by Lee Hurst | Feb 21, 2020 | Uncategorized
Book Release Party – ‘Hands On With Data Studio’ by Lee Hurst Saturday, Feb. 22 from 3pm to 8pm Johnny’s Irish Pub, 1382 Culver Rd, Rochester, NY 14609 Come on down to Johnny’s on Saturday and help Lee celebrate the release of his new...
by Lee Hurst | Jan 6, 2020 | Data Studio Help
A Data Citizen’s Survival Guide Update 2/1/2020 – People in the US and Canada are receiving their books! The sales of the book have been excellent! It has placed as the top new title is several categories on Amazon and has almost sold out several times. ...
by Lee Hurst | Apr 24, 2019 | Small Business Marketing
If you have a small business, chances are you are using WordPress to maintain your site or considering it. This event will get you connected with a support community and experts that can help you, whether you are a beginner or expert. See below for schedule,...
by Lee Hurst | Feb 18, 2019 | Data Studio Help, Small Business Marketing
This is the second post in a series that explores ways you can use Search Console (SC) and Google Data Studio (DS) together. This time we will be looking at some traffic that is often hidden from Google Analytics: Direct PDF downloads. In the first post, we looked at...
by Lee Hurst | Feb 11, 2019 | Data Studio Help
This is the first post in a series that explores ways you can use Search Console (SC) and Google Data Studio (DS) together. The goals here are: Get better and faster insights. Reuse and build on previous work. Where possible, eliminate exports to worksheets for...
by Lee Hurst | Jan 27, 2019 | Data Studio Help, Helpfullee Services, Small Business Marketing
Dear SEO’s, please answer these three questions. Do you work with a business that has a Google My Business (GMB) listing in addition to a regular site? Are you SURE? Go check right now! If not, I’m curious why! Let me know in the comments. Does the GMB listing...
by Lee Hurst | Jan 14, 2019 | Data Studio Help, Tools and Tips
This post, like many, started from a conversation on Twitter. I was patrolling for interesting Data Studio tweets when I saw a frustrated person with a request for the addition of a “slicer” to the tool. I had only just started my first coffee of the...
by Lee Hurst | Jan 6, 2019 | Data Studio Help
Who To Follow for Google Data Studio? – Updated November 12, 2019 – This is a guide to 28 notable people and organizations that are active in supporting the Data Studio community. Google Data Studio has only been around for a couple of years now, and...
by Lee Hurst | Dec 29, 2018 | Business Services, Data Studio Help, Small Business Marketing
Google My Business (GMB) listings and website visibility in search results have a huge impact on local businesses. But there is a problem: Many small businesses have no feel for how their digital properties are performing. Even though data is freely available,...
by Lee Hurst | Nov 4, 2018 | Data Studio Help
Google Data Studio has long given report makers the ability to create their own “calculated fields”. Recently, blended data sources were also made available. What was missing was the ability to combine values from blended sources using...
by Lee Hurst | Oct 12, 2018 | Data Studio Help, Small Business Marketing
Here’s a real example from a local business that has a Google My Business listing as well as a website. This report is interactive – feel free to play with the date settings! This report is designed to be embedded right into the owners’ site, on a...
by Lee Hurst | Oct 12, 2018 | Small Business Marketing
Here’s a collection of data studio reports, templates and widgets for you to try and use with your own sites. More on the way! Share this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on LinkedIn...
by Lee Hurst | Oct 7, 2018 | Small Business Marketing
If you have a small business, chances are you are using WordPress to maintain your site or considering it. This event will get you connected with a support community and experts that can help you, whether you are a beginner or expert. See below for schedule,...
by Lee Hurst | Aug 24, 2018 | Data Studio Help
Ok, so you just finished your data studio masterpiece and its time to share! How you share depends on who you want to share it with and how much access you want to give them. One of the reasons Data Studio was developed was to increase the ways Google Analytics...
by Lee Hurst | Jul 18, 2018 | Data Studio Help
Is adopting Google Data Studio “Risky Business?” UPDATE 9/29/2018 – Data Studio moved from “Beta” to “Generally Available” on September 20, 2018. This removes a lot of risk in adopting the tool as Google has officially...
by Lee Hurst | Jul 8, 2018 | Small Business Marketing
This brief guide will help you add a new user, like a consultant or developer, easily and safely to your Google Analytics account. I think it’s important to understand a request for analytics access does not give any access to your actual website. Your...
by Lee Hurst | Jul 2, 2018 | Data Studio Help
UPDATE – 9/30/2018 The Let’s Validate API that was producing page thumbnails is back up! Im still looking for another source of dynamic thumbnails…. UPDATE – 9/29/2018 The Let’s Validate API that was producing page thumbnails is down. ...
by Lee Hurst | Mar 30, 2018 | Data Studio Help
Use this handy historical tweet widget to search for tweets on Google Data Studio. Searchable tweets go back to June 18, 2017. You can also select a particular date range or filter by who tweeted. Links are provided to go directly to the tweet. Share this:Click...
by Lee Hurst | Feb 18, 2018 | Small Business Marketing
Add Trusted Users to Search Console for Reporting and Analysis and Help Sometimes it makes sense to get some help, an audit, or just an outside perspective on your web properties. Here are some simple instructions on how to add a user to a Google Search Console...
by Lee Hurst | Nov 17, 2017 | Data Studio Help
I really should be working on my presentation for WordCamp Rochester right now… But I just couldn’t help myself … I thought ” why would someone want to show their analytics stats on their own pages?”. Then I thought, “Sure, why...
