Q: Hello Sumo-lings!
My name is Braden, and I’m the founder of Sparrow. We’re super excited to share our product with the community!
HOW WE STARTED 🐦
Before Sparrow, I was a software engineer and product manager in the Bay Area, building tools to help e-commerce businesses engage with shoppers. While the job was fun, I began to spend more and more of my time outside of work building tools to analyze social media data. I quickly realized my passion was in marketing analytics.
I started reaching out to local marketing agency owners: I wanted to understand what role data played when managing marketing campaigns for clients.
After many conversations (and an unhealthy amount of coffee), I recognized a common theme: reporting. Everyone I spoke to hated making reports; it’s that boring end-of-the-month “chore” that no one wanted to do. Existing automation solutions were either too expensive or too confusing and doing it manually was a huge waste of time.
Yet, everyone needed to do it. Clients expect monthly updates on performance, and marketing teams need the data to optimize their ongoing marketing efforts. It couldn’t be avoided.
I was convinced. I left my job, hired a small team, and spent the next 2 years building and iterating on our product: Sparrow.
SO WHAT IS SPARROW? 😄
Sparrow is a data platform that enables organizations to efficiently monitor the performance of their digital marketing campaigns. You can access your data in consolidated dashboards, sync your metrics directly to Google Slides and Sheets, and create templates to automate client reporting.
ENGLISH, PLEASE? 🤔
Sorry! In simpler words: We built a website that lets you see all your marketing data in one place, and with our Google add-on, you can see and insert your data in Google Slides and Google Sheets.
And those Google documents you insert metrics into? You can save those as templates and automatically re-use them for different clients.
THANKS, WHAT INTEGRATIONS DO YOU SUPPORT? 📊
We can pull data from 11 different data sources:
Facebook (pages)
Instagram (business accounts)
Twitter
LinkedIn (pages)
YouTube
Facebook Ads
Google Ads
MailChimp
ActiveCampaign
ConstantContact
Google Analytics
GREAT, SO WHAT’S COMING NEXT? 🚀
We plan to continue adding new data sources every month, increase our catalog of available metrics, and push out new features from our public roadmap every quarter.
If you’re interested in helping shape our roadmap, you can submit ideas to our idea board or upvote data sources you want to see us integrate with directly inside the Sparrow app.
Roadmap: https://roadmap.sparrowcharts.com
Idea board: https://roadmap.sparrowcharts.com/#ideas
OUR COMMITMENT 🤝
If you run into an issue, we’ll fix it. If you have an idea for how we can improve, we’ll listen. We’ve only made it this far by listening to our customers, and we’re not going to stop now!
Feel free to reach out if you have any questions: support@sparrowcharts.com
Cheers!
--Braden