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Unlock True Influencer ROI: The Complete Attribution Playbook

You're investing in micro-influencers across Instagram, TikTok, and blogs, but your data is a mess. UTMs and affiliate codes only tell part of the story, leaving you with siloed reports in Google Analytics and your e-commerce platform. You can't connect the dots to see which specific influencer or post is truly driving sales, leading to wasted budget and missed opportunities to scale.

This playbook provides a powerful, two-pronged approach to solve fragmented attribution. We leverage Google Analytics 4 to track every click and conversion from your known digital touchpoints. Then, we pair it with Fairing, a high-converting post-purchase survey app, to ask the one question that fills all the gaps: 'How did you hear about us?'. By correlating GA4's quantitative data with direct customer feedback from Fairing, you'll finally get a unified view of performance, uncovering the 'dark social' impact that traditional analytics miss and revealing the true ROI of every partnership.

Expected Outcomes

  • Accurately measure the ROI of individual influencers, channels, and campaigns.
  • Confidently allocate your marketing budget to the partnerships that drive the most revenue.
  • Uncover 'dark social' and word-of-mouth conversions that are invisible to standard analytics.
  • Move beyond siloed reports to a single, consolidated view of influencer performance.
  • Stop guessing and start making data-driven decisions to scale your influencer program.

Core Tools in This Stack

Google Analytics 4

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Google Analytics 4 (GA4) is a web and app analytics service that enables businesses to measure traffic and engagement. It provides a deeper understanding of the customer journey by using a flexible, event-based data model, offering predictive insights through machine learning, and integrating directly with marketing platforms to optimize campaign performance and drive ROI.

Key Features
  • Cross-platform user journey tracking (web + app)
  • Event-based data model for flexible measurement
  • AI-powered predictive insights (e.g., purchase and churn probability)
  • Deep integration with Google Ads and BigQuery
  • Enhanced privacy controls and cookieless measurement capabilities
  • Customizable reports and data explorations
  • Real-time activity monitoring
Ideal For

Company Size: Micro, Small, Medium, Large

Industries: Technology & Software, Business & Professional Services, Retail & E-commerce, Creative & Media, Education & Non-Profit, Health & Wellness, Other

Pricing

Model: Free, Freemium

Tier: Free

Ease of Use

Intermediate

Fairing

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A post-purchase survey platform designed for DTC brands to capture zero-party data, improve marketing attribution, and gain deep customer insights directly on the order confirmation page.

Key Features
  • Post-Purchase Surveys (on order confirmation page)
  • 'How Did You Hear About Us?' (HDYHAU) attribution
  • Proprietary Question Bank™
  • Question Stream™ for dynamic questions to customer segments
  • Integrations with Shopify, BigCommerce, Klaviyo, Segment, Gorgias, etc.
  • Real-time analytics and reporting dashboard
  • Zero-party data collection
  • Customizable survey branding and design
Ideal For

Company Size: Micro, Small, Medium, Large

Industries: Retail & E-commerce, Technology & Software

Pricing

Model: Subscription, Tiered, Free Trial

Tier: Mid

Ease of Use

Easy to Use

The Workflow

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Integration Logic

  • Fairing & GA4 Manual Correlation

    This is a manual data correlation process. The core logic involves exporting survey responses from Fairing, which include a unique identifier (like order ID or GA Client ID). Concurrently, a corresponding dataset is exported from Google Analytics 4's Explore reports, containing the same unique identifier along with desired metrics and dimensions (e.g., Session source/medium, landing page, conversion value). These two datasets are then merged in a spreadsheet application like Google Sheets or Excel using a `VLOOKUP` or similar function on the common identifier. The result is a unified table that allows for direct analysis of how self-reported attribution from Fairing surveys correlates with the user's tracked digital journey in GA4.

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