Tracking original traffic source for a long sales cycle

How we got attribution right for a business with a long, complex sales cycle — tying every sale back to the traffic source that started it, where two other agencies had failed.

High-Performing Coach Ltd.CoachingB2B servicesLong sales cycle

I can now confidently make critical business decisions based on accurate data. This is absolutely invaluable to our business!

Adrian Shiel
Adrian ShielCo-founder, High-Performing Coach Ltd.
Tracking original traffic source for a long sales cycle
Results in numbers
2Agencies failed before us

Systematik delivered the attribution two prior agencies could not.

85%Sales attributed to source

End-to-end attribution across a long, multi-touch B2B sales cycle.

1Source of truth

Manual spreadsheets replaced with one trusted reporting layer.

The problem

No way to attribute sales across a long, complex cycle

With a long and complicated sales cycle, High-Performing Coach couldn't tie closed sales back to their original traffic source using traditional cookie-based tracking. They had no real reporting tools, leaned on manual spreadsheets, and couldn't tell which campaigns actually drove revenue — a problem only made worse by the industry shift away from third-party cookies.

The challenges

Attributing sales to their original source across a long, multi-touch cycle.

Tracking accurately in a world moving away from third-party cookies.

Replacing manual spreadsheets with reporting the team could trust.

Connecting data across payments, email, scheduling and ad platforms.

The solution

We built durable first-party tracking and a BigQuery-based reporting layer that ties every sale back to the campaign and traffic source that started it — even across a sales cycle that plays out over weeks or months.

01

Durable first-party tracking

We implemented server-side, first-party tracking that captures the original traffic source and every touchpoint, independent of third-party cookies.

02

Centralized warehouse

We piped payments, email, scheduling and ad-platform data into a single BigQuery warehouse.

03

Modeling & attribution

We modeled the data in dbt to stitch touchpoints into full customer journeys and attribute each sale to its true first source.

04

Dashboards & insights

We built dashboards that show which campaigns actually drive revenue, so marketing spend goes where it works.

High-Performing Coach Data Architecture
Google Analytics 4Google AdsMeta AdsStripeActiveCampaignLeadPagesScheduleOnceFivetranCustom APIintegrationdbtGoogleBigQueryData StudioSOURCESEXTRACT & LOADDATA TRANSFORMATIONDATA WAREHOUSEDATA VISUALIZATION
The impact

High-Performing Coach can now attribute revenue back to its original source across their entire sales cycle — turning guesswork into confident marketing decisions, cutting manual reporting, and getting results where two previous agencies had failed.

Systematik prevailed where 2 other agencies failed miserably.

Adrian Shiel
Adrian ShielCo-founder, High-Performing Coach Ltd.

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