• Social Media Dashboards

    Are you still using a spreadsheet to collect your social media data? Me too. Here is how I’m trying to automate marketing analytics. Every morning I manually calculate metrics like the number of Shopify orders, the number of Facebook likes, and the number of Twitter followers (to name a few). I started to wonder, “How…

  • Top Posts and Keywords for December 2012

    In this 714th post, I discuss my top content, keywords, and income for this website. Ecclesiastes 3:5 says that there is, “A time to scatter stones and a time to gather stones. A time to embrace and a time to turn away (NLT).” Since 2007 I have been purchasing domains for speculation or use, but…

  • 2012 Year in Blogging Annual Report

    If you use Jetpack for WordPress, every January you’ll get a “2012 Year in Blogging Annual Report”. Here is mine from this past year: Crunchy numbers 4,329 films were submitted to the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. This blog had 29,000 views in 2012. If each view were a film, this blog would power 7 Film…

  • Top Posts and Keywords for November 2012

    In this 667th post, I discuss my top content, keywords, and income for this website. Occasionally I’ll do an analysis of my blog content and share it out for others to learn from what I’m doing. Dukeo does this with his monthly blogging stats so I’m thinking about doing it more often, maybe monthly. We’ll…

  • Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2012

    Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from Erich Stauffer Web Design and SEO We would like to thank you for your patronage over the past year and look forward to 2012 together. Here is a list of our top posts from 2011 according to Google Analytics: Visualize WordPress Categories by Post Count Online Local…

  • 10 Ways Businesses Can Use Analytics to Expand their Business

    Businesses have more information stored on their customers and their business processes than ever before, which adds complexity in trying to collect, manage and interpret data into information that can help guide a business to success. Here are ten ways to use analytics to handle this complexity. 1. Get organized and get feedback. The first step…

  • Monthly Website Reports

    Here’s an example of what our customers get from us each month in their Monthly Website Report: Good afternoon. I hope your summer is going well. Attached is your monthly Google Analytics report and a special message below. A Special Message Have you ever thought of an app for your phone that you thought could…

  • Strawberry Cake Pie and the Facebook Coefficient

    Last night I had a dream that I went to a restaurant with a couple of friends and we all ordered a strawberry cake pie.  It was served in a “taco salad”-like pan with a friendship bread, cake-like base.  The topping was similar to a strawberry pie, but the kind with strawberry glaze mixed in. …