Nathan Linnell is the Director of Analytics at Serengeti Communications, a Washington, D.C.-based marketing consulting firm that helps equip organizations with strong strategic guidance and training to allow them to succeed in the vast digital landscape.
Since Nathan became involved in digital marketing, he has continuously utilized the vast amount of available data to make data driven decisions that help boost the performance of online marketing campaigns, SEO efforts, Web site performance, and social media programs.
Nathan began his career in digital marketing working as a PPC manager before moving into Web analytics and eventually into his current role overseeing the measurement, analysis, and optimization of all digital marketing efforts.
Some metrics will be completely eliminated; others are being replaced by metrics added to the Graph API. If you haven’t already stopped using the deprecated metrics, you probably have your work cut out for you to quickly get the updates in place.
To understand the performance of any digital marketing campaign, you must have proper campaign tracking in place. Without it, it's difficult (if not impossible) to collect accurate campaign data that will allow for analysis and optimization.
A well thought out landing page testing strategy should be at the core of all digital marketing campaigns. It can be a bit of work, but the opportunity to deliver significantly better results more than makes up for the effort required.
A new feature in Google Analytics, combined with some customization to your Google Analytics tracking and diligent work on the part of your social media marketing team, will help you calculate the ROI of your social media efforts.
Google Analytics Multi-Channel Funnels, currently in limited beta release, will allow marketers to take a big step in the direction of calculating the elusive social media ROI.
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Don't be shortsighted -- look at these four essential components to see how social media can impact the long-term health of your brand. This is where you'll find the true value of social media.
Creating your own social media dashboard gives you the ability to show the impact of your social media efforts, and it will put you in great position to bide time until a truly robust social media measurement tool is available.
A social media analytics tool that brings together data from Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, social media monitoring, analytics, and advertising has the potential to drastically alter how we analyze and evaluate our social media efforts.
After defining your social media goals and objectives, you need to begin to understand what it will take to meet them. Here's how to create a model that will help lead you to social media success.
With smart research and resourceful planning, you can build a social media ad buy that's set up to succeed. These five simple steps can help set you up for success.
Providing a framework for measuring audience engagement while also soliciting feedback for additional metrics that should be factored into such a calculation.