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B2B Insight · Service 09 of 09

Reports your CFO will read — and defend.

B2B marketing analytics built on GA4, Data Studio, CRM attribution, and pipeline reporting. The dashboards that show what last quarter's marketing spend produced — in the order revenue, pipeline, channel performance, and activity. Survives the iOS update cycle.

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What we hear, going in

Most marketing reports show activity. Yours should show pipeline.

Two complaints we hear from manufacturing leadership, almost weekly:

“My CFO opens the dashboard and asks two questions I can't answer.” What we hear from marketing directors, most weeks
“My CFO wants to know what last quarter's spend produced. I can't actually tell him.” What we hear from manufacturing CEOs, most weeks

Most marketing reports are activity dashboards: impressions, clicks, sessions, leads. The numbers go up; nobody's sure if revenue does. Meanwhile, the dashboards your CFO actually wants — pipeline sourced by channel, marketing-influenced revenue, customer acquisition cost trending, attribution that survives the iOS update cycle — usually don't exist. Analytics done well is the difference between a marketing program that's defensible at a board meeting and one that's just believed-in.

How we run it

Wire revenue to channel. Then report in plain language.

Three structural moves on most analytics engagements.

GA4 setup that actually works.

Most GA4 properties are set up wrong — missing events, missing conversions, wrong attribution model, wrong audiences. Audit, fix, and document. The foundation everything else builds on.

Attribution wired to the CRM.

UTM scheme governance, server-side tagging, offline conversion imports tied to your sales stages. Pipeline sourced and attributed to channel — not just lead form fills.

Dashboards built for the audience.

Different reports for different roles. Live operational dashboard for the marketing team. Monthly pipeline-focused dashboard for the CMO. Quarterly business review for leadership and the board. Each one in the right level of detail.

Privacy-resilient.

Server-side tagging, enhanced conversions, consent management, first-party data strategy. Built so the iOS update cycle and cookie deprecation don't break your reporting.

What you get

What we build.

01

GA4 audit + remediation

Property audit, event taxonomy, conversion setup, audience definitions, attribution model selection. The foundation work that makes everything else accurate.

02

Attribution + CRM integration

UTM governance, server-side tagging, enhanced conversions, offline conversion imports. Pipeline sourced and attributed to channel for the first time, in most engagements.

03

Live Data Studio dashboards

Operational dashboard for marketing, pipeline dashboard for leadership, executive dashboard for the board. Updated automatically; defensible in a meeting.

04

Monthly written readouts

What worked, what didn't, what we're testing next month. Plain language. The reports CFOs actually read.

05

Quarterly business reviews

Leadership session covering pipeline, revenue, channel performance, year-over-year trends. Includes recommendations and budget guidance for the next quarter.

06

Ad-hoc analysis + custom reports

Board prep, investor reporting, channel deep-dives, ROI calculations for new initiatives. The analysis work that shows up at the wrong moment but matters most when it does.

A real story · A mid-size industrial OEM

Pipeline attributed to channel for the first time.

A mid-size industrial equipment OEM had GA4, ad accounts, and a CRM — none of them talking to each other. Pipeline came in; nobody could trace it back to channel. Marketing-attributed revenue was a guess.

We wired it together. UTM scheme rebuilt. Server-side tagging deployed. CRM stages mapped to GA4 events. Dashboard built. For the first time in the company's history, the question 'what did paid media produce in revenue last quarter?' had a defensible answer.

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$487K

Pipeline sourced / month
Attributed to channel · first time

+29%

Pipeline visibility
Vs. pre-engagement baseline

100%

Channel attribution coverage
Paid, organic, email, direct

FAQ · Consulting questions

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How is fractional CMO different from regular consulting?

Consulting is bounded by deliverable — we audit, we recommend, we hand it back. Fractional CMO is bounded by relationship — we own the plan, we sit in your leadership rhythm, we're accountable for the math compounding over quarters. Most of our consulting engagements end up looking like fractional CMO inside ninety days.

How many days a month?

Two days a month for lighter engagements (board reporting, quarterly planning, strategic check-ins). Four days a month for active engagements (strategy + vendor management + audit cycles). We size to the work, not the other way around.

Do you replace our in-house marketing person?

Almost never. We complement them. They run execution, we own strategy. They report to leadership, we coach them through it. The best engagements have a strong in-house operator running the day-to-day with us as the strategic spine they build against.

Will you also run our channels?

If the consulting work surfaces a channel that needs to move and we're the right team to move it, yes — the engagement expands to include execution. About two-thirds of our consulting engagements grow this way over twelve to eighteen months. The other third stay consulting-only because their existing teams are capable; we just give them better strategy to run.

What does "senior" actually mean?

Twenty-plus years of marketing practice, multiple engagements at scale, deep product literacy in industrial / technical / engineered categories. The person on your call has run paid accounts, written copy, sat on dealer-training calls, and presented to a board. Not a generalist account manager. Not a junior strategist with a senior title.

When should we NOT hire a fractional CMO?

If you need execution help more than strategy help, hire a doer first. If you need a single tactical fix (a new website, a campaign, a brand refresh), engage that as a project. Fractional CMO is the right answer when the strategic spine is the gap — and when you're committed to growing something with a senior partner over multiple quarters.

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