Custom Marketing Reports and Dashboards Built Around Your Business

The reporting format is selected according to the customer’s requirements. The final toolset depends on data accessibility, reporting goals, available integrations, budget, privacy requirements, and the customer’s preferred workflow.

1. 01

   Looker Studio

   Suitable for live marketing dashboards, automated refreshes, interactive filters, GA4, Search Console, Google Ads, landing-page analysis, ongoing SEO monitoring, and multi-market comparisons.

2. 02

   PowerPoint

   Suitable for executive presentations, monthly business reviews, quarterly reports, client meetings, strategy presentations, management summaries, and reports requiring commentary and recommendations.

3. 03

   Canva

   Suitable for visually branded reports, client-facing presentations, marketing summaries, campaign performance presentations, stronger visual storytelling, and easy-to-share formats.

4. 04

   Google Sheets and Excel

   Suitable for detailed working reports, raw-data analysis, KPI calculations, forecasts, content inventories, keyword maps, technical issue tracking, lead and CRM data, custom tables, and manual reporting workflows.

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   PDF

   Suitable for final report delivery, fixed monthly reports, audit documentation, consistent formatting, internal or client archives, and reports that should not be edited.

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   Other applicable tools

   Where appropriate, the workflow may also use GA4 Explorations, Search Console exports, BigQuery, CRM tools, advertising-platform reports, call tracking, rank tracking, technical crawlers, project-management systems, internal databases, and customer-provided platforms.

1. 01

   Reporting Requirements and Audience Discovery

   I begin by identifying who will use the report, what they need to understand, which decisions it should support, how often it will be reviewed, and which tools the customer prefers.

   • Business owners, directors, marketing managers, and SEO teams
   • Content teams, developers, sales teams, clients, investors, and partners
   • Interactive needs vs meeting presentations vs client delivery
   • Raw-data access requirements and preferred reporting tools
   • Director-ready PowerPoint vs SEO-team Looker Studio and spreadsheets
2. 02

   Business Questions and KPI Definition

   The reporting process begins with business questions—not charts. I translate those questions into a practical KPI framework.

   • Which channels generate qualified leads?
   • Which landing pages produce revenue?
   • Why did organic traffic decline?
   • Which services receive visibility but few conversions?
   • Which markets are growing and which campaigns generate customers?
   • What changed after a migration, and which pages should be improved next?
3. 03

   Data Source Inventory

   I identify which sources are needed and whether their data can be used reliably—via direct connections, exports, scheduled files, manual updates, or a combination.

   • GA4, Search Console, Google Ads, GTM, Sheets, Excel, and BigQuery
   • YouTube Analytics, CRM exports, and call-tracking data
   • Ecommerce and advertising platforms
   • Rank-tracking, crawlers, backlink tools, and internal databases
   • Customer-provided files and hybrid update methods
4. 04

   Tracking and Data Quality Review

   Before developing the report, I review whether the available data is complete enough to support the required conclusions—and distinguish dashboard problems from tracking problems.

   • GA4 configuration, Search Console properties, and conversion events
   • Event naming, ecommerce, form, and call tracking
   • Campaign parameters, referral exclusions, and cross-domain tracking
   • CRM fields, date formats, duplicates, and missing data
   • Inconsistent source names and broken connectors
5. 05

   Reporting Format Selection

   I recommend the reporting tool or combination of tools according to update frequency, live-data needs, interactivity, branding, data volume, budget, and security requirements.

   • Looker Studio for ongoing monitoring
   • PowerPoint for management meetings
   • Canva for client presentations
   • Google Sheets for supporting calculations
   • PDF for final delivery
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   Custom Reporting Architecture

   I organize the report into logical sections based on audience and objectives—so not every stakeholder reviews the same level of detail.

   • Executive overview, SEO, website, and Search Console analysis
   • Landing pages, leads, ecommerce, and paid advertising
   • Content, local SEO, international SEO, and technical SEO
   • Website migration, market comparison, and completed work
   • Key findings, risks, recommendations, and next-month priorities
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   Executive Reporting

   Executive reports focus on outcomes, movement, and decisions—avoiding unnecessary technical detail while preserving enough context for decision-making.

   • Traffic, leads, sales, revenue, and conversion rate
   • Marketing spend, cost per lead, and ROAS
   • Month-over-month and year-over-year changes
   • Target progress, strongest markets, and weakest areas
   • Main risks and priority actions via PowerPoint, Canva, Looker Studio, or PDF
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   SEO Performance Reporting

   SEO reports can combine Search Console, GA4, ranking, landing-page, and conversion information to show which pages, topics, services, and markets contribute to growth.

   • Impressions, organic clicks, users, sessions, and CTR
   • Average position, ranking queries, and ranking pages
   • Organic conversions, revenue, branded and non-branded visibility
   • Country, device, language, service-page, and content-cluster performance
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   Google Search Console Reporting

   Search Console reporting can be delivered as live exploration or summarized analysis through Looker Studio, PowerPoint, Canva, Sheets, Excel, or PDF.

