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Tracking Mobile Marketing Performance on iPhones

August 11th, 2009

In an ever increasingly important time to be able to measure and report on every ad dollar spent, measuring mobile marketing is something that most don’t really know how to do properly. ROIVista can help!

With ROIVista, you can measure the performance of your mobile marketing initiatives in a few ways;

1. Using SMS Direct Response
If you’re running a direct response campaign with a single MT interaction (i.e. the response to MO short-code submission), then you will either have a phone number or a URL as the call-to-action. ROIVista can help in both situations. By using one of your campaign assignments inside ROIVista, you can assign to Mobile – SMS and name the campaign something obvious. Each time someone clicks to call from within the SMS message, you will see the volumes and details in your dashboard reporting. Alternatively, if you’re using a mobile landing page or mobile site then iPhone users can be delivered a unique inbound number to track the campaign without the need for multiple landing pages.

2. Mobile Websites
If you want to track the number of calls made from referring campaign activity (e.g. mobile PPC efforts), then ROIVista can tell you not only that a call originates from your mobile website but also which PPC, banner or other mobile web campaign you’re running for users on iPhones.

Remember, ROIVista takes tracking beyond the landing page. We can display a campaign specific number no matter if the user navigates beyond your main landing page and into the rest of your website, thereby ensuring all online to offline campaign tracking remains seamless.

Private Beta Invites Are On Their Way

March 11th, 2009

We’re getting really excited – we’re slowly rolling out private invitations to some well known brands in the digital space and to a few close friends! If you’re interested in applying to be part of the beta and to be grandfathered in to some exciting pricing perks, then go here and Follow us on Twitter (@roivista).

A quick what ROI Vista is all about: For years, there hasn’t been a flexible way to monitor the impact that online campaigns have on the offline world. Marketers maybe tracked a few landing pages here and there because it wasn’t easy to implement a larger initiative to track ALL marketing efforts. It was laborious to track and monitor and reconile between multiple systems and departments. It was an enterpise level game due to the time it took and IT support needed.
On the other side, tracking campaigns in the offline world has been a doddle for decades as we’ve tracked each magazine ad, cinema spots, tv spots etc with their own unique numbers and attempted to track impact from offline to online using vanity URLs since the mid 90′s.

There hasn’t been a single platform that can track both sides of the coin though. ROI Vista has been designed by marketers to solve the problem of accurately figuring out just what impact online campaigns have on inbound calls and to measure offline ad campaigns that end up online, then back offline.

If you’re running or are involved in a normal marketing department, knowing this critical piece of the puzzle is the only true way to review each campaign’s effectiveness and to assess to complete impact it had on the business.

ROI Vista stops you guessing which of your campaigns actually make your phones ring. Track Unique Affiliates, PPC Campaigns, Search Engines, SMS Campaigns, Mobile Web Campaigns, Email Campaigns, Banner Ads, Referring Sites, Radio, Print, TV, Magazines, Newspapers…pretty much anything.

How you ask? Simply with an account and a few lines of code.

One very cool thing we did was to ensure flexibility in website designs. We enable the ability for you to replace both flat text and/or graphics in pages that you use for displaying your phone numbers.

Right now, we’re looking at interested parties who can really take advantage of our platform before we open up to public consumption. If you think you could benefit from having this added insight and measurement, then fill out our 5 question beta request.

So, what else is coming down the line? We’re looking at integration with Google Analytics so you can view the tracking of phone calls generated by your online or offline efforts in one UI. We’re also busy creating our unqiue online to store tracking methods to measure retail sales back to consumer touchpoints. Very cool stuff indeed!

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Metrics Key for Winning in the Downturn

February 27th, 2009

With the economy struggling and budgets being reduced, US marketers are focusing on quantifiable tactics to get their messages across. “Slash it!”

iMedia found that the majority of marketers were dedicating their firms to measurable, ROI-driven strategies. While some were keeping plans the same, even fewer were abandoning new marketing initiatives.

“With the current economic recession, digital marketing professionals are holding out hope that some of the budget dollars originally slated for traditional marketing will move into the cheaper, more measurable digital medium,” wrote iMedia analysts.

What is preventing marketing executives from moving more funding into the online space?

Respondents to the survey said that dependence on traditional measures, corporate culture, departmental inertia or fear and a lack of metrics were the largest roadblocks to further allocation.