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Author: Nico Brooks

A New Direction for Marketing (and Two Octobers)

And additional focus on an old direction. When Kris Skavish and I started Two Octobers in 2010, we shared a vision of a collaborative team of smart, analytical marketers who enjoy helping businesses grow. We wanted to create a no-nonsense culture where results are valued over BS, and everyone is treated with respect. I say

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Setting Up SEO Reporting in Google Analytics

This post is a write-up from the Google Analytics December 2017 Meetup. It is intended for Google Analytics users who do not have much experience with SEO.  How to Set Up Google Search Console in Google Analytics Google Search Console is a toolset that allows webmasters to view a website’s performance in Google organic search.

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Six Great Google Analytics Dashboards

I’m leading the Denver Google Analytics Meetup tonight, and we’re going to be talking about dashboards. Sharing a summary here for the Meetup, and anyone else who wants to get started with dashboards. At the bottom of the post there are links to some great template dashboards, free for download in the Google Analytics Solutions

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Google Tag Manager Event Tracking Cheat Sheet

I’m presenting at the Denver Google Analytics Meetup tonight, and put together this cheat sheet on setting up Google Analytics event tracking in Google Tag Manager. Here’s a PDF version, and the image below links to a PNG version. 

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Google Tag Manager and Duplicate Google Analytics Tags

If you work with Google Analytics (GA), Google Tag Manager (GTM), and have lots of clients, you have probably run into this problem: you manage tags with GTM, but the client has the Google Analytics PageView tag placed directly on a subset of site pages. This problem is especially common on sites that span multiple

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