Email campaign tracking with Google Analytics
Dave Chaffey, December 28, 2010
A short how-to and example showing how to track your email marketing campaigns by tagging links in your email with Google Analytics
I was prompted to write this how-to post since so many email marketers I speak to during Email Marketing training courses, use Google Analytics, but weren’t aware it can be used for email tracking
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Eight ways to improve your email marketing analysis
Mark Brownlow, November 23, 2010
Success seems such an easy thing to measure in email marketing.
Even the lowliest of campaign software should report “opens” and clicks. And many marketers have access to more-important post-click metrics, like sales, downloads, page impressions, donations etc.
Most arguments around email metrics concern which numbers are best suited to campaign analysis. But there are two less-discussed
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Making the business case for email marketing investment
Dave Chaffey, October 6, 2011
Using touchpoint analysis and surveys to find how much email really contributes
Since many email marketing services focus their reporting on open and click rates it can be difficult to show how email is influencing leads or purchase and so invest in putting more resources into email marketing to test, learn and refine.
From opens and clicks
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Why robots can ruin your email split testing results
Tim Watson, June 28, 2011
Why spam filters can be an external factor that ruins your email split test results.
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Why and how to use hurdle rates to set goals for your digital marketing
Dave Chaffey, December 2, 2010
Hurdle rates in digital marketing – a definition and examples
Although the idea of hurdle rates seems to be quite widely used within finance and investment circles I rarely hear it discussed with digital marketing. Perhaps there’s another name for them I’m missing?
This is surprising since they offer an excellent way to set goals and track
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Did you know how scary the Half-life of your online comms is?
Dave Chaffey, September 8, 2011
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Our commentary on online attention spans
I’ve been meaning to post on this for ages since I read a while ago in Tim O’Reilly’s Twitter book that most people most responses or tweets happen within 5 minutes of the original tweet –
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Is the reach of Email marketing better than you thought?
Dave Chaffey, April 14, 2011
New research suggests 38.5% more email subscribers view emails than suggested by open rates
An interesting new study on Email open rates has just been released by European Open Source/paid Email Provider Agnitas.
It’s well-known in Email marketing circles that open rates are measured through the number of subscribers who download tracking pixel images. So, if images
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