Web Analytics Training Course
Langara College Vancouver BC
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When?

Next Course Dates : September 16th, 23rd, 30th, October 7th, 14th & 21st, 2010

Format: Three-hour sessions between 6:30pm and 9:30pm over 6 Thursday Evenings

Current Course: September 16th, 23rd, 30th, October 7th, 14th & 21st, 2010

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Format: Three-hour sessions between 6:30pm and 9:30pm over 6 Thursday Evenings

Next Course: January 2011

Next Course: January 2011

Last Course : September 16th, 23rd, 30th, October 7th, 14th & 21st, 2010

Format: Three-hour sessions between 6:30pm and 9:30pm over 6 Evenings

How much?

$349

Why?

Web Analytics is easy? No it isn't. So is it difficult? No it isn't!

Call it self-serving to say, but its not that easy to learn on one's own.

It requires a measure of instruction, self-learning and practice.

Most of all, it requires a measure of guidance to know that the data you are seeing is both correct and understood.

Web Analytics is the cosmopolitan area of web technology.

It brings together the computer geeks and the marketing specialists.

Marketing folks require some technical understanding of their Web Analytics tools.

Geeks need some understanding of what the marketers need and why.

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Don’t agree?

  • Why are the majority of web analytics implementations incorrect?
  • Why do so many implementations stall in the IT department?
  • Why do marketers not get the information they need?
  • How can marketers know if the data they are getting is reliable?
  • Why does IT not get it?

What?

The Course strikes a balance between the technical and the marketing aspects of Web Analytics.

Rather than focusing on only one area or splitting the course in two, it groups technical topics with their related impact on the data and their relevance to the marketing and business requirements.

The result is well informed practitioners who have a better grasp of what they are doing and the needs of others who depend on them.

Although the course focuses on Google Analytics as the tool, it covers many aspects that are fundamental to Web Analytics generally.

How? – Here's the course outline

  • Basic Concepts and their practical implications
  • Requirements and their Implementation – correctly configuring GA
  • Understanding data gathering methods and selecting the correct one(s?)
  • Initial implementation and troubleshooting – confidence in your data
  • Understanding the metrics and how they are gathered
  • Understand Key Performance Indicators and how to get them (out)
  • Understanding and Configuring conversions
  • Setting up eCommerce correctly – even on non-eCommerce sites
  • Why is Site Search so critical and how to measure and interpret it
  • Segment or fail – why and how
  • AdWords – are you wasting your money or tracking conversions incorrectly
  • Requirements of Web Properties spanning multiple domains and sub-domains and how to deliver on them
From the Langara Continuing Studies Site: For more details, please visit Web Analytics, Langara Continuing Studies

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