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WHITE PAPER
Marketing to
Smartphone Users:
New Mobile Strategies
for Driving Sales Calls
Marketing to Smartphone Users: New Mobile Strategies for Driving Sales Calls 2
Executive Summary
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Smartphone adoption around the world is exploding.
There were over a billion smartphone users in 2012, and
that number is expected to double in the next three years.1
In the U.S. alone over 135 million people have smartphones,
and that figure is expected to grow 40% to reach 192 million
by 2016.2
That’s 60% of the country, with no end in site.
This explosive growth is changing the way businesses
market and advertise. It’s now critical that you have a
well-thought-out strategy for mobile marketing. And a
vital piece of that strategy is a plan for leveraging mobile
click-to-call. Mobile click-to-call links are web objects
found on mobile sites and ads. By clicking them the user’s
smartphone automatically dials that business’ designated
number to begin an immediate conversation.
Mobile click-to-call links can be an effective way to
generate leads and revenue. But using them on your
mobile site, landing pages, emails, and ads is only the
first step. Your mobile marketing strategy should also
take into account how to track, qualify, and manage the
inbound calls they generate.
This white paper discusses different ways to generate
mobile click-to-call leads and the value of tracking calls
back to their source. It also explains the options available
for managing the calls, including qualifying them prior to
passing to sales and the different ways to route calls to
sales reps. Finally, the white paper introduces a technology
called voice-based marketing automation that marketers are
using to implement these ideas.
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Explosion in Smartphone Use:
A Tremendous Marketing Opportunity
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Smartphone growth is accelerating at an amazing rate
worldwide. While it took 15 years for the world to reach
700 million smartphone users in 2011, we added 300 million
more in 2012 alone and are expected to add another billion
users by 2015.3
That’s an astounding pace.
In the United States, we expect to reach nearly 200 million
smartphone users by 2016, which would account for
nearly 60% of the country.2
This growth in smartphone
use is changing the way people search for and consume
information on your goods, products, and services. It’s
important that marketers recognize this shift and formulate
new strategies for this mobile audience.
Projected U.S.
Smartphone Adoption
n	 2010: 62.2 million users (20.2% of population)
n	2011: 93.1 million users (29.7%)
n	2012: 115.8 million users (36.6%)
n	2013: 137.5 million users (43.1%)
n	2014: 157.7 million users (48.9%)
n	2015: 176.3 million users (54.2%)
n	2016: 192.4 million users (58.5%)
Source: eMarketer report, May 2012
2012 U.S. Smartphone
Penetration by Age
n	 18-23 years old: 64% have a smartphone
n	 24-32 years old: 72% have a smartphone
n	 33-46 years old: 61% have a smartphone
n	 47-56 years old: 39% have a smartphone
n	 57-67 years old: 28% have a smartphone
n	 68-88 years old: 16% have a smartphone
Source: Forrester report, May 2012
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That’s why mobile click-to-call links are such a golden
opportunity for marketers responsible for lead generation.
Instead of forcing a smartphone user to fill out a web form
(which most don’t want to do) and wait for a sales rep to call
them, they can be connected right away in conversation.
The lead doesn’t get a chance to grow cold – or even worse
– to go talk to a competitor.
Keep in mind, research has shown that a sale is 22 times
more likely to happen when you make contact within
the first five minutes.6
And waiting even ten minutes
dramatically decreases your chances of converting that lead
to a sale. Mobile click-to-call helps eliminate this risk and
improve lead conversion.
Figure 1: Larger percentage of SMBs rate telephone leads as “excellent” or “good” – more than
any other lead type. 5
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All you have to do is ride a bus or train during rush hour to
see how pervasive smartphone use has become. People are
constantly consuming data on their smartphones. And while
smartphones accounted for 9% of total Internet page views in
2012 (compared to 86% by PCs), that number is double what
it was in 2011, and it is expected to grow even more in 2013.4
A key difference between smartphone and PC browsing is
that when people are searching for products and services on
their smartphones, they often prefer to call a business rather
than fill out a web form. So to make it easier for leads to
call them, marketers are including clickable phone numbers
(mobile click-to-call links) on their mobile sites and in their
mobile apps, banners, and Google mobile ads.
Mobile click-to-call links are web objects that smartphone
users can click to trigger an immediate call to the link’s
designated number. They make it easier for potential
customers to connect in conversation with businesses
using their smartphones.
Why Phone Leads Matter
And it’s that phone conversation that marketers really want
to drive. Not all leads are created equal, and phone leads are
often the most valuable to sales (see Figure 1). Just ask any
sales manager which types of leads are most successful at
driving revenue.
Why Smartphones Are Different:
Mobile Click-to-Call Links
0 20 40 60 80
Telephone calls
Websites
responses
In-person visits
Online checks
Responses to
Facebook page
61%
54%
42%
30%
28%
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So as you formulate your mobile strategy, if you include
Google PPC advertising, it’s strongly recommended that you
include mobile click-to-call links in your ad text.
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An effective mobile marketing strategy should weigh all
the options for generating mobile click-to-call leads and
decide which ones makes sense for your business and your
marketing budget. Below are some of the ways businesses
today are driving phone leads from smartphone users.
Google Mobile PPC Ads with
Mobile Click-to-Call
Google recognized the value of mobile click-to-call links to
marketers when they made them an option in their Google
mobile PPC ad platform. Advertisers can include any ten-
digit phone number in mobile click-to-call links in their
paid search ads using Google call extensions, enabling
smartphone users to call them right from Google with a
single click (see Figure 2). Advertisers are charged for clicks
on phone numbers the same way they are charged for
traditional clicks to a web page.
