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Episode 9: How Dashboards Make the Whole Funnel Work

dashboards

This is the first of a series on Elements of Every Funnel. The graphic here shows how they all work together to generate a conversion.

Though it’s not an outwardly facing element, something that’s always part of the mix is the management metrics (top-right). Today’s episode focuses on how to make the dashboards that contain those metrics work for you.

Here is the 7-step process described for building a marketing dashboard:

  • Interview stakeholders
  • Review Technology
  • Select KPIs
  • Group requirements
  • Select Charts
  • Prototyping/Wireframing
  • Launch

Ideas and Products mentioned in episode:

Entity relationship Model (ERM)

Database Schema

Extract Transform Load (ETL)

Supermetrics

Domo

Tableau

Klipfolio

Geckoboard

Google Data Studio

People mentioned in episode:

Special thanks to Doug McCaffrey who collaborated on this dashboarding initiative with me.

Ben Yoskovitz

Alistair Croll

James Hebdon

Robert Rose

Matt Heinz

Christopher Berry

Reboot:

Look at Nicholas Kelly’s site, Nicksight.com for ideas and products related to dashboard-making

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Episode 8: Top Paid Search Updates of 2018

paid search updates 2018 recap

This episode looks at 2018’s Top Changes in Paid Search Marketing. We have three PPC Professionals who reviewed the long list of features that PPC platforms made in 2018 and cut it down to a handful that are having the largest impact on B2B companies. Hear what we think are the best and worst changes made this past year, and what advertisers should to in reaction to them.

2018 Top Paid Search panel

Special thanks to two people who know their way around all the major PPC platforms, Pierre Levasseur and Olga Gladycheva, for joining as guest panelists in this episode. The updates covered include:

  • Google Analytics Audience Report
  • Bing Native Intent Ads
  • Responsive Search Ads
  • Smart bidding Display campaigns
  • Click to Message Email Forwarding
  • Bing’s new LinkedIn targeting abilities through Microsoft Audiences
  • Google Ads Removal of some Budget Limits
  • Custom Intent Audiences for Display/Retargeting
  • New Script GTAG.JS in Response to Browsers dropping cookies
  • Google Ads Suggested Ad copy
  • Smart display campaigns
  • Increased targeting of mobile traffic on display campaigns

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Episode 7: Integrating CRM and Marketing Automation into your Funnel, with Ed Goffin

Ed Goffin of Pleaora Technologies talks about CRM and Marketing Automation

In this episode, we hear from a company that’s successfully using two enterprise applications to run sophisticated digital marketing programs.

Shownotes:

Ed Goffin works at Pleora Technologies and can be reached at [email protected]

They use Salesforce as their CRM and Pardot for Marketing Automation.

 

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Episode 6: Top Paid Search Updates of 2017

2017 recap Top Paid Search Updates

2017 recap Top Paid Search Updates
In this episode, a panel of PPC specialists give their verdicts on the changes made by Google, Bing and others during the year.

Shownotes:

Panelists: Doug McCaffrey, Olga Gladycheva, Pierre Levasseur, being moderated by Glenn Schmelzle

Updates made by Paid Search platforms that we cover:

  • Custom Intent Audiences
  • AI Attribution models
  • Review & Promotion extensions
  • Ad variations
  • Modeling conversions via GCLID
  • IF function in Ads
  • Account Health score
  • AdWords Experience UI
  • Cross-device remarketing
  • Nearly Exact Exact Match
  • Youtube ad restrictions
  • GSP stops reading emails
  • AdWords + Google Optimize

Funnel Reboot tip:

Stay up-to-date through the Google Ads blog

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Episode 5: Dealing with how work’s changed with digital

Dealing with how work’s changed with digital

Shownotes:

This episode covers the way we work in digital. As the pace of work has sped up, we’re using more agile methods to plan our resources. As automation and artificial intelligence enter, we’re deciding how it gets used in our marketing stack. We are also figuring out how our organizational culture fits with this, so everyone can focus on a funnel that efficiently converts visitors into buyers.

This Episode’s Links:

turtles all the way down
turtles all the way down

Scott Brinker’s Book, “Hacking Marketing”

Jim Sterne http://twitter.com/jimsterne

Christopher P. Berry http://twitter.com/cjpberry

 

This Episode’s Reboot:

Read the Agile Manifesto at
http://agilemanifesto.org/

Photo: Thomas Edison and ‘the muckers’ in front of the Menlo Park laboratory