This is a guest post from our friends at Cardinal Digital Marketing, an agency based out of Atlanta, Georgia. Alex Membrillo is the CEO of Cardinal, and is a published author — his latest book “The Anatomy of Medical Marketing” is an all-purpose guide for helping medical groups grow their practice and stay off life…

For Lars Marketing, data is everything. The Seattle-based search marketing agency works with small and medium sized businesses in a diverse range of industries — from printing to automotive maintenance — but the one thing all of their clients have in common is that they rely on accurate data to inform their business decisions.  In…

Chicago-based SEM agency SearchLab works with a variety of fast-growing clients. With clients across the country and just over two years in business, the group has already earned awards from Clutch (2018 and 2019) and was listed among the top digital agencies by Built in Chicago earlier this year.  Unlike most agencies, however, SearchLab operates…

This is a guest post by our friends at Logical Position, a Portland-based digital marketing agency. There’s a famous saying in the advertising world from marketing pioneer John Wanamaker: “Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don’t know which half.” It has always been important to prove to your…

This is a guest post from our friends at Cardinal Digital Marketing, an agency based out of Atlanta, Georgia. Alex Membrillo is the CEO of Cardinal, and is a published author — his latest book “The Anatomy of Medical Marketing” is an all-purpose guide for helping medical groups grow their practice and stay off life…

This case study is a guest post written by our friends at Neon Ambition, one of CallRail’s Agency Partners. As a full-service marketing agency based out of Austin, Texas, Neon Ambition focuses on helping our clients grow their businesses through content, SEO and PPC. Rather than working to amass a long list of business partners,…

Whether your clients operate a small business or an enterprise company, call tracking can help track, attribute, and report on these calls in order to identify strengths and weaknesses, eliminate ineffective marketing, and convert more leads into sales. Below we highlight a few tools that will help your clients to litmus-test whether call tracking makes…

Vancouver-based agency Titan PPC knows a thing or two about the ‘quality over quantity’ approach to marketing. Instead of offering a host of services to their clients, they channel their expertise and resources into pay per conversion marketing, which delivers more immediate results.  At the same time, as marketing reporting becomes more accessible and commonplace…

For more than a decade, the Austin, Texas-based digital agency Intellibright has helped companies across the country excel at online marketing and sales. Their typical client runs a thriving business, but does not have the budget or staff to manage an internal digital marketing team — that’s where Intellibright comes in. Intellibright is compensated according…

Gravity Digital is a Houston-area full-service marketing agency that produces amazingly clever content assets like this video for their healthcare clients. When the Gravity team bundles these assets into a campaign, they’re focused on one thing: Driving more qualified website traffic for their clients.  But healthcare isn’t ecommerce. It’s not always simple to tie the…

Dentists enjoy marketing their practices about as much as their patients enjoy getting cavities filled. Fortunately, the Texas-based full service digital marketing agency Pain Free Dental Marketing has made it their mission to help practices bring in new patients, so dentists can focus on what they do best. With such a specialized market, it’s critical…

Have you ever dated someone who spoke a completely different love language than you? Maybe they love showering you with gifts and words of affirmation, but you prefer to receive acts of service and plenty of quality time. The discrepancy is cute at first, but once the honeymoon phase is over, your relationship falls into…

Choosing an independent or assisted living community is a big decision for seniors and their families. On top of requiring excellent accommodations, they also need peace of mind and confidence in their community management before signing a lease. The Arbor Company knows this firsthand. With 44 independent and assisted living rental communities across 11 states,…

Here on CallRail’s Product team, we’re dedicated to making multi-client management as easy and efficient as possible. That’s why we’re proud to announce several exciting new tools and enhancements in Account Center designed to help you get more done in less time. Streamlined client management These Account Center upgrades aim to make it even easier…

Video Transcription: [Greg] People bounced between the desktop, their smartphones, stores, and back and forth. And so tracking all of that activity is really challenging. Next slide, please. So once upon a time, we had a handful of traditional media. They were fairly straightforward, easy to buy, creative was pretty straightforward in most cases. And…

Marketing agencies that understand the benefits of call tracking often find themselves putting in extra work to convince their clients that it can be a game-changer. Indeed, one of the biggest challenges you might face when setting up call tracking is reluctance on the part of the client. Set aside for a moment the fact…

Just as there are many different forms of marketing — agency marketing, campaign marketing, referral / relationship marketing — there’s an equally diverse range of methods for calculating ROI on those initiatives. Depending on the size and scope of the specific campaign (or the wider time period you’re measuring), ROI calculation can require anything from…

If you ask a dozen agency marketers to list the essential ingredients for building a good marketing agency, you’ll probably get a dozen different answers. But no matter what industry your agency works in — and no matter which analytics are your main points of focus — building and maintaining close relationships with your clients…

There’s a debate in the baseball world around one very conventional statistic: Pitcher wins and losses. For decades, both fans and team executives have looked to this metric as a key indicator of a pitcher’s value. And while most have all but abandoned pitcher wins as any kind of meaningful indicator of pitching performance, it…

Introduction [Anna] All right. So, again, thank you, everyone, for your patience. We’re really excited for today’s webinar. And it’s going to focus primarily on client reporting, so proving the effectiveness of your marketing for your clients, or maybe you work at an agency, maybe you have some in-house responsibilities, like a RPPC manager. And…

Finding good clients is hard. But once you find great clients, keeping them should be easy… right? Unfortunately, this isn’t the case. Even if you’re providing great services, some clients will want to part ways. Sometimes these splits are inevitable — even the best agencies have some churn. Other times, though, these splits can be…

Your CallRail account comes equipped with the tools you need to gain valuable insight into your customer base, but did you know there’s a new tool that helps you easily manage all of your CallRail accounts? For marketers, agency staff, and anyone else who supervises more than one CallRail account, Account Center is a seamless way…