The results have been encouraging for marketers. Google
reports that mobile users are 6% to 8% more likely to click
on PPC ads that contain phone numbers. And even when
prospects click on the PPC link to the mobile landing page
instead of the phone number, research found that 52% of
those people still go on to call the advertiser.7
Ways to Generate Mobile Click-to-Call Leads
Figure 2: Google Mobile PPC ads have clickable buttons
and links that trigger calls
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The benefits of mobile click-to-call links are not exclusive
to Google PPC. To generate more phone leads, you should
include clickable phone numbers prominently on your
mobile site (see Figure 3).
	
Figure 3. Mobile web sites should have prominent clickable phone numbers
This is especially true for your mobile PPC landing
pages. Remember, smartphone users would rather call
you than fill out a web form. If you aren’t giving them that
option by displaying a prominent clickable phone number
on your mobile web pages, you risk losing out on
valuable conversions.
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Your Mobile Web Site
and PPC Landing Pages
The Stats Don’t Lie:
Web Visitors Want to Talk
77%of online adults say they would be
interested in getting help from a real person
before making an o nline purchase.
82% say there have been times when
they have not been able to get help from a
real person.
58%have a question that cannot be
answered by information on the web site.
52%of those who have not been able to
get help from
a real person say it has affected
their decision to not purchase the product.
Source: IMShopping and Harris Interactive Survey, August 2009
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Mobile Display Networks
and Banner Ads
Of course, Google PPC is only one form of mobile
advertising that can generate phone leads. Businesses
have also seen strong results using mobile display networks
that run banner ads on third-party web sites.
Mobile banners can drive phone leads in several
ways, including:
n	 Using a “call now” mobile click-to-call link on the
banner itself
n	 Asking people to “tap now” to watch a video, then
including a clickable phone number after it plays
as the call to action
n	 Sending people to a mobile landing page
with a click-to-call number (see Figure 4)
Figure 4: Mobile landing page with a prominent click-to-call links
As with PC banners, the call to action for your mobile ads
will still depend on what you are advertising and the goals
of your campaign. Just keep in mind that phone leads from
smartphone users are just a click away.
Advertising within Mobile Apps
One advertising vehicle unique to mobile devices is the
mobile app. These days there seems to be a mobile app
for just about everything, and their popularity continues to
grow. In fact, a 2012 study reported that more mobile users
are accessing apps than the Internet.8
People are spending
more time searching for information with apps than they are
with their mobile browsers.
This presents a tremendous opportunity for businesses
to generate leads by advertising within mobile apps.
Depending on what you are selling and your target
demographic, there is almost certainly an app for you to
advertise on. Display networks such as Millennial Media,
Google’s AdMob, and Apple’s iAd can assist you with
getting your ads on the right apps.
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Alternatively you can build your own app for smartphone
users to download, as long as you can design one that adds
value. A simple Google search for “what makes a good mobile
app” can give you great tips for building an app people will
want. But regardless of whether you build your own or run
advertisements on third-party apps, if you want to generate
leads, include a mobile click-to-call link (see Figure 5).
Figure 5: Advertising in mobile apps is a great way to generate phone leads
Social Media Is King for
Smartphone Users
When it comes to how smartphone users spend their
time online, social media is king. It accounts for 31%
of all mobile Internet time – nearly twice as much as the
time users spend on email, the second most popular
smartphone activity.9
Blogs, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn,
YouTube, Google+...you name it, people are accessing
it on their smartphones.
No mobile marketing strategy is complete without
accounting for social media, and part of that strategy
should involve lead generation. Social media can be an
effective tool for generating visits to your mobile site and
landing pages, where you can then drive click-to-call
leads from smartphone users.
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While email may not be as popular as social media,
smartphone users still spend a significant time accessing
email on their mobile devices. Marketers should consider
this as they prepare email campaigns.
The first step is understanding how your email
recipients are accessing your email. Do you know what
percentage are reading your emails on PCs vs. tablets
vs. smartdevices? Your email delivery tool or marketing
automation solution may be able to tell you, and you
might be surprised by the results. Here are a few
eye-opening stats:
n	 88% of people check their emails daily on a mobile
device.10
n	 56% of U.S. consumers who have made at least
one purchase using their smartphone have done
so in response to a marketing message delivered
via mobile email.11
n	 63% of Americans either close or delete emails not
optimized for mobile.12
Email Blasts Should Be Mobile-Optimized
Clearly you need to ensure your emails are optimized for
smartphone viewing. Part of this includes adding mobile
click-to-call links within the body text. You should also
consider that a healthy percentage of the web traffic you
generate from emails will be visiting your mobile site (yet
another reason to include mobile click-to-call links on your
web pages).
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Marketing via SMS Text Messaging
Some industries have seen good results from text message
marketing. They can be an effective way to remind people to
reorder goods, schedule appointments, and attend events.
Plus many marketers use texts as a way to distribute
coupons and promote special discounts. Including a mobile
click-to-call link inside your text messages is a natural way
to generate leads (see Figure 6).
Figure 6: Including mobile click-to-call links in your text messages can trigger inbound calls
Text message marketing may not be for marketers in every
industry, however, and you should always ensure your
recipients have opted in to receiving texts from you.
One last mobile marketing strategy for generating leads is
QR codes. A QR code is a matrix barcode that smartphones
can scan and read (see Figure 7). I’m sure you’ve seen them
in the real world – they are everywhere, from ads in airport
terminals to cereal boxes to drink coasters.
	 Figure 7: Scan this QR code to call DialogTech
While marketers continue to debate the effectiveness and
long-term viability of QR codes, there’s no denying their
current ubiquity. QR codes can trigger several actions to
help generate leads, including:
n	 Sending people to a mobile landing page (that has a
mobile click-to-call link, of course)
n	 Opening an email addressed to your business in the
scanner’s email app
n	 Triggering an inbound call to your business from the
scanner’s smartphone
QR Codes Can Trigger Phone Leads
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As you’ve seen, there are many ways mobile marketing and
mobile click-to-call links can generate calls to your business.
