Why on-site, private Google Tag Manager training with ivantage?
ivantage has been teaching digital professionals about Google Tag Manager since 2012, when Google awarded us with Google Tag Manager certified status. Every year we attend the annual Google Analytics Summit (which also covers Google Tag Manager in some detail) in California to ensure what we teach is up to date, accurate and industry leading. Our course aims to teach a complex, technical topic to marketers and technicians alike in an easy to understand and useful way. Key highlights of our training are:
- Experienced practitioner leading and teaching
- Use your own Google Tag Manage account
- Updated for the latest features
- Google Tag Manager Certified since 2012
- Last Google Analytics Partner Summit attended - June 2015
- Key theory, backed up by slide and whiteboard sessions
Google Tag Manager training curriculum
Google Tag Manager is a natural accompaniment to Google Analytics. It allows you to add Google Analytics tracking to your site and mobile application easily and quickly. Not only that, but Google Tag Manager can enable you to use Google Analytics advanced features like event tracking, e-commerce, custom dimensions and custom metrics and more with little or very often no coding. With our Google Tag Manager course you will learn:
- The basic GTM architecture, implementation and basic tags
- JavaScript basics, event listeners and advanced tags
- The GTM loading order, execution and debugging process
- How to extend GTM with additional variables and event pushes
Google Tag Manager can manage other tags too, not just Google Analytics. However, Google Tag Manager was really designed with the implementation of Google Analytics in mind and as a consequence the two work very well together. We therefore recommend attending Google Tag Manager 101, once you have attended Google Analytics 301 – Architecture, processing, configuration, extending and auditing. This will enable you to understand all the options in Google Tag Manager that relate to Google Analytics tagging.

What is the training format?
During the Google Tag Manager 101 course, each attendee will create their own Google Tag Manager account in order to create, edit and delete tags in a safe, non-production environment. You can also log-on to your Google Tag Manager account as you follow the instructor showing you how to use key Google Tag Manager features and settings, backed-up by key theory sessions using slides and white-board explanations.
How do I prepare for the in-house, on-site, private training?
The ideal training environment
In our experience, courses work best with a quiet training room, preferably with Internet-connected PCs or Macs for each attendee and a data projector for the instructor’s laptop (PC or Mac) which will also need to be connected easily and quickly to the Internet (wired or wireless) and to an accessible, working power supply!
If you don't have an on-site training room, a board room type office works well with attendees bringing Internet connected laptops with them or previously set-up desktop PCs or Macs. We would recommend a minimum of one PC or Mac between two attendees.
A whiteboard or flip chart is always a good idea too.
Connecting the Instructor's Laptop
- It is preferable for the Instructor's Mac or PC Laptop to be able to connect quickly and easily to a wireless or wired network with unrestricted Internet access, a bright hi-resolution (1024x768) projector (projecting a large, well focused image onto a clean back-drop) and a working power supply!
- If network security restrictions prohibit the instructor's laptop from connecting to the Internet, then a PC connected to the Internet must be supplied. The instructor will be required to display PowerPoint slides on the PC so a way of transferring the slides onto the computer must be provided and a PowerPoint slide viewer application or PowerPoint itself must also be loaded. The PC must be loaded with the latest versions of Internet Explorer, Chrome and Firefox and each browser must have JavaScript enabled. The PC or Mac should be tested for display and security issues by logging into Google Analytics before the training. To do this log-in to google.com/analytics using username:gatesting@ivantage.co.uk and password:gatest123. Click on one of the accounts and, if you see the graphs displaying, no more action is required. If there is still a display problem, then please contact support@ivantage.co.uk.
For video conferencing attendees
In our experience, professional video conferencing facilities work best where the instructor's slides and browser, along with their visual and an audio presentation can be displayed to all locations. In addition, attendees should be able to openly interact with other attendees and the instructor.
Suggested timings
Timings are very flexible to fit around your people and the organisation, but as a guideline 9:30 is a good time to start and 17:00 to finish with two 15min breaks and an hour for lunch - this keeps all minds fresh! Your instructor will to arrive for 9:00 to set-up your projector, Internet connection and laptop power. We leave lunch arrangements to you and we are happy to fit-in with whatever you decide. Don’t feel you have to entertain the trainers, as they are more than happy to be left to their own devices. We would advise, though, against a working lunch, as a break is important, more for the attendees than the instructor!
Confidentially
A mutual NDA can be provided for your and our protection.
Prerequisites for Google Tag Manager Training
- The latest versions of Chrome should be installed on all PCs and Macs (or at least, be installable when downloaded) with JavaScript.
- A prerequisite of attending the Google Tag Manager 101 course is having completed the Google Analytics 301 course or possessing equivalent knowledge.
- If attendees would like their Google Tag Manager account used in some of the training sessions then access will need to be granted to the trainer. To do this add matt.trimmer@ivantage.co.uk to your account with full permissions.
What did past attendees think?
All our attendees are asked to complete our continuous feedback survey and submit an honest, considered and fair review which we publish on our site and via eKomi. You can read these reviews on our site and on eKomi.