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Facebook Ad Placements: How Do They Compare & Which Perform Best?

Which Facebook Ad placements drive the highest return? We asked a few dozen paid marketers to weigh in. Here’s what we learned.

Social Media Elise Dopson | Apr 7

Marketing

50+ Experts Share the SEO Metrics They Track Every Week (& Why You Should, Too)

Your weekly SEO dashboard gives a good indication on whether your strategy is paying off. In this guide, we share the 25 SEO metrics that experts track on a weekly basis.

Marketing | Apr 6

Case Study

How Virayo Uses Databox to Build SEO Reports (& Custom Metrics) to Visualize ROI for Clients

Robbie Richards shares why (and how) Databox is the most powerful tool his agency uses to share and improve SEO and PPC performance for clients.

Case Study | Apr 1

Sales

SMART Sales Goal Examples from 35 Companies That Every Team Can Implement

Dozens of our sales experts give their advice on the best SMART sales goals to employ with your teams to see more results, and better pipeline performance.

Sales | Mar 31

Using Databox

New: Create Reusable Templates in Databox & Save Hours on Client Reports

Design templates in Databox, complete with the data sources, metrics, and visualizations that you need, and save them to your account so that they can be used for any client in just one click.

Using Databox | Mar 30

Marketing

15 SEO Metrics That You Should Be Tracking On A Daily Basis

The ability to spot small wins (or fails) in your SEO strategy can be invaluable. In this guide, 38 experts share SEO metrics they track on a daily basis.

Marketing | Mar 30

Survey Results Show The Sudden & Severe Impacts That COVID-19 Has Had On Businesses. Here’s How They’re Responding…

Databox teamed up with Lola.com to survey nearly 300 companies from industries across the globe to learn how COVID-19 has impacted their business and how they’re responding,

Trending | Mar 26

Marketing

Your Website SEO Report: 37 Metrics That Must Be Included

Which metrics should you include in your SEO report? 70+ SEO professionals share the SEO metrics that they include (and you should, too.)

Marketing | Mar 25

15 Proven Ways for Lowering Your Cost Per Lead from Facebook Ads

Leads are important. But, the cost of those leads is of equal importance. We polled 54 marketers to find out the best ways for lowering your cost per lead.

Social Media | Mar 24

Marketing

How to Build a Comprehensive SEO Keyword Ranking Report

A keyword ranking report is key to understanding and optimizing you content efforts. In this guide, 48 experts share how they create theirs.

Marketing | Mar 23

Content Marketing

24 Must-Haves For Your Content Marketing Reporting Dashboards

A content marketing reporting dashboard shows your team how well they’re doing. But what should you include? (Spoiler alert: It’s more than just traffic.)

Content Marketing | Mar 19

Marketing

26 Ways for Improving Your Ecommerce Conversion Rate

How do you improve the conversion rate of your online store? Whether its purchases, items in shopping carts, etc., here are 26 ways to improve conversions.

Marketing | Mar 18

Ground Up Podcast

The 4 Principles G2’s CMO Used to Grow Monthly Organic Visitors from 500k to 5 Million

Rapid growth is hard—consistent rapid growth at scale is even more of a challenge. Here, Ryan Bonnici explains the 4 principles that helped G2 10X organic visitors.

Ground Up Podcast | Mar 17

Marketing

11 Tips for Creating a Custom Google Ads Dashboard to Track PPC Performance

Tracking the performance of your Google Ad campaigns can be a breeze when following these 11 tips for building meaningful Google Ads dashboards.

Marketing | Mar 17

Content Marketing

25 Tips for Updating Old Blog Posts for SEO & Boosting Organic Traffic

150+ marketers share tips for updating your old blog posts for SEO in order to improve the content, reading experience, and boost organic traffic.

Content Marketing | Mar 16

Sales

The B2B Sales KPIs You Should Be Tracking According to 60+ Experts

60+ marketing and sales pros weigh in on the most important b2b metrics that companies should be tracking, why, and how to go about tracking them.

Sales | Mar 12

Marketing

30+ Tips for Organized, Actionable Facebook Ads Dashboards

Which metrics should you include in your reports? Which tools are best to use? Here, 32 marketers share the best ways to build Facebook Ad dashboards.

Marketing | Mar 11

Case Study

How A Growing Marketing Agency Uses Databox to Make Real-Time Decisions & Increase Client Retention

Social Hustle plans to double its team this year. Here’s how they’re using Databox to stage agile, make real-time decisions, and increase client retention.

