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The small business analytics setup guide

Set up Google Analytics so it tells you where your enquiries come from. Ten steps, in order, in plain English, for owners who do their own marketing or want to check the people who do it for them.

  • Count every enquiry once, with the source it came from
  • Track calls and emails, not just forms
  • Leave your own visits out of the numbers

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What is inside

Ten steps, then the checks that keep it right

  1. Own the accounts before anything else
  2. Create the property properly
  3. Install it with Google Tag Manager
  4. Decide what counts as an enquiry
  5. Count each enquiry once
  6. Count phone and email clicks
  7. Leave your own visits out
  8. Connect Search Console, Ads and your Business Profile
  9. Label every link you share
  10. Cookie consent, done properly
  11. Three reports worth building
  12. The five-minute monthly check

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Who it is for

Written for owners, not marketers

You do your own marketing

And want to know which of it is actually bringing in enquiries.

You pay someone else to do it

And want to check the numbers in their report are real.

You are about to start advertising

And want the tracking right before you spend a pound on ads.

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