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5 Call Metrics Digital Agencies Cant Afford to Ignore

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Vaishali Gopi

In today's marketing world, many companies, organisations and brands are competing with one another to rank better than the other. Marketing is the biggest thing in a business today and the leading pathway to a successful business. In the digital world, digital marketing is the key to any business strategy and thus even between digital agencies the competition to one-up the other is intense. Businesses have not just realised the value of digital marketing in their business plans, they have begun increasing their budgets to ensure an internet omnipresence. With such high demands, digital agencies must really up their game in terms of unique strategies and efficient trackings.

 

Today's age is data-driven that conversions and return of investments are the key ways to understand how many results were obtained from external marketing efforts. With this in place, many agencies still do not end up tracking all the right metrics. This leads to bad business and low clients.

 

How do digital agencies monitor their online presence and ensure that they are tracking all calls received? Here is a list of 5 call metrics that can help determine what these digital agencies are doing wrong and what they are doing right.

 

    1. Top keywords that convert: Keywords are the holy grail of marketing and marketers swear by keywords and SEO. In order to rank higher up on Google search results, marketers constantly gamble with keyword placements to be spotted. However, gambling with this without proper research, holds too much risk in terms of uncertainty. This is the number one metric digital agencies must begin checking to understand what keywords resulted in a callback which will then allow the marketers to play with those keywords to improve direct traffic. If your landing page is a form or consists of a CTA then the call tracking conversion can be performed from there. Smart marketers have begun integrating call information with Google Analytics to reduce these calls to perfect numerical data to study conversions and leads in a more proficient manner.
    2. Sources: Besides the keywords, it is also important to track the source from where you received a callback. With your marketing efforts running across various digital and social channels such as Google ads, paid campaigns, social media channels, newsletters and so on, it is important to know which channels are resulting in callbacks and potential business. There exist tools that help decipher where each call can be traced back to thus ensuring that you focus on the best channels.

 

  • Interactions that lead to conversion: It is important to analyse the quality of calls that converted just to get a better understanding of the conversion pattern. Call recordings are a fantastic way of understanding various customers and their patterns and trends to draw analysis on the type of buyers to target. Most importantly by keeping tab of the calls that converted you can also deduce, on an average, how many calls it takes to convert potential calls and thus allowing you to set realistic targets. By recording calls not only can best practices be learnt, they can also be imbibed and passed onto other members of the team to be able to test and adhere to. This can revolutionise your sales in ways that are quantifiable. This will also help improve your customer service representative’s outputs.
  • Interactions that do not lead to conversions: It is equally important to monitor calls that do not convert. Not with all the calls, but with those that you think were opportunities, it is important learning to understand why some calls do not convert. While in most cases, it is because they were cold leads, sometimes there could be a big lesson in understanding the psyche of different customers and catering to their needs separately. There could also be a lot to learn from a product and technology standpoint which could be taken as feature requests for the future.

 

  1. Previous conversations and location: Knowing everything about your caller is a number one prerequisite. Firstly, it is important to know if the customer has called before. If this is a repeat call then you must be ready with the synopsis of what happened in the previous call. This information when kept handy can help win customers over. Most importantly, this type of data can help analyse trends and patterns to take note of. Additionally, determining the location of your customer will help understand which locations results in most calls thus allowing you to focus more on such areas. This logic can be applied to a lot of fields such as age group of customers and time of the call to understand what your target audience should be and the best time to push content to the audience to ensure they do not miss it.

 

These are some basic but absolutely necessary metrics to ensure that calls are tracked and most can be obtained from it. Many digital agencies tend to look for the wrong metrics in their analysis and are always on the lookout for the wrong numbers. Once this system is stabilised there is scope to improve the marketing and technical area of the agency to ensure higher viewability.

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