, gets a lot easier. You will want to make sure you have an analytics system installed, typically with a piece of javascript. That enables the platform to measure your content. Of the content marketing metrics, some that should help inform if your content is doing the work it should be is: Attention, how long… Continue reading

Ben Young
Ben Young
January 17, 2020
How To

How to measure content performance

Use a specialist marketing analytics tool that enables you to measure the things you need to measure. Specialist tools like Nudge, take all the learnings from the whole market, synthesize them and help establish the best practices. What are the most important things to be tracking? These enable you to measure how the content is performing, what is working, what isn’t working. To install these, it typically involves signing up, giving permission to access your social channels and installing code… Continue reading

Ben Young
Ben Young
January 17, 2020
How To

How to measure success of digital marketing

Install a third-party tracking system that will measure how well your digital marketing is going. This enables you to just focus on the insights and improving your digital marketing. Then work backward from the digital marketing strategy, what is our aim here? How do we measure that? Then link this to your metrics. For example, if your aim is to attract new customers, what is a meaningful amount of potential customers? Then use your measurement to see how… Continue reading

Ben Young
Ben Young
January 17, 2020
Strategy

Data driven storytelling

Data-driven storytelling is about using data to support and move a story along. It adds weight. It adds depth. It adds credibility. Knowing that someone robbed a bank is interesting. Knowing that someone robbed a bank but got away with no money. It is more interesting. Use data to support and build your story. To add that extra color. Which makes it engaging. Continue reading

Ben Young
Ben Young
January 17, 2020
Strategy

Data driven digital marketing

Digital marketing tends to be very data-centric. That is using data as a feedback loop to continually refine, improve and adjust directions. Data-driven digital marketing is about making sure this is front and center. This means, reviewing the data each week, making small adjustments. Reviewing the data each month and quarter for making bigger adjustments. The tighter that feedback loop to meaningful data, the faster the work can improve. Continue reading

Ben Young
Ben Young
January 17, 2020
Strategy

Data driven creative

It’s a cliche to say creatives don’t like data. But they do. It’s just that often data isn’t framed up in the right way. Data helps provide insights to push off, to put limitations or constraints, both of which help create better creative. Creatives should soak it up, mull it over, and let it guide the creative. But like any inputs don’t let it overrule the whole process. Continue reading

Ben Young
Ben Young
January 17, 2020
How To

How to create data driven content

How you can use data to create better content, that’s what marketers mean when they reference data-driven content. To do this you need solid content analytics, to measure and provide accurate data on your content. Are people reading it? Are they sharing it? Where do they find it? All of this helps inform and create better data-driven content. Continue reading

Ben Young
Ben Young
January 17, 2020