The challenge
Create visibility of digital marketing performance and attribute revenue to marketing activity
Barchester has historically used Mediahawk’s static call tracking solution to track their offline advertising performance. Now, with an increasing investment in digital marketing budget it became necessary to understand which online channels were producing telephone-based marketing response and revenue.
This analysis of marketing performance would be used to refine campaign activity and make decisions in the future about which channels to invest in and the individual tactics to use in the different channels.
The challenge at this point was to gain a greater understanding of which digital activities were generating enquiries and which were not.
“As our digital marketing spend increases it is absolutely critical to ensure we invest the budget in high performing areas.” Mandy Macara, Head of Marketing.
The solution
Implement visitor level call tracking with CRM integration
Mediahawk worked with Barchester to understand their marketing plans and which forms of digital marketing they wanted insight into. Barchester deployed Mediahawk’s dynamic visitor call tracking solution to solve two problems: which marketing activities were successful at producing telephone enquiries; and which of those enquiries could be attributed to residents moving-in.
Barchester uses a combination of features such as source and keyword tracking, visitor tracking, and URL tagging to ascertain exactly which activities produce telephone enquiries and which areas of the website are most effective at producing telephone enquiries.
Track Sales integration is used to match telephone enquiries to residential move-ins, providing the final piece of the jigsaw.
The results
Significant increase in paid search calls resulting in occupancy
With this analysis Barchester has been able to refine their paid search campaigns in particular. They have been able to re-allocate budget from keywords which, whilst they might provide enquiries do not lead to move-ins, to keywords which lead to move-ins. They are now in the enviable position of knowing that a significant number of telephone enquiries originating from paid search result in a move-in.
Barchester Healthcare is able to make informed decisions, supported by evidence of marketing performance. New campaigns are consistently being launched with precise tracking of telephone enquiries and residential move-ins.