Case Study | Mar 10

Marketing

12 Tips for Creating a Content Marketing Dashboard in Google Analytics

Keeping track of metircs and goals in spreadsheets is exhausting. Here’s how to create a meaningful content marketing dashboard using only Google Analytics.

Marketing | Mar 10

Marketing

36 Local SEO Metrics That Every Local Business Should Be Tracking

Brick and mortar success stories start on the search page, so we asked over 85 experts to share their best tips for optimizing for local search success.

Marketing | Mar 9

Agencies

How HubSpot’s Top Agency Partner Saves 48+ Hours (Per Client!) Annually On Reporting

Smartbug Media, HubSpot’s top agency partner, shares how Databox has helped its team shift valuable hours away from manual reporting.

Agencies | Mar 5

Marketing

21 Practical Tips for Building Better Business Dashboards

How do you create a business dashboard that’s meaningful and immediately accessible to anyone who views it? Here, dozens of marketing pros share their tips.

Marketing | Mar 5

22 Tips for Building Meaningful Social Media Dashboards from All Networks

More than 40 marketers share their best tips for building a social media dashboard that pulls all of your insights in one place.

Social Media | Mar 4

Content Marketing

22 Ideas for Using Data to Inspire Your Content Marketing Strategy

How do you define a content marketing strategy? Turns out, you already have the data to implement a strong one. Hear from 89 marketers on how to do it.

Content Marketing | Mar 3

Marketing

The SEO Competitive Analysis Tools & Tips 100+ Marketers Rely On Most

100+ marketers share the SEO competitor analysis tips and tools for understanding your competitor’s strategy and outranking them in search engines.

Marketing | Mar 2

Sales

14 Things You Must Include In Your Weekly Sales Activity Report

What should you include in a weekly sales activity report? Here, 20+ sales professionals share the essential metrics you must include.

Sales | Feb 27

Ground Up Podcast

The 3-Step Approach HubSpot’s VP of Marketing Uses to Set Goals for Continuous Growth

HubSpot’s VP of Marketing, Kieran Flanagan, recently shared the key learnings that helped HubSpot instill a culture of growth throughout the entire company.

Ground Up Podcast | Feb 26

Marketing

The Metrics Facebook Doesn’t Show You & How to Track Them In Google Analytics

Here’s how to use Google Analytics to track Facebook engagement, whether that’s organic, ad campaigns, groups, and more––and pull more detailed insights.

Marketing | Feb 26

Content Marketing

Content Marketing ROI: 13 Lead Generation Metrics to Measure & Report Every Month

It’s notoriously hard to track the ROI of content marketing. We asked 40 experts to share the lead generation metrics they’re tracking to report on ROI.

Content Marketing | Feb 25

Marketing

11 Tips for Creating An Actionable SEO Marketing Dashboard

You’ve put a lot of effort into SEO and now it’s time to report on results. Which KPIs should be included in an SEO dashboard? Here, dozens of marketers share their thoughts.

Marketing | Feb 24

Sales

How to Set, Track, & Achieve Your Monthly Sales Goals

Sales goals can mean everything––if they’re set and measured correctly. Here are tips from 90 sales pros on setting and tracking your monthly sales goals.

Sales | Feb 20

Marketing

Business Reporting: 4 Ways to Report Poor Performance To Your Boss or Client

90 experts delivered their best tips on delivering bad news without losing the trust and integrity of your most important business relationships.

Marketing | Feb 19

Marketing

16 Event Marketing KPIs For Tracking the ROI of Every Event & Trade Show

How do you measure the ROI of an event or trade show? By tracking these 16 event marketing KPIs recommended by dozens of marketing pros.

Marketing | Feb 18

Content Marketing

Content Marketing Goals: 15 Ways to Set, Track, & Measure Your Efforts

What’s the goal of content marketing, anyway? Here, almost 200 marketers agree on the 15 content marketing goals every program should set and achieve.

Content Marketing | Feb 17

Marketing

The 22 Email Marketing Metrics Every Campaign Should Be Measured On

How do you measure the success of email marketing? We surveyed over 40 email pros and these are the email marketing metrics they recommend tracking most.

Marketing | Feb 13

Marketing

The 22 Essential Startup Marketing KPIs for Measuring Traction

Success for a startup looks different than it does for established companies. Here are 22 essential startup marketing KPIs according to 58 marketing pros.

Marketing | Feb 13

Marketing

33 Marketers On The Most Effective Ways for Increasing Free Trial Signups

Getting your prospects to “try before they buy” becomes easier when you use these tips from 33 marketing pros to increase your free trial signups.

