Posts Tagged ‘Advertisement Call Tracking’

Call Tracking for Home Based Businesses Part 2 of 2

Monday, October 12th, 2009
Call Tracking Surveillance System

Call Tracking Surveillance System

Call Tracking for a Home Based Business Part 1 of 2 spoke about the basic reasoning behind using a tracking system. Read on to find out some more in depth information about using a call tracking system.

Call tracking allows you to maneuver through the data with ease and understand how your business is doing. With a great call tracking system you can track who is calling from which campaign, record and playback the conversation between the agent and the client (which may include the ability to download as an WAV or mp3 file), get the average call length, know the heaviest call times, understand what areas (city, state, and area code) are doing well, and so much more. For a home based business this proves useful and extremely valuable.

The good thing about call tracking is that it is not expensive for the amount of data, ease, and accuracy you compile into one central system. You can view your stats from your home computer or mobile device. Having a 24/7/365 software operate your marketing  while you’re away from home is a unique tool that helps keep your business running and gather information is priceless.  If you’re looking for growth then investing in call tracking software is a must for any home based business owner, but don’t take my word for it, try it for yourself and see all the great benefits call tracking has to offer to boost your business.

Call Tracking for Home Based Businesses Part 1 of 2

Monday, October 12th, 2009
Capure Leads with Call tracking Software

Capure Leads with Call tracking Software

Even though your home based business is not run out of an office or may have little to no employees, it’s still your business. Sometimes small business owners won’t invest in the tools that propel them to great success, because they see themselves as only a “home based business”. If you plan to run a business, whether you’re home based or a huge corporation, you will get calls… especially if you’re running several ads in the newspapers, magazines, television, and/or radio. So how will you track your return on investment (ROI), closing ratios, and more importantly how will you know where and how to focus your marketing dollars? Well, let me introduce to you Call Tracking.

Call tracking has been around since the early 90’s but up until recently, with the evolution of technology and the internet, it has changed the way we optimize our business into a more streamlined fashion. This tracking software was designed to make it easy for any business owner to track single or multiple marketing campaigns at a time, give stats on how the responses are, and track calls coming in from different ads. For a home based business this can be quite a stressful task which allows too much wasted energy on just crunching the numbers of your marketing analysis.

It is important to track your business but it takes time. Now that you know the importance of call tracking, read Call Tracking for a Home Based Business Part 2 of 2 to find out more about the systems benefits.

Is Call Tracking Worth the Money?

Friday, October 9th, 2009
Call tracking can be integrated with any phone system

Call tracking can be integrated with any phone system

As companies begin to explore the vast array of marketing tools, one word keeps popping up in conversation; call tracking. Call tracking allows marketers to understand how well their campaigns are performing by assigning multiple tracking numbers to different marketing avenues and observe the results on a single web based application. With detailed reports in real-time, you’re marketing department will soundly come to conclusions from thorough examination of analytics. The question is; is call tracking really worth it? Well let’s find out!

Whether you own a small business or a large corporation, call tracking has a lot to offer in helping your business stay on target with your growth expectations. Many hours of information gathering and number crunching have been spent to know how well a marketing campaign is doing and whether you’re focusing your marketing dollars in the right places. 

Some key reporting features from Call Tracking

  • Cost per call
  • Average call duration
  • Heaviest call times
  • Unique call tracking
  • Call source (i.e. state and/or area code)
  • Return On Investment (ROI) tracking

It’s easy to see how call tracking software can develop your company, while relieving much of the stress/man hours collecting and calculating statistics to find out whether you’re business is heading in the right direction.

Sure, you can get a regular 800 number from the phone company, but how well is it going to work for you? They certainly do not provide as much useful information as call tracking. Not only is call tracking great for measuring marketing statistics, but it is well-designed for internal use. This can be applied for quality control, sales and customer service training, and record phone conversations for later review. As call tracking software advances, more features are implemented to further streamline your workflow that allows you to focus more on building your business.

So is call tracking worth it? Well if you’re looking to expand, strengthen, and streamline your business, I’d say yes! I say yes because call tracking will hold everyone accountable and you’ll know exactly who needs to stay or get off the bus. Sure an 800 number may be cheaper, but investing a few extra dollars a month for a wealth of information is well worth it. In this competitive marketing environment your team needs to stay on top of current trends and technologies to stay afloat and what better way to begin than with call tracking.

