Did you know that nearly 40% of marketing data is wasted due to inaccurate audience targeting and unreliable tracking? Learning to segment and validate live data can turn that loss into actionable insight.

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Segment and Validate Your Live Marketing Data
This course is part of Web Analytics & Reporting Specialization

Instructor: Hurix Digital
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What you'll learn
Audience segmentation ensures your marketing reaches the right people and converts effectively.
Data quality validation is essential—flawed data leads to poor strategy and wasted budgets.
Comparing current data with historical baselines helps detect tracking issues early.
Combining segmentation and validation builds reliable data and enables precise targeting.
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There are 2 modules in this course
Learners will master the foundational skill of dividing website traffic into meaningful audience segments by analyzing demographic, behavioral, and traffic source data in Google Analytics to identify profile misalignments between actual visitors and target customer profiles that waste marketing budget.
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2 videos1 reading1 assignment
Learners will master the essential skill of validating real-time marketing data quality by calculating variance against historical baselines and analyzing cross-metric patterns in Google Analytics to detect tracking failures, bot traffic, and referral spam before making costly budget allocation decisions based on flawed analytics.
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