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Unlock the Power of Programmatic Advertising for Your Dealership

Programmatic

Unlock the Power of Programmatic Advertising for Your Dealership

Dawn Paul

Marketing Research Reports to Guide Strategic Business Decisions

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Marketing Research Reports to Guide Strategic Business Decisions

Jennifer Flanagan

How to Enhance Your Search Marketing Visibility

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How to Enhance Your Search Marketing Visibility

Sheri Cosgrove

The leap to GA4 draws ever nearer, and along with it comes the need to quickly get marketing departments on board with a host of new tools and reporting features. GA4 caused some initial confusion with its rollout of both “Reports” and another feature they’re calling “Explorations,” with each serving a similar-yet-different function in this new digital ecosystem. Here’s everything you need to master GA4 reporting and ensure you’re using this powerful new tool to its fullest. GA4 Reports: An Overview The goal of Google’s new reporting framework is to provide marketers with detailed insights into their respective businesses. GA4’s big selling point is its advanced ability to attribute data to individual users across platforms and devices without infringing on any data privacy policies. Reports are built by connecting this user data to site activity, identifying patterns in engagement, conversion rates, and several other key trends to develop a more flexible marketing action plan. In addition to standard reporting parameters like identifying the origins of incoming traffic and which campaigns are driving the most activity, GA4 includes a “Realtime Report.” This report consists of data up to the latest 30 minutes — a useful feature for catching any potential snags with a new campaign or product launch. Advertisers can also create custom filters to easily view subsets of user data (and even compare datasets side-by-side). Creating Successful GA4 Reports GA4 comes preloaded with about 20 standard reports built for your convenience, but marketers can still tailor reporting parameters to their liking. Creating a new report is fairly user-friendly; options to edit an existing report, make a copy, or build an entirely new one can all be found under “Reports” followed by “Library.” A good report accurately measures activity with a goal-specific KPI. For digital marketing teams, this often takes the form of comparing all traffic with organic-only traffic to gauge the impact of paid promotions or page vs. site conversion rates to adjust which pages are lagging behind in prompting user actions. Explorations Explained If you want to expand your view of site data and other insights, the “Explore” tab on the left-hand side of GA4’s base dashboard unlocks more granular reporting capabilities. According to Google, Explorations is a “collection of advanced techniques that go beyond standard reports to help you uncover deeper insights about your customers' behavior.” In practice, Explorations gives marketers a chance to tinker with every filter and data subset they can get their hands on at the user level. That means increased functionality, additional dimensions and segmentation, and ultimately more pointed insights to spur further action. This tab is also the portal to use visualization tools like pathway and funnel explorations, which break the average customer’s journey with your brand into easily viewable (and of course, trackable) steps. How detailed can explorations be? There are some technical limits to the number of filters, segments, and individual explorations you can create within GA4. Per Google, advertisers can create up to: -200 individual explorations per user per property -500 shared explorations per property -10 segments per exploration -10 filters per tab Quickly Learn Your Way Around Explorations Marketers familiar with Google’s suite of tools (Drive, Sheets, Docs, and so forth) will feel right at home using Explorations. Options to create a new form or use a pre-configured template (such as free-form, funnel, or segment overlap explorations) are spread across the top of the page, with previous projects organized below. After opening a new exploration, a pair of columns on the left (labeled Variables and Tab Settings) contain optional filters and visualizations to produce your desired report. Common demographic targeting levers like age, gender, and interest — as well as all attribution settings — are nested within the Variables column under “Dimensions.” Key Data Differences Between Reports and Explorations Standard reports are designed for top-level data analysis, with some dimensions and metrics only available through this tab and not supported within Explorations. While reports can quickly identify rises and fall in key events without digging into segmented data, Explorations will likely draw more attention since it houses the most advanced filters, user-level data, and broader functionality. Though the transition to GA4 may include an unwanted learning curve for advertisers used to Universal Analytics’ more familiar dashboards and tools, correctly utilizing both reports and explorations within GA4 will undoubtedly serve every brand’s long-term marketing efforts.

Digital Marketing

Jennifer Flanagan

Deep Dive Into GA4 Reports & Explorations

The leap to GA4 draws ever nearer, and along with it comes the need to quickly get marketing departments on board with a host of new tools and reporting features. GA4 caused some initial confusion…

The Advertising Trends Top Companies Are Turning To in 2023

Digital Marketing

Dawn Paul

The Advertising Trends Top Companies Are Turning To in 2023

There’s always something new to try in digital marketing, and the variety of available platforms and channels available has created a digital environment where companies can constantly experiment with new techniques and see what resonates…

A Guide to Using Google’s Enhanced Conversions

Digital Marketing

Olivia Hull

A Guide to Using Google’s Enhanced Conversions

Perhaps the single most important data point for determining ad campaign success is conversions. Though tracking, attribution, and measuring online and offline conversions may never be 100% accurate, advancements in tracking technology have made following…

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New Study: Quarter of Online Adults Shop Digitally Daily

Press Release

Jennifer Flanagan

New Study: Quarter of Online Adults Shop Digitally Daily

– Financial uncertainty leads consumers to valuefree delivery more than ever –– PLUS: Nearly half of Americans claim they would consider buying a home online – DENVER, CO (June 14, 2023) — Adtaxi, one of…

How to Prepare for the Digital Marketing Funnel Evolution

Digital Marketing

Sheri Cosgrove

How to Prepare for the Digital Marketing Funnel Evolution

This year marks the potential for exciting advancements in digital marketing. Among those changes is the adjustment from a traditional marketing funnel to an omnichannel approach designed to help marketers track and connect with audiences…

Why You Should Be Using Facebook’s Conversions API

Digital Marketing

Olivia Hull

Why You Should Be Using Facebook’s Conversions API

Facebook’s Conversions API can reveal much about your online customers, which products they prefer, and how they respond to different advertising messages and formats. The API, designed to answer the continual privacy and operating system…

Kudos from our Clients

Our partnership with Adtaxi has been just that—a partnership. From the very first strategy session, Adtaxi sought to understand our unique position in the nonprofit world and went to great lengths to craft a digital marketing plan that felt natural for our organization. As a result of them spending time learning our organization, our audiences, and our goals, we have seen extraordinary results from our work together. I greatly appreciated how Adtaxi manages our partnership.

International Nonprofit Organization

Adtaxi has been a great agency extension and partner for our digital media advertising needs. The team is personable, responsive, effective, and have been an integral contributor in our client campaign successes.

Communications Agency

As an advertising coordinator for an NFL team, it is not uncommon to have many projects going on at once. Fortunately, we partner with Adtaxi for all our digital marketing efforts, and Adtaxi over delivers regardless of the specific goals of each project. The team has been great to deal with, they execute, they are flexible, and they never fail to deliver real results time after time.

NFL Team

I've been working with Adtaxi for 3 years, and I've seen excellent results on our digital marketing campaigns. The communication with them is A+ and always prompt when you want to make a campaign/ad change or set up a meeting. I speak with them weekly, and it's a phone call that I enjoy having during my very busy work day.

Dental Organization

My team at Adtaxi has never let me down. They are innovative and forward-thinking, and help my company maneuver through all the digital marketing avenues there are to create awareness and ultimately conversions to increase our bottom line.

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