Agencies and their clients working together is like any relationship. In the beginning, your agency is courting a potential client. You want to show why you’re the best and convince them you’re the agency for them, ensuring long-term client retention. Some potential clients are already taken, others just aren’t interested, and some decide your agency…

Convincing your clients to increase their ad spend is one of the toughest conversations you can have if you work at an SEM agency. There can be multiple reasons behind your desire to increase your client’s budget. Maybe you’ve seen consistent success and are trying to ramp up their campaigns. Maybe you’re running a percentage-of-ad-spend…

Marketers that aren’t working on a million things at once just don’t exist. (And honestly, do we even want them to?) The ability to wear different hats is an admirable, sought-after trait in this competitive domain. But it can be complicated to manage multiple projects and thoroughly analyze how your work is performing. Getting the…

In the fast-paced world of agency marketing, it’s easy to fixate purely on outcomes: You want to finish the campaign, fulfill the terms of your contract, and move on to the next project. But if your agency strategy doesn’t account for churn — as in, how you’re going to entice your client to renew their…

Today, virtually every marketing agency under the sun offers web design services to their small business clients. However, in an industry that can seemingly transform itself between sunrise and sunset on the same day, it can be hard for agencies to be sure they’re providing the most cutting-edge web design tools and technologies to help…

One of the biggest challenges any marketing agency will face is client retention. While it can be (relatively) easy to get leads on the hook, and even to convert those leads into paying clients for a month or two, it’s far harder to keep them on board for months or years at a time. For…

We’ve all heard the buzzwords “data-driven marketing” in just about every industry article and every presentation at a marketing event. As tools for marketing attribution data and analytics have become more sophisticated and reliable, companies have come to depend on these numbers to perfect their campaigns, determine what is and isn’t driving leads, and figure…

You know the expression, “If a tree falls in the woods and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?” There’s an equivalent when it comes to data presentation: “If you put compelling data into a mediocre presentation, will your clients be convinced to keep you on retainer?” When digging through…

Marketing agencies have to use a variety of tools and platforms to understand how well their efforts are working to help their clients reach their goals. Unfortunately, these platforms are often siloed and specialize in only one facet of the buyer’s journey, muddling the reality of true performance. But you can integrate CallRail with many…

Recently, CallRail held our first-ever Case Study Webinar. We conducted a live interview with Adam Arkfeld, the founder and president of ParaCore, a digital marketing agency based out of Tempe, Arizona. Now, if you’ve been following the CallRail blog, you’re probably already familiar with our case studies. (After all, you’re reading one right now!) We…

This is a guest post by Adam Carbonneau, a digital marketing manager at Whitehardt. Adam oversees the organic online efforts of Whitehardt’s law firm clients. Radio spots, television commercials, websites, landing pages, print copy, PPC campaigns… You have all the options for advertising that your clients could want or dream of, yet, how can your clients…

One of the best parts of writing case studies about CallRail users is that we get talk to so many different people. We’ve interviewed digital marketing pros from Down Under, explored how call tracking helped a Gulf Coast nursing home connect families during a hurricane crisis, and seen how our service helped a California real…

Real estate marketing for rental properties can be similar to working with a franchise. You’ll serve many individual businesses who have similar strategic goals, yet also have their own unique quirks owing to geography, demographics, and the management style of their owner-operators. Digible is a Denver-based digital marketing agency specializing in advertising campaigns for multi-family…

As your marketing agency begins to grow into a mid-sized firm and beyond, one of the most critical issues you’ll face is ensuring that your teams and clients have the tools they need to scale and improve their performance along with your business. Bonfire is a full-service digital marketing agency based out of Perth, Australia,…

Getting your small business off the ground can be a harrowing task for aspiring entrepreneurs. In addition to the usual responsibilities of managing your expenses and cultivating relationships with customers and industry peers, new firms must also tackle digital marketing head-on if they’re going to be competitive in the modern market. If you’re unfamiliar with…

In marketing, there’s no such thing as a guarantee. Any marketer worth their salt will tell you how difficult it is to promise a specific return when there are so many variables in play, and when so much can be up to chance. But Phorge, a digital marketing agency based in Sydney, Australia, which specializes…

Patients have access to a wealth of information about healthcare and medical practices online, and many practices have realized that online marketing is critical to attracting the attention of patients searching online. This is especially true for practices in large markets. The problem is, many medical practices don’t know what their return on investment is…

Marketing in the dental space is highly fragmented and specialized, especially when compared to other industries. There aren’t yet an industry-wide set of universal best practices for digital marketing in this arena, so many dentists have to take a piecemeal approach to advertising: They’ll hire one firm to handle their web design, another for direct…

Earn More Do Less is a full-service marketing agency based out of the Watertown neighborhood of Boston, MA. With 20 clients currently on the books and more than 100 businesses served since they launched four years ago, the company specializes in clientele in the home decor and care industries. From the moment you open their…

Paxton Automotive Marketing is the country’s leader in direct mail and digital advertising for the automotive industry. They create customized advertising solutions for more than 125 clients across the nation to drive traffic to their websites, generate leads, and increase direct sales. They’ve been using call tracking since they first opened 14 years ago and…

Have you ever had to deal with horrible customer service? Do you remember how annoyed you felt waiting on the phone, listening to “elevator music” for over an hour? Add that to the pressure you feel when you’re trying to get more leads for your boss… and you have a recipe for a bad day. If…

In our recent webinar, “How Local SEO Experts Onboard Clients” we shared real life examples of how Local SEO experts set their client’s up for success. Big thanks to Moz Local’s George Freitag for sharing his insights. Here’s the recording of the webinar. We were pretty impressed by the amount of engagement we received during the…