Obviously everyone understands the basic concept about call tracking, but this isn’t about the basics.
With the rise of the new generation of customers you need to understand the new generation of tools and technology that are available to you right now, to help improve your measurement, CRO, and most importantly help boost your Return on Investment.
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What is possible with Call Tracking? - #MeasureFest 2013 - Calltracks
1. What is possible with
Call Tracking?
Ali White
Head of Marketing and Sales
Calltracks
2. So why should you care about calls?
SOURCE: BIA / Kelsey Report, May 2012. Call-Based Ads: Eliminating the Unknown From Advertising
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3. Who is this important to?
83% of online shoppers need
support to complete a purchase online...
71% expect that support in 5 minutes
or less…
Telephone is the most popular source
61%
http://econsultancy.com/blog/61991-83-of-online-shoppers-need-support-to-complete-a-purchase-stats
Graham Charlton – 30th January 2013
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5. Growth of Mobile
“It’s clear from our findings that driving phone calls should still be a priority for
businesses in every industry.”
http://adwords.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/new-research-shows-that-70-of-mobile.html
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6. Not just about the direct call volumes
• That being said on xAd's network specifically, a majority (52%) of search ads yield
calls to local businesses following the initial click
http://www.xad.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/xAd-Quarterly-Report_Q4-2011.pdf
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7. In the good old days
Sales
Enquiries
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8. Step 1: Call Tracking for Different Media
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Most tracking numbers forward calls to your existing telephone number
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9. Step 2: Call Tracking for Online Channels
• This can be source based e.g. everything from Google
• Can also be URL based e.g. retargeting, or keyword based
• But don’t forget visits are made up of visitors, who may come to your site more than
once, so you need to look at the whole journey
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13. Step 3: Call Tracking to Visitor Level
• With the advances in analytics such as Google’s Universal, this also means you can
track across multiple devices
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14. Step 3: Call Tracking to Visitor Level
Converted Visit
Medium =
Keyword =
1st Visit
Medium =
Keyword =
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15. Step 3: Call Tracking to Visitor Level
• If you remarket to customers who abandon purchase, you can make sure you don’t
remarket to the ones who called up …
• But if you are going to measure customer lifetime value, and really look at your multichannel marketing, you need to account for more...
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16. Step 4: Call Tracking CRM integration
• On initial call customer details logged in CRM system
• All subsequent interactions and outcomes tied back to customer record
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18. Now you can forget about conversions
Don’t optimise for conversions
or even for revenue!
Just optimise for profit!
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19. Reverse Engineer
• Use this information to just look at optimising your marketing channels, and to
understand which of these channels drive your customers to purchase
• Although there is more data it makes the process easier because you can now start at
the end and work your way back…even just looking at customers not loaded to CRM
• The real key is to Reverse engineer your sales … what causes people to purchase ‘x’
• In the example above December accounted for over 26% of PPC Spend for period
• In the example above December accounted for over 50% of the profit generated!
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20. This doesn’t just apply to marketing
• Don’t forget to also conduct CRO!
• By looking at the journey through your site, as well as the channels that drive the
traffic you can find quick wins!
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• Give customers the options they want, not the ones we do
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21. Know your number options
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22. Don’t use in isolation - INTEGRATE
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23. Integrate with your web analytics
• Don’t forget with the new universal there is now the measurement protocol available
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24. Integrate with other tools
• Like if you want to know which contacts keep coming back to your website
• Or if you want to run some tests accounting for all conversions including phone call
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25. Key Points
• Don’t discount telephone touch points whether you are lead gen or e-commerce
• Call tracking may have been around a while, but the technology is advancing so make
sure you take advantage
• Make sure you are not optimising on flawed data – look at the whole customer
journey, online and offline look how you can integrate your technology to maximise
your potential
• Look at options to integrate your technology
• Track all the way through to sale and optimise for profit – because ‘conversions’
alone are useless
• Don’t worry about data overload
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Figures from Google from 2012 for USA, UK for 2013 is 32%“It’s clear from our findings that driving phone calls should still be a priority for businesses in every industry” - Google
On your own date it might be the initial visit that converts, but what happens if it isn’t.If you are investing a lot in social as example and only looking at first click – will social get any mention?
Same goes for heat mapping
Obviously one of the biggest challenges for many companies is distinguishing between a good and a bad call. This doesn’t just mean the outcome and revenue, but what type of caller e.g. new vs returningAll to often I just hear people worrying about conversion of phone calls, then just work out a cost per lead by dividing the ad spend by calls – who said a phone call was necessarily a lead?Certainly great to hear call volumes going to be growing, but only if they are the calls we wantThe final point I’m talking about actual outcomes, not for example defining as a call longer than 1 minute as a sales call – because it might not be
You may even find phone calls are more valuable than form fills and start changing your CRO strategy to focus on them instead.Also one question I get asked a lot is do I show “click to call” button or the number as a button, well simply test?Lets start giving the customers they want, not the options we want
For example if you have a responsive site try mobile friendly numbers (03)
For example integrate with GEO IP lookup and serve customers numbers that suit them – in the above example we are showing Irish Dynamic Numbers to Irish visitors.
Any thoughts on presentation please let me know, I would really appreciate it