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The Best Programming Languages for Digital Marketers

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You may want to create a simple prediction—or automate a few repetitive tasks in your PPC campaigns. For a newcomer, there are four programming languages worth learning: SQL*. Technically, SQL is a “declarative language,” not a programming language, but it has the “ functionality of a mature programming language.”.

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Google BigQuery: A Tutorial for Marketers

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Alternatives include Amazon Redshift , Snowflake , Microsoft Azure SQL Data Warehouse , Apache Hive , etc. Imagine you want to know how much revenue your campaigns generated… …and you sell houses. You can then say that userID X, who came on January 11 from Google Ads, brought us $500,000 in revenue. Another use case.

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B2B Sales Outsourcing Is Dicey. Here’s How to Do It Right

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Reasons to outsource include: Lack of expertise and experience in some sales functions (e.g. Scalability issues (you need SDRs only for some campaigns). Assigning sales functions to other departments (we’ve seen R&D doing sourcing). Some functions (e.g. This is the most outsourced sales function.

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Raw Data & Google Analytics: A Game Changer

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After a few hours playing around with SQL , I was already able to deliver insights I never could have with aggregated Google Analytics reports. After all, most questions we answer are pretty basic: Which campaigns bring more conversions? Do more and more people use Feature X? For regular use, aggregated data is usually enough.

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Acquire New Users by Adding Growth Hacking to your Marketing Strategy

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It’s why Canva can call itself a multibillion-dollar platform and how ConvertKit pulled itself up to compete with goliaths like MailChimp and Campaign Monitor. Where campaigns to build brand awareness and generate top-of-funnel sales drive traditional marketing, data across the entire customer lifecycle drives growth hacking in marketing.

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What Does the Future Hold for Conversion Optimization?

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More and more, people are using experimentation as a way to optimise not just sales – but also pricing, functionality, and product. Trends include: big data tools, data manipulation (SQL and alternatives), languages like Python, and deeper analyses (e.g., Conversion is expanding beyond just the core user experience. Image Source.

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A Quick Primer on B2B Conversion Optimization

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So while many usability heuristics remain the same in B2B website design and functionality , much of what goes into lead gen, sales, and analysis is different. In other words, you’ll answer questions like: Where in the buyer journey is the person that downloads [X] whitepaper? To what points in the customer journey do they correspond?

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