But driving leads is only the first step. Your mobile marketing
strategy should also take into account how to track, qualify,
and manage the inbound calls you generate.
And that’s where voice-based marketing automation comes
in. Voice-based marketing automation is a technology that
enables marketers to generate, track, qualify, route, manage,
and report on sales calls. What traditional marketing
automation tools like HubSpot, Marketo, and Eloqua do for
web leads, voice-based marketing automation solutions like
DialogTech do for your phone leads.
Track Mobile Calls Back
to their Source
Maybe the most important question to answer about any
mobile marketing strategy is “Is it really working – and how?”
You may have some anecdotal evidence: traffic to your
mobile site may be up, for example. And perhaps your sales
team overall has seen a spike in inbound calls. But what was
the cause? Was marketing responsible? How do you know
you aren’t wasting budget on ads that aren’t working?
Voice-Based Marketing Automation
for Mobile Marketers
	Using Trackable Phone
Numbers in Your Mobile
Click-to-Call Links
Mobile click-to-call links make it easy for smartphone
users to call your business. DialogTech makes it
easy to make those links trackable, so you can
trace incoming calls back to the specific mobile ad,
app, or marketing campaign that drove them.
How easy? Assuming your office number is 888-
555-1212, here’s the HTML code to create a mobile
click-to-call text link or hyperlinked button:
a href=“tel:8885551212”
To make this trackable, simply switch the number with
a unique trackable number from DialogTech. Or you
can have DialogTech dynamically display the mobile
click-to-call number on your web pages for you so you
can track the specific search terms callers used to
find you or the referring web site they came from.
All calls will still come to you, and the caller won’t
know the difference. But you will know exactly where
they came from.
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The most successful mobile marketers are the ones that track
inbound phone leads back to their source. They can tell that
an inbound call came from a mobile marketing campaign or
resource vs. some other source. And they can pinpoint exactly
which mobile PPC ad, keyword search, banner ad, app, tweet,
LinkedIn post, email, text, or QR code was responsible. They
can then see which mobile marketing activities are generating
phone leads – and ultimately revenue – and which aren’t, and
make adjustments.
Voice-based marketing automation solutions like DialogTech
make it easy to attribute phone leads (and the pipeline and
revenue they generate) to specific mobile ads, emails, sites,
and search activity. Here’s how it works: The solution lets
you insert unique trackable phone numbers in your mobile
marketing. If a smartphone user clicks a mobile click-to-call
link in a specific Google PPC ad, banner ad, email, or text, or
if they scan a QR code to trigger a call, the solution knows
exactly what they are calling from, and so will you.
What’s more, when leads visit your mobile site and select
a click-to-call link, the solution can attribute that call to the
specific ad, social media source, web site, QR code, or
organic search term that sent them there. To learn more
about call tracking, you can download the white paper
“Tracking Phone Leads: The Missing Piece of Marketing
Automation”.
	Beacon Technologies
Sees Over 400% Higher
ROI with Call Tracking
Beacon Technologies is a web technology and
marketing agency. Beacon uses DialogTech
as the critical link between online marketing
spend and offline phone call conversions.
For one client, Beacon used unique phone numbers
from DialogTech to track call activity from sites like
Lawyers.com, FindLaw.com, Google Local, and social
media outlets. They now understood which channels
were working and adjusted spending accordingly.
The end result was a significant increase in ROI.
“A lot of companies don’t just get leads that take
place on the web. Consumers often pick up the phone
and call,” said Brad Henry, Director of Web Marketing
at Beacon. “It’s important to know where that lead
originated, particularly if the web is involved, in order
to optimize marketing initiatives moving forward.”
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Generate Web-Based Reports to
Analyze Call Sources
For marketers trying to understand what’s working, or for
lead generation companies that charge clients per lead,
being able to accurately attribute the source of phone leads
is a godsend. Voice-based marketing automation tools
enable you to generate real-time reports that show you
where phone leads are coming from (see Figure 8).
You can configure the data any way you want to create
meaningful reports on which mobile ads, campaigns, social
media sites, and search keywords are driving click-to-call
leads. Plus you can integrate the data with other reporting
tools like Google AdWords and Google Analytics or with
Salesforce.com and other CRM tools to track mobile
click-to-call leads through their lifecycle.
Figure 8. Generate reports that track click-to-call leads to their source
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Qualify and Filter Inbound Calls
with an IVR
Generating leads is one of the main goals of any mobile
marketing strategy, and inbound calls are often the most
prized lead type. You want to generate those click-to-call
leads that sales teams find so valuable.
But depending on your business and on the specific
marketing campaign, not every inbound call you generate
will be ready to engage with a sales rep. Many might not be.
And you don’t want to waste your sales reps’ time by having
them field incoming calls from leads that aren’t sales-ready.
Voice-based marketing automation makes it easy to filter
your inbound calls automatically using an IVR. IVR stands
for interactive voice response; it’s an automated phone
menu that callers can interact with, and it’s ideal for scoring
phone leads. The IVR can answer calls and ask callers the
questions you determine work best to qualify them for your
particular campaign. For example, if you are using the BANT
(budget, authority, need, timeline) model to qualify leads,
you can pose those questions to learn if callers are really
ready to go to sales.
Leads that score high enough are passed automatically
from the IVR directly to sales for an immediate conversation.
Others can hear a custom marketing message and be given
the option of leaving a voicemail for sales.
You can even send them to a second IVR that can:
n	 Provide them with account information
n	 Route them to a local store
n	 Process an order or a late payment
n	 Ask the caller customized survey questions
It all depends on the nature of your business and on your
particular marketing campaign. To learn more about how
marketers are using IVR, you can download the white
paper “IVR for B2B Marketing: New Strategies for Lead
Generation, Scoring, and Nurturing”.
