photo credit: laurenatclemson Though it comes once every four years I've always had a certain fondness for Leap Day. Although nothing special to me has ever happened on it. Now that I'm in business I have a love/hate relationship. February has fewer days to be productive to earn the paycheck, but leap day tries to give a little back to you. With busy schedules it's like finally get that 25th hour in the day - if only for the month. It serves to remind me that I need to be more productive … [Read more...]
posted on February 27, 2008 by
Getting the most from your consultant
In a recent article 7 Things I Love About Small Business SEO the author gives 7 things he likes about working with small businesses. As someone who routinely works with small and new businesses, I have to agree. Generally they can move faster than a large business, are more concerned with results, and are loyal if you perform for them. This is part of the reason why I love working with small businesses myself. However I would like to offer a few things small businesses must be careful … [Read more...]
posted on February 26, 2008 by
Measuring Marketing Effectiveness – A Simple Case Study
Web Analytics is often used by marketing staff members to determine their effectiveness. This is a real-life example of how I recently helped a company measure the effectiveness of their internally driven e-mail campaign. A company I work provides training to their clients on the products they have purchased, as part of their on-going support. Before I started working with this company, only basic analytics from the website was tracked. Not even all of the pages were being actively … [Read more...]
posted on February 20, 2008 by
Using your analytics data to improve web site performance
It's one thing to look at your reports, its another to start to draw conclusions from your data. Different people will look at the data in different ways. Most often, the reports are looked at by the marketing department/person to see how to better market the site, what Search Engine optimization needs to occur, and measure the effectiveness of their pay-per-click ads. All of these are important uses of the web analytics, but they are not the only uses. I want to look at a specific example … [Read more...]