Month: July 2016

  • Google Data Studio For Marketers, Part 2: Setting Up Your First Dashboard

    In this multi-part series, we’ll take a tour through Google’s newest digital tool, Data Studio. We’ll look at it from a marketer’s perspective, including: What Data Studio is and isn’t How to set up your first Data Studio dashboard Dashboard strategic best practices Part 2: A Video Walkthrough of Data Studio Google’s Data Studio makes…

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  • Google Data Studio For Marketers, Part 1: Introduction

    In this multi-part series, we’ll take a tour through Google’s newest digital tool, Data Studio. We’ll look at it from a marketer’s perspective, including: What Data Studio is and isn’t How to set up your first Data Studio dashboard Dashboard strategic best practices Part 1: What is Data Studio? Google’s Data Studio makes dashboards. That’s…

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  • How to keep your marketing skills sharp

    We live in complex times as marketers. Every day brings new advances, new technologies, new ideas for us to incorporate in our work. How do we keep our skills sharp? How do we avoid becoming overwhelmed? We can look to one of the most complex martial arts systems for some answers. I’ve been practicing ninjutsu…

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  • Friday Fun: Recycled Seamless Lightbox

    I take an inordinate amount of joy in reusing projects in new and different ways. Way back in the winter, I built parallel light arrays for an indoor greenhouse. Obviously at the height of summer, such a device isn’t necessary. So what can you do with a little indoor greenhouse to make use of it?…

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