The webinar discussed effective practices for marketing dashboards and reporting. It addressed questions about how much data and insights to include for different stakeholders, reporting cadence, balancing automated and manual reporting, taking a holistic view of data to derive trends and insights, and benchmarking performance against industry peers. Key takeaways included automating manual tasks, avoiding data silos, customizing views for different audiences, not overanalyzing small data sets, testing changes, and avoiding rash decisions.
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Tom Hileman
Chief Executive Officer
Michelle Law
Analytics Process Lead
@MrktingMichelle
Angela Ruggeri
Marketing Automation
Specialist
Today’s Panel: Introductions
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Kyle Chandler
Director of Marketing
@ProjectChandler
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• Categories and Questions
• How Much Data vs. How Many Insights
• Reporting Cadence
• Manual Reporting Effort vs. Impact
• HolisticView of Reporting
• Benchmarking
• KeyTakeaways
Agenda
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Question #1
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How much data should I include in my marketing and
sales dashboards?
• Does my ExecutiveTeam have different needs than my Marketing
Team?
• Are written insights needed? How much?
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Question #4
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My team struggles with defining trends and, in turn,
providing future recommendations and suggestions.
• How can I better understand the impact of optimizations?
• How can we better derive insights in the data?
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Question #5
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My executive team continues to ask me how we are
performing against others in the industry. How do we
do this effectively?
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KeyTakeaways
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1. Do find the right partner to automate manual reporting tasks.This
investment gives you an ongoing return.
2. Don’t keep your marketing tactics in silos.
3. Do create unique views of your data for each particular audience.
• Think CEO vs. marketing lead
4. Don’t overanalyze small sets of data.
5. Do test, but don’t make rash decisions.