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...]

More Metrics – Where Your Visitors Come From

Learning how our web site works is an important task. We've seen some simple examples in previous steps (visits, page views, and unique visitors) as well as determining how long someone visited your site, and which was the last page they viewed. We've shown how some pages are viewed more than others, and where people exit your web site. We've even shown what pages people come to your web site. What we will look at now is how did they get to your web site. Before they were on your web site, … [Read more...]