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MB-280: Analyze marketing performance and generate insights

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Analyze marketing performance and generate insights

Reading the numbers

Reporting spans channel, journey, segment, and event views, plus business-level pipeline and revenue reporting.

Channel insights (email, text, push): sent, delivered, blocked or bounced (hard vs soft), unique vs total opens, clicks, click-through rate, unsubscribes, and complaints. Understand the denominators: open rate and click-through rate are normally unique-based against delivered, not against sent, because blocked and bounced recipients never had a chance to engage.

Journey insights: entries, progression through tiles, goal completion, exit reasons, and A/B test winner results. If a conversion KPI looks wrong, check whether a goal tile was defined and whether exit criteria removed people early.

Segment insights: member counts over time, useful for sanity-checking targeting before publishing.

Event insights: registrations, check-in/attendance rate, session engagement, and waitlist turns.

Traps:

  • "Sent" is not "delivered"; a high bounce rate suppresses every downstream rate.
  • Insights refresh with latency, so a journey that went live minutes ago may show nothing yet.
  • Unsubscribe counts reflect consent changes and stated reasons, not raw link clicks.
  • Pipeline or revenue reporting needs a link between the marketing interaction and the lead or opportunity; missing keys produce zero revenue.

Rule of thumb: when a rate looks impossible, re-check the denominator and the date range before assuming a defect.