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One of my favorite things about a new year is a fresh clean calendar, some new pens and highlighters and plenty of crisp, blank paper. It’s the thought of starting fresh, with new energy and expectation for the new year that excites me! I’ve written many times about my disdain for New Year’s resolutions, because who keeps those? However, I’m a firm believer in goals broken down into action steps. And new office supplies. Together those two can rule the world.

As a kid, the dollar store had a $1 grab bag near the register that my sister and I always begged our mom to buy. (I only wish they looked like the bags in this picture!) The unassuming brown paper bag held unknown treasures, much like your website analytics. Hiding behind all those numbers is a wealth of information, but it really only scratches the surface of what’s available for your organization to identify visitors to your site.

When I think of storytelling, I envision a grey haired man with a long beard and tall walking stick who told rambling stories of characters who may or may not have existed to groups of middle and high school students twenty years ago. While this man’s stories may have, for a short while, captured the attention of those Gen X teens, he’s not what Millennials think about when it comes to storytelling.