A digital marketing dashboard is an electronic interface that enables you to combine data from multiple digital marketing channels onto one platform. A digital marketing dashboard is very similar to a digital marketing report but there are a few key features that separate the two reporting types on Oviond, including a limit to the number of widgets, sharing options and orientations.
Digital marketing dashboards are a fundamental part of reporting for many marketing agencies who are wanting to represent the performance of their digital marketing efforts to their clients. They allow agencies to display data to their clients in a way that will be easy to analyze and understand so that they are able to make decisions on any digital marketing campaigns that are being run for their business. Read more about what a digital marketing report is and how to best utilize it on Oviond.
Why Do You Need A Digital Marketing Dashboard?
Digital marketing reporting is one of the most effective ways for agencies to build an honest, open and long-term relationship with their clients. There is nowhere to hide in a digital marketing dashboard and it gives agencies the opportunity to layout how their digital marketing efforts have performed and easily identify the strategies that have been effective, as well as eliminate the strategies that have not been as effective.
A digital marketing dashboard is used to track key metrics and provide clients with an informative display of their digital marketing campaigns. The two reporting functions that Oviond offers; dashboards and reports, each have their own look, feel and purpose and marketing agencies can choose to use one or both when reporting to clients. It is all dependent on how they want to present the performance of their client’s digital marketing campaigns to them.
How To Structure A Digital Marketing Dashboard
A digital marketing dashboard on Oviond offers a full screen, landscape view of your data. The widgets on the dashboard are slightly larger than they will be on the reports as there is a wider screen space for them to be displayed on. Here are a few key points to consider when creating an effective digital marketing dashboard for a client:
KPIs
It is extremely important that the correct KPIs are used in a digital marketing dashboard in order for it to represent the correct data to a client. Understanding Marketing KPIs and which are most important, is imperative in getting this right.
Visualization
The way in which data is represented in a digital marketing dashboard will impact how well a client understands the data. Choosing the correct graph to represent certain data can make a dashboard easier to understand and more visually appealing to a client.
Context
As mentioned above, having the correct KPIs and chart types in a dashboard is important, but a digital marketing dashboard needs to have context in order to be understood and accepted by a client. The dashboard needs to clearly show if there were any conversions that resulted from the digital marketing campaigns. This is where understanding a client’s target audience is extremely important. It’s easy to generate leads, but if the marketing campaigns are targeting the incorrect audience, the content created is pointless.
Elements That Make Up A Digital Marketing Dashboard On Oviond
With Oviond, you can build your very own digital marketing dashboard or you could use one of our many pre-built templates. Here is a breakdown of the features offered in Oviond digital marketing dashboards:
Auto Refresh
This feature allows you to set the frequency in which you want your dashboard to pull the latest data from your connected data sources. In digital marketing it is always advisable to keep your data up to date as the various platforms do. This feature allows you to do just that in the dashboards! The dashboard that has been shared with a client will update according to the auto refresh frequency chosen for the dashboard.
Landscape Layout
Unlike the reports on Oviond, the dashboards allow for a more landscape view of your digital marketing data. Dashboards are the perfect view to be used for a presentation of marketing campaigns as the widgets are larger and data can be displayed in a more visually appealing way using a wider orientation.
Share Dashboard Via A Link
You are able to share your dashboard with clients, either by email, or you are able to copy the shared dashboard link and send that over to your client. Dashboards cannot be exported to PDF, but you can export a report to PDF.
Ready To Create Some Beautiful Dashboards With Oviond?
As mentioned earlier in the blog, Oviond offers pre-built digital marketing dashboards which have been created to save you time, money and provide a foundation for your digital marketing reporting. Read more about digital marketing and other features on Oviond in our blog section on our website.