Google Tag Manager
As certified Google Analytics Consultants we make sure your analytics products are tracking the right data accurately.
Easily Manage Code
Place 1 line of code on your site and then manage the various pixels from a central interface.
Align Numbers
By using a central tag manager you're much less likely to run into any single pixel firing more than once.
Save Time
Without tag management you are forced to place every code on every page manually which takes a lot of development and resource time.
Bad Data Causes Problems
One of the most common causes of over-counting data has to do with how Google Tag Manager was deployed on the site. Websites vary in how they handle tags and load scripts so it’s important to properly QA the Google Tag Manager set up.
Additionally, websites change as do marketing initiatives which makes double checking the GTM code placement regularly an important part of a proper analytics practice.
The fall out from getting it wrong can be severe. Double counted conversions can go unnoticed for quite some time.
Using Google Tag Manager to Improve Insights
Google Tag Manager (GTM) is one of many Tag Manager Systems (TMS) that allow you to manage a variety of tracking codes through a single interface. Deploy the TMS across your site, and then use the TMS interface to control how and where each code is managed.
When deployed and managed properly Google Tag Manager will help you accurately collect critical data you can use to gain insights into how your marketing is influencing your audience. When deployed incorrectly it can cause hours of goose chasing.
In Tag Manager, click Accounts and then Create account. A new container is created by default when you create a new account.
Enter an account name and optionally indicate whether you'd like to share data anonymously with Google and others. Enter a descriptive container name and select the type of content: Web, AMP, Android, or iOS.
Install the container in your website or mobile app. For web and AMP pages: Add the container snippet as instructed by Tag Manager, and remove any existing tags. For mobile apps: Use the Firebase SDK for Android or iOS.
Select the tag type and specify triggers for when the tag should fire.
Tags need to be continually checked for accuracy.
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To keep you moving forward, your first call will be with an analytics engineer, not a sales rep.
Installing GTM is Just a Step Towards Proper Analytics
A proper analytics practice is not a software product, it’s not a tech stack, it’s a strategic plan that uses technology to provide you with valuable insights. We help you organize your data (traffic data, website data, customer data, accounting data) around the customer journey you are trying to influence. From there we ensure tracking is accurate and well defined, data points are being properly passed from one platform to the next and that you have reporting you can do something with.
Solution Design
Our Analytics Architects will design a proper analytics environment for your business.
Accurate Data Collection
Our Data Engineers work to ensure your data is accurately collected, quality controlled and prepared for use by your team.
Analytics Migrations
Upgrading from UA to GA4? Transitioning from Google to Adobe? Looking for something custom, we can help you navigate the process and implement a scalable solution.
Customer Journey Analytics
We build all of our analytics systems with the goal of helping you better understand your customers needs, wants and desires.
Transformational Insights
As an analytics consultancy our primary objective is to deliver clean, reliable insights your team can use to improve business outcomes at scale.
Team Training
We're more than happy to train your team along the way to make sure you get the most from any engagement with us.
Access to a Complete Set of Skills
You don't need these skills “full-time/all the time” but you do need them to build proper analytics environments.
Role: Analytics Architect
The design of an analytics system based on business needs, its configuration, the customer journeys that are encompassed, and the function of the website, app, etc.
What data should be collected (including metadata), what events should be collected (and what should trigger their collection), how the analytics system cooperates with other tech that is in use.
How it should be grouped or rolled up to accommodate answering meaningful questions.
Role: Analytics Engineer
The implementation of tracking such that the analytics architecture is translated into a real-world system. The verification of all events, triggers, and integrity of the data both at time of collection and in the destination systems that collect the data.
Role: Data Engineer
The transformation, enriching, and cleanup of data via a series of logical, well-documented steps that provide the capability of a business to trust the output data.
Through this process there should be singular places to get each piece of output data. The logic behind the cleanup processes should be congruent across an organization.
Role: Visualization Engineer
The translation of clean, enriched data into meaningful dashboards, reports, exploration tools that leverage visualization to facilitate meaningful interpretation of data with as few distractions as possible.
Role: Data Analyst
Through the use of dashboards, reports, and exploration tools (which could include ad hoc SQL work), mining for insights (something different than expected or new opportunities).
This can take the form of answering an explicit question from within a business, exploration for the sake of seeking insights, or at the prompt of a monitoring system.
Role: Optimization Engineer
Pulling the learnings from each step in the process our teams come together to create ideas for iterative testing our clients can use to narrow down the cause and effect of the insights discovered in their data.
This allows everyone to move forward with confidence knowing what each lever in the campaign is doing to contribute to increased ROI.
Specialized Skills
We know it can be tough, we see it all the time. Most marketing teams are tasked with driving revenue and at the same time are asked to be technology integration engineers. These marketing teams are then left fighting all kinds of data issues rather than spending their time influencing marketing.
We have a group of people with very special skill sets assigned to you based on what you need.
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Measuring the Impact of Marketing
adMind Analytics is a team of specialized technical and strategic engineers, programmers, analysts and strategists. We don’t just ‘fix reports.’ We work with brands who want to activate their marketing data from traffic acquisition all the way through customer lifetime values. No technology alone can create the specific and strategic plan your business will need in order to get the most from that data, and that is where adMind comes in.
It starts with a call to discuss your business goals and immediate analytics needs. Then we perform a strategic audit to see if you have the right technology to support your goals, if that technology is configured properly and tracking accurately. This often spans a review of your analytics tech stack, acquisition platforms, CRMs and any other tech toys you may have on the shelf.
Once we know your goals and have diagnosed where you sit today we can create a roadmap for building out a proper analytics practice. You may decide to load all that work into a few months or over a longer period of time based on what is important to know now, and what you’d like to build towards knowing in the future.
Better insights, better outcomes.
FAQs
What does Google Tag Manager do?
These tags will load based on specific parameters you can control in a separate interface.
By managing your tags this way you don't have to burden your development team with the task of placing individual lines of code on specific pages.
Is Google Tag Manager free?
Why?
That is a question each of us needs to answer for ourselves…why indeed?
How do I add Google Tag Manager to my website?
You can ask that they then follow the instructions set out by Google:
https://developers.google.com/tag-platform/tag-manager/web
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- Maximize your tech stack.
- Align your org on KPI's and metrics.
- Develop influential content.
- Focus teams on what matters.
