3 Questions a dashboard must answer Spend, results, next move. If a report can't answer all three, it's decoration.
1 Page. That's it. Not forty tabs of Looker Studio. One page you'll actually open — because you can read it in ninety seconds.
~50% Of Alaska leads are phone calls For trades, clinics, and law firms it's often more. If calls aren't tracked, half your marketing is invisible.
0 Decisions from bad data The expensive failure mode isn't missing data — it's confidently acting on broken tracking. We audit before we optimize.

Quick facts

Stack
GA4, Google Tag Manager (web + server-side), CallRail-style call tracking, Looker Studio
What gets measured
Form fills, phone calls, bookings, purchases, direction requests — real actions, not pageviews
Typical setup
From $750 one-time (GA4 + tagging + dashboard); server-side and ecommerce scoped up from there
Ongoing
Included in every retainer — monthly one-page report, quarterly deep-dive
Who owns the accounts
You. GA4, GTM, and the dashboard live under your Google account — always
Privacy
Consent-aware tagging, IP anonymization, no creepy cross-site stitching

What's included

Measure what matters,
ignore what doesn't.

Laptop showing a rising analytics graph — GA4 configured around real actions
01 / 06

Foundation

GA4 done right

Out-of-the-box GA4 measures almost nothing useful.

Key events configured for the actions that make you money — quote forms, calls, bookings, purchases. Internal traffic filtered (your own crew shouldn't be a third of your 'visitors'), spam referrals blocked, data retention set before Google quietly deletes your history.

Key eventsFiltersRetentionAudiences
Server racks with glowing status lights — first-party, server-side measurement
02 / 06

Plumbing

Tag Manager + server-side

Tracking that survives ad blockers and iOS updates.

Every pixel and tag managed in one container instead of pasted into the theme by four different vendors. Server-side tagging where the spend justifies it — recovering the 20-30% of conversions that browser tracking silently drops.

GTMServer-sideConsent modeFirst-party
Smartphone in hand mid-call — every call traced back to the marketing that caused it
03 / 06

The missing half

Call tracking

The phone is where Alaska leads close.

Dynamic numbers that tie every call to its source — the map pack, the Google ad, the organic page — with recording and lead scoring where you want it. Without this, the channel doing the most work gets the least credit.

Dynamic numbersSource attributionRecordingLead scoring
Dual monitors of charts distilled down to the one view that matters
04 / 06

The deliverable

The one-page dashboard

Spend, results, next move — live, always current.

One Looker Studio page: what went in, what came out, by channel, against last month and last season. Built for a business owner reading it in the truck between jobs, not for an analyst with a free afternoon.

Looker StudioLiveBy channelPlain English
Point-of-sale checkout moment — revenue tied back to its source
05 / 06

Revenue

Ecommerce + booking tracking

Revenue attribution down to the product and the tour.

Shopify and WooCommerce purchase tracking with real revenue attribution, and booking-flow tracking for tours, lodges, and clinics — including the FareHarbor/booking-widget handoffs where attribution usually falls off a cliff.

ShopifyWooBooking flowsRevenue
Charts spread across a desk under review — auditing the numbers before trusting them
06 / 06

Trust

Tracking audits

Before optimizing anything, prove the data is real.

Duplicate events double-counting your conversions, test purchases in the revenue, the contractor's old pixel still firing — we've seen it all. Every engagement starts with an audit, because decisions made on broken data cost more than the audit ever will.

Event QADedupAttribution checkFix list

What it powers

The layer under
everything else.

01 / 03 Performance ads — spend with receipts Every optimization decision in an ad account is only as good as the conversion data feeding it. This is the feed. 02 / 03 SEO & Local SEO — prove the calls Map-pack rankings are nice; calls and direction requests tied to revenue are the point. Call tracking closes that loop. 03 / 03 Email — revenue per send Flow revenue and campaign attribution on the same page as everything else, so channels compete on equal footing.

The first 30 days

Audit, wire,
report.

01.
Week 1 — Audit
Full teardown of what's currently firing: GA4 config, every tag on the site, call handling, attribution gaps. You get the findings in plain English.
02.
Week 2 — Rebuild
GTM container rebuilt clean, GA4 key events wired to real actions, call tracking live, duplicate and junk tracking stripped out.
03.
Week 3 — Dashboard
The one-pager built and reviewed with you — if a number on it doesn't drive a decision, it comes off the page.
04.
Day 30 — Baseline set
First full report with clean data. From here every marketing decision — ours or yours — gets made against numbers you can trust.
Working session around a laptop — turning the audit into a build plan

Is this a fit?

Probably yes if:

You're spending real money blind

Four figures a month across ads and marketing, and no single view of what any of it produced. The audit usually pays for itself in found waste.

Your leads come in by phone

Trades, clinics, law, tours — if the phone is the cash register, call tracking is the difference between guessing and knowing.

Two agencies, two versions of truth

The ads vendor claims the lead, the SEO vendor claims the same lead. One neutral dashboard ends the argument.

GA4 still feels foreign

You had Universal Analytics figured out and GA4 reset the board. You're not alone — it's the most common cleanup we do.

Probably no if:

Probably not if:

You want a dashboard for its own sake

Numbers nobody acts on are wallpaper. If there's no marketing running and none planned, save the money until there is.

You want vanity metrics back

If the goal is a bigger pageview number for the partners' meeting, any tool can print that. We measure actions that bank.

Enterprise BI is the actual need

Multi-warehouse attribution modeling across 40 properties is a data-engineering engagement, not us — and we'll say so in the first call.

Someone must watch it daily

At Alaska small-business scale, daily dashboard-watching is anxiety, not analysis. The rhythm is monthly reads, quarterly deep-dives.

Questions, answered

Quick questions.

Dusk settling over a still Alaska lake below dark mountain ridgelines

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Find out what your
numbers are actually
telling you.
Twenty minutes, your GA4 on the screen. We'll show you what's real, what's broken, and what's missing — you keep the fix list.