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Marketing Analytics in Google Sheets

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207 reviews
Updated 02/2024
Learn how to ensure clean data entry and build dynamic dashboards to display your marketing data.
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Course Description

In the dynamic field of digital marketing, proficiency in tools like Google Sheets is indispensable. This course begins by introducing the foundational aspects of Google Sheets, particularly focusing on its relevance and application in marketing. We address a common challenge faced by marketing professionals: maintaining the integrity and cleanliness of spreadsheets, especially when they are collaboratively used and constantly updated by multiple parties. The course starts with the basics of spreadsheet management, setting the stage for more advanced techniques.

Data Cleaning and Validation Techniques

As we delve deeper, the course shifts focus to the crucial skills of data validation and the use of regular expressions. These are powerful tools that every marketing analyst should master. We will explore various strategies to ensure data accuracy and consistency, crucial for making informed marketing decisions. Practical exercises will involve spotting and correcting errors in key metrics, utilizing data validation techniques. We will also learn how to effectively use regular expressions to organize and aggregate campaign metrics, a skill vital for handling large and complex marketing datasets.

Visualizing Data and Creating Dashboards

The final part of the course is dedicated to data visualization and dashboard creation. After ensuring our data is clean and well-organized, we will learn how to translate this information into insightful charts. These visual tools are essential for analyzing campaign performance and conveying findings in an easily digestible format. The course culminates in a comprehensive project where participants will apply all the learned skills to create a dynamic and interactive marketing dashboard. This hands-on experience will prepare you to handle real-world digital marketing datasets and derive actionable insights from them.

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Intermediate Google Sheets
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Data Validation for Clean Data Entry

In this chapter, you will explore the data validation options that Google Sheets offers to aid in clean data entry. You will also learn about the Bing and Google Ads paid advertising data you will explore throughout the course. After this chapter, you will be able to create spreadsheets that can be used by any number of people, without having to worry about disorganization.
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Regular Expressions

In the digital marketing world, naming conventions may differ among paid advertising campaigns or ad groups, which poses a problem when the user wants to analyze campaign performance. Regular expressions can help match certain strings, replace parts of strings, or extract a portion of a string. In this chapter, you will learn to use regular expressions, along with Google Sheets' built-in functions REGEXMATCH(), REGEXREPLACE(), and REGEXEXTRACT(), to reorganize and aggregate data with ease.
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Visualize the Data with Charts

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Build a Paid Search Campaign Dashboard

In the final chapter, you will be tasked with building a paid advertising dashboard that can be dynamically filtered by both source and campaign name. After completing the chapter, you should be able to tackle almost any data mitigation or dashboard creation project that you, or your boss, may think of!
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FAQs

What marketing-specific skills will I gain from this Google Sheets course?

You will learn to validate marketing data, use regular expressions to aggregate campaign metrics, build charts for campaign performance analysis, and create a dynamic marketing dashboard.

Does this course work with real digital marketing data?

Yes. The course explores a dataset with Bing and Google Ads paid advertising data, reflecting the kind of metrics you encounter in digital marketing roles.

Will I learn to use regular expressions in Google Sheets?

Yes. Regular expressions are taught as a tool for cleaning and aggregating campaign metrics, helping you standardize messy marketing data from multiple sources.

What is the final project or deliverable in this course?

You will build a dynamic dashboard in Google Sheets that brings together data validation, charting, and everything learned throughout the course for marketing reporting.

What prerequisite courses should I complete first?

You should finish Introduction to Google Sheets, Intermediate Google Sheets, and Data Analysis in Google Sheets before enrolling in this course.

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