Five Ways to Evaluate Your Facebook Content Strategy

Posted by on Apr 21, 2011 in Measurement, Social Media | 4 Comments

Lets take a closer look at evaluating the success of your Facebook content and larger content strategy. Here are five ways to evaluate the effectiveness of your Facebook content as well as effectively benchmark and measure your results. 1. Does Your Facebook Content Have a Purpose? Determine the purpose of the content you are publishing. ...



Evaluate Post-Click Behavior with Google Campaign Tags

Evaluate Post-Click Behavior with Google Campaign Tags

For the uninitiated, Google Analytics is an enterprise worthy measurement tool for your website. It is simple to install and provides an easy-to-use interface to extract important data about your website visitors and their content consumption habits. By using Campaign Tags with Google Analytics you are able to create even more data points about your ...



Google Analytics Beta Graphs Web Traffic by Hour

Google Analytics Beta Graphs Web Traffic by Hour

Posted by on Apr 18, 2011 in Measurement, Web | No Comments

Google announced their new beta version of Google Analytics in late March of 2011 and I’ve been excited to get my hands on the new interface ever since. One of the most exciting changes was to see the ability to graph your website traffic by hour. Until recently only certain areas of the tool would ...



Five Tips for Successful Contests on Twitter

Posted by on Feb 15, 2010 in Marketing, Social Media, Web | 2 Comments

Campaigns on Twitter can be unique to the platform or part of a much larger campaign that is integrated with other sites and social networks. I have found the following five tips essential when planning a contest that will be promoted on Twitter. Avoid Contest Spam Less is more for the community, especially when requesting ...



Interactive Research Toolbox

Posted by on Feb 1, 2010 in Marketing, Web | 3 Comments

This article is the first in a series of articles about the various toolboxes I use. As I have grown from a Web developer and designer, something I still do for recreation, to a digital planner and strategist I have found a variety of tools that I could not live without. When I begin a ...



Review: PercentMobile.com

Posted by on Aug 13, 2009 in Mobile, Technology, Web | 2 Comments

I’ve been using PercentMobile for a couple of weeks and while the service is pretty simple to use I am impressed with tool’s value. Founded by David Harper, PercentMobile is built on top of a much more robust service called TigTags. The service is quite expensive at the moment, but promising a tiered service in ...



What Your Analytics Aren't Telling You

So you’ve logged into Google Analytics and notice that your top referrer this past week was Twitter. Excellent, your social media strategy is working. Or is it? You might not even have a Twitter account setup, yet you are receiving traffic from Twitter. What sort of conversation is happening around your brand that you are ...



What Your Analytics Aren’t Telling You

So you’ve logged into Google Analytics and notice that your top referrer this past week was Twitter. Excellent, your social media strategy is working. Or is it? You might not even have a Twitter account setup, yet you are receiving traffic from Twitter. What sort of conversation is happening around your brand that you are ...



Anayltics – January 2009

Posted by on Jan 20, 2009 in Data | No Comments

I was reviewing some analytic data this evening an thought I’d share some findings. For benchmarking, the cross section of sites includes the following stats for December 2008… 500,000 Unique Visitors, 3,000,000 Page Views 90,000 Unique Visitors, 800,000 Page Views 13,000 Unique Visitors, 250,000 Page Views Almost across the board I notice the following trends… ...



Analytic Misstep Gives Me Hell

Posted by on Nov 29, 2008 in Web | No Comments

Working in the interactive industry has made me impatient, especially with the Web sites of others. The culprit this evening is MTV’s MTVMusic.com. I was desperate to get my blood pumping and to hear “Gives You Hell” by the All-American Rejects. Yet, as I dropped the URL into the address page, I found myself with ...