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Marketing Reporting: The KPIs, Reports, & Dashboard Templates You Need to Get Started

Marketing Reporting: The KPIs, Reports, & Dashboard Templates You Need to Get Started

Reporting on marketing performance is a critical skill that any marketer––from leadership to individual contributors––needs in order to convey the value of their work. In ...

The 11 Most-Tracked Google Analytics Metrics in GA4
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The 11 Most-Tracked Google Analytics Metrics in GA4

Stefana Zaric's avatar by Stefana Zaric | Mar 3
12 Proven Ways to Encourage Customers to Write Reviews (According to 100+ Marketers)
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12 Proven Ways to Encourage Customers to Write Reviews (According to 100+ Marketers)

Alexander B. Pavlinek's avatar by Alexander B. Pavlinek | Jun 24, 2025
Organic and Paid CTR Industry Benchmarks for 2023 [ORIGINAL DATA]
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Organic and Paid CTR Industry Benchmarks for 2023 [ORIGINAL DATA]

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How to Do Organic Social Media Reporting Across Every Platform Without Blending Vanity Metrics
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How to Do Organic Social Media Reporting Across Every Platform Without Blending Vanity Metrics

Organic social reporting collapses into vanity metrics whenever the reporter runs out of time to dive deeper, which is most of the time. Follower counts ...

Nevena Rudan's avatar by Nevena Rudan | Jul 24
Why Automated Marketing Briefs Earn Their Keep (and When They Don’t)
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Why Automated Marketing Briefs Earn Their Keep (and When They Don’t)

Automated briefs earn their keep by preserving judgment quality at the moment a decision has to happen. They don’t just save time; they surface patterns ...

Nevena Rudan's avatar by Nevena Rudan | Jul 24
AI Marketing Forecasting: The Plan Is Only as Good as the Data It Can See
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AI Marketing Forecasting: The Plan Is Only as Good as the Data It Can See

TL;DR Ask a Marketing Lead how the quarterly plan actually gets built. Not the strategy, the mechanics. The answer, in most teams, is a spreadsheet: ...

Nevena Rudan's avatar by Nevena Rudan | Jul 24
How to Run a Campaign Post-Mortem With AI: A Worked Example
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How to Run a Campaign Post-Mortem With AI: A Worked Example

TL;DR Introduction A marketing director sits down ten days after her campaign closed. Six browser tabs are open: LinkedIn Ads, HubSpot, GA4, Mailchimp, an attribution ...

Nevena Rudan's avatar by Nevena Rudan | Jun 4
Questions to Ask AI About Your Sales Pipeline and CRM Data
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Questions to Ask AI About Your Sales Pipeline and CRM Data

The right question returns a deal name, an owner, and a dollar value. The wrong one returns a framework about pipeline health. The difference is ...

Nevena Rudan's avatar by Nevena Rudan | Apr 24
Agentic Analytics in Practice: How AI Moves from Answering Questions to Closing the Loop
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Agentic Analytics in Practice: How AI Moves from Answering Questions to Closing the Loop

I spent years building dashboards that nobody used. Not because they were bad dashboards — they were actually pretty good. Clean visualizations, real-time data, all ...

Alexander B. Pavlinek's avatar by Alexander B. Pavlinek | Apr 23
Questions to Ask AI About Your Marketing Data (HubSpot, GA4, Google Ads)
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Questions to Ask AI About Your Marketing Data (HubSpot, GA4, Google Ads)

50+ platform-specific questions drawn from the Databox Prompt Library, plus the framework that separates answers you can act on from answers that sound right. TL;DR ...

Nevena Rudan's avatar by Nevena Rudan | Apr 21
The Ad Attribution Problem: Every Platform Claims Credit, Nobody Tells the Truth
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The Ad Attribution Problem: Every Platform Claims Credit, Nobody Tells the Truth

TL;DR Google Ads claims 47 conversions. Meta claims 52. LinkedIn claims 31. Your CRM shows 38 closed customers. Someone is lying – and it’s not ...

Nevena Rudan's avatar by Nevena Rudan | Apr 3
How B2B Teams Are Cutting Paid Ad Waste (Without Losing Pipeline)
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How B2B Teams Are Cutting Paid Ad Waste (Without Losing Pipeline)

How can I make my paid ads profitable again? If your paid ads look fine in dashboards, but the pipeline isn’t growing, you’re not alone. ...

Nevena Rudan's avatar by Nevena Rudan | Feb 4
What Is Conversational Analytics? A Marketer’s Guide (2026)
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What Is Conversational Analytics? A Marketer’s Guide (2026)

Dashboards show what happened. Conversational analytics lets you ask why and get an answer before the meeting ends. TL;DR Introduction Conversational analytics is the ability ...

Nevena Rudan's avatar by Nevena Rudan | Apr 21
How to Show Up in ChatGPT Results (and Other AI Answer Engines): The 2025 Playbook
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How to Show Up in ChatGPT Results (and Other AI Answer Engines): The 2025 Playbook

How can I measure AI search traffic effectively? AI answer engines are becoming a default step in B2B discovery. Instead of scanning ten blue links, ...

Nevena Rudan's avatar by Nevena Rudan | Dec 11, 2025
Beyond Attribution: 25 Experts on How Go-To-Market Teams Are Tracking Metrics in a Zero-Click Buyer Journey
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Beyond Attribution: 25 Experts on How Go-To-Market Teams Are Tracking Metrics in a Zero-Click Buyer Journey

As buyer journeys splinter across channels and “dark social,” GTM teams are rethinking how they drive – and measure – pipeline. In our latest research, ...

Nevena Rudan's avatar by Nevena Rudan | Nov 5, 2025
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