Invest in creating a social media strategy tailored to your content goals. And that begins with establishing the right social media KPIs. To help get started, read what the author of Going Social and Getting to Like has to say.

The bad news: If you fail to make an analytics-friendly website design, you won’t get the best analytics insight. The good news: It’s easy to make analytics-friendly design decisions. Here are five tips on how to do it.

Though most marketers say their brand views content as an asset, only a minority have the people and processes in place, according to new research on content management and strategy from the Content Marketing Institute.

If you’re not actively measuring your KPI, you’re missing opportunities to improve your business’s bottom line. Carefully selected KPIs also can be a useful reporting metric for marketers wanting to strengthen support for their work.

Yes, a content audit can seem like an overwhelming task, but it is essential to your job as a marketer. Learn what, why, how, and more about how to execute a usable content audit that will make an immediate impact on your marketing.

If you want to measure the impact of your content marketing on brand awareness, first think about the type of content. Next, think about the most helpful metrics and tools – start with these four measurement areas

Don’t let your site analytics overwhelm you. Learn how to create a system for identifying which pages deserve the bulk of your attention and what actions to take on these pages using a few key reports from Google Analytics.

While you can use the data from Google Analytics in infinite ways, you need to understand the four most helpful reports for your content marketing – traffic, navigation summary, traffic from organic search, and conversions.

Google Analytics can uncover deeper insights than standard page views and drop-off rates. Learn what questions you should ask and how to find the answers so you can gauge and optimize your content performance more effectively.

Marketers who put data at the heart of their efforts outperform their counterparts on just about every front. Yet, data fills many marketers’ souls with dread. To help, here are eight vetted business intelligence tools.

Google Analytics, marketing automation, and CRM data – the best method to overcoming a data fragmentation issue is to understand what kind of data each platform offers and how it can work together for a full-circle view of the customer.

Executives are no longer willing to accept marketing that doesn’t demonstrate results. An infinitely more measurable approach, content marketing can help. But how do you build the business case for content marketing?