Sound familiar?
When marketing spend and revenue growth stop connecting
Marketing reports leads. Finance reports cost. Nobody reports revenue.
The CMO presents CPL. The CFO presents spend. Nobody in the room can connect the two to a revenue outcome. The marketing budget is always at risk.
Attribution is last-touch only -- or completely absent
The last ad click gets all the credit. Every touchpoint in the 6-month consideration journey -- content, webinars, email, events -- is invisible. Optimisation decisions are based on a fraction of the picture.
The agency has never seen your CRM
Your paid media agency reports weekly on CTR and CPL. They have no access to the CRM. They have never seen which of their leads closed. Optimisation is based on platform signals, not revenue.
Different teams produce different revenue numbers
Marketing reports one pipeline figure. Sales reports another. Finance reports a third. Board meetings open with reconciliation, not strategy.
High-performing content is invisible
A whitepaper that influenced 40 closed deals last year gets zero credit in any report. It was never connected to the CRM. It gets cut from next year's budget.
Campaign ROI calculated by guesswork
Last-click attribution in a spreadsheet. Assumptions about conversion rates applied retrospectively. The board can tell the number is unreliable but there is nothing better to replace it with.
Why this happens
"Attribution fails because the CRM is never treated as the revenue system of record. Marketing tools report marketing metrics. Nobody bridges them to closed revenue."
The attribution gap is an architecture problem, not a data problem. Marketing platforms generate enormous volumes of engagement data. CRMs hold the revenue data. The two systems are almost never connected bidirectionally with a consistent UTM framework, source attribution model, and multi-touch weighting methodology. Without that connection, marketing can only report on activity -- never on outcomes.
The Celumai approach
How we connect every marketing pound to revenue
What we use to fix this
The services we combine to fix marketing attribution
Attribution is a cross-functional architecture problem. We fix all the layers.
The transformation
Before & after working with Celumai
"We can now show the CFO exactly how much revenue every of media spend generated. Cost per qualified conversation dropped 42% in the first quarter. The board now views marketing as a revenue function."
How we connected GBP340,000 of quarterly pipeline to specific marketing campaigns
Marketing had no attribution beyond CPL. We deployed a full UTM framework, connected HubSpot bidirectionally to Salesforce, and built a multi-touch attribution model. Every deal now has a complete marketing source history from first impression to close.
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We will audit your current attribution setup and show you how much revenue is currently unattributed -- before any engagement begins.