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Route Qualified Mobile Click-to-Call
Leads In Various Ways
Voice-based marketing automation solutions let you control
not only which callers get passed to sales, but also where
and to whom they get passed. You can route callers using
a wide variety of options depending on the nature of your
campaign, including:
n	 To agents in a specific order that you configure
n	 To several agents simultaneously on a first-answer basis
n	 To agents based on their territories, job titles, product
specialty, or skillset
n	 To an individual agent’s work phone, cell phone, landline,
Skype, etc. simultaneously or in any order
n	 To specific agents or office locations based on the
call’s time of day
The more information sales agents have upfront about
inbound callers, the more successful the call will be.
So voice-based marketing automation solutions provide
a web-based agent panel that displays on each rep’s
computer screen (see Figure 9).
Figure 9: Agent panels arm sales reps with valuable data on incoming callers
Before taking a call, the sales rep can see who is calling
and what marketing ad, Google search, referring web site,
or other source led them to call. If the caller has a record in
your CRM system, the panel provides one-click access to
that record. If not, that same click can create a new record
with pre-populated data.
Arm Sales with Valuable Caller
Data Using Agent Panels
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Record Sales Calls to
Improve Marketing
Voice-based marketing automation solutions can also
record every sales call. Call recordings can provide a wealth
of information from your leads and prospects for you to
mine. What terminology do prospects use? How do they
describe their pain points? Are there particular benefits
about your products that close deals faster? What are the
sticking points sales have to overcome? Call recordings
enable you to find out and use that data to build more
effective marketing campaigns.
Send Automated SMS
Message Blasts
Finally, another benefit of voice-based marketing
automation is the ability to deliver SMS text message blasts
to your target audience. Text messages can be an effective
way to reach smartphone users, and voice-based marketing
automation solutions makes it easy to schedule and deliver
texts for promotions, appointment reminders, inventory
confirmations, or any other use case.
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Conclusion
	Next Steps
Call DialogTech’s today at (855) 327-9619 to learn how
to implement a more successful mobile marketing lead
generation strategy. You can also learn how successful
marketers are using voice-based marketing automation
to grow revenue and cut costs at www.DialogTech.com.
Smartphone adoption around the world is exploding.
It’s changing the way businesses market and
advertise. It’s now critical that you have a well-
thought-out strategy for mobile marketing, and that
includes plans for how to generate, track, qualify, and
manage mobile click-to-call leads. As you begin to
implement your mobile marketing strategy, voice-
based marketing automation solutions are available to
facilitate and automate many of the processes.
Sources
1.	 Frank N. Magid Associates report, 2012
2.	 eMarketer report, May 2012
3.	 Strategy Analytics report, 2012
4.	 comScore report, October 2012
5.	 BIA/Kelsey report on Call-Based Ads, May 29, 2012
6.	 Leads360 report, 2011
7.	 xAd report, Q4 2011

8.	 comScore report, May 2012
9.	 eMarketer report, January 2013
10.	Returnpath report, 2012
11.	ExactTarget report, 2012
12.	E-Dialog report, 2012
13.	BIA/Kelsey report, June 2012
About DialogTech
DialogTech manages, measures, and automates voice
conversations with your customers and prospects.
These conversations cannot be managed using marketing
automation or CRM software alone. Without DialogTech’s
voice-based marketing automation platform, catching
these interactions is like fishing with a hole in the bottom
of your net – leads and information fall out.
The DialogTech suite is a set of software-as-a-service
applications including ad tracking, lead distribution,
hosted IVR, and voice broadcasting. Companies of all
sizes and across all industries use DialogTech, including
direct response, health care, real estate, home services, and
lead generation. Learn more at www.DialogTech.com.
www.DialogTech.com
Twitter: http://twitter.com/DialogTech
Facebook: http://facebook.com/DialogTech
800-568-1121
300 West Adams Street, 9th Floor
Chicago, IL 60606
About DialogTech
DialogTech manages, measures, and automates voice
conversations with your customers and prospects.
These conversations cannot be managed using marketing
automation or CRM software alone. Without DialogTech’s
voice-based marketing automation platform, catching
these interactions is like fishing with a hole in the bottom
of your net – leads and information fall out.
The DialogTech suite is a set of software-as-a-service
applications including ad tracking, lead distribution,
hosted IVR, and voice broadcasting. Companies of all
sizes and across all industries use DialogTech, including
direct response, health care, real estate, home services,
and lead generation. Learn more at www.DialogTech.com.
dialogtech.com
Twitter: twitter.com/dialogtech
Facebook: facebook.com/dialogtech
855.327.9619
300 West Adams Street, 9th Floor
Chicago, IL 60606
© 2015 DialogTech All rights reserved.

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Marketing to Smartphone Users: New Mobile Strategies for Driving Sales Calls

  • 1. WHITE PAPER Marketing to Smartphone Users: New Mobile Strategies for Driving Sales Calls
  • 2. Marketing to Smartphone Users: New Mobile Strategies for Driving Sales Calls 2 Executive Summary © 2015 DialogTech | 855.444.7564 | dialogtech.com | twitter.com/dialogtech | dialogtech.com/blog 2 Smartphone adoption around the world is exploding. There were over a billion smartphone users in 2012, and that number is expected to double in the next three years.1 In the U.S. alone over 135 million people have smartphones, and that figure is expected to grow 40% to reach 192 million by 2016.2 That’s 60% of the country, with no end in site. This explosive growth is changing the way businesses market and advertise. It’s now critical that you have a well-thought-out strategy for mobile marketing. And a vital piece of that strategy is a plan for leveraging mobile click-to-call. Mobile click-to-call links are web objects found on mobile sites and ads. By clicking them the user’s smartphone automatically dials that business’ designated number to begin an immediate conversation. Mobile click-to-call links can be an effective way to generate leads and revenue. But using them on your mobile site, landing pages, emails, and ads is only the first step. Your mobile marketing strategy should also take into account how to track, qualify, and manage the inbound calls they generate. This white paper discusses different ways to generate mobile click-to-call leads and the value of tracking calls back to their source. It also explains the options available for managing the calls, including qualifying them prior to passing to sales and the different ways to route calls to sales reps. Finally, the white paper introduces a technology called voice-based marketing automation that marketers are using to implement these ideas.
