Category: Vendors

Marchex Adds some Jingle

Marchex has upped its game and signaled an intent to purchase Jingle Networks, a mobile ad network for $62.5 million. The press release reads like an industry insider’s rambling internal monologue and does a terrible job explaining the benefits to advertisers and […]

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How to Pick a Call Tracking Vendor

So you are ready to take your marketing analysis to the next level and track phone calls in addition to online conversions? Congratulations, you are WAY ahead of the curve. Your competitors will never know what hit them and you’ll be optimizing […]

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Google Analytics Call Tracking On the Way?

Facts: Marketers can not operate efficiently without knowing the Cost Per Acquisition (CPA) for each paid marketing channel. Marketers and analysts are flocking to call tracking software solutions to measure the CPA and ROI of search and web campaigns. Existing web analytics […]

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Ifbyphone Announces New SourceTrak Features

Competition is good for business. It breeds innovation, lower costs and more choice for consumers. An established player in the call tracking game launched a few new features and capabilities today to offer marketers more choice and flexibility when choosing a call tracking […]

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How Does Pay Per Call Advertising Work?

RingRevenue (more) posted a great overview entitled “What is Pay Per Call Advertising?“. Not only do they make Pay Per Call easy to understand (the “what”), they also include they “why”: A recent poll by Harris Interactive found that 54% of consumers […]

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Marchex Betting on Pay Per Call

Are you involved in call tracking as an advertiser, marketing agency or affiliate? Listen up. Marchex points out 3 reasons call analytics, tracking and advertising are converging into the perfect storm for businesses seeking new customers: Consumer behavior is changing, creating explosive […]

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Block Telemarketers with Marchex Clean Call

Are your call tracking campaign metrics skewed by telemarketers and other robo-dialers? The folks at Marchex Call Analytics (more) have announced a “Clean Call” solution on their blog and in an email to current customers. They claim that telemarketers account for 3% […]

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Skype Pay-Per-Call for Advertisers

Want to easily add call tracking capabilities to your website? Consider Skype‘s recent partnership with Marchex Call Analytics to offer “Click and Call Advertising“. From the announcement: Advertisers pay for qualified inbound calls via Skype on a pay-for-call basis. Call volumes are […]

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Call Tracking Industry Roundtable

What’s going on behind the scenes in the call tracking industry? How are industry leaders positioning their companies to succeed not just today but 5 years from now? I reached out to some of the best minds from Ifbyphone, Mongoose Metrics and […]

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Call Tracking Speech Recognition A Reality

“Can you hear me now?” Mongoose Metrics just announced their newest call tracking feature: voice recognition for conversion tracking. Dubbed Conversation Conversion Dynamics (CCD), it allows marketers to automatically track conversions within a phone call back to the source of the call, […]

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