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Been asked to manage our Analytics 360 (Google Analytics) data. Good tutorials?

Posted on 6/13/19 at 10:24 am
Posted by CAD703X
Liberty Island
Member since Jul 2008
78136 posts
Posted on 6/13/19 at 10:24 am
Anyone else done this for their organization?

I've built several dashboards already and created a few reports but we have a ridiculous amount of data coming in on a daily basis so I'm looking for any new tricks to providing better reports.
Posted by ithad2bme
Houston transplant from B.R.
Member since Sep 2008
3469 posts
Posted on 6/13/19 at 2:48 pm to
Hire my wife's company to help you with reporting? If you are really analyzing the data, and creating actionable strategies with it, then it is going to take a lot more work than you think.

They have created custom reporting for some of their clients that rely heavily on data driven decisions, but it takes several people a couple of days to put together a comprehensive monthly report with analysis and recommendations.
Posted by jeff5891
Member since Aug 2011
15761 posts
Posted on 6/13/19 at 5:03 pm to
quote:

I'm looking for any new tricks to providing better reports.



Can't really suggest anything without knowing what the data is
Posted by RocketTiger
Member since Mar 2014
1125 posts
Posted on 6/14/19 at 10:57 am to
Google Analytics Academy should have everything you need. I did the beginners certificate just for the hell of it but you can get a lot more advanced courses.
Posted by Brisketeer
Texas
Member since Aug 2013
1437 posts
Posted on 6/14/19 at 12:00 pm to
Do you have a BI solution like Power BI or Tableau?
Posted by RedPants
GA
Member since Jan 2013
5417 posts
Posted on 6/14/19 at 3:20 pm to
I'm fully certified in GA and if you're looking to use the data to build business and marketing strategies, you're going to need to spend a lot of time learning.
Posted by helluvaday
Member since Jun 2018
443 posts
Posted on 6/15/19 at 10:44 am to
What this guy said ^ honestly, this should be a full-time position and not added to someone's existing duties.

Having an experienced analytics person that can help you leverage the data and tell you where to spend your marketing dollars can save you $$$$ in the long run. The position basically pays for itself
Posted by CAD703X
Liberty Island
Member since Jul 2008
78136 posts
Posted on 6/15/19 at 7:34 pm to
We hired some folks to add GA headers on certain high traffic pages. Several years later the realized no one was doing anything with this and asked me to see what I could find.

So far I'm providing dashboards on browsers and OS along with some limited reporting on mobile devices.

Not I've become intrigued with breaking out certain heavily traffic pages as we have 10 million+ hits a month and looking into what our customers are doing (some of the data returns some general info about our customers..we are a large b2b site) and now I'm going further down the rabbit hole to analyze this data.
Posted by gmrkr5
NC
Member since Jul 2009
14892 posts
Posted on 6/16/19 at 5:22 am to
We have an entire division that does this
Posted by ithad2bme
Houston transplant from B.R.
Member since Sep 2008
3469 posts
Posted on 6/16/19 at 4:04 pm to
If you site has that many hits and you are b2b, your company is leaving a lot of potential growth on the table by not having someone internally or external that really understands how to collect and analyze your site data.
Posted by ithad2bme
Houston transplant from B.R.
Member since Sep 2008
3469 posts
Posted on 6/18/19 at 10:34 am to
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Posted by Box Geauxrilla
Member since Jun 2013
19118 posts
Posted on 6/18/19 at 10:42 am to
quote:

We hired some folks to add GA headers on certain high traffic pages.


Do you not have a dev team?
Why did you not add the GA tag to all pages on your site?
Why are you not using GTM to add this to all pages?

quote:

we have 10 million+ hits a month and looking into what our customers are doing


Your company does not operate like one who gets this much traffic. This should be the work of an Analyst.


Posted by Cracker
in a box
Member since Nov 2009
17718 posts
Posted on 6/19/19 at 8:42 am to
If you call your google rep look on her account billing etc they will walk you through it very helpful
Posted by NPComb
Member since Jan 2019
27386 posts
Posted on 6/20/19 at 11:17 pm to
Tableau or MicroSoft Services Analytics are solid choices
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