Posts Tagged: phone call


17
Sep 09

Phone Call Tracking To Sugar CRM Lead Integration

For CRM users looking for phone call conversion tracking, Mongoose Metrics enables SugarCRM users to instruct tracking phone calls to automatically generate a new lead.  As a part of the phone call generated lead, all call detail metrics can be saved to the lead record in SugarCRM.  For AccuTrack Session campaigns, in addition to call details, online session metrics such as keyword and visitor IP can be saved to the SugarCRM lead.  This solution enables SugarCRM users to further expand their tracking capabilities by recording all inbound phone calls from a marketing campaign.

Here’s the key phone call data which can be inserted into SugarCRM:

  • Caller ID
  • Tracking number dialed
  • Date/time
  • Call duration
  • For successful 411 look-ups, incoming caller’s:
    • billing name
    • billing address

For AccuTrack Session campaigns, the following visitor session data is available:

  • Organic or PPC keyword
  • Visitor IP
  • PPC ad ID
  • PPC campaign ID
  • URL view at the time of the call
  • Custom tracking variables

 Integration Strategy

The phone to SugarCRM integration works by building off of Sugar’s built in Web Lead Form Tool.   Using this tool, a Mongoose Metrics phone call can be recorded into SugarCRM as a lead via the simple method below:

  1.  Create a modified web to lead web form hosted on your server.
  2. After the phone call completes, Mongoose Metrics posts back to your web form the phone call data.
  3. JS code on your form’s webpage will read the phone call data contained in the post-back URL and auto-complete the form fields.
  4. The form will auto-submit into your SugarCRM application as a web to lead form submission.

Sample Code and Integration Instructions

Below is an example code block of a web form that successfully creates a SugarCRM lead from a phone call.  This is the form  placed on a web page visited by the Mongoose Metrics phone server after each completed phone call.  Full code and detailed instructions can be found here Phone Call To SugarCRM Integration Resource Document (Opens as a PDF).

Example Code:

<script type=”text/javascript”>
// function to read URL parameters
function gup( name )
{
  name = name.replace(/[\[]/,”\\\[").replace(/[\]]/,”\\\]”);
  var regexS = “[\\?&]“+name+”=([^&#]*)”;
  var regex = new RegExp( regexS );
  var results = regex.exec( window.location.href );
  if( results == null )
    return “”;
  else
    return results[1];
}
</script>
<script type=”text/javascript”>
// define your js variables here from URL parameters
var lastname_param = gup(‘lastname’);
var phonework_param = gup(‘phonework’);
</script>
<form action=”YOUR_URL” name=”WebToLeadForm” method=”POST” id=”WebToLeadForm”>
<input id=”last_name” name=”last_name” type=”text” value=”">
<input id=”phone_work” name=”phone_work” type=”text” value=”">
<input id=”campaign_id” name=”campaign_id” value=”YOUR_CAMPAIGN_ID” type=”hidden”>
<input id=”assigned_user_id” name=”assigned_user_id” value=”YOUR_USER_ID” type=”hidden”>
<input id=”team_id” name=”team_id” value=”1″ type=”hidden”>
</form>
<script type=”text/javascript”>
// writes your defined js variables to input field value
document.getElementById(‘last_name’).value=lastname_param;
document.getElementById(‘phone_work’).value=phonework_param;
</script>
<script language=”javascript” type=”text/javascript”>
// auto submits form on load
document.WebToLeadForm.submit();
</script>


5
Jun 09

AccuTrack Session – Ease of Use for PPC Managers

This post provides an overview of Mongoose Metrics’ AccuTrack Session keyword level phone call tracking product. In particular it will describe how a key benefit of AccuTrack Session is its ease of use.

Our customers want a phone call tracking platform that is easy to setup and easy to manage.  This is especially true for online marketers who manage PPC campaigns.  Marketers want a product that does not require a great deal of acclimation or extensive maintenance.  Low maintenance is of particular importance as its common for PPC campaigns to make experimental changes in keywords and bidding.  The last thing our customers want is to make changes in their PPC campaign only to be saddled with further maintenance burdens within Mongoose Metrics.

AccuTrack Session keyword level phone call tracking was designed to meet these needs.   AccuTrack Session, is our new keyword level phone call tracking product designed to track phone call conversions from both PPC and organic search campaigns.  AccuTrack Session uses ans an innovative pricing model where the customer only pays for the publishing of the phone number.  The Session Publishing Cost (SPC) pricing model allows our customers to easily understand what their campaign’s phone call tracking costs will be by looking at their monthly paid click volume.  There are no minute usage charges with AccuTrack Session nor are there monthly charges for holding the tracking phone numbers.

Easy To Understand Campaign Cost

Keyword level phone call tracking often requires the need for many phone numbers and there are uncertainties around phone call minute usage.  Often an analysis of the campaign’s traffic volume, major keywords and call usage is required before a keyword level phone call tracking campaign can begin. In addition there is often the need for client communication and budget approval.  With AccuTrack Session the decision process is simplified.  To predict cost, only an estimate of the campaign’s monthly click volume is neecessary.  Since there are no minute usage charges, a huge uncertainty regarding minute usage cost is removed from the decision making process.  This means faster decisions and greater efficiency when launching a keyword level phone call tracking campaign.

Easy Setup

Setup requires only basic HTML skills. .  It is a one-time setup and no further changes on the campaign website are required.  Once setup, AccuTrack Session publishes the tracking number to the campaign page. This removes the need for customers to manage and publish tracking numbers.  In addition, there is no need to upload your campaign’s keywords to AccuTrack Session .

Automatic Tracking Number Management

AccuTrack Session automates the provisioning of tracking numbers to the customer’s campaign.  Tracking numbers provisioned are private numbers used exclusively for the customer’s campaign. These numbers are not shared across different campaigns or customers.  The benefit with automatic tracking number provisioning is that as the customer makes changes to their campaign there is no need to return to Mongoose Metrics to provision more numbers.  Tracking numbers can be either local or toll-free.

Automatic Postback Reporting to Web Analytics Package

When a phone call comes in through an AccuTrack Session campaign, the call is automatically reported back to the customer’s web analytics account.  The reporting includes the keyword that drove the call in addition to call details such as the incoming caller’s phone number and call duration.  For example, Google Analytics users can then see the phone calls reported in the Campaign section of Google Analytics and by filtering to the dimension of ‘keyword’ they can then see what keywords drove phone calls.

Like all Mongoose Metrics’ products, AccuTrack delivers reliable data into the customers preferred web analytics package in a simple and easy to use system.


11
Mar 08

Google Analytics/Google Audio Ads and Phone Call Tracking

Summary: This post explains how Google Analytics users can leverage the Google Audio Ads integration to not support both online ROI and offline phone call ROI via Mongoose Metrics phone call tracking technology.

Google Analytic announced integration with Google Audio Ads this week. The integration allows Google Analytics users who run Google Audio Ads campaigns to see a special overlay report that shows both the radio ad broadcast schedule and website visitors. The report allows the Google Analytics user to clearly see the correlation between spot broadcasts and site visits and conversions. As rich as the overlay report is, a simple solution exists that allows Google Audio Ads advertisers to track phone calls driven from their radio spot campaigns.

Using Mongoose Metrics With Google Audio Ads

As a brief walk through, a Mongoose Metrics trackable phone number can be used in radio spots as the call to action phone number and also in the web campaign’s landing page.  When the number is dialed, the phone call event will be logged back to Google Analytics within the campaign section.

In this way, Google Audio Ads advertisers can create radio campaigns that can target both web based conversions and offline phone call conversions.