92% Of Calls To Businesses Driven By Digital Marketing

Published on
September 6, 2016
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Leslye Schumacher
Leslye@vicimediainc.com

Leslye Schumacher is a Founding Partner with Vici. Leslye’s background in media spans 25 years and includes working for both large and mid-size television, radio and newspaper companies. She has held positions in sales, management, marketing and NTR. Leslye has extensive experience in training salespeople and coaching managers. She is Google Analytics Advanced Certified, a Certified Radio Marketing Consultant and a Certified Sales Talent Analyst, having assessed over 10,000 media salespeople and managers. Leslye was the Vice President Of Talent Services for The Center For Sales Strategy before going on to start TalentQ Consulting and then Vici Media.

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92% of calls to businesses in 2015 were driven by digital marketing channels. That is a statement that kind of takes your breath away and is the headline in a study recently released that tracked 58 million calls. I think most businesses have realized by now that digital advertising is an important component in marketing their businesses, but do they realize how big a part it plays in driving phone calls?Most local businesses that I talk with will say that increasing calls to their business is just as important (and in some cases more important) as foot traffic. Phone calls to schedule appointments, ask questions, and get additional information are all drivers of conversions and getting the sale.Here is how the data in the study ranked individual ad channels as drivers of calls:

92% of calls

As you can see, Mobile, Desktop, Review Sites and Email accounted for 92% of calls. Interestingly, email was not a strong performer in driving calls and digital ads performed much better in terms of moving the potential customer to contact the business.This research and the graph above is great to show those potential clients that tell me, “I don’t need to do internet advertising because I don’t sell on my website.” An additional piece of information to share with those that think it doesn’t make sense to do digital advertising is new research that showed 64 cents of every dollar from in-store sales was influenced by the internet in 2015. A figure that is likely to continue to grow.

64 cents

This really underscores that people are on the internet browsing, looking for information, comparison shopping, etc., BEFORE they ever set foot in a place of business. It doesn’t matter whether you are e-commerce or not, if you want to drive phone calls and in-store foot traffic, digital ads are now a must.

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