So I haven’t made a blog post in a while – been a little busy with Tagtician and the move back to Atlanta. Posting on my site has taken somewhat of a back seat lately. In an effort to make my life more difficult, I’m also interested in building the culture of analytics in Atlanta. … Read more
The transition to Adobe Launch from Adobe DTM promises to be simple and painless. You don’t have to update your header/footer code and it will preserve the fundamentals you grew to love in DTM in some way, shape, or form. There will undoubtedly be automated tools that help with that process making it completely seamless. Adobe DTM … Read more
Precision in digital analytics is unobtainable. This isn’t an edgy statement, it’s a fact. You will never achieve precision in your Adobe Analytics account. Your A/B test data will always contain noise. If your company is larger than a mom-and-pop shop then your automated QA tools will never be totally comprehensive. As an analyst, you must figure out … Read more
The Tagtician team and I are proud to announce our newest product – automated analytics QA. More specifically, automated QA for Adobe’s Dynamic Tag Manager (and Adobe Launch). Thousands of you use our DTM Cheat Sheet and the very first DTM Chrome extension debugger. We built those tools to solve problems we personally encounter on a daily … Read more
The 2017 Adobe Summit week flew by and boy are my arms tired… okay strike that awful joke from the record. Summit was exhausting, to be sure. One of the most relevant announcements was the introduction of Adobe’s complete rewrite of the TMS Adobe DTM titled Adobe Launch. I went to a few presentations that walked us through … Read more
When I code I Google things. A lot. Sometimes I get so caught up in writing the right code that I forget there is an easier way to test things. Google Tag Manager’s dataLayer object is a little interesting in that it isn’t exactly a true JS object like you would see with the w3c standard for … Read more
Yet another article trying to diagnose and solve a problem that every organization could likely solve differently. I’m solving this problem for companies that are in very immature stages of testing/optimization. That means you may have run one or two tests but want to run tests continuously and simultaneously. Go to any other site to find best … Read more
Google Analytics is interesting. It has the lowest barrier to entry of any analytics tool (because it’s free) but is deceptively complex. As analysts, we should understand that no implementation is perfect. You can hire a team of consultants to audit and correct low-hanging fruit of your implementation, but your business isn’t stagnant. It’s fluid. Even … Read more
A big part of my job over the past 2 years has been managing a single donation form. During this time I’ve operationalized the A/B testing program and turned our focus from the “big and sexy” to… well… boring and iterative. It’s not all that bad, though! We’ve grown our revenue substantially each year – largely attributed to … Read more
I think any analytics professional who has worked in consulting has run into these clients. There’s one person in the company who wants to be incredibly data-driven. How do we do this? Let’s bring in the experts who can lead us to data-driven nirvana. I LOVED these clients. You can spit in any direction and hit … Read more