Here’s a scenario for you: your latest post received 1K likes, your website traffic increased 20%, and you feel excellent about your marketing results. Something is working for you, right?
As a Digital Marketing Agency, we’ve spent the last decade working with businesses in Bangalore. We’ve watched too many businesses fall into the “vanity metrics” trap. These metrics tend to be highly measurable, look impressive on reports, and generate a false sense confidence in your marketing outcomes. But do they help your business grow?
Let’s pull back the curtain a bit more. You will learn to identify facts and fluff to start tracking metrics that can lead to real Business Success.
The Allure of Vanity Metrics
The question is, what are those figures? Vanity metrics, to put it simply, are outcomes that look impressive, tend to generate a false sense security, and will not help you grow your business. These metrics are often misleading and can hide serious problems in your strategy.
Examples of this include:
• Social Media Likes and Followers: These impressions are nice to have in marketing campaigns, but a large following that does not generate sales or Agile Leads lacks real business value.
• Page Views & Website Sessions: It’s fantastic to see your website getting a lot of visitors. But what are those visitors doing once they get there? If they come in and bounce immediately, that traffic is of no value.
• Email Open Rates: Getting a high open rate is a good start, but don’t forget that the click-through rate is what really matters to show if your email was successful in getting your audience to act.
Chasing these metrics is like getting on a treadmill. You are putting in the effort but getting nowhere.
The Shift to Actionable Metrics: What to Track Instead
If you want to get real Data-Driven Results, you will need to track actionable metrics. These will be the metrics attributable to your business goals and revenue.
1. Conversion Rate: This is the most important of all the metrics. It’s the percentage of visitors who take the desired action, whether that’s filling in a form, purchasing a product, or booking a consultation. These figures show the effectiveness of your Website Creation and how well your marketing messaging is performing.
2. Cost Per Acquisition (CPA): Once you understand how much it really costs you to get a new customer, you will be able to run PPC Advertising and other Performance Marketing campaigns confidently as you will know what your ROI will be.
3. Customer Lifetime Value (CLV): What is the revenue generated by a customer over the entire period when they patronize your business? Considering your Customer Lifetime Value (CLV) equips you with the information needed to make more informed calculations on spending for Lead Generation.
4. Closing Ratio: What portion of your inquiries turn to paying customers? This is a direct evaluation of the quality of your leads. This is important for the Real Estate Marketing and Healthcare Marketing industries.
How AI is Changing Measurement for the Better
It used to be really complicated to measure deeper metrics. But with the new AI-Powered Digital Marketing tools, the situation is more manageable. With advanced AI systems you can track a customer journey in its entirety and identify a several marketing efforts that were responsible for it closure–from SEO Optimization to Social Media Marketing. This is one of the main reasons to engage an agency like Adsync Marketing Technologies.
Want to Focus on What Matters?
It is one thing to read about actionable metrics. It is completely different to create a strategy that truly tracks and optimizes all of these metrics. If you have been guess, it is time to make a real measurable growth. We need to talk.
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