Google Analytics Conference in Stockholm, Sweden

Join the Google Analytics Certified Partners for Google Analytics Conference Nordic in Sweden. 

The event takes place on May 23rd in Stockholm. You can expect to hear expert tips on how to get maximum value out of Google Analytics, and learn from other organizations, such as VisitSweden and Resurs Bank, using the tool. 

Started in Stockholm 2011, based on an initiative by Outfox who gathered the other Google Analytics Certified Partners, the conference sold out the first two years. Now that the conference is returning for the third consecutive year, it will be visited by Paul Muret, Google Analytics Engineering Director and founder and CEO of Urchin Software acquired by Google in 2005. Urchin technology became what you know as Google Analytics today. Paul will hold the keynote presentation.

Learn about Universal Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Attribution Modeling, Cost Data Upload, Data Visualization, and much more. 

Erik Modig from Stockholm School of Economics will also share his insights into human behavior and modern advertising strategy and you'll also meet Mike Kwong, a software engineer working on Google Analytics backend. 

Our Stockholm conference includes:

• Clinics/huddles led by top Google Analytics experts

• Case studies from businesses and other organizations

• A live demo of how to add new sources of data to Google Analytics

• Opportunities to interact with peers and experts

• A more creative venue, The Rival movie theatre

• Fun and games during breaks

• ...much more!

To join us in Stockholm on May 23rd, visit the conference site and secure your ticket before it's sold out again.

Readers of this blog get the price of  2490 SEK if signing up before May 15th, and by entering the discount code "VIP Google" as a note before submitting the form.

If you want to be the first to know about other upcoming analytics events in Sweden, follow Outfox on Google+.

Posted by Lars Johansson, Google Analytics Certified Partner

Analytics Pros Best Practices Conference: May 2, San Francisco

The following is a guest post contributed by Caleb Whitmore, founder of Analytics Pros and the BEST Practices Conference, Google Analytics enthusiast, and aspiring mountaineer.

Join us on May 2nd in San Francisco to learn about the best practices for Google Analytics. At this interactive conference you will be engaged, learn strategy for Google Analytics and be trained in using and optimizing the tool.

We think about our conference like this:

 Looks like useful fun, right?  We promise it will be well worth your time.  

A side note, just in case you were wondering: my prior conference, GAUGE (now “retired”) was an initiative to bring together users across the Google Analytics community to learn from each other. The BEST Practices conference series builds on this legacy and delivers hands on tutorials and interactive sessions.

Look forward to hear from thought leaders in the Google Analytics space, including Google’s Jesse Nichols, Andrew Wales and Ian Myszenski.  We are excited to have Dan Siroker from  Optimizely and I will weigh in with my latest finds and processes as well.  We will talk and work with you on Universal Analytics, Multi-Channel Funnels, Attribution Modeling and more tips and tricks that we apply to our use of GA. 

Our San Francisco conference includes:

• An after-party event hosted by the Google Analytics Premium team at the San Francisco Google office
• Hands-on sessions and workshops led by top GA experts
• Interactive “Table Topics” lunch session, including teaching and roundtable discussion on Universal Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Mobile Strategy and more
• Opportunities to interact with digital analytics peers and experts
• Insights into the Google Analytics strategies of leading companies
• An amazing conference venue that allows for big-picture thinking, the Jewish Contemporary Museum

Join us in San Francisco on May 2nd for our Spring event.  Use discount code BESTAnalyticsBlog for a 20% discount off the Conference Pass. We also offer a 50% discount for government, non-profit employees and full-time students.

And don’t forget to check out other BEST Practices conferences as we storm the country. We’re headed to Boston on October 3rd and back to the Pacific Northwest in Seattle on November 14th - don’t miss out!

To keep up to date on what’s coming, follow our team at @analyticspros and @BEST_con to hear about the latest speakers, locations and events. As a bonus, this video should provide a good introduction to our event if you've never been to one in the past:

We hope to see you in San Francisco this Spring. Happy analyzing!

Posted by Caleb Whitmore, Google Analytics Certified Partner

Learn from Google at #SESNY 2013

SES New York (#SESNY) is coming up next week, and just like last year, we hope you’ll join us again in the Big Apple.

