higher ed-analytics-preso-colleen-clark-1-17-13
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Tracking Online and Offline Marketing Efforts: Setting Your
Integrated Tracking Management Plan
Presented by: Colleen Clark, Marketing Analyst
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Overview
Importance of TrackingWhat Can We Track?Campaign Tagging– When should we use Campaign Tags?– Overview– Example
Event Tracking– When should we use Event Tracking?– Overview– Example
MetricsBest PracticesGetting Everyone On Board
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“The online channel often, though not always, can be a lower cost channel.
Showing exactly how to use it (which campaigns, mediums, products) and for
whom (visitor personas, geographies) and why will ensure your job security and the
channel's security as well.”
~Avinash Kaushik
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Why is Tracking the Details Important?
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Automatically Tracked
Referrals
Social Media
Direct Traffic
Campaigns
Search
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Not Automatically Tracked
Flash Interactions
Downloads
Paid Search
Digital Media
Form Choices
External Links
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Campaign Tagging If you’re running an
external marketing campaign, you need to add special tagging to the URL in order to track campaign performance of visitor engagement.
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When Do We Use Campaign Tracking?
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How is Campaign Tracking Used?
In order to track campaign performance, you will need to tag your URLs with a string of parameters:
http://www.ithaca.edu/?utm_medium=print&utm_source=nyt&utm_campaign=ready-fall-2012&utm_content=brand-full-page
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Campaign Tagging Overview
Medium Source Campaign Content(optional)
Term(optional)
cpc google business degree business degree
social-media twitter social - -
banner adroll ready ad1-350x500 -
email fire-engine-red
welcome-new-student
- -
newspaper nyt ready ad1-full-page -
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Campaign Tracking Example
A. Traffic Sources > CampaignsB. Choose Source / Medium (or Other)C. Add additional layer such as “Ad Content”
A
B
C
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Event Tracking
If you are unable to view certain website interactions, you may want to opt for event tracking.
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When Do We Use Event Tracking?
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Event Tracking Values
• Web objects that cannot be tracked traditionally.• Example: button, email, pdf, Video, External LinkCategories
• The visitors interaction with an object (category)• Example: click, play, download, pause, stopActions
• Provides descriptive/name information about the event (optional)
• Example: common app, recommendation formLabels
• numerical, typically used to represent monetary value (optional)
• Example: 1, 20, 100Value
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Event Tracking Example
A. Events > Top EventsB. Choose Action / Label / CategoryC. Add Additional Event Layer
A
CB
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So many metrics!!!
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Questions to Ask: Campaign Metrics
Before you look at your Metrics:– Do I want to know how a certain vendor is performing or
compares within a certain medium?– What is the most engaging medium (paid search, email,
etc) and who/what is driving it?– How is the campaign performing, overall?– Does Ad#1 send more traffic or perform better than
Ad#2?– Are my landing pages engaging enough?– How do visitors react by landing on page A versus B?
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Combining Campaign & Event Tracking
Engagement metrics will never mean anything unless you ask “WHY?”
? ? ? ? ?
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Combining Campaign & Event Tracking
Add Event Tracking as a Segment to increase analysis:
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Tracking Gone
Wrong?!!
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Tagging Best Practices
• Avoid Post-Redirects• Maintain Clean URLs• Consistent Naming• Special Characters• Never Tag Your Own Links
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Getting Everyone On Board
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Have the Conversation with:
Your Agency• Communicate how imperative it is to tag all online and offline marketing
campaigns before it goes live. Share best practices.
Your Computer Programmer• Your tech team will be able to assist you with internal tagging such as events and
custom variables. Come up with a tagging nomenclature so they don’t have to do the guess-work.
Your Marketing Managers• Make sure they include you within conversations around partnerships, press releases,
online publications, digital marketing campaigns, and vanity URLs.
Admissions• Once a prospective student begins the inquiry process, admissions marketing takes
over. Initiate conversations with your recruitment director to ensure all offline and online interactions are properly tagged.
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Review / Takeaways
Be proactive. Analyze all marketing campaigns and on-page objects for tracking opportunitiesCampaign tracking = External dataEvent tracking = Internal dataAlways refer to best practices when creating new tagsEstablish trust within your Admissions, Tech, Agency, and Marketing teams.
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Appendix
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Campaign Tracking Tools: URL Builder
http://support.google.com/analytics/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1033867