Google Data Studio, Power BI, and Tableau, provide the ability for marketers to incorporate various feeds into a single dashboard, with almost limitless customisation options, so you can choose exactly what data you want to monitor, based on business requirements, and how you want it depicted.
Some of the reasons for creating customised dashboards include:
Customised dashboards allow businesses to measure everything from site speed to paid search activity, technical performance, and user experience. You can monitor both quantitative and qualitative data, and get insights about almost any KPI, such as:
The only drawback is that the software packages used to create these bespoke dashboards are specialised tools that are best placed in the hands of professionals.
Most businesses would need to hire an external provider (like DCX) to specify and build the dashboards on their behalf. But savvy business owners recognise that the cost of creating customised dashboards can be more than recuperated if the data they present is used effectively.
The value behind gathering and displaying data in a customised dashboard is to highlight important information and take action based on what you’ve learnt. This is how customised dashboards not only pay for themselves but provide a return on investment. By providing instant insights about your specific KPIs and how they relate to key business activities, you can take the relevant actions to make sure that your PPC campaign generates results, your website converts sales, and your customer experience is excellent.
Here are our three top tips to ensuring that your dashboards deliver ROI:
Design your dashboard to include only useful information for the audience at hand.
Avoid creating a dashboard that includes anything and everything for everyone. The sales product owner will want to look at different metrics than the social media manager, for example.
Don't clutter your dashboards with hundreds of widgets.
This makes understanding your insights increasingly complex, and this is the complete opposite of what a dashboard is designed for. Use menus and filters to sort out your data sets to your advantage.
Only include data that will help answer your business objectives.
Each graph or card should represent a KPI that will answer any important question, for example, are my total sales down from last week? A summary card including the total number of sales and the weekly difference should be enough to suffice.
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