Tealium’s “Universal Data Hub” (UDH) claims to be a central place for acting on real-time customer behaviour data. The promise: Get customer data into the “Hub” from anywhere, enrich it via rules, have it stitched and join it with data from other sources, and then send it server-side to wherever you need it, via connectors or APIs.
Automating Campaign Cost Import into Adobe and Google Analytics: A Test of Funnel.io
Tedious and unsexy, but extremely useful: Getting campaign cost data into your Web Analytics tool allows you to evaluate the performance of your online marketing end-to-end without having to resort to unsexy workarounds. At siroop.ch, we tested funnel.io, a Swedish tool that promises to import all your campaign cost data automatically into Google Analytics.
Advanced Refund Analysis with Google and Adobe Analytics
If your online shop analytics stops with the order, it is stopping short. Some product groups like Fashion tend to have high return rates, so looking at refunds can give you a different view of your shop and marketing performance. At siroop.ch, a new Swiss online marketplace, we tried to look at what happens after the order in both Google and Adobe Analytics. While Google’s imports may require a bit less setup time, they have major limitations. Adobe Analytics’ Transaction ID Data Sources gave us the full picture from Campaign to Cancellation.
Improving Product Performance with Adobe or Google Analytics
For a Category Manager of an online shop with hundreds or thousands of products, it can get difficult to find those products that are performing poorly AND are worth optimizing.
You cannot simply work on all products that did not sell well last week, there are just too many. Focusing on only those products with high margins is not going to help much either.
Here are some helpful performance metrics you can create in Adobe Analytics (formerly SiteCatalyst) – and partially also in Google Analytics.
Adobe Analytics: No Need to “Break Down” Thanks to Revamped Calculated Metrics
German, French and English Visits, Internal and External Visits – all in one Report as neat, compact metrics. All this without having to spend a lot of time with tedious breakdowns and segments (and still not getting what you’d really like to). That’s what an Adobe Analytics client needed. The new “Unified Calculated Metrics” now make this possible – something that you can’t do in Google Analytics by the way.
The “breakdown” is something so essential to Adobe Analytics that you can hardly do any real analysis without breaking down. Breaking down is sort of a combination of what Google Analytics users know as Drilldowns and adding a second or third dimension to a report. When you break down with Adobe, you break down one dimension by another one, e.g. the Campaign Name by the Device and that by the Browser and that by the Browser Version and that by the Entry Page and so on… You can get as granular as you want and never have to fear sampling like in GA!