   • Impressions, clicks, CTR, and average position
   • Top queries, landing pages, and query-to-page relationships
   • Country, device, and search appearance
   • Branded vs non-branded, new, lost, rising, and declining queries
   • Low-click, high-impression opportunities
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    GA4 Website Reporting

    GA4 reporting covers users, engagement, journeys, and revenue. Custom conversion reporting depends on the quality of the existing GA4 and Tag Manager implementation.

    • Users, new users, sessions, engaged sessions, and engagement rate
    • Average engagement time, views, and landing pages
    • Traffic sources, channels, campaigns, devices, and countries
    • Events, key events, revenue, and user journeys
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    Lead-Generation Reporting

    For service businesses, the reporting system can connect traffic with customer enquiries—and extend to lead quality when CRM data is available.

    • Forms, quotes, calls, WhatsApp, Telegram, email, and bookings
    • Appointments, demos, downloads, registrations, and CRM-qualified leads
    • Leads by channel, landing page, service, campaign, market, and device
    • Conversion rate, qualified lead rate, cost per lead, and revenue per source
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    Ecommerce Reporting

    Ecommerce reporting may be created as a live dashboard, management presentation, spreadsheet, or recurring PDF—requiring correctly configured ecommerce tracking.

    • Revenue, transactions, purchase conversion rate, and AOV
    • Product views, add-to-cart, checkout starts, and cart abandonment
    • Revenue by channel, campaign, landing page, country, and device
    • Product and category performance; new vs returning customers
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    Local SEO Reporting

    For local and multi-location businesses, reports compare locations, branches, service areas, practitioners, city pages, and local service groups.

    • Organic traffic by location and city-page performance
    • Service-area traffic, calls, forms, and bookings
    • Local query groups and Google Business Profile data where available
    • Review growth, branch performance, device, and local conversions
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    International and Multilingual Reporting

    International reporting can be segmented by country, language, domain, subdomain, folder, market, currency, landing-page group, and conversion type.

    • Traffic by language and visibility by country
    • Conversions by market and revenue by region
    • Localized landing-page and market-specific query growth
    • Device and channel differences across markets
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    Content Performance Reporting

    Content reports identify high-traffic pages with no conversions, pages gaining or losing visibility, refresh needs, supporting articles, weak clusters, and unintended rankings.

    • Article traffic, search visibility, impressions, and clicks
    • Ranking queries, engagement, and assisted or direct conversions
    • Internal-link clicks, content type, topic cluster, and author
    • Publication and update dates, content decay, and new-content performance
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    Technical SEO Reporting

    Technical reports often suit Google Sheets, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF, or a combination of detailed tables and executive summaries.

    • Crawls, Search Console, Core Web Vitals, and structured-data reports
    • Server logs, migration checks, issue trackers, and tickets
    • Indexed URLs, sitemap URLs, crawl errors, redirects, and broken links
    • Canonical issues, page speed, mobile issues, and validation status
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    Website Migration Reporting

    Migration reports compare pre-launch and post-launch performance and document lost pages, redirect problems, indexation changes, and recovery priorities.

    • Organic traffic, impressions, clicks, rankings, and landing pages
    • Indexed URLs, conversions, revenue, languages, countries, and devices
    • Page templates and old vs new URL comparisons
    • 404 growth, conversion continuity, CWV changes, and Search Console coverage
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    Paid Advertising Reporting

    Where compatible connectors are unavailable, reports may use platform exports, spreadsheets, or customer-provided data.

    • Spend, impressions, clicks, CTR, and cost per click
    • Conversions, conversion value, CPA, and ROAS
    • Campaign, ad-group, keyword, and landing-page performance
    • Device and country performance
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    Cross-Channel Reporting

    Cross-channel reports compare organic, paid, direct, referral, social, email, display, affiliate, partner, and campaign traffic—with clear attribution limitations.

    • Users, sessions, leads, sales, revenue, and conversion rate
    • Cost, cost per lead, ROI, and assisted conversions where supported
    • Attribution presented with platform-model limitations
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    CRM and Sales Reporting

    Where structured CRM or sales data is available, reports can answer which channels and pages generate customers—while minimizing sensitive information.

    • Lead source, date, service, market, and sales stage
    • Qualified status, closed status, revenue, and sales owner
    • Campaign and landing-page attribution
    • Lead quality, sales-cycle length, and market lead value
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    Data Classification and Grouping

    Large reports become more useful when data is grouped into meaningful business categories via URL rules, spreadsheet maps, calculated fields, or manual classifications.

    • Service, product, category, blog, guide, and case study
    • Location, country, language, campaign, and topic cluster
    • Funnel stage, page template, and programmatic page type
    • Brand vs non-brand and conversion type
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    Custom Calculations and KPIs

    Each custom metric should have a clear definition and business purpose.

    • Month-over-month and year-over-year change
    • Conversion rate, revenue per user, and revenue per lead
    • Cost per qualified lead and organic lead rate
    • Target achievement, remaining target, and required run rate
    • Content growth, market growth, and performance status
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    Targets and Forecast Reporting

    Where targets are provided, reports compare actual performance against goals. Forecasts are presented as estimates based on documented assumptions—not guaranteed outcomes.

