New Instance Best Practices: Analytics Checklist new-instance-best-practices-analytics-checklist
The Analytics section offers global reports that analyze the performance of your marketing efforts. Learn about the necessary steps to navigate them.
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Use a report naming convention to differentiate reports in the Global Reports tab.
- An example of good naming convention practice is [Report Type] [Global vs. BU-Specific Tag] [Report Description] such as [Email Performance]-[Global]-[180 Days Email Engagement].
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Identify reports that should be shared with different user groups within your organization (e.g., sales team, marketing leadership) and organize the reports by folder inside the Group Reports folder in Analytics for Global Reports.
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Archiving should be limited to the Global Reports folder, as these are always-on reports.
- Limit archiving to organizational changes such as reducing or adding relevant business units if you are reporting based on a business unit structure.
- Replicate the Global Reports and folder structure across workspaces to maintain consistent reporting for your teams. These reports would be in the Group Reports folder.
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Identify and create the reports needed for use in the My Reports section. Use this private report section as your sandbox for Global Reports. They're are only available to the user creating the report.
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Use your organization's naming convention to identify the report and usage so you can reconcile reports in My Reports with reports in Group Reports.
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Group Reports are your organization's Global Reports and should report on overall activity for your organization.
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Consider creating cloneable core reports you expect each business unit to use most often to reduce the time needed to pull the report and ensure data correctness. See details in the Global Reports table below.
- People Performance Report (all-time and time-based) by source, month
- Program Performance Report (by cost month, time-based)
- Email Performance Report (time-based)
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Turn on "Global Reporting" in the report's Setup tab to include the data from all your workspaces in the Email Performance and Email Link Performance reports. If you have more than one workspace, you only need to enable it in the default workspace.
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Align with your marketing leader regarding people who should review report results and their cadence during implementation.
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Use subscriptions to distribute data to need-to-know people in your organization without exhausting a named user license.
- Set up subscriptions in the desired cadence (daily/weekly/monthly) for each team's ongoing monitoring. You can also view all your subscriptions in one place under the Subscriptions tab in Analytics.
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Identify reports that should be shared with different user groups within your organization (e.g., sales team, marketing leadership). Create proper folder structure for each team/user group/business unit to organize the cloned reports within Group Reports. Consider setting up global reports, such as:
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Create Global, Workspace/Business Unit-wide reports with the correct emails selected.
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Create a local Email Performance Report in all your cloneable program templates.
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Use a relevant timeframe (e.g., YTD, last 90 days, etc.) for the report to provide an accurate view of standard email engagement and deliverability metrics.
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Determine the criteria you will use to measure the performance of your lead acquisition programs and create your time-based (current year, last rolling 12 months view, or 180 days) standard reports based on these metrics:
- Acquisition Program: Marketo Engage program that is credited for acquiring the person.
- Person Source: The source category for how the record came to be known to your database (based on the source list of values in your CRM)
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Measure people created by week or month. This report will provide you with a measure of your Database growth rate and whether you are approaching your Database size limit.
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Filter the metrics in People Performance Reports by using your Smart Lists as custom columns.
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Measure the effectiveness of your marketing tactics within selective programs.
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Manage program membership (using Smart Campaigns to update acquisition program, status, success statuses) according to best practices within Marketing Activities.
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Measure based on costs for the current year and rolling 12 months.
- Remember that maintaining Period Costs is critical to leveraging the Program Performance Report.