During day 1 of SES New York, we’ll be on the expo floor with a custom-built Google classroom as well as part of the main conference sessions. Join us where you’ll learn about the newest need-to-know tools, features, and solutions from Google Analytics, AdWords, Mobile, GDN and DoubleClick Search to help you win in a constantly connected world. Following is a listing of our sessions to help you plan your SES experience. 

Google Solutions for a Constantalny Connected World

Day 1 - Tuesday, March 26th all day in the Expo Hall

10:30-11:30am: Reaching customers whenever, wherever, across any device. Surojit Chatterjee, Lead Product Manager for Enhanced Campaigns

11:45-12:45pm: Understanding the Full Value of Mobile. Brendon Kraham, Director, Global Mobile Solutions

2:00-3:00pm: Engaging with your audience in a multi-screen world. 

3:30-4:30pm: Using DoubleClick Search to manage campaigns across channels and devices. Anthony Chavez, Product Manager for DoubleClick Search

Don’t have a pass yet? Don’t worry. Expo Only passes are free and get you access to our Google classroom. You can also use the code NYGOOGLE which is redeemable for up to $700.00 off a full conference pass.

For attendees of the main conference, Google Analytics team members will be participating in the following sessions:

Landing Page Optimization

Day 1: Tuesday, March 26 from 11:45-12:45pm

Are your search landing pages working hard or hardly working? Landing pages can be the hardest-working part of your search campaigns, or they can kill your lead generation and sales conversion rates. Testing insignificant details such as button colour and headline size won't lead to real lift in your conversion rates. This session will show you what to test, how to analyse your landing pages, and how to get significant revenue lift quickly.

Moderator:

Andrew Goodman, SES Advisory Board; President, Page Zero Media

Speakers:

Justin Cutroni, Analytics Advocate, Google

Angie Schottmuller, Director of Interactive Strategic Planning & Optimization, Three Deep Marketing

The Dawn of Convergence Analytics

Day 1: Tuesday, March 26 from 3:30-4:30pm

The combination of "big data," access to cloud computing, powerful algorithms, and unprecedented visualization capabilities has created an emerging new class of analytics tools for the marketer. It's being called "Convergence Analytics". It's the marketing equivalent of "one ring to rule them all." Though still in its infancy as a discipline, there are many vendors in the market, and their goal is to pull together data sources from multiple touch points from the web and beyond. They're also using advanced data gathering and data regularization strategies to create a correlative dashboard-like experience for the marketer.

Moderator

Adam Singer, Product Marketing Manager, Google Analytics

Speakers:

Andrew Edwards, Managing Partner, Efectyv Marketing

Rand Schulman, Managing Partner, Efectyv Marketing

We hope to see you out at the event, you can find out more details on the conference site. 

Can’t make it to NY? Be sure and follow Google Analytics on Twitter and Google+ for real-time updates on sessions throughout the day sharing interesting bits from the conference.

Posted by the Google Analytics team

Win moments that matter in 2013 with Learn with Google webinars

A version of the following post originally appeared on the Inside AdWords Blog.

What was your business’ New Year’s resolution, and how do you plan to keep it? At Google, ours is to help make the web work for you. Our new series of Learn with Google webinars will teach you how to use digital to build brand awareness and give you the tools you need to drive sales. By tapping into technology that works together across your business needs, you can resolve to win moments that matter in 2013.

Check out our upcoming live webinars:

Build Awareness

02/12 [Multiscreen] Brand Building in a Multiscreen World

02/20 [YouTube] How to Build your Business with YouTube Video Ads

03/05 [Social] How to Use Google+ and Make Social Work for You

03/12 [Mobile] Understanding Mobile Ads Across Marketing Objectives

03/27 [Wildfire by Google] The Call for Converged Media

Drive Sales

02/07 [Search] Your Shelf Space on Google: Get Started with Google Shopping

02/26 [YouTube] From Awareness to Sales: Making the Most of Video Remarketing

02/27 [Search] What's New and Next in AdWords

03/06 [Display] Biggest Loser: Digital Ad Spend Edition

03/13 [Mobile] The Full Value of Mobile

03/20 [Display] Getting Started with Dynamic Remarketing

Visit our webinar site to register for any of the sessions and to access past webinars on-demand. You can also stay up-to-date on the schedule by adding our Learn with Google Webinar calendar to your own Google calendar to automatically see upcoming webinars.

During our last series of webinars, attendees had the chance to win a Nexus 7. Our lucky winner was Donella Cohen, who is happily enjoying her new tablet. Check out our upcoming webinars for another chance to win!

