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Best PPC reporting tools you should be using

Florian Cabirol
October 9, 2023
Best PPC reporting tools you should be using

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  1. Get informations from the data integration from our connector.
  2. Create a source on catchr.io.
  3. Download our Google Sheets extensions.
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If you need more informations, you can follow the tutorial.

How to install Google Sheets Catchr Add-on.

To start exporting your data to Google Sheets, you need to install the Catchr add-on. You currently have two options :

Option A: Via the marketplace:

  1. Visit the Catchr Add-on page on the Google Workspace Marketplace and click "Install."
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  3. Upon successful installation, open a Google Sheets to proceed.
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Install Catchr Google Sheets Add-on

Option B: Directly within a Google Sheets:

  1. Open a new Google Sheets.
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  3. Search for "Catchr" and choose "Catchr - data connector."
  4. Click "Install" and grant the required permissions.
  5. Close the installation pop-up when completed.
  6. Start using the Catchr add-on.
Install Catchr Add-on for Google Sheets
Install Catchr Add-on for Google Sheets

Once you have installed the add-on, you can start making requests.

The tutorial

Quick steps to create a report with Looker Studio:

You can easiliy create a report following this step :

  1. Get informations from the data integration from our connector.
  2. Create a datasource and new report on Looker Studio.
  3. Choose your metrics and dimensions.
  4. Use charts with your metrics and dimensions.
If you need more informations, you can follow the tutorial. You can also find a template for at the end of the page.

The tutorial

Quick steps to create a report with PowerBI:

You can easiliy create a report following this step :

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  3. Configure your request on the PowerBI request manager.
  4. Copy the given URL in PowerBI
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The tutorial

Are you running PPC campaigns but not sure about their ROI? Do you want to optimize your PPC campaigns for better results but don't know where to start? If so, you need PPC reporting tools.

 

PPC reporting tools could give you valuable information about how well your PPC campaigns are doing by letting you track key metrics like click-through rates (CTRs), conversion rates, cost per click (CPC), and return on investment (ROI). And then, it provides you with the necessary insights to make data-driven decisions to optimize your campaigns for better results.

 

In this blog post, we will explore the best reporting PPC tools for whatever campaigns you run on Google Ads, Facebook Ads, Microsoft Ads, or wherever. 

View your data on your platform

Every PPC platform offers you a way to visualize your marketing data on their platform. It may not be so good in terms of visualization and data analytics, but for simple things like "how I spent yesterday", it may be enough for you.

But if you have clients that need reports, this is a no-go. Your customers want a beautiful marketing dashboard, not a platform where they have to log in every time to find their data.

 

Spreadsheets tools

Spreadsheets could be excellent tools for making PPC reports. But to do so, you need a way to extract the data and put it directly into your sheets. Some platforms allow you to export your data to CSV, which you can use directly in your tools. But you must do the export whenever you want to update data or make a new report. This is so time-consuming.

 

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Excel is a popular spreadsheet program that comes as part of the Microsoft Office suite of business software. It lets users format, organize, and calculate data in a spreadsheet format using various tools. Using software like Excel, data analysts and other users can easily manage and view information as it is added or changed.

 

Microsoft Excel
Microsoft Excel

Google Sheets

Google Sheets is an online spreadsheet program that lets people work together on spreadsheets from any device in real-time. You can use Sheets to look at data, share it with others, and change it as needed. In addition, the software has many features, like comments and assigning tasks, that make it easier to analyze and work together.

 

Google Sheets
Google Sheets

Visualization tools

Visualization tools could help you provide detailed analytics and make a beautiful PPC dashboard for your clients. You need a way to extract the data from your marketing source to put it in the tools. But you could efficiently work on your data once the step is done.

Tableau

Tableau is a powerful data visualization and business intelligence platform that helps organizations of all sizes make sense of their data. The platform allows users to connect, visualize, and easily share their data to understand and analyze.

Tableau
Tableau

The starting price for the tools is $75.

 

Power BI

Power BI is a versatile and flexible business intelligence (BI) platform that caters to the needs of both self-service and enterprise users. It makes it easy for users to connect to and visualize data from different sources and easily add these visuals to the apps they use daily. With Power BI, users can easily make interactive reports and dashboards, share them, and work together to learn more about their data. It is an excellent solution for organizations of any size, from small businesses to large enterprises, because its design is unified and can be scaled up.

Tableau
Tableau

The monthly rate starts at $13.70 a month.

 

Looker Studio (formerly Google Data studio)

Looker Studio is a powerful, free tool that can be used to make beautiful, interactive, and responsive dashboards. The platform offers a wide range of templates, graphs, maps, tables, and other resources, making building personalized panels that reflect your brand identity easy. In addition, the user-friendly interface means anyone can create and understand reports, even if they need more technical expertise.

Using data visualization, Google Data Studio gathers critical metrics and indicators to support data-driven marketing decisions and help businesses achieve their goals. By analyzing data and identifying patterns and trends, companies can reduce risk and gain valuable insights into their performance. 

The result is a more informed decision-making process and more effective strategies.

 

Looker Studio
Looker Studio

And the tools are entirely free.

 

How to automate your PPC reports

All the tools presented are excellent when you need to visualize or work on the data. But extracting data from every marketing platform you use and then formatting it for your reporting tools could be really time-consuming. 

Extraction Tools

Airbyte

Airbyte is an open-source ETL that can move data from one source to a data warehouse. In this way, you could efficiently work on your data if you have IT and data analytics teams on staff. You have complete control over your data and how you use it.

 

Airbyte
Airbyte

And it's free if you host the solution on your server.

 

Catchr

We made Catchr because we needed a way to automatically pull data from marketing sources to places where it could be visualized. The main goal of Catchr is to easily move your marketing data from your Google Ads, Facebook Ads, and Google Analytics 4 to the visualization tools you want.

 

Catchr
Catchr

This way, you don't need to export your data daily from your marketing platform. Or have an IT team and a data team on staff. Instead, just connect your account to our system, and all your data is live in Looker Studio or Google Sheets.

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