Marketing | Feb 12

Product and Design

How to Use Google Sheets + Databox to Track & Visualize Performance

Many companies still use spreadsheets to track performance data. Here’s everything you need for using Google Sheets with Databox to visualize performance.

Product and Design | Feb 11

Data Snacks

How To Create A Simple Yet Insightful Facebook Ads Performance Dashboard

Marketers tend to complicate things when it comes time to report on results. Here’s how to create a simple and effective Facebook Ads dashboard.

Data Snacks | Feb 11

Marketing

How to Set Long-Term Marketing Goals (And Actually Hit Them)

Do you avoid setting long-term marketing goals out of fear you won’t hit them? Here are tips from dozens of marketers on how to properly set goals.

Marketing | Feb 11

Marketing

The Definitive List of Marketing KPIs Every Team Should Track

We’ve polled hundreds of marketers to find out the definitive marketing KPIs every team should track across 8 functional areas, including content marketing, SEO, email, and more.

Marketing | Feb 10

Marketing

How to Create SMART Marketing Goals That Your Team Will Actually Hit

The SMART framework ensures you’re focused on goals that are simple, measurable, achievable, realistic, and timely. Here’s how to set them for marketing.

Marketing | Feb 6

Marketing

How to Set Up & Use Google Analytics Across Multiple Websites

If Google Analytics isn’t configured properly across multiple websites, your performance data could be skewed. Here are 12 ways to properly set up and use Google Analytics across multiple websites.

Marketing | Feb 5

Sales

The 22 KPIs That Every Sales Rep Should Be Tracking

Everyone knows sales reps are tasked with, well, selling. But how do you measure the performance of all of the tasks involved? With these 22 sales KPIs…

Sales | Feb 4

Sales

5 Types of Sales Goals Every Sales Manager Should Have

35+ sales managers give us their best advice for goal-setting that creates better teams, drives engagement, and keeps the pipelines pumping.

Sales | Feb 3

Marketing

How to Set Content Marketing Goals (& The Most Common Ones Marketers Set)

How do you set, measure and communicate your content marketing goals? 50 marketers share their top goals along with the biggest challenges they face.

Marketing | Jan 30

Marketing

How to Track & Visualize Your HubSpot Lifecycle Stages in Databox

Here’s everything you need to know about HubSpot Lifecycle stages, including how to set them up and visualize their performance in HubSpot and Databox.

Marketing | Jan 29

Marketing

How To Measure YouTube Analytics Using Only Google Analytics

Our experts shared 20+ ways to be sure you’re getting the most out of your video marketing through Google Analytics’ YouTube data and tracking abilities

Marketing | Jan 29

Marketing

Can You Measure Brand? Yes––Start With These 24 Brand Marketing KPIs

Can you measure the impact and effectiveness of your brand? 60+ marketing pros say yes––here are the brand marketing KPIs they say you should track.

Marketing | Jan 28

Marketing

25 Insightful Google Analytics Custom Dimensions for Analyzing Website Conversions

Which channels generate the most leads? Which social media platform drives quality leads? Here, 48 marketers share those and other Google Analytics custom dimensions for analyzing your website conversions.

Marketing | Jan 27

Marketing

17 Real Marketing Report Examples For Communicating Performance To Your Team

Putting together a marketing report can be overhwleming. That’s why we’ve collated these 17 real marketing report examples shared by our readers to help.

Marketing | Jan 22

Marketing

13 Tips for Setting (and Achieving) Your Marketing Goals

Who should be responsible for setting marketing goals? How do you settle on the number? Here, more than 30 marketers weigh in on marketing goal-setting.

Marketing | Jan 21

Marketing

Here Are The 19 KPIs to Include In Your Monthly Marketing Report

Most teams spend hours, even days, mapping out what to include in their marketing reports. Here are the 19 KPIs marketers say every report should include.

Marketing | Jan 20

Marketing

How to Prepare A Complete Marketing Report: The KPIs, Analysis, & Action Plan You Need

More than 40 marketers give us their most trusted focus-points and suggestions for creating informative, actionable marketing reports for every campaign.

Marketing | Jan 17

Marketing

The 13 Product Marketing KPIs That Every Team Should Be Tracking

There are endless user signals to analyze and interpret––which ones are useful to track? Here are the 13 product marketing KPIs every team should focus on.