    • Traffic, lead, revenue, and conversion targets
    • Cost-per-lead and content-production targets
    • Review, search-visibility, and market-growth targets
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    Annotations and Completed Work

    Reports become more useful when performance changes can be connected to known actions—especially in PowerPoint, Canva, and PDF reports where commentary is central.

    • Launches, technical fixes, content updates, and new landing pages
    • Campaign launches, budget and tracking changes, and promotions
    • Algorithm updates, downtime, and seasonal events
    • Work completed, results, issues, priorities, owners, and deadlines
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    Data Visualization and Storytelling

    I select visualizations according to the information being presented. The report should explain the performance story rather than present charts without context.

    • Scorecards, trend charts, comparison tables, and bar charts
    • Geographic views, funnels, progress indicators, and KPI summaries
    • Before-and-after comparisons, screenshots, and technical examples
    • Written findings and priority matrices
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    Stakeholder-Specific Views

    Different stakeholders may receive different report formats—from director summaries to developer issue lists and branded client packs.

    • Owners/directors: revenue, leads, costs, targets, risks, next actions
    • Marketing managers: channels, campaigns, landing pages, budget efficiency
    • SEO specialists: queries, pages, CTR, clusters, indexation, conversions
    • Developers: issues, URLs, templates, priority, validation, acceptance criteria
    • Clients: branded visuals, KPI summaries, work completed, recommendations
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    Branded Report Design

    Reports can be adapted to the customer’s visual identity without reducing readability.

    • Logo, brand colours, typography, and cover pages
    • Section dividers, presentation templates, and chart styles
    • Reporting terminology, client-specific layouts, and footers
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    Live, Recurring and One-Time Reports

    Reports can be created for ongoing monitoring, scheduled reviews, or one-time investigations such as audits, migrations, and campaign reviews.

    • Live dashboards for continuous monitoring
    • Weekly, monthly, or quarterly recurring reviews with written analysis
    • One-time PowerPoint, Canva, PDF, Sheets, or Excel deliverables
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    Data Refresh and Maintenance

    I document which data updates automatically, which requires manual updates, who owns the process, how often it should refresh, and how freshness can be verified.

    • Automatic connector refresh and scheduled spreadsheet updates
    • Manual monthly imports and platform exports
    • API-supported transfer and customer-maintained files
    • Periodic report rebuilding where needed
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    Data Validation and Quality Assurance

    Before delivery, I compare the final report with its source data and review navigation, readability, filters, permissions, and export quality.

    • Date ranges, traffic, conversions, revenue, and channel classification
    • Search queries, landing pages, filters, calculations, and blends
    • Currency, percentage changes, targets, and presentation labels
    • Mobile display, viewer permissions, export quality, and PDF formatting
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    Findings and Recommendations

    Reports can include analysis and recommendations rather than only numerical data. Recommendations are separated from confirmed findings and linked to available evidence.

    • Main growth areas and performance declines
    • Technical issues, content opportunities, and conversion problems
    • Market differences, campaign inefficiencies, and tracking limitations
    • Priority landing pages and recommended next actions
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    Report Documentation and Handover

    I provide documentation explaining how the reporting system works—and how to change dates, use filters, update sheets, export, check freshness, add annotations, and maintain targets.

    • Report purpose, data sources, KPI definitions, and calculated metrics
    • Filters, date comparisons, classification rules, and update process
    • Data limitations, access permissions, and manual input requirements
    • Troubleshooting guidance and report ownership
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    Ongoing Reporting Support

    The reporting system should develop with the business rather than remain fixed after delivery.

    • Adding KPIs, data sources, presentation pages, and markets
    • Updating branding, classifications, connectors, and conversion events
    • Adding CRM information and improving report performance
    • Validating data and preparing monthly reporting presentations

1. 01

   Discovery and Reporting Goals

   I review the business model, reporting audience, marketing channels, conversion paths, existing reports, available data, and current reporting problems.

2. 02

   Data and Tracking Review

   I evaluate the available platforms, tracking setup, event structure, data quality, conversion definitions, and connector limitations.

3. 03

   Tool and Format Selection

   I recommend the most suitable reporting format or combination of formats—Looker Studio, PowerPoint, Canva, Google Sheets, Excel, PDF, or another applicable tool.

4. 04

   KPI and Report Planning

   I define the report sections, KPIs, filters, comparisons, classifications, visualizations, written analysis, and stakeholder views.

5. 05

   Report Development

   I build the agreed dashboards, presentations, spreadsheets, or reports using the approved data sources and structure.

6. 06

   Data and Presentation Validation

   I compare the report with the original sources and test calculations, date ranges, visualizations, filters, labels, and exports.

7. 07

   Findings and Recommendations

   Where included in the scope, I add written findings, explanations, priorities, and recommended next actions.

8. 08

   Documentation and Handover

   I explain how the report should be used, maintained, updated, shared, and interpreted.

9. 09

   Ongoing Improvement

   The reporting system can be expanded as new services, campaigns, markets, data sources, and business objectives are introduced.