Dec 15, 2011 Update: Here’s how to filter out internal traffic in the new Google Analytics. Nothing skews your website analytics more than including your internal traffic. Employees’ behaviours on the site are different than visitors’ behaviours...
April 26, 2012 Update: Here’s how to give someone access to your Google Analytics in the new Google Analytics. Google Analytics gives you the ability to add users to your account and to grant them different levels of access. This is useful for when you want to...
May 15, 2012 Update: Here’s how to get Analytics reports sent to your inbox in the new Google Analytics. Setting up your Google Analytics account to deliver your reports to your Inbox is a handy way to remember to monitor your web stats. Go to your Dashboard...
The Boxcar Marketing RSS feed is run through Feedburner.com, which allows readers to subscribe by RSS or email, which is super handy. For an unspecified period of time, those of you using Google Reader were unable to click on the blog post title without getting an...
Over the past 3 months, I have managed to unintentionally delete my entire inbox 3 times. The first two times, I was setting up Google Apps for Domains and made the mistake of editing the existing account instead of adding a new account. If you’re changing your...
I understand that I live in a world, and in a business space, that demands I “play on the internet all day”. But what confounds me is when I’m asked to consult with companies on their online marketing strategy, and those companies are blocking their...
Susannah Gardner of Hop Studios is currently showing the attendees at EE Roadshow how to customize an ExpressionEngine template. I just learned a cool trick. Ok, not a trick really, I just learned something that should have been painfully obvious. As Susie was...
Late last week I received an email from Google AdWords at an email address that looked like reactivation@google.com. Except the email wasn’t from Google AdWords and the originating email address wasn’t really reactivation@google.com. It was a phishing...
This month one of our Underwire subscribers asked a great question about copyright and whether the rules for online publishing are different than those of print publishing. * What are the copyright laws in relation to the practice of posting other people’s full...
At Barcamp Vancover on Saturday, Tod Maffin of CBC led a discussion on favourite tech tools, widgets, gadgets and other geekery. All of the tips were great, but I want to point out one in particular. Lynda.com is $25 per month service that provides online training...