Marketing | Jan 16

Basics

The 20 Most Important B2B KPIs According to More Than 50 Businesses

Unsure which metrics your B2B organization needs to keep an eye on? In this guide, experts from 42 B2B companies share the KPIs they track.

Basics | Jan 15

Marketing

7 Essential Metrics to Include in Every Weekly Marketing Report

Sixty-plus marketers share their seven most powerful metrics for analyzing progress and driving growth in their products and organizations.

Marketing | Jan 14

Marketing

17 Helpful Google Analytics Custom Dimensions For Analyzing Website Traffic

39 marketers share the most helpful Google Analytics custom dimensions for analyzing their website traffic for greater and more actionable insights,

Marketing | Jan 13

Analytics

25 Tips for Properly Setting Up Google Analytics On Your Website

How do you properly set up Google Analytics? In this latest report, 81 marketers weigh in on 25 things to remember to ensure you’re set up correctly.

Analytics | Jan 9

Marketing

How Much Do Facebook Ads Really Cost? (And 8 Ways to Maximize Ad Spend)

We asked 50+ marketers to share their best strategies for creating Facebook Ads on a small budget. They highlighted eight key areas to target for success.

Marketing | Jan 8

Marketing

What To Include in Your Daily Marketing Report: A 16-Point Checklist

Your daily marketing report tells you whether your team is on-track to meet campaign goals. In this guide, 29 experts share what you should include.

Marketing | Jan 7

Blog about Business Analytics, KPIs and product updates

Which Facebook Ad placements drive the highest return? We asked a few dozen paid marketers to weigh in. Here’s what we learned.

Your weekly SEO dashboard gives a good indication on whether your strategy is paying off. In this guide, we share the 25 SEO metrics that experts track on a weekly basis.

Robbie Richards shares why (and how) Databox is the most powerful tool his agency uses to share and improve SEO and PPC performance for clients.

Dozens of our sales experts give their advice on the best SMART sales goals to employ with your teams to see more results, and better pipeline performance.

Design templates in Databox, complete with the data sources, metrics, and visualizations that you need, and save them to your account so that they can be used for any client in just one click.

The ability to spot small wins (or fails) in your SEO strategy can be invaluable. In this guide, 38 experts share SEO metrics they track on a daily basis.

Databox teamed up with Lola.com to survey nearly 300 companies from industries across the globe to learn how COVID-19 has impacted their business and how they’re responding,

Which metrics should you include in your SEO report? 70+ SEO professionals share the SEO metrics that they include (and you should, too.)

Leads are important. But, the cost of those leads is of equal importance. We polled 54 marketers to find out the best ways for lowering your cost per lead.

A keyword ranking report is key to understanding and optimizing you content efforts. In this guide, 48 experts share how they create theirs.

A content marketing reporting dashboard shows your team how well they’re doing. But what should you include? (Spoiler alert: It’s more than just traffic.)

How do you improve the conversion rate of your online store? Whether its purchases, items in shopping carts, etc., here are 26 ways to improve conversions.

Rapid growth is hard—consistent rapid growth at scale is even more of a challenge. Here, Ryan Bonnici explains the 4 principles that helped G2 10X organic visitors.

Tracking the performance of your Google Ad campaigns can be a breeze when following these 11 tips for building meaningful Google Ads dashboards.

150+ marketers share tips for updating your old blog posts for SEO in order to improve the content, reading experience, and boost organic traffic.

60+ marketing and sales pros weigh in on the most important b2b metrics that companies should be tracking, why, and how to go about tracking them.

Which metrics should you include in your reports? Which tools are best to use? Here, 32 marketers share the best ways to build Facebook Ad dashboards.

Social Hustle plans to double its team this year. Here’s how they’re using Databox to stage agile, make real-time decisions, and increase client retention.

Keeping track of metircs and goals in spreadsheets is exhausting. Here’s how to create a meaningful content marketing dashboard using only Google Analytics.

Brick and mortar success stories start on the search page, so we asked over 85 experts to share their best tips for optimizing for local search success.

Smartbug Media, HubSpot’s top agency partner, shares how Databox has helped its team shift valuable hours away from manual reporting.

How do you create a business dashboard that’s meaningful and immediately accessible to anyone who views it? Here, dozens of marketing pros share their tips.

More than 40 marketers share their best tips for building a social media dashboard that pulls all of your insights in one place.

How do you define a content marketing strategy? Turns out, you already have the data to implement a strong one. Hear from 89 marketers on how to do it.

100+ marketers share the SEO competitor analysis tips and tools for understanding your competitor’s strategy and outranking them in search engines.

