Goal Setting, now in Databox

Have trouble setting and tracking goals for your business, your team or yourself? You’re not the only one. An oft-requested feature, we’ve officially rolled out the ability to set targets within Databox.

“正确设定的目标已达到一半，” said motivational speaker Zig Ziglar. By setting numeric, black and white goals, you and your team will have a compass guiding your decisions. By tracking your progress in real time, you will immediately know how your activities correlate to your aims, and will be able to adapt quickly to ensure the outcomes you desire.

Watch this short video tutorial to learn how to enter goals and track your progress towards your goals, both within Databox.

If you prefer text and pictures, follow the directions below.

首先，导航到新目标屏幕下Data Manager。到达那里后，您可以单击“设定新目标”创建一个新目标。如果您知道自己的目标，这是添加它们的最有效方法。您也可以在此屏幕上查看和编辑所有目标。

If you don’t know your targets off of the top of your head, you might find it easier to set your goals right within the Databox Designer. Setting goals is easier in the Designer because you can see your current performance and increment your goal from there. In case you’re new to Databox, the designer is the same place you design your datacards (ie. mobile reports) and datawalls (ie. reports for your desktop or TV screen).

To demonstrate, let’s use an example. Let’s say you want to grow traffic to 8,000 sessions per month, you’ve already connected your Google Analytics account to Databox and you’ll monitor your progress using a line chart.

在设计人员中，将单击目标和弹出窗口显示。选择“ Google Analytics（分析）”作为数据源和“会话”作为指标。点击 'Manual’ option by selecting the radio button, then, enter ‘8000’ for the goal value and select ‘monthly’ from the interval drop down.

如果您希望设定年度目标，则可以通过从下拉菜单中选择年度。该应用程序使您能够设定每周，每月，季度或年度目标。

No matter what time interval you choose, the visualizations will adapt accordingly. For example, if you have a line graph datablock showing month to date data, and you’ve set a monthly goal, it will simply present the monthly goal. But if you set your line graph to a time interval of ‘week to date’, it’ll divide the monthly goal by the days in the month and multiply it by 7, since there are 7 days in a week. For example, the goal in the graph on the right hand-side below adapted automatically based on the time interval of ‘week to date’.

(When the system must adapt the goal to the time interval of a chart, it always converts the goal to a daily value and then multiplies it by the number of days in the week, month, quarter or year, depending on the time interval used in the chart. This way, your goal will be correct no matter how many days are in this month, this quarter or this year year. In effect, it knows when it’s a leap year and it knows which months have 28, 30 or 31 days. It’s smart like that.)

There are four different ways you can visualize your progress against your goals. Shown in the graphic below, they include:

• A line chart. (Left)
• A number block (Top middle)
• A gauge chart. (Top right)
• 条形图（右下）

You can also view any of these datablocks in the mobile app, of course.

Start Monitoring Your Achievement

As Zig Ziglar said, setting goals is half of the solution. (Okay — maybe he didn’t say that exactly.) But, unless you monitor your progress towards your goals constantly, you’ll still be flying blind. Monitoring helps you know when you need to adapt your strategy, your plan or your activities. Should you do more of what you’re doing, try something new or even consider a different goal?

具有设定和跟踪目标的能力，DataBox现在可以帮助您回答这些问题。beplay体育appios

不要保密！如果您与他人分享自己的目标并作为团队合作实现目标，那么您将更有可能实现自己的愿景。也许您甚至应该谈论应该像下面的小组一样在一起的目标。

So, goset and track goals对于您的公司，您的目标和团队。如果您为涉及帮助他们实现目标的客户提供服务，请考虑使用Databox帮助他们设定和跟踪目标。beplay体育appios

如果您正在努力设定什么目标或如何提出合理的目标，这里有些目标设定建议。