Learn with Google is a program to help businesses succeed through winning moments that matter, enabling better decisions and constantly innovating. We hope that you’ll use these best practices and how-to’s to maximize the impact of digital and grow your business. We’re looking forward to seeing you at an upcoming session!

Posted by Erin Molnar, Learn With Google

Google Tag Manager: Technical Implementation Deep Dive Webinar

Just three months ago we launched Google Tag Manager to make it easier for marketers (or anyone in the organization) to add and update website tags, such as conversion tracking, site analytics, remarketing, and more. The tool provides an easy-to-use interface with templates for tags from Google and templates for other vendor’s tags, as well as customizable options for all your tagging needs. This minimizes site-coding requirements and simplifies the often error-prone tagging process.

In November, we held an introductory webinar (watch the recording here, plus read Q&A), and next week we’re holding a second webinar going beyond the basics and diving into the technical details and best practices for how to implement Google Tag Manager. This webinar will be hosted by Rob Murray, our Engineering Manager, and Dean Glasenberg, Sales Lead.

Webinar: Google Tag Manager — Technical Implementation
Date: Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Time: 10 am PST / 1pm EST / 6pm GMT
Register here: http://goo.gl/17OFd
Recommended Audience: IT or webmaster team members

During the webinar we’ll go through a step-by-step process for implementation, and we’ll cover some more advanced topics (i.e. deploying more complex tags). We’ll introduce the role of a Data Layer and use it in conjunction with Events to show how you can set up a site to gather detailed usage metrics, for example, to help you understand why users are dropping off at a specific page.  We’ll also show you how common browser Developer Tools, as well as the Google Tag Manager Debug mode, can be used to help verify that your tags are working correctly (and fix them if they’re not).

Hope to see to see you on Tuesday!

Posted by Dean Glasenberg, Global Sales Lead, Google Tag Manager

Webinar Dec 12: Remarketing with Google Analytics

This summer, we launched Remarketing with Google Analytics, a new way to take advantage of the data you have in Google Analytics and use it to improve your campaign performance. Remarketing lets you reconnect with site visitors and show them ads that are tailored to their interests across the Google Display Network. This makes ads on the web more relevant for consumers while helping to improve your advertising ROI.

Join us next Wednesday, December 12, for an introductory webinar hosted by Product Manager Jesse Savage and Global Solutions Lead Rachel Witalec. This webinar is part of our recent Learn with Google series on Remarketing. We’ll cover the benefits of remarketing for your business, unique advantages of Remarketing with Google Analytics, sample use cases, and the key steps for getting started.

Webinar: Remarketing with Google Analytics
Date: December 12, 2013
Time: 10 am PST / 1pm EST / 6pm GMT
Register here: http://goo.gl/B49ma

Hope to see you at the webinar!

Posted by Sara Jablon Moked, Product Marketing Manager

Latin America Tour: Google Analytics User Conference

Bom dia!

The Google Analytics User Conference takes a trip to Latin America. We held the first conference in Latin America in Mexico back in April and now we will visit Colombia, Argentina and Brazil the last week of November.

•  Monday Nov, 26th in Bogotá, Colombia (gauc.com.co)
•  Wednesday Nov, 28th in Buenos Aires, Argentina (gauc.com.ar)
•  Friday Nov, 30th in São Paulo, Brazil (gauc.com.br)


Digital Marketers and Google Analytics enthusiasts will be able to spend one full day sharing knowledge, hearing about local success stories and discussing the latest feature launches announced during our summit last month.

We have a terrific line up of Google speakers:
•  Justin Cutroni, Google Analytics Advocate
•  Enrique Quevedo, Google Analytics Latam
•  Romina Rodríguez, Google Argentina
•  Gustavo Jeuken, Google Brasil
•  Jorge Quiroga, Google Colombia

As well as thought leaders from our local Certified Partners:
•  Juan Camilo Suárez, Santiago Suárez and Gustavo Parra from Intergrupo Digital
•  Juan Damia and Richard Dawson from Intellignos
•  Ruy Carneiro and Flavio Silveira from WA Consulting
•  Francisco Pellat from Codice
•  Gustavo Bacchin from Cadastra
•  Fabio Serra from DP6

You can see the full event details, agenda and buy your tickets at these country specific sites:
Colombia, Argentina and Brazil.

