Attaining a multi-touch attribution strategy

‘Attaining a multi-touch attribution strategy that works is like looking for the holy grail’. This is one of the conclusions in a report just published by the CallRail Research Unit (click here to download the report).

A key finding from their survey was that ‘36% of marketers say that lack of insights into the effectiveness of tactics, or an effective attribution capability, is the most damaging factor to their marketing efforts; a further 25% ranked it the second most significant factor’.

It so happens that we have recently completed developing a multi-touch attribution capability and it’s now part of UniFida.

Attaining a multi-touch attribution strategy enables you to understand the relative influence, and ROI, of all your online and offline marketing channels and media.

We would like to give you a live demo and show you how it works. If you can spare us 30 minutes, please send us an email and suggest a convenient time for you.

 

UniFida logo

UniFida is the trading name of Marketing Planning Services Ltd, a London based technology and data science company set up in 2014. Our overall aim is to help organisations build more customer value at less marketing cost.

Our technology focus has been to develop UniFida. Our data science business comes both from existing users of UniFida, and from clients looking to us to solve their more complex data related marketing questions.

Marketing is changing at an explosive speed, and our ambition is to help our clients stay empowered and ahead in this challenging environment.

Dumping Cost Per Click

Have you ever felt that you wanted to dump cost per click (CPC) as your measure of ROI but time pressures and lack of tools mean that you remain stuck with it?

We have just received an interesting report from LinkedIn Marketing Solutions which explains how a large proportion of digital marketers are still using CPC as their ROI measure for digital marketing.

But we all know that CPC, useful as it is, only describes one part of the customer journey.

Part of the problem is that, as the report explains, marketeers are under constant pressure to make decisions quickly; they have frequent budget allocation discussions and need to base decisions on something.

However, we suspect that a bigger issue is that digital marketers don’t have the tools to measure the true return, based on their overall contribution to sales achieved, from their different online and offline media.

There will often be multiple influences on the journey to a sale, and many of these can be offline, like things sent through the mail, or undetectable on your website, like opened but unclicked emails. It is only when you look at all the online and offline influences in combination that you can start to allocate the value of a sale back to its causes.

This capability is precisely what we have developed in UniFida, so that we can bring together everything that may have influenced each of your customers in the 90-day window before they placed an order.

When you can see for each order both its value, and all the events that led up to it, and then weight them according to how recent they were, you can then do the value attribution job properly.

If you would like to find out more about how we can help you solve this problem, do please send us an email, and we will arrange a call at a time convenient to you.

Read the full report ‘The Long and the Short of ROI’ from LinkedIn Marketing Solutions.

UniFida logo

UniFida is the trading name of Marketing Planning Services Ltd, a London based technology and data science company set up in 2014. Our overall aim is to help organisations build more customer value at less marketing cost.

Our technology focus has been to develop UniFida. Our data science business comes both from existing users of UniFida, and from clients looking to us to solve their more complex data related marketing questions.

Marketing is changing at an explosive speed, and our ambition is to help our clients stay empowered and ahead in this challenging environment.

Can you escape from Analysis Paralysis?

For many marketeers, a significant part of their day is spent pulling together reports from disparate data sources, and then trying to extract from them the metrics they need to unravel how their marketing is actually working. Usually with varying degrees of success and causing what we’ve come to know as analysis paralysis.

Well, if you are one of these people, we have a means of escape!

You may recall that our cloud-based customer data platform, called UniFida, neatly joins together all your online and offline customer information and builds a single customer view. It undertakes identity resolution, and links browsing and ordering activity to individual people.

We originally designed this tool to enable you to send very personalised communications to individual customers. But it also allows us to provide you with a complete set of marketing performance metrics. Serendipity happens!

The metrics we produce cover what we expect are your key concerns:

  • Customer metrics to tell you about customer acquisition, retention, and longer-term value
  • Campaign metrics to provide you with the results of all your direct communications with known individuals
  • And media metrics to show you how each of your media channels are contributing to the orders you are receiving (including social, display, PPC, email, mail, and SMS)

We recognise that you may not at this point in time need the whole suite of UniFida functionality, but you may be interested in UniFida Marketing Metrics as a standalone module, particularly when priced accordingly.

We believe that it can give you nearly all the metrics you need to manage your marketing at a very reasonable cost (and with us taking care of all the set up and configuration).

If you want to discover how you can escape analysis paralysis and get a quick understanding of UniFida, then contact us.

And if you would like to us to arrange a teleconference with you, then please email us with a good time to talk.

 

UniFida logo

UniFida is the trading name of Marketing Planning Services Ltd, a London based technology and data science company set up in 2014. Our overall aim is to help organisations build more customer value at less marketing cost.

Our technology focus has been to develop UniFida. Our data science business comes both from existing users of UniFida, and from clients looking to us to solve their more complex data related marketing questions.

Marketing is changing at an explosive speed, and our ambition is to help our clients stay empowered and ahead in this challenging environment.