1. Carnival Australia – P&O Cruises
Attribution, Attention & Acquisition with Google Analytics
Geoff McQueen
geoff.mcqueen@internetrix.com.au
@geoffmcqueen
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3. Introduction
Carnival Corporation & PLC
• Global cruise company and one of the largest vacation companies in
the world.
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4. Introduction
• In the last 2 years, Carnival has increased their P&O Cruise Liner
fleet from two ships to four:
• More destinations
• More services
• More capacity
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5. Introduction
• Business needs to build demand to fill this capacity
• Pacific Dawn
– 2020 passengers
• Pacific Sun
– 1960 passengers
• Pacific Jewel
– 1950 passengers
• Pacific Pearl
– 1800 passengers
• Attracting new customers to cruising is critical!
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6. Introduction
• Carnival battles with a long sales cycle
• And an emotional buying process
• The web plays a very important role in facilitating:
Education
Research
Enquiries
Bookings
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7. Introduction
• Carnival teamed with
Amnesia Razorfish - AdNews Digital Agency of the year 3 years running
• Amnesia Razorfish developed a visually stunning and information
rich website
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8. Introduction
• Towards the end of the Amnesia Razorfish website implementation,
a formal web analytics evaluation process was undertaken
• Internetrix was selected to implement Google Analytics through the
new website
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9. Approach
• Internetrix GA Consultants and Developers worked closely with
Amnesia Developers
• Methodology followed Internetrix “Three A‟s” theory
Attribution Attention Acquisition
• Internetrix encourages continuous improvement of the website
through making decisions based on data.
“Actionable Insights”
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10. Attribution
Traffic Sources
• Identifying where your visitors are coming from
Search
Engines
Referring
Websites
Direct
Traffic
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11. Attribution
Geographical Areas of Interest
• Identifying where your most effective visitors come from
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12. Attribution
Keywords
• Google Analytics provides information on the
keywords used by visitors coming from
search engines
“We were able to use Keyword reports within
Google Analytics to discover the „low hanging
fruit‟ keywords that could be used for our SEO
and SEM efforts”
-Brenton Jones, Carnival Australia
• Effective keywords for SEO efforts that
provided increased referral of „conversion
ready‟ visitors from search engines
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13. Attribution
Campaign Tagging
• Google Analytics allowed for advanced tracking of campaign
performance
Adwords Integration
www.pocruises.com.au/cruisesale/
Manual Campaign Tracking
www.pocruises.com.au/cruisesale?utm_source=newsletter&
utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Biggest-Cruise-Sale
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14. Attention
Entry & Exit Pages
• What are the main landing pages – first impressions and clickpaths
to success
• What are the main exit pages – visitor retention
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15. Attention
Rich Media Interaction
• Using Events to track play, pause and at what point people „leave‟
• Extensive use of virtual page views to correlate visitors who watch
videos all the way through with visitors who convert.
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16. Attention
Click-paths & Funnels
• Improve conversions by knowing what your visitors best react to
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17. Attention
Measuring 404 error pages
• Assisted in transition from old website to new
• Insight into what users are looking for but cannot find
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18. Acquisition
• Measuring the success of the website and knowing from where and
how it came about
• P&O have several points of conversion
Completing booking process
Printing cruise details
• Increasing success based on data, not just „hunches‟
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19. Acquisition
Transactional Acquisition – „Show me the money‟
• Ecommerce code tracking code to apply $ values to acquisition & attention
• Powerful & Fast Return on Investment (ROI) information
• Continued marketing expenditure is backed by Google Analytics data
e-commerce tracking
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20. Acquisition
Online -> Offline Acquisition
• Not all users are willing to book and pay for a cruise online and often print
prices/details for their offline travel agent
• To track these online->offline conversions, Internetrix setup tracking code to
track the “Print this page” action and setup goal funnels.
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21. Outcomes
Attribution Attention Acquisition
• Carnival now has detailed, actionable information about:
Attribution – where are visitors coming from, what campaigns are working?
Attention – what are visitors looking at, and what patterns drive repeat visits &
conversions
Acquisition – what does the funnel look like and what sources are paying the best
• This is a dramatic improvement over counting visits or pageviews.
• Actionable insights are driving continuous improvement initiatives
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22. Conclusions
• Google Analytics as a tool is now on-par with the best in the market,
with events, rich media, advanced segmentations and flexible goals
– all enterprise grade features.
• With the savings on the „tool‟, Carnival was able to invest their
budget on skills & people, and has seen instant ROI.
• The process of assessment and improvement is continuous,
focused around the actionable insights from the Three-A‟s.
• There‟s a lot more to come in the future – up and to the right!
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With the increase of P&O cruise fleet from 2 ships to 4, Carnival required any assistance available to fill bums on seats of the 2 new ships.Creative and Interactive assistance from Australia’s leading marketing firm – Amnesia RazorfishAmnesia teamed up with Google Analytics provider Internetrix to provide complete tracking, as well as implementing advanced features for continual improvement of the website, and optimisation of traffic sources to the new website
Video present on this page. Shows flash animation and P&O promo video.