  • 3. 3 © 2015 DialogTech | 855.444.7564 | dialogtech.com | twitter.com/dialogtech | dialogtech.com/blog Marketing to Smartphone Users: New Mobile Strategies for Driving Sales Calls 33 Explosion in Smartphone Use: A Tremendous Marketing Opportunity 3333333 Smartphone growth is accelerating at an amazing rate worldwide. While it took 15 years for the world to reach 700 million smartphone users in 2011, we added 300 million more in 2012 alone and are expected to add another billion users by 2015.3 That’s an astounding pace. In the United States, we expect to reach nearly 200 million smartphone users by 2016, which would account for nearly 60% of the country.2 This growth in smartphone use is changing the way people search for and consume information on your goods, products, and services. It’s important that marketers recognize this shift and formulate new strategies for this mobile audience. Projected U.S. Smartphone Adoption n 2010: 62.2 million users (20.2% of population) n 2011: 93.1 million users (29.7%) n 2012: 115.8 million users (36.6%) n 2013: 137.5 million users (43.1%) n 2014: 157.7 million users (48.9%) n 2015: 176.3 million users (54.2%) n 2016: 192.4 million users (58.5%) Source: eMarketer report, May 2012 2012 U.S. Smartphone Penetration by Age n 18-23 years old: 64% have a smartphone n 24-32 years old: 72% have a smartphone n 33-46 years old: 61% have a smartphone n 47-56 years old: 39% have a smartphone n 57-67 years old: 28% have a smartphone n 68-88 years old: 16% have a smartphone Source: Forrester report, May 2012
  • 4. 4 © 2015 DialogTech | 855.444.7564 | dialogtech.com | twitter.com/dialogtech | dialogtech.com/blog Marketing to Smartphone Users: New Mobile Strategies for Driving Sales Calls 44444 That’s why mobile click-to-call links are such a golden opportunity for marketers responsible for lead generation. Instead of forcing a smartphone user to fill out a web form (which most don’t want to do) and wait for a sales rep to call them, they can be connected right away in conversation. The lead doesn’t get a chance to grow cold – or even worse – to go talk to a competitor. Keep in mind, research has shown that a sale is 22 times more likely to happen when you make contact within the first five minutes.6 And waiting even ten minutes dramatically decreases your chances of converting that lead to a sale. Mobile click-to-call helps eliminate this risk and improve lead conversion. Figure 1: Larger percentage of SMBs rate telephone leads as “excellent” or “good” – more than any other lead type. 5 4 All you have to do is ride a bus or train during rush hour to see how pervasive smartphone use has become. People are constantly consuming data on their smartphones. And while smartphones accounted for 9% of total Internet page views in 2012 (compared to 86% by PCs), that number is double what it was in 2011, and it is expected to grow even more in 2013.4 A key difference between smartphone and PC browsing is that when people are searching for products and services on their smartphones, they often prefer to call a business rather than fill out a web form. So to make it easier for leads to call them, marketers are including clickable phone numbers (mobile click-to-call links) on their mobile sites and in their mobile apps, banners, and Google mobile ads. Mobile click-to-call links are web objects that smartphone users can click to trigger an immediate call to the link’s designated number. They make it easier for potential customers to connect in conversation with businesses using their smartphones. Why Phone Leads Matter And it’s that phone conversation that marketers really want to drive. Not all leads are created equal, and phone leads are often the most valuable to sales (see Figure 1). Just ask any sales manager which types of leads are most successful at driving revenue. Why Smartphones Are Different: Mobile Click-to-Call Links 0 20 40 60 80 Telephone calls Websites responses In-person visits Online checks Responses to Facebook page 61% 54% 42% 30% 28%
  • 5. 5 © 2015 DialogTech | 855.444.7564 | dialogtech.com | twitter.com/dialogtech | dialogtech.com/blog Marketing to Smartphone Users: New Mobile Strategies for Driving Sales Calls 5 So as you formulate your mobile strategy, if you include Google PPC advertising, it’s strongly recommended that you include mobile click-to-call links in your ad text. 5 An effective mobile marketing strategy should weigh all the options for generating mobile click-to-call leads and decide which ones makes sense for your business and your marketing budget. Below are some of the ways businesses today are driving phone leads from smartphone users. Google Mobile PPC Ads with Mobile Click-to-Call Google recognized the value of mobile click-to-call links to marketers when they made them an option in their Google mobile PPC ad platform. Advertisers can include any ten- digit phone number in mobile click-to-call links in their paid search ads using Google call extensions, enabling smartphone users to call them right from Google with a single click (see Figure 2). Advertisers are charged for clicks on phone numbers the same way they are charged for traditional clicks to a web page. The results have been encouraging for marketers. Google reports that mobile users are 6% to 8% more likely to click on PPC ads that contain phone numbers. And even when prospects click on the PPC link to the mobile landing page instead of the phone number, research found that 52% of those people still go on to call the advertiser.7 Ways to Generate Mobile Click-to-Call Leads Figure 2: Google Mobile PPC ads have clickable buttons and links that trigger calls