Nos vemos pronto.

Posted by Enrique Quevedo, Google Analytics Latin America

The First Google Analytics Summit in Germany

On November 29, 2012, Trakken and e-wolff will be hosting the Analytics Summit 2012, the first conference in Germany to focus purely on Google Analytics. 

The Analytics Summit 2012 is aimed at all users, website operators, online marketers, webmasters and decision-makers who are already using Google Analytics or are planning to use it. Under the motto "from users for users", the focus is on knowledge transfer and knowledge sharing. 

The lineup of speakers, who are also avid users of Google Analytics, will report on their experiences and share best practices and know-how. Also, members of the Google Analytics team will share insights and provide practical advice right then and there. 

Up to 300 participants can enjoy a full day dedicated to Google Analytics, located at the port of Hamburg's former main customs office, located in the center of the Speicherstadt (Hamburg’s warehouse district). 

The Analytics Summit 2012 will be hosted by certified Google Analytics partners Trakken Web Services GmbH and e-wolff Consulting GmbH.

In our experience these events sell out rapidly, so book your tickets as soon as possible.

See you in Germany!

Posted by Timo Josten, Google Analytics team

Google Tag Manager: Webinar, GoPro case study, and product updates

Just over a month ago, we launched Google Tag Manager, a free tool that makes it easy for marketers to add and update website tags—including conversion tracking, site analytics, remarketing and more—with just a few clicks. Since then, we’ve released the product in 35 languages, we’ve added new tagging capabilities for Google Analytics, and we’ve been hard at work building more enhancements.

To help you get the most out of Google Tag Manager, we’ve scheduled a webinar next week with Product Manager Laura Holmes to walk through the tool and go over implementation basics:

Webinar: Getting Started with Google Tag Manager
Date: Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Time: 10am PST / 1pm EST / 6pm GMT
Register: goo.gl/YTulu

We’ve also been hearing great feedback from our users, including GoPro, the world’s leader in wearable and gear-mountable cameras and digital devices. With the growing popularity of GoPro products and accompanying complexity of their digital marketing activities, GoPro found itself with dozens of tags measuring countless engagement activities across its web properties. It was critical to find a way to implement and maintain marketing tags that would scale with the marketing organization. Analytics Pros, a Google Analytics Certified Partner and Google Tag Manager specialist, led a comprehensive migration to Google Tag Manager -- and GoPro stakeholders were delighted with the results:

“Google Tag Manager centralizes our tags into a single location that gives our marketing and analytics teams the flexibility to make tagging updates within minutes without burdening IT.”
- Lee Topar, Director of Online Marketing, GoPro

Download the full case study.

We hope you’ll join us at the webinar next Tuesday the 13th. If you’re not able to attend, we’ll be posting a recording of the webinar about a week afterwards here on the blog and on YouTube, and you can also read more about Google Tag Manager on the website or the help center.

Posted by Sara Jablon Moked, Product Marketing Manager

Take your social strategy to the next level with Learn with Google Hangouts and Webinars

Over the next few weeks, we’re offering four opportunities to learn more about Google+ for your business. We kick off with a Learn with Google Hangout on Air with bestselling author +Chris Brogan on November 5th at 10am PT / 1pm ET. Chris will cover tactics for successful social marketing and discuss his new book, “Google+ for Business: How Google's Social Network Changes Everything.” RSVP for the Hangout on the Google+ Event page. 

Learn Chris’s recipes for how to grow and engage your Google+ community to build your brand and drive your business’s visibility and conversions. Hear about Chris’s own experiences helping companies succeed in their content marketing and social projects. Chris Brogan is a New York Times bestselling author, CEO of Human Business Works, and advises companies on marketing, business strategy, communications and more.

If you have a question for Chris, leave your question as a comment on the Google+ Event.

Boost your success with Google+

Want to learn more about using Google+ for your business? Sign up for our Learn with Google webinars. Here are some great upcoming webinars to help you get the most out of social for your business:

• Social that Adds Up: Performance and Measurement (Thurs, Nov 8, 10am PT / 1pm ET)
• Supercharge your Social Media Initiatives with Video (Wed, Nov 14, 10am PT / 1pm ET)
• Building a Digital Brand with Google+ (Thurs, Dec 6, 10am PT / 1pm ET)

Posted by the Google Analytics team