Google Tag Manager

How to check if your LinkedIn Insight Tag Pixel Is Working

You’ve just added your LinkedIn Insight Tag to your website, and you want to see if it’s working. If you read Linkedin’s documentation, they will offer up this advice:  “You can check the status in Campaign Manager by navigating to Account Assets → Insight Tag. Once the Insight Tag is installed on your website and …

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Drift Chat Event Tracking with Google Tag Manager – Less Code, More Analytics

The market for website chatbots is growing steadily and with it, there have been a lot of entrants since Intercom lead the way. From Hubspot to Whisbi, each has their own take on it. What I found especially impressive is how Drift has opened up the tech side of their platform. This makes it a really fun marketing technology. Building chatbots …

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Adding a Hubspot Data Layer for Personalization and Profit

As we all know, the data layer (dataLayer if you’re a nerd) is a great way to provide data about an application, it’s users, and, it’s content to analytics and marketing technologies. But one thing that is underappreciated about the data layer is that it provides context for personalization. There are a number of ways …

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9 Pro Tips for GTM Auto Event Tracking and the Click Element Variable

This week I did a Google Tag Manager implementation where I had no control over the site’s source code and no access to the site’s developers. It’s an imperfect situation but luckily, GTM Auto Event Tracking affords a solution that is very effective considering these constraints. This post is meant share a few tips on …

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Web Addresses Explained: What Every Human Should Know About URLs

If you can remember your elementary school English lessons, you might recall learning how to format postal addresses so you could send a letter or navigate yourself to a particular destination. Today, most of us navigate to Web addresses far more often than street addresses and yet we no sense about how web addresses work, what …

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Solving Google Tag Manager Race Conditions with eventCallback

Google Tag Manager is a great solution for implementing Web analytics on AJAX-heavy apps. But at times it may seem like it adds more complexity than it relieves. Synchronizing data and events in the dataLayer is an example of this. Sometimes you will want to fire a tag that aims to send data that will show up in …

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Product Scope Custom Dimension & Metrics in Google Analytics

Google Analytics Enhanced Ecommerce provides insight into Ecommerce performance in detail that was impossible using standard Google Analytics methods. To get the most out of Enhanced Ecommerce, you must understand the breadth of Enhanced Ecommerce data collection capabilities. This tutorial will take you from Ecommerce product page to Enhanced Ecommerce Product Data. Product Data Problem and Solution The new …

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Data-Driven Marketing Starts With the Data Layer

The term “digital marketing “ should describe the marketing methods as much as it describes the marketing medium.   Too often, marketers are satisfied with their “digital marketing” efforts when they send a tweet, “blast” an email or run a search ad because their message is transmitted over a digital medium.  Unfortunately, this misunderstanding so vastly …

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Inspecting and Debugging the Google Tag Manager dataLayer

The Data Layer Inspector and Debugger This project began as a solution to a problem that I often faced setting up Google Tag Manager and specifically the data layer. The solution that I ended making was dataLayer logger, inspector, and debugger that offered the same features as the Google Analytics Debugger but for the data …

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