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Software publisher (marketing automation and CRM)

The CRM, the automation software, the subscription portal and the manual entries brought together in BigQuery, blended with GA4 in a single dashboard.

4 business sources and GA4
Data & Analytics
Data flow diagram: Pipedrive, Webmecanik Automation, the customer portal and Google Sheets into BigQuery, then Looker Studio blended with GA4
The business sources meet in BigQuery, GA4 keeps the visits, and the dashboard blends the two.

Webmecanik publishes a marketing automation software and a CRM. Its figures lived in four tools that did not talk to each other: the Pipedrive CRM, Webmecanik Automation, the subscription portal and Google Sheets. The management wanted a dashboard for every step of the funnel, from marketing to sales and financial health.

The model first

Before a single chart, I wrote the data flow instructions and the metrics dictionary, where every indicator has its formula (CAC Payback, LTV, churn). I also drew an interactive mock-up of the dashboard, before any access to the data.

When the client decided to bring its sources together in a database, I steered it from MySQL to BigQuery. Its CTO wrote the script that feeds the table; I specified its flows and keys.

The dashboard

I designed the Looker Studio dashboard on top of that table, blended with GA4: visits and their sources on one side, leads and recurring revenue on the other. It opens on the current year, and a chosen month is compared with the previous one.

A wrong figure, traced to its source

When the management saw a March figure that did not match its source, I queried the table before touching the display. The SQL check showed the gap was already in the client’s table: duplicates left by several updates, which the CTO fixed.

The handover

Upstream, I had rebuilt the site’s form tracking so that a new form plugs in without a new tag. The client leaves with a guide and three videos, and its marketing team adds its own conversions.

In pictures

Mock-up of the Marketing & Sources page: visits, marketing and sales leads by source, values masked
The mock-up, drawn before any access to the data: fictitious values, masked, and every block shows its source.
Mock-up of the Finance & SaaS page: recurring revenue by product and churn, values masked
The finance page of the mock-up: recurring revenue by product and churn.