Call Tracking for Lawyers Part 2 of 2

Thursday, October 8th, 2009
Focused Call Analytics

Focused Call Analytics

So you can track your advertising as discussed in Call Tracking for Lawyers Part 1 of 2 but what if your advertising already works for you as a lawyer and you don’t care to optimize it? Well you can also use call tracking for quality control within your office.

A great asset that call tracking brings to the table is that it records all of your calls so you can hear exactly what employees in your firm are saying to your clients and how they are handling their conversations. Dealing with heated topics in stressful situations or with legal issues can leave your clients unhappy and tense.  Making sure your employees are keeping their cool and handling certain situations appropriately is very important in running a professional law firm. With call tracking the employer will be able to make sure that conversations are going smoothly and will also be able to train their employees on how exactly they want each situation handled by being able to listen in and monitor each conversation.

There are only perks to having call tracking, it gives you the information you want and need to be a successful law firm or lawyer. There is tons of competition in a lawyer’s world and with call tracking you will be ahead of the game and be able to target the right areas, have knowledge of which ads are generating the most business, keep track of your ROI and be able to monitor your employees anywhere at any time with an account, a username and a password.  Call tracking is the right direction to go in any law firm or with any lawyer, don’t be the last one and don’t object to this great deal.

Call Tracking for Lawyers Part 1 of 2

Thursday, October 8th, 2009
Chilling Analytics Data - Call Tracking

Chilling Analytics Data - Call Tracking

Whether it is a big or small law firm, most likely those lawyers are going to want to know what areas are the best to target, and what kind of advertising is going to work best for their particular firm.  A good way to find out this valuable information would be to get on board with a complex, yet simple to use, device called call tracking.  This helpful tool determines how many calls are coming in, how long the phone call is, where the phone call is coming from and what the phone call is regarding.

You will know which placed advertisements are generating the most incoming calls.  There is no researching to be made and no writing calls or messages on sticky notes, which could easily be lost.  Once a call comes in it is automatically stored on to your own personal call tracking account that you can easily access with a username and password.

Not only does call tracking give you the important information about where and when you are receiving these inbound calls but it will also gives you your return on investment (ROI).  Call tracking allows you to see which ads are bringing the most business in along with how much money you are making off of each ad, and more importantly how much you are losing to the unattractive ads that are being placed.

Call tracking helps lawyers track their advertising but that is not the only use for these systems. Call Tracking for Lawyers Part 2 of 2 will explain more about how tracking software can benefit lawyers from within their office.

Call Tracking for Marketing Companies Part 2 of 2

Tuesday, October 6th, 2009
Keep focused on your company with Call Tracking Software

Keep focused on your company with Call Tracking Software

If you have read Call Tracking for Marketing Companies Part 1 of 2 then you know what kind of statistics call tracking offers. In Call Tracking for Marketing Companies Part 2 of 2 I will discuss how these statistics can help your company.

The way that marketing companies benefit from call tracking is how this software streamlines your reports. While it takes several man hours of hard work deciphering the statistics, you get all activity logged into easy to understand graphs and reporting methods that instantly display how your business is doing. It allows you to better position yourself in this competitive marketing environment and make wise decisions with your budget. Investing in a good call tracking system can prove to be priceless for the amount of data you’re able to collect, not to mention the ease of the system. With a good system you will be able to take on more clients and handle multiple campaigns with less stress.

Quality control in any business is important. With call tracking you can listen in to your agents and make suggestions on how they take the call. Say for instance that your marketing company includes a call center, how will you make sure all of your agents are being professional and effective? Listening in on conversations and instructing them is key. You don’t build a successful business by allowing poor phone etiquette and leading customers to believe your business is not the best in the industry. Not to mention this also affects closing new and/or repeat business. By utilizing call tracking you’ll see the many great benefits for yourself. You’ll begin to see how it optimizes your workflow, save time and money, and bring in new business.

Call Tracking for Marketing Companies Part 1 of 2

Tuesday, October 6th, 2009
New technology is calling

New technology is calling

There are many uses of call tracking for marketing companies. For companies that handle multiple campaigns it is important that each marketing effort records precise data about the responses generated. Marketing companies know there are plenty of numbers to crunch and call, tracking reduces that stress while increasing productivity. Clients are always looking for the marketing company that will produce results and more importantly help them figure out how to focus their marketing dollars.

Some of the statistics provided by call tracking are showing all campaign and call activity, average call length, track your return on investment (ROI), which areas (i.e. area codes or states) are providing the most calls, and closing ratios.

