While many professionals within our industry provide reporting on display ad impressions served and click-through rates (ctr), they really do not tell us the whole story. Request reporting data on ad performance by message and size, conversion metrics and website analytics data that will indicate the quality of the click. In today’s marketplace, it is easy to buy clicks and flood a website with cheap traffic. You will want to ensure that you are paying for quality web traffic, not just quantity.
Email marketing: reporting on this activity is more straightforward than other digital aspects, mostly because it is more of a standardized service. Ask for a summary for each email sent.
It should include the date and time it was deployed
Total sends, total opens and reads, number of clicks (and on what links), as well as any results from a/b testing of subject lines and content.
Social media marketing: depending on telephonelists.biz reviews the scope of services of your social media contract, your contractor should be providing a monthly summary of their activity and the results. If the intent is to boost your page engagement, the report should include posts made, activity for each post, change in page engagement over the previous month and data on paid activity. If you are trying to promote an event or sell a product, the report should also include hard numbers on the registrations, sales or leads attributed to the campaign efforts.
The goal of a paid online campaign is to grow your business
Looking beyond impressions and clicks will tell you how well your campaign is working for you. Look for key indicators, such as time IG Users on site, pages per visit and new visitors. These data points will let you know how good the quality of traffic is (how many pages they are looking at and for how long). They will also provide insights as to what pages of your website need attention through better/more content or flow.
The data collected from your marketing campaigns provides valuable knowledge. Accessing this information, understanding its meaning and applying the insights will propel your organization further, faster and with lower acquisition costs.