  • 6. 6 © 2015 DialogTech | 855.444.7564 | dialogtech.com | twitter.com/dialogtech | dialogtech.com/blog Marketing to Smartphone Users: New Mobile Strategies for Driving Sales Calls 6 The benefits of mobile click-to-call links are not exclusive to Google PPC. To generate more phone leads, you should include clickable phone numbers prominently on your mobile site (see Figure 3). Figure 3. Mobile web sites should have prominent clickable phone numbers This is especially true for your mobile PPC landing pages. Remember, smartphone users would rather call you than fill out a web form. If you aren’t giving them that option by displaying a prominent clickable phone number on your mobile web pages, you risk losing out on valuable conversions. 6 Your Mobile Web Site and PPC Landing Pages The Stats Don’t Lie: Web Visitors Want to Talk 77%of online adults say they would be interested in getting help from a real person before making an o nline purchase. 82% say there have been times when they have not been able to get help from a real person. 58%have a question that cannot be answered by information on the web site. 52%of those who have not been able to get help from
a real person say it has affected their decision to not purchase the product. Source: IMShopping and Harris Interactive Survey, August 2009
  • 7. 7 © 2015 DialogTech | 855.444.7564 | dialogtech.com | twitter.com/dialogtech | dialogtech.com/blog Marketing to Smartphone Users: New Mobile Strategies for Driving Sales Calls 77 Mobile Display Networks and Banner Ads Of course, Google PPC is only one form of mobile advertising that can generate phone leads. Businesses have also seen strong results using mobile display networks that run banner ads on third-party web sites. Mobile banners can drive phone leads in several ways, including: n Using a “call now” mobile click-to-call link on the banner itself n Asking people to “tap now” to watch a video, then including a clickable phone number after it plays as the call to action n Sending people to a mobile landing page with a click-to-call number (see Figure 4) Figure 4: Mobile landing page with a prominent click-to-call links As with PC banners, the call to action for your mobile ads will still depend on what you are advertising and the goals of your campaign. Just keep in mind that phone leads from smartphone users are just a click away. Advertising within Mobile Apps One advertising vehicle unique to mobile devices is the mobile app. These days there seems to be a mobile app for just about everything, and their popularity continues to grow. In fact, a 2012 study reported that more mobile users are accessing apps than the Internet.8 People are spending more time searching for information with apps than they are with their mobile browsers. This presents a tremendous opportunity for businesses to generate leads by advertising within mobile apps. Depending on what you are selling and your target demographic, there is almost certainly an app for you to advertise on. Display networks such as Millennial Media, Google’s AdMob, and Apple’s iAd can assist you with getting your ads on the right apps.
  • 8. 8 © 2015 DialogTech | 855.444.7564 | dialogtech.com | twitter.com/dialogtech | dialogtech.com/blog Marketing to Smartphone Users: New Mobile Strategies for Driving Sales Calls 88 Alternatively you can build your own app for smartphone users to download, as long as you can design one that adds value. A simple Google search for “what makes a good mobile app” can give you great tips for building an app people will want. But regardless of whether you build your own or run advertisements on third-party apps, if you want to generate leads, include a mobile click-to-call link (see Figure 5). Figure 5: Advertising in mobile apps is a great way to generate phone leads Social Media Is King for Smartphone Users When it comes to how smartphone users spend their time online, social media is king. It accounts for 31% of all mobile Internet time – nearly twice as much as the time users spend on email, the second most popular smartphone activity.9 Blogs, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, Google+...you name it, people are accessing it on their smartphones. No mobile marketing strategy is complete without accounting for social media, and part of that strategy should involve lead generation. Social media can be an effective tool for generating visits to your mobile site and landing pages, where you can then drive click-to-call leads from smartphone users.
  • 9. 9 © 2015 DialogTech | 855.444.7564 | dialogtech.com | twitter.com/dialogtech | dialogtech.com/blog Marketing to Smartphone Users: New Mobile Strategies for Driving Sales Calls 99 While email may not be as popular as social media, smartphone users still spend a significant time accessing email on their mobile devices. Marketers should consider this as they prepare email campaigns. The first step is understanding how your email recipients are accessing your email. Do you know what percentage are reading your emails on PCs vs. tablets vs. smartdevices? Your email delivery tool or marketing automation solution may be able to tell you, and you might be surprised by the results. Here are a few eye-opening stats: n 88% of people check their emails daily on a mobile device.10 n 56% of U.S. consumers who have made at least one purchase using their smartphone have done so in response to a marketing message delivered via mobile email.11 n 63% of Americans either close or delete emails not optimized for mobile.12 Email Blasts Should Be Mobile-Optimized Clearly you need to ensure your emails are optimized for smartphone viewing. Part of this includes adding mobile click-to-call links within the body text. You should also consider that a healthy percentage of the web traffic you generate from emails will be visiting your mobile site (yet another reason to include mobile click-to-call links on your web pages).