Statistics Gathered by Call Tracking

  • All campaign and call activity
  • Average call length
  • Return on investment
  • Geographical data
  • Closing ratios

Another good feature of call tracking is the real-time reports generated, which can be immediately downloaded for review. You can view your call logs and listen in on recorded conversations between your agent and the customer. Most, if not all, call tracking systems will allow you to download the recording as a WAV or MP3 file.

So call tracking provides important statistics fast. As explained in Call Tracking for Marketing Companies Part 1 of 2. How you use that data is what makes it important to a marketing company. Read about how call tracking can be utilized in the next part of this article, Call Tracking for Marketing Companies Part 2 of 2.

Call Tracking is the New Trend Part 2 of 2

Friday, October 2nd, 2009
Make sure what your customers are hearing is working with call tracking

Make sure what your customers are hearing is working with call tracking

If you have read Call Tracking is the New Trend Part 1 of 2 then you know about the race against time. Now I want to explain how to win that race using call tracking as your number one tool. Find out how call analytics works for you and what kind of information you can gather in seconds.

Call tracking is becoming a trend; there are no bad results and no failures so it’s a no brainer that every company that is trying to become successful wants and or needs it.  Not only does call tracking offer many benefits but you can operate it yourself after you are setup with a tracking number, a username and password.  It becomes your go to guide to see how your whole company is progressing and whether or not there needs to be changes to increase your profit.

Here is a small example of how call tracking works: If you were to send out a mailer with your call tracking number on it, you are going to know exactly how many responses you are getting from that specific mailer.  You are also going to be able to find out how long that phone call lasted, regarding the mailer and what exactly was said about it.

Useful Information Obtained Through Call Tracking

  • What attracted that person to the mailer
  • How much profit you made off the campaign
  • What could be done to make the interaction consumer friendly

You can read a million articles about how call tracking will change and better your company but until you use it you will never know. Why miss out on a great deal that could improve your company? That is the question business owners need to ask themselves.  It’s a quick set up and a bargain price for a great reward of first place in the race to success.

Call Tracking is the New Trend Part 1 of 2

Friday, October 2nd, 2009
Tread lightly on advertising unless you use a call tracking system.

Tread lightly on advertising unless you use a call tracking system.

Why you are better off having call tracking than without it and why it is the new trend on the market.

It’s a race against time and having call tracking is going to get you first place in that race.  Times are changing and new technologies are approaching like the new call tracking service; which allows companies to keep track of their ROI, keep an eye out on their sales team to make sure they are being efficient, figure out what pitches work and which ones don’t and much more.  Only good things result in having call tracking; it its cost effective and time efficient

Let me ask all the business owners: why wouldn’t you want to know when or why a sale is lost? Why wouldn’t you want to know what exactly your sales team is telling clients or potential clients? And why wouldn’t you want to know exactly how much profit you are making off of all those ads or mailers you are placing currently on the market? With a simple, yet so complex tool such as call tracking you are able to know all of the above information.

Every business owner should be advertising. The same could be said about advertisement tracking. This used to be a problem but the answer is here. With new advancements in call tracking more and more people are following the trend. Read more about how tracking your advertisement can benefit your company in Call Tracking is the New Trend Part 2 of 2.

The Advertising Guru's Best Friend Part 2 of 2

Friday, September 18th, 2009
Start analyzing your calls today with Call Tracking

Start analyzing your calls today with Call Tracking

Continuing from The Advertising Guru’s Best Friend Part 1of 2 in which we learned about the basics of call tracking’s uses for advertisers. This article, The Advertising Guru’s Best Friend Part 2 of 2, obtains information regarding advanced call tracking and how it is assisting companies nationwide.

Business owners do not always have the time to oversee the interaction between sales representatives and potential clients, or customer service representatives and current clients. This is more important than some business owners realize. Listening to calls in can save a potential lead, or keep a current customer from taking their money to a different company. The capability to go back and listen to a phone call between your employees and your customers provides your company the upper hand in any situation.

Can call tracking make your company money? Yes! For any company that has multiple advertising campaigns, it is crucial to have the ability to track returns on your investments. Tracking your campaigns can be tedious. Are you too busy or tired of having to follow a paper trail in order to find out which advertising campaign is making money for your company? Signing into your account is all that is necessary in order to look at real time reports and analytics. Logging information and running reports only once a month can waste time and money. Start keeping track of your investments and leads in one place!