Rachel Dohmann, formally of the Texas A&M Foundation and Ryan Lindsay of Converge Consulting covered campaign tracking tactics that will help you prove ROI on all marketing activities. You’ll learn how to develop a campaign strategy, report on campaigns using dashboards and segment website analytics by marketing campaign. Walk away with free resources to immediately implement a strategy at your institution.
In this webinar you'll:
- Develop an institutional campaign strategy (with free campaign URL builder)
- Report on marketing campaigns using dashboards (with dashboard template)
- Segment data by marketing activity (downloadable segments for user accounts)
11. The Three Facets
Source:
“The brand name”
facebook, newsletter, affiliate link, google
Medium:
The bucket
email, social, cpc, ppc, display
Campaign:
The message/content
date, fall2014, alumni2014-8-15
36. Phase I
• Pre-Launch Assessment and Project Planning
• Domain and Sub-domain mapping
• Audience prioritization and goal mapping
Phase II
• Google Tag Manager creation and implementation
• Testing
Phase III
• Event tracking and goal implementation
• Dashboard reporting
Phase IV
• User ID Integration
• Dimension Widening (importing donor levels to attach to unique IDs)
PROJECT TIMELINE
61. Takeaways
• Facebook drive the highest quality traffic
• Giveaway content drive the most conversions, followed by
Maroon Coats
• Social is bringing in more new visitors, but they stay less
time and bounce more frequently
• 64% of social traffic is mobile
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62. Ask Yourself Questions
• Which channels are you spending the most time on?
Money? Does that line up with outcomes?
• Is it reasonable/worth it to match up more of the exact
social examples?
› Is this documented somewhere?
• Are we fully utilizing the giveaway conversions?
• Are the landing pages we’re driving to mobile friendly?
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67. Additional Converge Resources
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Converge Blog:
- 7 Helpful Google Analytics Dashboards
- Tracking Campaigns in Google Analytics
- Converge Consulting’s Most Valuable Resources on Google
Analytics
Converge Webinars:
- Google Analytics – Top 5 Things to Know
- Why and How to Switch to Universal Analytics
As I mentioned Converge is a digital agency for higher education We specialize in website redesign, inbound marketing and digital advertising.
In the next hour we will be covering:
Overview of Campaign Tracking
Campaign Tracking Governance
Reporting on Campaigns using Dashboards
Segmenting Data Using Campaigns
Talk about website redesign and its goals. What do we want people to DO on the site?
We used the subdomain mapping exercise to decide which subdomains and domains to include in our new Property.
We did the strategic exercise to map our goals. Here’s what that looked like. We had to think about “what we want our website to do” and it helped us evaluate things like CTAs.
Which resulted in these goals.
Which resulted in these goals.
Which resulted in these goals.
You can do this RIGHT now.
Once we had the basics in place, we could start using the data to start analyzing our projects;
Background on planned giving newsletter; Saturday send, not mobile friendly response; not relatable or segmented content;
Based on regular GA settings, can see stuff like mobile traffic
Because campaign tracking and goals in place, could provide recommendations based on content and even layout; kept a table
What’s pulling your people in? What type of content and which platforms?
Platform versus platform
Within Facebook – what types of content are bringing people in?
What types of conversions are we getting from Facebook?
**All regular conversions, not assisted conversions; properly tagged, you can tell which content performed best; don’t forget your spreadsheet of all of you codes so you can trace them.
Analysis can lead to overall takeaways for your social media program
Then ask yourself if what you’re doing is worth it.
Pull in the video from the football game to show how it all worked. Mention vanity url to cover campaign tracking; only if it’s going to be used one place or is easily identifiable based on dates.