
When A Slow Page Load Time Is Brilliant Marketing
It is imperative that we look outside of our industry for trends, best practices, and sometimes things that are just plain cool. For the month of February, the Heinz website took 57 minutes to load. Yep, you read that right — 57 minutes. Usually that would be an incredible fail, but not in this case. Here, it is super clever marketing. Fans of traditional Heinz ketchup bottles will know that pouring the red stuff sometimes ...

Tracking Blackbaud Donations Using GTM
If your organization uses a Blackbaud product, you know that it is tough to track conversions. The folks at LumenAd have created a handy recipe to do it using Google Tag Manager. What’s in this recipe: + Two Google Tag Manager Triggers + Two Google Manager Tags All four work with each other to track the Donation Confirmation of MOST Blackbaud donation pages and allows you to trigger a pixel based off of this page. In ...

Tracking Conversions With GA Goals
In the previous post in this series, we talked about why it is a good idea to track incremental conversions on your website. Now, we’ll take a look at exactly how to set those conversion actions up in Google Analytics. Setting Up Goals The easiest way to do this (and without any coding) is to use goals. As per Google: Goals measure how well your site or app fulfills your target objectives. A goal represents ...
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