One of my favorite “secret” measurement tools is the Google Analytics Add-on for Google Sheets. This powerful tool lets you extract up to 10,000 records from your Google Analytics account in spreadsheet format. Your data becomes available to you in many rows and columns which you can slice and dice to find the insights you…
Hashtagging is often cited by marketers as a way to build grassroots attention towards a particular theme, type of content, or movement. In reality, most hashtags created by marketers tend to be ignored. Consumers and audiences use their own when sharing content, or in many cases simply use none at all, especially on Facebook. So,…
If you didn’t hear about it, Twitter recently released its own version of Audience Insights. I wrote up a lengthy review of it here that you might find helpful for understanding what’s in the box. What’s not in the box is the last paragraph, which is about differing audiences. What do you do when your…
Over the past year and a half, much has been made of Mark Schaefer’s theory of Content Shock, the idea that we are incurring rapidly diminishing returns on content marketing. Part of the reason is the explosion of content being created by everyone. A bigger part of the diminishing returns in the Content Shock theory…
Resolution in optics is defined as how much detail you can see, the degree of detail visible. Televisions are sold by their resolution, with numbers like 720p, 1080p, and 4K. Microscopes are sold by resolution, such as 20x, 50x, and 150x. Even marketing analytics tools offer analogs to resolution, such as how often reporting is…
