WAA Base Camp Workshops

Web Analytics Association Base Camp:
Website measurement from the ground up

Introduction to Web Analytics 101

Whether you are new to web analytics, new to web management or just need to be sure that you are seeing the forest for the trees, this is the best place to get grounded in the basics. This workshop will give you the high level overview of web analytics needed to make your website more valuable to your company. In this introductory workshop you will learn about:

Web metrics terminology and technology
The most critical web metrics for your business
Key Performance Indicators
How to derive business value from web analytics
The skills you need (or need to look for in others) to build a web analytics powerhouse
A process for creating a web analytics culture and making it stick in your organization
How to gain executive buy-in
Insight into optimizing your business with web analytics
Getting started with visitor data analysis

Applying Web Analytics 102

This workshop picks up where the Introduction left off, by taking attendees deeper into applying web analytics processes and the pitfalls to avoid. You will learn the first steps to using web analytics to improve site design; email marketing/visitor life cycle, social media marketing, conversion/lead optimization, and improving return on ad spend (ROAS), search marketing, visitor satisfaction and goal completion. Other topics covered include:You will learn:

How to enthuse others about web intelligence
Distributing and communicating web analytics data
How to improve your campaign performance & profitability
How to incrementally tune your website to ensure peak performance
A/B Split & Multivariate Testing

Search Analytics for Search Marketers 201

This new one-day program is dedicated to improving results of your search marketing through search analytics. Attendees include those folks who are knee deep in search marketing and would like to expand their knowledge of search analytics processes and tools. Key emphasis will be on paid and organic search analytics including:

Search analytics definitions and terminology
Key Performance Indicators for paid and organic search
Search Analytics when content consumption, sign-ups/subscriptions and/or leads are the goal
Search Analytics when a sale is the primary goal
Organic Search Visibility and Defining Data Points of Value Beyond Rankings
Using baselines and the audit process for optimization – paid and organic
Leveraging insights between paid and organic
Leveraging insights from internal site search
Structuring paid search campaigns with analytics and optimization in mind
How to improve your campaign performance & profitability
Winding up, winding down – Finding the perfect balance
Real-time, performance based budgeting
Creating meaningful reports – numbers, ratios and trends that tell a story
Search Analytics tool talk

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Washington DC, October 3, 2010

Blogger’s Report from Base Camp

Overall the WAA Base Camp was an extremely worthwhile investment in time and education. The presentations were interactive, informative and entertaining - leaving me wanting more. I applaud Jim Sterne’s tireless efforts at organizing and providing access to the industry’s best and brightest stars of web analytics.

Read the whole blog report at: WAA Base Camp -- An Analyst’s View

“Learned a ton. Really got a lot out of the day.”

“Appreciated the flexibility in the presentation to go off course to respond to questions we had.”

“Thanks for making me more knowledgeable and valuable as an employee.”