You do NOT know what you do NOT know

Your prospect’s and customer’s experience on your website can mean the difference between them buying your products/services or not.

Many times they move so far as to almost register on your website but something happens that stops them from doing so ie. poor internet connection, got distracted or your SUBMIT button is not working. Could be anything.

Without a tool like MergedAnalytics…you do know what you do not know. There could be a company out there that really liked what you had to offer but did not move forward for a silly reason.

MergedAnalytics keeps you in the game. You can proactively reach out and make sure your prospects/customers got what they were looking for on your website.

In this segment of “Take a Breath” Thom and I discuss how many companies have no idea about the experience their customers and prospects are having on their website and how MergedAnalytics can help.

MergedAnalytics – What about EMAIL ADDRESSES?

MergedAnalytics is a tool that delivers sales and marketing Intelligence.

Specifically….we deliver the COMPANY NAMES of the people who click the URLs you post to Social Media Sites as well as in your Emails plus the pages they click through on your website.  

We deliver this intelligence using our own proprietary technology that is based off of the IP addresses of the people clicking through your posted URLs and website pages.

But what about the EMAIL ADDRESSES of the people doing all that clicking.   

Especially right now with the world working from their homes where unless they are using their company’s VPN (Virtual Private Network)….in most cases people do NOT own their home IP Addresses .

First let’s answer the following question…Is it possible to get to the email address level of the people who click your posted URLs as well as your website pages if even though people are working from home?

That answer is YES.  

By using MergedAnalytics Short URLs…. We can uncover email addresses by using Dynamic Parameter values as part of the Short URL creation process.

MORE GOOD NEWS – Even if a person clicks a MergedAnalytics Short URL on their mobile device….we can STILL get you the email addresses of those people.

But wait there’s more…

When that person goes back to your website for another visit(s) in the near future….MergedAnalytics will remember that IP address and send you notifications when that person clicks through you website.

This is achieved by using Dynamic Parameter Values which help marketers capture even more information about the people who click on the links you post.  

Dynamic Parameter Values are set at the time you create your MergedAnalytics Short URL. 

The values for the Parameters are custom and can be anything including…

  • The specific contact’s email address –  this can be done for Mass Mailings from your CRM or ESP software packages as well.
  • Campaign name
  • Name of the social media site where you will you post your link
  • or anything else that will help you gain as much information about the people who are clicking the URLs you post.  

NOTE – If you need to create Google UTMs (urchin tag modules) we got you covered there as well.

You now can create UTMs in the MergedAnalytics Portal upon setting up Short URLS.   This alleviates the need to go into Google to create your UTMs.

In the example below I created a MergedAnalytics Short URL with only ONE Dynamic Parameter Value….my email address….jsinger@mergedanalytics.com

Note….you can set up to 5 custom Parameter Values when creating your SHORT URLs.

Users can enter their own custom Dynamic Parameters like EMAIL ADDRESS when creating MergedAnalytics Short URLs

Here is the Short URL that I created from above…

MergedAnalytics SHORT URL that contains dynamic parameters

I took the MergedAnalytics SHORT URL …. https://vzit.co/vig—O-EM  and emailed it to myself.

FROM MY MOBILE PHONE….I opened the email and clicked the Short URL…..again…I did this from my phone. 

Note:  I use ATT for my phone service and I do NOT own my ip address.

Because I clicked a MergedAnalytics Short URL…..I received the notification in my inbox below…

You can clearly see that jsinger@mergedanalytics.com clicked…

https://vzit.co/vig—O-EM

MergedAnalytics email notification contains the EMAIL ADDRESS of the person who clicked the MergedAnalytics SHORT URL

Lastly….when I go to my website again through my cell phone….I will still receive MergedAnalytics alerts telling me mergedanalytics.com visited my website …why you ask?….

Because MergedAnalytics will remember me for a period of five days from that initial short url click as seen in the screenshot below…

MergedAnalytics remembers the COMPANY even when the SHORT URL was clicked on a cell phone

Remember : This can be done for MASS EMAILS as well using your CRM and/or ESP software packages.

Contact us for a free consultation.

Getting the most out of the Links you post to Social Media Platforms and in your Emails.

Do you know exactly where your site traffic comes from? 

Do you know the exact Company or Person who clicks on the URLs you post? 

Do you know which of your campaigns is driving the most traffic?

You can collect all of this intelligence and more by utilizing MergedAnalytics Custom Trackable Short URLs for when you need to post Links to Social Media and/or in your Emails as part of your Marketing Campaigns.

Upon creating MergedAnalytics Short URLs….you can add special Dynamic Parameters to your URLs; to get a deeper understanding of the people who click those links.

This extra information will tell you more information about who clicked your link, where they clicked your link and what pages they clicked on your website after that initial click.

And…instead of posting a long URL that is packed with the parameters you added making the URL look like something no one would want to click on or share… you can condense and custom brand those URLs in MergedAnalytics. Shorter cleaner URLs get clicked and shared more than their longer counterparts.

Below…I created a link I want to post to my Linkedin, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram audiences.   I selected the Dynamic option radio button.

Because I added my own parameters….Now when someone clicks this link….I will know that the link they clicked was for the social media blitz and was part of the campaign called “product launch in 2020”. I will also know which social media site the clicks came from. This will allow me to measure which social media is driving the most traffic.

And…because these are MergedAnalytics Short URLs……I will be notified about the Company Names of the people who clicked these links.