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Digital Marketing For Dummies, 2nd Edition
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Digital Marketing For Dummies, 2nd Edition

by Ryan Deiss, Russ Henneberry
August 2020
Beginner
368 pages
9h 52m
English
For Dummies
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Chapter 12

Crunching Numbers: Running a Data-Driven Business

IN THIS CHAPTER

check Tracking site visitors with hyperlinks

check Using Google Analytics to see who’s taking action

check Segmenting your audience to make your ads more specific

check Drilling down on your audience to increase opt-ins

Few marketers disagree on the significance of collecting data. But for businesses to remain competitive, they must go beyond simply aggregating data to truly gain value from it. Simply knowing your averages is not enough. Companies need to analyze the data they gather in a process known as data analysis. True data analysis is data with a plan. Through data-collecting tools such as Google Analytics, you can track the return on investment (ROI) of traffic from your email campaigns, social media campaigns, paid ads, and more.

When you have the capability to track the ROI of your campaigns, you can cut the fat and double down on what’s actually working. That way, you transform your business from one that spends time, money, and resources on strategies that just seem as though they’ll work well to a business that makes ...

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