What is call tracking? Call tracking is the process of determining how callers found your business. Marketing and sales teams can use call tracking data to measure the success of advertising campaigns and optimize future marketing strategy. When did call tracking start? Call tracking in some form has existed since telephones were first invented and…

Just like W-shaped and U-shaped models, Z-shaped attribution models are named so due to the shape that they make when you take an overall graphical-level view of how each channel receives credit. As you might’ve guessed, Z-shaped attribution is a multi-touch model that gives credit to all touchpoints in the customer journey. It’s also a…

Like other similarly-named models (think W-shaped and Z-shaped models), U-shaped attribution is a multi-touch, position-based model that vaguely resembles a U when you take a graphical look at how it apportions credit. A multi-touch model means that it takes into account all the different touchpoints along the customer journey, while it’s classified as a position-based…

A W-shaped attribution model falls into two main categories: Multi-touch: this means that it takes into account (i.e. gives credit to) multiple touchpoints along the consumer’s buying journey. Position-based: This means that the way it decides to apportion credit to those touchpoints depends on their position, in other words where they appear along the buying…

The ongoing evolution of digital marketing channels, strategies, and technologies has yielded the deepest, most advanced metrics in marketing and sales history. With just a few little clicks from a prospect, you learn so much — from where the lead found you to what you should do to nurture the relationship. This ease of data…

What is a linear attribution model? A linear attribution model focuses on multi-touch attribution–meaning it takes into account and attributes credit to multiple touchpoints along the customer journey. In fact, this model actually takes into account every single interaction that a prospect has with your brand prior to purchasing. Mathematically-speaking, they’re incredibly easy to understand.…

For your site to be seen by online customers, you need to optimize your website for search engines. This is where SEO comes into your marketing strategy. Without a strategy for search engine optimization (SEO), your business could be and is missing out on a slew of prospects who are local to you, but unaware…

Most paths to purchase are not a straight line. There are lots of ways for customers to discover your brand, engage with it, and move further down the sales funnel. That’s why attribution models have become a necessary tool for marketers looking for data to improve their campaigns. What is attribution modeling? Attribution modeling is…

NAP Consistency refers to the accuracy of a location-based business’s Name, Address, and Phone number across all business listings, local directories, social media profiles, and websites. It is widely considered a search ranking factor for local SEO. Don’t forget about your homepage URL as well as this is the most important element to keep consistent.…

Customer success is the business methodology of ensuring customers achieve their desired outcomes while using your product or service. Customer Success is relationship-focused client management, that aligns client and vendor metrics and goals for mutually beneficial business outcomes.   The importance of managing customer success Customer success management transforms your customer relationship through strategic and…

URL tracking parameters, also known as tracking codes or tracking tags, are tools that record the origin of a click. When someone clicks on a link in one of your ads, emails, or other marketing efforts, these little snippets of computer language, which are attached to the ends of URLs, capture all sorts of valuable…

If you’re in marketing, it’s likely you’re tracking leads using forms on your website. But if your ads, emails, or landing pages include a phone number, you may be missing out on credit for leads that come in through a call (or text). Depending on your industry, callers can be the most motivated leads. Call…

Product positioning is developing a strategy to market a product or service to its target audience. Effective positioning highlights product benefits and attributes with messaging that clearly states your product’s value over your competitors. The strategy and process of positioning a product involves with identifying the problem(s) you’re solving through your product features, conducting market…

Product life cycle is a term used to describe the stages of creation, growth, and retirement that any product goes through as it makes it way to and through the hands of its users. The traditional stages are a product life cycle are development, introduction, growth, maturity, and decline. The product life cycle lives mainly…

The buyer’s journey has never been more complex. With new technologies are drastically revolutionizing the way we market and purchase products, it’s no longer as simple as a customer walking into your store and buying something they need. Nowadays, consumers are inundated with ads on their phones, laptops, TVs, and, of course, billboards. More choice…

Customer Lifetime Value (CLV) is the total value in revenue a customer represents to a company over the entirety of their business relationship or customer life cycle. It is one of the most important metrics to track for overall business performance. The importance of measuring CLV Customer Lifetime Value (CLV) can be one of the…

Time-decay attribution is a multi-touch attribution model that gives some credit to all the channels that led to your customer converting, with that amount of credit being less (decaying) the further back in time the channel was interacted with. The assumption here is that the first advertising channel your customer interacted with merely planted the…

Defining and identifying marketing qualified leads (MQLs) is the catalyst for all marketing efforts. In this piece, we’ll explore what an MQL is, how they can be qualified, the relationship between MQLs and SQLs (sales-qualified leads), and how MQLs can help show return on investment (ROI). What is a marketing-qualified lead? A marketing-qualified lead is…

More than 60% of Google’s search engine traffic came from mobile devices through the first six months of 2019, as more and more consumers moved their online purchasing journeys from desktop to mobile. For small business owners and digital marketers, call-only ads and call extensions are effective ways to capitalize on this trend, improve mobile…

A heatmap is a data visualization tool that displays user data captured on a website in the form of color density maps to convey user behavior and traffic patterns. The more intense the color values of certain areas, the more traffic that location of a page has received.   Benefits of using a heat map…

A featured snippet provides a summarized answer to a users search query at the top of the Google search engine results page (SERP), right above position 1. These answers are scraped from other sites content that best satisfies the user’s search. Also referred to as position zero, the featured snippet answer is contained in a…

Latent semantic indexing (LSI) is a complex system used by search engines to analyze the relationships between terms and concepts on a page in an effort to provide the most accurate and relevant search results.   The importance of latent semantic indexing for search Latent semantic indexing uses natural language processing (NLP) to help a…

Information Architecture, often written as IA, is the organization of information into a hierarchy to make it easier to use. IA gives structure to information including content organization, site structure and navigating hierarchy in website redesigns. The importance of Information Architecture to the user’s experience The term ‘Information Architecture’ dates from 1975 and is attributed…

Lead generation is a marketing strategy that aims to generate interest in a product or service from prospective customers and turn them into qualified leads ready to make a purchase.   The importance of lead generation Lead generation is a critical marketing strategy for sustainable long-term business growth as it not only works to generate…

A sales funnel, also known as a purchase funnel, is a consumer-based marketing model designed to replicate a potential customers journey through the stages of the buying process for any product or service. The typical stages of the sales process include: Awareness Interest Decision Action   The importance of the sales funnel process A sales…