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Migration Automation Tool: Migrate Google Analytics GA3 / Universal Analytics(UA) to GA4 using Google Tag Manager

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Here is POC on Migrating GA3 / Universal Analytics to GA4 using Google Tag Manager. Demo Covers: Creation of GTM Account, Container and Workspace for tags  Adding GTM codes to webpages and enabling GTM Universal Analytics Property Creation in GA GTM UA / GA3 Pageview tag creation GA3 Event tag creation by capturing CSS selector for the button event trigger GA4 Property Creation and linking via GA Enabling GA4 pageview tag  Using GTM GA4 migrator tool to migrate GA3/UA event tags to GA4 Scanning though the GA4 event migration Validation using GTM debug mode Report validation

Bank Promotions by Top Celebrities

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Celebrities endorsements to influence the decision making of any products do have a telling effect, as proved by researchers. Here are some of banking promotional videos by top celebrities. I am not boring anymore, any one can hangout with me. I have with me citibank private pass.  Capital One Promo on Venture Rewards Credit Card - Celebrity Promotion TD Bank promo - By Celebrities Bank America Cash Awards Credit Card Glad that banks have figured out that celebrity endorsements can help them to grow!

Customer Journey & Touch Points in Retail Space - Industry Benchmark Analytics Data

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Customers travel through several TouchPoints before they get converted. Measuring the effectiveness of each of the TouchPoint is vital for arriving at the marketing impact. Gone are the days where you will just measure the last touch point without even considering which are the other channels that assisted the customers to complete the conversion. Turning on and off a campaign makes sense only if it really doesn't perform well, so here the measurement is the key, and need to be done through a robust measurement foundation. Customer TouchPoints Typical measurement foundation Measurement Foundation Industry benchmark for typical Customer journey in retail space Retail Space Customer Journey - Industry Benchmark Data Here is the check list to measure the TouchPoints Checklist for Measurement

Segmentation in SiteCatalyst (Adobe Reports & Analytics) - How to Create Segments (Sequential & Logic)

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This post is to make you understand segment creation in SiteCatalyst. You can play with segments and give powerful insights to the clients for improving the businesses. No: Segment Feature Details 1 Show / Hide - The Dimension selector You can view, add and hit search to find dimensions for adding to segment definition. 2 Show / Hide - The Segment selector You can view, add and hit search to find segments you would have created for adding to segment definition. 3 Show/Hide - The Event selector You can view, add and hit search to find events you had configured for adding to segment definition. 4 Title field - Name of the Segment You can create for your segment or rename your already created segment. 5 Description field - Describing the Segment Describing about your segment can be done here, though it is not a mandatory field. Adding a description allows others to understand better about this segment. 6 Definitions - The life giver for your Segm

Customizing Menus in SiteCatayst - Shuffle / Tweak / Add the Report Menu Structure in the Order of Business Importance

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Hope all of you agree that preparing a good presentation is the key, with understandable slides pertaining to the topic for the target audience. Even the web analytics interface needs to be presented well to the business, and the requirements will be different client to client. SiteCatalyst has done its best to fit the menus / report holders for all users by default. But since the requirements differs from client to client, isn't it better to the customize the menus according to your client requirement, and keep the sets of data in the order of importance. This can be easily done in SiteCatalyst. You can customize the menus in SC by navigating to report suite in admin -> General -> Customize Menus. Below are some of the screenshots pertaining to customization. In the below screenshot, I have moved the Custom events from Site Metrics to Custom Conversion, I thought if  Custom Conversion and Custom events / Success Events are available in the same location it is easier f

How to get the Page URL Report (Not Available by Default) in SiteCatalyst using DTM / s_code / Processing Rules

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Nowadays you don’t see the page URL report by default in SiteCatalyst, your search for this readymade report will end in vain with just OOB (Out of the Box) configuration. However small changes to the implementation can do wonders to bring back this data in SiteCatalyst as this value is already available in SC data warehouse and data feeds. The page URL is being fired up for all SC implemented sites but since there is no placeholder to take in value in SiteCatalyst this is not reported as a dimension. Here is a way to check and confirm that the page URL is getting fired up…go to adobe.com> open the chrome debugger > go to the network tab > type /ss/ > click on the image request and then look for the value for g :….you will get to see the value as http://www.adobe.com… It will be similar to the below screenshot. Now g is the variable which hold the page URL value. In order to get this information in SiteCatalyst the value need to be stripped and passed t

No More Practical Questions in Adobe SiteCatalyst (Reports and Analytics) ACE Implementation Exam

The sheen of Adobe SiteCatalyst ACE implementation exam has gone. Practical questions for coding is no more part of the exam, and the exam is just left with multiple choice questions. Why did you do this Adobe? Could be you are saving effort and time required to correct the practical papers manually....  Pass Percentage is also reduced to 66 from 80 hmmmmm  Number of multiple choice questions are just 50 Cost slashed from $349 to $180 Now it is more easier to become an implementation ACE but the sheen has gone!!!!!! http://training.adobe.com/certification/exams/adobe_reports_and_an.html http://training.adobe.com/certification/exams/adobe_reports_and_an/_jcr_content/sampleExam

Traditional eVars vs Merchandising evars in SiteCatalyst [Digital Analytics Tool]

eVars are great, it is persistent...can retain the value.. has got the expiration settings...allocation settings...can work better with success events...no matter how distant it is........... but its ability to hold only one value at the time makes its team mate Merchandising evar popular than it. eVars can walk/run scores of miles over the website to meet it lover(s), the success events. Lets look at this example, a person is searching for shoes and towels, adds to cart both the product, and buys both the products. Most of the people would have used "most recent allocation" for the eVars, and if that is the case here...just guess which one would get the credit......and it is going to be obviously Mr.Towel.. Merchandising eVars can correctly assign the credit for each of the searches --> Shoes for the product Shoes, and Towels for the product towel. As I had mentioned in my earlier post there are 2 methods of Merchandising evar, the Product syntax and Conversion var

SiteCatalyst First Party Cookie Creation to Read s_vi Cookie – My Experiment

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First party cookies can be created using CNAME record. Only by setting the FP cookie the visitor ID cookie from s_vi can be read, and can be passed to other variables. Using third party cookie s_vi cannot be read (unless getVID plugin is used), and hence cannot be passed to any variable, or to visitorID for cross domain tracking. I tried experimenting FP it worked for me, I was able to read the visitor ID into an eVar (v3). I had to research a little to get this done, thought of sharing this piece of information……. I made a  post in my client (NAM) blog today, I am replicating it here for your goodness. See it live :  http://dmablog.com/SSBTest.html  – Please use chrome debugger or any packet analyzers. While creating the CNAME record from the DNS manager, the HOST can be set as  metrics  and need to be POINTED TO  112.2o7.net /other OMNI DCS I used kamal1 in place of metrics   You can use any name as long as it points to the SC DCS. CNAME Record Creation