Why Google Analytics is Useless Without This... | Ep. #730

Marketing School - Digital Marketing and Online Marketing Tips

Eric Siu and Neil Patel

Business, Marketing, Careers

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2018

⏱️ 6 minutes

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In episode #730, Eric and Neil discuss why Google Analytics is useless without this one thing. Tune in to hear what you might be missing. TIME-STAMPED SHOW NOTES: [00:27] Today’s Topic: Why Google Analytics is Useless Without This... [00:42] Eric doesn’t always buy a product or service when he visits websites. [01:05] Google Analytics will never tell you why someone left your site without buying. [01:15] GA provides quantitative data. [01:20] Qualitative data is more elusive. [02:07] Go to your lowest hanging fruit first. [02:50] Affiliate marketers struggle because they operate in a vacuum. [03:08] Qualaroo, SurveyMonkey, Google Surveys are great ways to get qualitative data. [03:38] 30 or more responses will serve as enough data to be actionable. [04:15] User Testing and Usability Hub are great tools. [04:37] Make sure the person testing is your ideal customer, otherwise, the data won’t matter. [05:16] That’s it for today! [05:22] If you could take two minutes out of your day, we are trying to improve the listening experience for you, so go to Singlegrain.com/survey and help us gain some insight into what matters to our listeners. Leave some feedback: What should we talk about next? Please let us know in the comments below. Did you enjoy this episode? If so, please leave a short review. Connect with us: NeilPatel.com Quick Sprout Growth Everywhere Single Grain Twitter @neilpatel Twitter @ericosiu Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0	Get ready for your daily dose of marketing strategies and tactics from
0:06.8	entrepreneurs with the guile and experience to help you find success in any
0:11.4	marketing capacity. You're listening to marketing school
0:14.5	with your instructors Neil Patel and Eric Sue.
0:19.4	All right guys before we start we got a special message from our sponsor.
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0:49.7	to improve your low time.
0:51.3	Welcome to another episode of Marketing School.
0:55.0	I'm Eric Sue, and I'm Neil Patel.
0:57.0	And today we're going to talk about why Google Analytics is useless without this.
1:01.0	What could this possibly be, Neil? So before I go into what it is, let me ask you a few questions, Eric.
1:07.0	When you go to someone's site, do you buy most of the time when they're selling products and services?
1:13.4	Almost never. Okay? And you leave, right?
1:17.2	Mm-hmm. Do you do anything else or do you typically just leave or where do you go after?
1:21.4	I leave or I might go do more research on Google.
1:25.0	Okay, in their Google Analytics account what does it show when you go to their website and
1:30.0	leave? A bounce. All right? Does it tell them why?
1:34.0	Nope.
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