What should you include in a weekly sales activity report? Here, 20+ sales professionals share the essential metrics you must include.

HubSpot’s VP of Marketing, Kieran Flanagan, recently shared the key learnings that helped HubSpot instill a culture of growth throughout the entire company.

Here’s how to use Google Analytics to track Facebook engagement, whether that’s organic, ad campaigns, groups, and more––and pull more detailed insights.

It’s notoriously hard to track the ROI of content marketing. We asked 40 experts to share the lead generation metrics they’re tracking to report on ROI.

You’ve put a lot of effort into SEO and now it’s time to report on results. Which KPIs should be included in an SEO dashboard? Here, dozens of marketers share their thoughts.

Sales goals can mean everything––if they’re set and measured correctly. Here are tips from 90 sales pros on setting and tracking your monthly sales goals.

90 experts delivered their best tips on delivering bad news without losing the trust and integrity of your most important business relationships.

How do you measure the ROI of an event or trade show? By tracking these 16 event marketing KPIs recommended by dozens of marketing pros.

What’s the goal of content marketing, anyway? Here, almost 200 marketers agree on the 15 content marketing goals every program should set and achieve.

How do you measure the success of email marketing? We surveyed over 40 email pros and these are the email marketing metrics they recommend tracking most.

Success for a startup looks different than it does for established companies. Here are 22 essential startup marketing KPIs according to 58 marketing pros.

Getting your prospects to “try before they buy” becomes easier when you use these tips from 33 marketing pros to increase your free trial signups.

Many companies still use spreadsheets to track performance data. Here’s everything you need for using Google Sheets with Databox to visualize performance.

Marketers tend to complicate things when it comes time to report on results. Here’s how to create a simple and effective Facebook Ads dashboard.

Do you avoid setting long-term marketing goals out of fear you won’t hit them? Here are tips from dozens of marketers on how to properly set goals.

We’ve polled hundreds of marketers to find out the definitive marketing KPIs every team should track across 8 functional areas, including content marketing, SEO, email, and more.

The SMART framework ensures you’re focused on goals that are simple, measurable, achievable, realistic, and timely. Here’s how to set them for marketing.

If Google Analytics isn’t configured properly across multiple websites, your performance data could be skewed. Here are 12 ways to properly set up and use Google Analytics across multiple websites.

Everyone knows sales reps are tasked with, well, selling. But how do you measure the performance of all of the tasks involved? With these 22 sales KPIs…

35+ sales managers give us their best advice for goal-setting that creates better teams, drives engagement, and keeps the pipelines pumping.

How do you set, measure and communicate your content marketing goals? 50 marketers share their top goals along with the biggest challenges they face.

Here’s everything you need to know about HubSpot Lifecycle stages, including how to set them up and visualize their performance in HubSpot and Databox.

Our experts shared 20+ ways to be sure you’re getting the most out of your video marketing through Google Analytics’ YouTube data and tracking abilities

Can you measure the impact and effectiveness of your brand? 60+ marketing pros say yes––here are the brand marketing KPIs they say you should track.

Which channels generate the most leads? Which social media platform drives quality leads? Here, 48 marketers share those and other Google Analytics custom dimensions for analyzing your website conversions.

Putting together a marketing report can be overhwleming. That’s why we’ve collated these 17 real marketing report examples shared by our readers to help.

Who should be responsible for setting marketing goals? How do you settle on the number? Here, more than 30 marketers weigh in on marketing goal-setting.

Most teams spend hours, even days, mapping out what to include in their marketing reports. Here are the 19 KPIs marketers say every report should include.

More than 40 marketers give us their most trusted focus-points and suggestions for creating informative, actionable marketing reports for every campaign.

There are endless user signals to analyze and interpret––which ones are useful to track? Here are the 13 product marketing KPIs every team should focus on.

Unsure which metrics your B2B organization needs to keep an eye on? In this guide, experts from 42 B2B companies share the KPIs they track.

Sixty-plus marketers share their seven most powerful metrics for analyzing progress and driving growth in their products and organizations.

39 marketers share the most helpful Google Analytics custom dimensions for analyzing their website traffic for greater and more actionable insights,

How do you properly set up Google Analytics? In this latest report, 81 marketers weigh in on 25 things to remember to ensure you’re set up correctly.

We asked 50+ marketers to share their best strategies for creating Facebook Ads on a small budget. They highlighted eight key areas to target for success.

Your daily marketing report tells you whether your team is on-track to meet campaign goals. In this guide, 29 experts share what you should include.

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