  • 10. 10 © 2015 DialogTech | 855.444.7564 | dialogtech.com | twitter.com/dialogtech | dialogtech.com/blog Marketing to Smartphone Users: New Mobile Strategies for Driving Sales Calls 1010 Marketing via SMS Text Messaging Some industries have seen good results from text message marketing. They can be an effective way to remind people to reorder goods, schedule appointments, and attend events. Plus many marketers use texts as a way to distribute coupons and promote special discounts. Including a mobile click-to-call link inside your text messages is a natural way to generate leads (see Figure 6). Figure 6: Including mobile click-to-call links in your text messages can trigger inbound calls Text message marketing may not be for marketers in every industry, however, and you should always ensure your recipients have opted in to receiving texts from you. One last mobile marketing strategy for generating leads is QR codes. A QR code is a matrix barcode that smartphones can scan and read (see Figure 7). I’m sure you’ve seen them in the real world – they are everywhere, from ads in airport terminals to cereal boxes to drink coasters. Figure 7: Scan this QR code to call DialogTech While marketers continue to debate the effectiveness and long-term viability of QR codes, there’s no denying their current ubiquity. QR codes can trigger several actions to help generate leads, including: n Sending people to a mobile landing page (that has a mobile click-to-call link, of course) n Opening an email addressed to your business in the scanner’s email app n Triggering an inbound call to your business from the scanner’s smartphone QR Codes Can Trigger Phone Leads
  • 11. 11 © 2015 DialogTech | 855.444.7564 | dialogtech.com | twitter.com/dialogtech | dialogtech.com/blog Marketing to Smartphone Users: New Mobile Strategies for Driving Sales Calls 1111 As you’ve seen, there are many ways mobile marketing and mobile click-to-call links can generate calls to your business. But driving leads is only the first step. Your mobile marketing strategy should also take into account how to track, qualify, and manage the inbound calls you generate. And that’s where voice-based marketing automation comes in. Voice-based marketing automation is a technology that enables marketers to generate, track, qualify, route, manage, and report on sales calls. What traditional marketing automation tools like HubSpot, Marketo, and Eloqua do for web leads, voice-based marketing automation solutions like DialogTech do for your phone leads. Track Mobile Calls Back to their Source Maybe the most important question to answer about any mobile marketing strategy is “Is it really working – and how?” You may have some anecdotal evidence: traffic to your mobile site may be up, for example. And perhaps your sales team overall has seen a spike in inbound calls. But what was the cause? Was marketing responsible? How do you know you aren’t wasting budget on ads that aren’t working? Voice-Based Marketing Automation for Mobile Marketers Using Trackable Phone Numbers in Your Mobile Click-to-Call Links Mobile click-to-call links make it easy for smartphone users to call your business. DialogTech makes it easy to make those links trackable, so you can trace incoming calls back to the specific mobile ad, app, or marketing campaign that drove them. How easy? Assuming your office number is 888- 555-1212, here’s the HTML code to create a mobile click-to-call text link or hyperlinked button: a href=“tel:8885551212” To make this trackable, simply switch the number with a unique trackable number from DialogTech. Or you can have DialogTech dynamically display the mobile click-to-call number on your web pages for you so you can track the specific search terms callers used to find you or the referring web site they came from. All calls will still come to you, and the caller won’t know the difference. But you will know exactly where they came from.
  • 12. 12 © 2015 DialogTech | 855.444.7564 | dialogtech.com | twitter.com/dialogtech | dialogtech.com/blog Marketing to Smartphone Users: New Mobile Strategies for Driving Sales Calls 1212 The most successful mobile marketers are the ones that track inbound phone leads back to their source. They can tell that an inbound call came from a mobile marketing campaign or resource vs. some other source. And they can pinpoint exactly which mobile PPC ad, keyword search, banner ad, app, tweet, LinkedIn post, email, text, or QR code was responsible. They can then see which mobile marketing activities are generating phone leads – and ultimately revenue – and which aren’t, and make adjustments. Voice-based marketing automation solutions like DialogTech make it easy to attribute phone leads (and the pipeline and revenue they generate) to specific mobile ads, emails, sites, and search activity. Here’s how it works: The solution lets you insert unique trackable phone numbers in your mobile marketing. If a smartphone user clicks a mobile click-to-call link in a specific Google PPC ad, banner ad, email, or text, or if they scan a QR code to trigger a call, the solution knows exactly what they are calling from, and so will you. What’s more, when leads visit your mobile site and select a click-to-call link, the solution can attribute that call to the specific ad, social media source, web site, QR code, or organic search term that sent them there. To learn more about call tracking, you can download the white paper “Tracking Phone Leads: The Missing Piece of Marketing Automation”. Beacon Technologies Sees Over 400% Higher ROI with Call Tracking Beacon Technologies is a web technology and marketing agency. Beacon uses DialogTech as the critical link between online marketing spend and offline phone call conversions. For one client, Beacon used unique phone numbers from DialogTech to track call activity from sites like Lawyers.com, FindLaw.com, Google Local, and social media outlets. They now understood which channels were working and adjusted spending accordingly. The end result was a significant increase in ROI. “A lot of companies don’t just get leads that take place on the web. Consumers often pick up the phone and call,” said Brad Henry, Director of Web Marketing at Beacon. “It’s important to know where that lead originated, particularly if the web is involved, in order to optimize marketing initiatives moving forward.”
  • 13. 13 © 2015 DialogTech | 855.444.7564 | dialogtech.com | twitter.com/dialogtech | dialogtech.com/blog Marketing to Smartphone Users: New Mobile Strategies for Driving Sales Calls 1313 Generate Web-Based Reports to Analyze Call Sources For marketers trying to understand what’s working, or for lead generation companies that charge clients per lead, being able to accurately attribute the source of phone leads is a godsend. Voice-based marketing automation tools enable you to generate real-time reports that show you where phone leads are coming from (see Figure 8). You can configure the data any way you want to create meaningful reports on which mobile ads, campaigns, social media sites, and search keywords are driving click-to-call leads. Plus you can integrate the data with other reporting tools like Google AdWords and Google Analytics or with Salesforce.com and other CRM tools to track mobile click-to-call leads through their lifecycle. Figure 8. Generate reports that track click-to-call leads to their source
  • 14. 14 © 2015 DialogTech | 855.444.7564 | dialogtech.com | twitter.com/dialogtech | dialogtech.com/blog Marketing to Smartphone Users: New Mobile Strategies for Driving Sales Calls 1414 Qualify and Filter Inbound Calls with an IVR Generating leads is one of the main goals of any mobile marketing strategy, and inbound calls are often the most prized lead type. You want to generate those click-to-call leads that sales teams find so valuable. But depending on your business and on the specific marketing campaign, not every inbound call you generate will be ready to engage with a sales rep. Many might not be. And you don’t want to waste your sales reps’ time by having them field incoming calls from leads that aren’t sales-ready. Voice-based marketing automation makes it easy to filter your inbound calls automatically using an IVR. IVR stands for interactive voice response; it’s an automated phone menu that callers can interact with, and it’s ideal for scoring phone leads. The IVR can answer calls and ask callers the questions you determine work best to qualify them for your particular campaign. For example, if you are using the BANT (budget, authority, need, timeline) model to qualify leads, you can pose those questions to learn if callers are really ready to go to sales. Leads that score high enough are passed automatically from the IVR directly to sales for an immediate conversation. Others can hear a custom marketing message and be given the option of leaving a voicemail for sales. You can even send them to a second IVR that can: n Provide them with account information n Route them to a local store n Process an order or a late payment n Ask the caller customized survey questions It all depends on the nature of your business and on your particular marketing campaign. To learn more about how marketers are using IVR, you can download the white paper “IVR for B2B Marketing: New Strategies for Lead Generation, Scoring, and Nurturing”.
