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Your GA4 Reports May Look Fine. That Does Not Mean the Data Is Reliable

Most GA4 problems are not obvious. Reports continue to update, transactions appear and campaign dashboards look complete - until someone compares them with the ecommerce platform, CRM or finance report. By that point, marketing budgets may already have been moved and funnel decisions made using incomplete or duplicated signals. A GA4 audit checks the entire measurement chain and shows which numbers can be trusted, where the differences come from and what needs to be fixed first.
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Ecommerce Margin: Why Sales Grow While Profit Stands Still

A store does 500,000 in monthly revenue, campaigns are running, ROAS looks fine, and the bank balance still does not move. Almost every time I see this on an audit, the problem is not the selling, but what leaks out of the sale before it becomes profit. This article covers how to calculate ecommerce margin properly, and where the data for it actually lives, because it is not in GA4.
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