Networking events can be a great source of new business contacts – and potential customers – but a brief conversation over a chicken sandwich (read bacon butty for the early risers) isn’t always enough to establish a common interest – and potential business relationship. While you might get to meet people at a networking event, relying on future events to meet them again and develop opportunities can be slow – not to say hit and miss – will they even be there next time? We are always banging on about effective marketing being a process – not an event, and that your best prospects are people who know you. Keeping in touch regularly with everyone you meet is a sure fire way of maximising business opportunities – but how? Email is a great way of keeping in touch and with a dedicated email marketing system you can get great feedback on just who is reading your mail and following your links.
Month: July 2010
Tracking Campaigns in Google Analytics
If you are using Google Analytics to track your Marketing Activity (and if you aren’t, you should be!). Then you may find this tool useful. Analytics tracking link creator The tool will allow you to create links that can be specifically tracked as campaigns in Goggle Analytics. For example, if you are running an email campaign, and you want to track how much site traffic the email generates, simple create a link to the landing page using this tool, and insert this into the email as the link to your site. You will then be able to track the visitors generated by the email campaign under the “campaigns” section of Google Analytics. Some email marketing systems (ours included) will generate these links automatically. However if the system you use does not, or you would like to track non email campaigns. this is a very useful tool.