  • 15. 15 © 2015 DialogTech | 855.444.7564 | dialogtech.com | twitter.com/dialogtech | dialogtech.com/blog Marketing to Smartphone Users: New Mobile Strategies for Driving Sales Calls 1515 Route Qualified Mobile Click-to-Call Leads In Various Ways Voice-based marketing automation solutions let you control not only which callers get passed to sales, but also where and to whom they get passed. You can route callers using a wide variety of options depending on the nature of your campaign, including: n To agents in a specific order that you configure n To several agents simultaneously on a first-answer basis n To agents based on their territories, job titles, product specialty, or skillset n To an individual agent’s work phone, cell phone, landline, Skype, etc. simultaneously or in any order n To specific agents or office locations based on the call’s time of day The more information sales agents have upfront about inbound callers, the more successful the call will be. So voice-based marketing automation solutions provide a web-based agent panel that displays on each rep’s computer screen (see Figure 9). Figure 9: Agent panels arm sales reps with valuable data on incoming callers Before taking a call, the sales rep can see who is calling and what marketing ad, Google search, referring web site, or other source led them to call. If the caller has a record in your CRM system, the panel provides one-click access to that record. If not, that same click can create a new record with pre-populated data. Arm Sales with Valuable Caller Data Using Agent Panels
  • 16. 16 © 2015 DialogTech | 855.444.7564 | dialogtech.com | twitter.com/dialogtech | dialogtech.com/blog Marketing to Smartphone Users: New Mobile Strategies for Driving Sales Calls 1616 Record Sales Calls to Improve Marketing Voice-based marketing automation solutions can also record every sales call. Call recordings can provide a wealth of information from your leads and prospects for you to mine. What terminology do prospects use? How do they describe their pain points? Are there particular benefits about your products that close deals faster? What are the sticking points sales have to overcome? Call recordings enable you to find out and use that data to build more effective marketing campaigns. Send Automated SMS Message Blasts Finally, another benefit of voice-based marketing automation is the ability to deliver SMS text message blasts to your target audience. Text messages can be an effective way to reach smartphone users, and voice-based marketing automation solutions makes it easy to schedule and deliver texts for promotions, appointment reminders, inventory confirmations, or any other use case.
  • 17. 17 © 2015 DialogTech | 855.444.7564 | dialogtech.com | twitter.com/dialogtech | dialogtech.com/blog Marketing to Smartphone Users: New Mobile Strategies for Driving Sales Calls 1717 Conclusion Next Steps Call DialogTech’s today at (855) 327-9619 to learn how to implement a more successful mobile marketing lead generation strategy. You can also learn how successful marketers are using voice-based marketing automation to grow revenue and cut costs at www.DialogTech.com. Smartphone adoption around the world is exploding. It’s changing the way businesses market and advertise. It’s now critical that you have a well- thought-out strategy for mobile marketing, and that includes plans for how to generate, track, qualify, and manage mobile click-to-call leads. As you begin to implement your mobile marketing strategy, voice- based marketing automation solutions are available to facilitate and automate many of the processes. Sources 1. Frank N. Magid Associates report, 2012 2. eMarketer report, May 2012 3. Strategy Analytics report, 2012 4. comScore report, October 2012 5. BIA/Kelsey report on Call-Based Ads, May 29, 2012 6. Leads360 report, 2011 7. xAd report, Q4 2011
 8. comScore report, May 2012 9. eMarketer report, January 2013 10. Returnpath report, 2012 11. ExactTarget report, 2012 12. E-Dialog report, 2012 13. BIA/Kelsey report, June 2012
  • 18. About DialogTech DialogTech manages, measures, and automates voice conversations with your customers and prospects. These conversations cannot be managed using marketing automation or CRM software alone. Without DialogTech’s voice-based marketing automation platform, catching these interactions is like fishing with a hole in the bottom of your net – leads and information fall out. The DialogTech suite is a set of software-as-a-service applications including ad tracking, lead distribution, hosted IVR, and voice broadcasting. Companies of all sizes and across all industries use DialogTech, including direct response, health care, real estate, home services, and lead generation. Learn more at www.DialogTech.com. www.DialogTech.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/DialogTech Facebook: http://facebook.com/DialogTech 800-568-1121 300 West Adams Street, 9th Floor Chicago, IL 60606 About DialogTech DialogTech manages, measures, and automates voice conversations with your customers and prospects. These conversations cannot be managed using marketing automation or CRM software alone. Without DialogTech’s voice-based marketing automation platform, catching these interactions is like fishing with a hole in the bottom of your net – leads and information fall out. The DialogTech suite is a set of software-as-a-service applications including ad tracking, lead distribution, hosted IVR, and voice broadcasting. Companies of all sizes and across all industries use DialogTech, including direct response, health care, real estate, home services, and lead generation. Learn more at www.DialogTech.com. dialogtech.com Twitter: twitter.com/dialogtech Facebook: facebook.com/dialogtech 855.327.9619 300 West Adams Street, 9th Floor Chicago, IL 60606 © 2015 DialogTech All rights reserved.