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📅 Week 5 · Monday
day-25
What is Clarigital?.
Today you'll learn: what Clarigital is and why businesses pay for it — explained so clearly you could teach it to your parents by tonight.
⏱ ~20 mins
📖 Read + Quiz + Submit
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🔒 Monday only
Week
Week 5 of 8
Day
25 of 56
Program
2-Month Program
📖 Read This First — About 8 Minutes
A report that takes 2 hours to read isn't a report. It's a wall of data. A good dashboard answers the three questions every client has in under 60 seconds.
Performance reporting is a communication skill, not just a data skill. The technical ability to pull data from GA4, Google Ads, Meta, and Search Console is table stakes. The practitioner's actual job is to distil complex performance data into clear, actionable narratives that help clients make better decisions. A 50-page report with every available metric serves the agency (it looks thorough) but rarely helps the client (it overwhelms rather than informs).
Every client has three fundamental questions about their digital marketing: Is it working? (overall performance vs targets), What changed? (notable shifts in performance this period), and What are we doing about it? (recommended actions). A great report answers these three questions in the first page — before any detailed channel breakdowns.
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A client dashboard is like a car dashboard, not an aircraft cockpit. An aircraft cockpit has 200 instruments because the pilot needs all of them. A car dashboard has 6 essential gauges because that's all the driver needs to make safe decisions. Your client is a driver, not a pilot. Give them 6 essential gauges. If something goes wrong, you'll take them to the detailed instruments.
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Executive Summary Page
One page: scorecard of 4-6 key metrics vs targets with RAG status (Red/Amber/Green), period-over-period comparison, and 3-bullet narrative (what worked, what didn't, what's next).
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Channel Breakdown
One page per major channel: Google Ads, Meta, SEO/organic, Email. Standard metrics for each channel, trend over time, key insight and action for each.
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Looker Studio Setup
Connect: GA4, Google Ads, Search Console (native connectors). Meta via Supermetrics or equivalent connector. Build once, auto-updates. Share via link, no email attachments.
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Monthly Review Structure
15-minute agenda: 5 min performance summary (client reads pre-meeting), 10 min discussion and decisions. No surprises in the meeting - send report 24 hours before.
🔮 The narrative reporting principle: Every metric on a dashboard should be accompanied by a one-line narrative explaining what it means. Not just '423 leads' - but '423 leads this month, up 18% vs last month, driven by Google Ads efficiency improvement (+22% conversion rate after landing page update).' Numbers without narrative require the client to do interpretive work they shouldn't have to do.
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Read the reference page below before taking the quiz.
What are the three questions every client wants answered by their performance report?
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A: What channels did we run, what was the spend, what were the impressions
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B: Is it working, what changed, what are we doing about it
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C: What is the traffic, what is the bounce rate, what is the session duration
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D: How many ads ran, what was the CTR, what was the CPM
OK Is it working (vs targets), what changed (notable shifts), what are we doing about it (recommendations). These three questions represent the client's entire decision need. A report that answers all three on page one is a great report regardless of length.
NO Three client questions: Is it working (vs targets), what changed (notable shifts), what are we doing about it (next actions). Answer these first, then provide channel detail.
Question 2 of 5
What is a RAG status indicator in a performance dashboard and what does each colour mean?
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A: A colour coding system for ad creative quality
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B: Red/Amber/Green status against targets: Green = on/above target, Amber = slightly below (manageable), Red = significantly below target (requires immediate attention)
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C: A brand safety rating system
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D: A Google Analytics metric for page quality
OK RAG (Red/Amber/Green) gives instant visual status for each metric. Green = target met or exceeded. Amber = within 15-20% of target (monitor). Red = significantly below target (requires action and explanation). This lets clients scan the scorecard in 10 seconds.
NO RAG = Red/Amber/Green: Green (on/above target), Amber (slightly below, monitoring), Red (significantly below, action needed). Provides instant visual status for all key metrics.
Question 3 of 5
Why should the monthly performance report be sent 24 hours before the review meeting?
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A: To give the client time to cancel the meeting if performance is poor
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B: So the client can read the report pre-meeting, allowing the discussion to focus on decisions and actions rather than explaining the data
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C: Because report generation takes 24 hours
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D: To comply with contractual reporting requirements
OK Pre-reading eliminates the need to present the report in the meeting. The client arrives already understanding the numbers, so 45 minutes that would have been spent on 'here's what the slides say' becomes 30 minutes of strategic discussion about what to do with the information.
NO Pre-meeting report allows clients to arrive already understanding the data. The meeting becomes decision-focused rather than data-presentation. This is more efficient and more valuable for the client relationship.
Question 4 of 5
What is the recommended format for a monthly performance review meeting agenda?
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A: 60-90 minutes covering every channel in detail
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B: 15-30 minutes: 5 minutes confirmation of report understanding, 10-20 minutes discussion of decisions and next actions
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C: 2 hours with full screen-sharing of all dashboards
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D: No fixed agenda - improvise based on what the client wants to discuss
OK Short, focused review meetings respect client time and force strategic prioritisation. If everything requires discussion, something has gone wrong in the report. The report should do most of the communication work, leaving the meeting for decisions and relationship.
NO 15-30 minute focused review: confirm report understanding, discuss decisions and actions. Short meetings signal confidence and preparation. Long meetings signal the agency needs the client to validate their work.
Question 5 of 5
Which metric accompanies every number on a dashboard according to the narrative reporting principle?
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A: The date the metric was recorded
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B: A one-line explanation of what the metric means and what caused any notable change
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C: A comparison to industry benchmarks
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D: The cost associated with achieving that metric
OK Numbers without narrative require the client to do interpretive work. '423 leads' tells them a number. '423 leads, up 18% vs last month, driven by Google Ads landing page improvement' tells them what happened and why. Always add the story.
NO Every metric needs a narrative: what it means and what caused notable changes. Numbers alone require the client to interpret - good dashboards do the interpretation for them.
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Day 26 opens Monday.
📝 Today's Task
Someone in your family runs a small business. In 3–4 sentences, explain Clarigital to them like you're actually WhatsApp-ing them right now. Your own words — not copied from the page.
Start like this: "So there's this platform I was reading about — it's basically for businesses that get too many WhatsApp messages to handle manually. It lets them..."
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