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3 Reasons Why Your Content Marketing Team Will Fail Without Google Analytics

3 Reasons Why Your Content Marketing Team Will Fail Without Google Analytics

In marketing, a misconception exists that all marketers are essentially divided into one of two camps—the “data” team or the “creative” team. One team believes great marketing is “science” and the other team believes great marketing is an “art.”  A veritable cold war exists between these two mythological factions. In fact, many content marketers are openly hostile to analytics, as if they fear that being analytical will somehow reduce or destroy their ability to do bleeding-edge creative work. It took me a while to understand that this hostility was actually due to the fact that most marketers don’t really know what Google Analytics is or how powerful a content marketing tool it can be.