Creating a conversion funnel allows you to define the different steps involved in a process in order to pinpoint where improvements need to be made so that the visitors' journey on your site is conclusive.
Conversion funnels help businesses clarify the best paths to getting a user to complete a sale, or perform an action or a task. A conversion funnel is the term that describes the steps in a consumer's journey. The funnel shape represents the gradual decline in the number of contacts who reach each step. Not all site visitors continue through the end of the process.
Each company may have its own conversion funnel model, depending on the type of business and its overall goals. Typically, conversion funnels all begin with generating product awareness among an audience. This can come in several forms, including a web search or a clickable online advertisement. Paying close attention to the click-thru rate or to the number of visitors who clicked a specific link will help you determine what methods work best for this first step. After that, you need to set the final step, which corresponds to the goal of the journey, and any steps in between.
The conversion funnel in Dialog Insight allows you to see the conversion rate and the steps followed by your contacts to perform a task. The shape of the funnel lets you see quickly which steps in the process are more effective and those that need to be improved. And you can act on these results to reduce abandoned or unsuccessful journeys.
For example, the conversion funnel for an E-Commerce site could start when a product is placed into the shopping cart, and end with confirmation of the order. The conversion funnel here could allow you to define where visitors quit the most and see how to improve that step.
The steps to be part of your conversion funnel are all up to you. It all depends on the information you want to collect and the goal to reach.
Profiling campaign
When clients fill in a subscription form, you can invite them to update their profile in the thank you message or send them a rebate coupon. Then, you could send reminders to clients who have not completed their profile. To do so, you could create a marketing automation campaign that would target all clients who have subscribed but have not yet completed the process by defining their profile.
Prospecting campaign
If your website promotes the same product on different pages, it is important to transfer the data on visitors and the pages they visited to the sales department. You might also want to invite visitors to visit other pages.
Version tests
In a business workflow that includes multiple steps, you probably want to know where clients quit. To do so, it is useful to set up an A/B Split campaign to determine which scenario shows the best results.
Scoring
You could also want to give points to your contacts based on the number of steps they have completed or to contacts who have completed one or more steps. These points can be calculated manually or set by our scoring system.
→ See how to create a scoring system
Requirements
How-To
Start by clicking Create a conversion funnel. Then, select your website in the list of configured websites.
On the edit page, define the various steps you want to analyze and that will be part of your conversion funnel. You need to define at least 2 steps, up to a maximum of 5. And for each step, you need to do the following:
- Specify a name for the step. Although not mandatory, providing a name will help identify each step. If no name is provided, the last parameter of the URL, or the name of the event, will be used.
- Enter the URL to be followed.
