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Content Edits with GTM? Just Say No.

person Ravi Chandramouli

Data Analytics and Customer Intelligence
Google Tag Manager (GTM) makes it easy for marketers to add and update website tags with just a few clicks, and without needing to edit website code. We’ve touted its virtues previously on this blog, including the ease by which it can be learned and launched, and of course, the fact that it’s free. In some cases, however, the easiest path is the wrong one. The urge to make SEO changes using GTM, for example, is a trend I don’t recommend.

5 Components to an Email Apology

person Alex Corzo

Digital Creative and Copywriting
Don’t worry, it’s happened to the best of us. You sent a marketing email too soon and left placeholder copy in the subject line—you know, the dreaded "Subject Line Goes Here." Your invitations had the wrong date on them. Your team sent a members-only promotion—to non-members. Your automation went haywire and sent seven simultaneous, identical emails to everyone on your list (yes, it's happened). The deals you sent your subscribers expired last week. Every single email was addressed to "Dear [First Name].” The horror!

What We Learned from Opticon ’17 — and Office Space

person Shamir Duverseau

A/B Testing and CRO
My colleagues and I recently returned from Optimizely’s annual conference, Opticon 2017, in Las Vegas. The focus of this year’s event was on building and scaling a culture of experimentation across teams, channels, products and device. The three-day conference was attended by more than 1200 executives, product managers, marketers, testing novices, experimentation gurus and developers. As well as four smart pandas.

4 Methods for Improving Conversion Rates

person Shamir Duverseau

A/B Testing and CRO
Conversion rate optimization— it’s a mouthful. It’s also a science and an art … and frankly, a lot of work. But few aspects of your digital marketing strategy are more important than this cumbersome term. Our crowd of friends at Wikipedia define conversion rate optimization (CRO) as, "a system for increasing the percentage of visitors to a website that convert into customers, or more generally, take any desired action on a webpage."  If you just totally zoned out, or assumed this was just a fancy way of talking about split testing, we understand. At Smart Panda Labs, we define CRO a little differently—it’s a way of thinking about all the digital experiences you offer.