Beyond the Click: Best Practices for Site Retargeting

Site RetargetingSite retargeting has been around for some time. What many marketers miss is how crucial it is to go into your planning phase prepared with key data, and the importance of optimizing using measurements way beyond just engagement and click-throughs from your ads.

In this post, we start with a basic overview, ‘What is Site Retargeting?’. We then cover “table stakes” – the must-dos for planning & launching any site retargeting program. We wrap up by covering what smarter B2B marketers are doing today to make the most of their active site retargeting campaigns – finding new accounts, contacts and leads through site retargeting, driving higher engagement with personalization rules, and accelerating their pipeline as a result.

1. What is Site Retargeting?

Site retargeting is a display marketing strategy that allows you to re-engage the 95% of site visitors who leave your site without filling out a form through display, to convert more visitors who have already expressed interest in your brand. With this strategy, visitors to your website are tagged with a retargeting cookie when they visit your site. They are then served your ads throughout the web as they browse the internet, leading to increased, cost-effective top-of-funnel lead conversions.

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Good Analytics for Retargeting Programs

So you’re running display and retargeting campaigns. You have your budgets set, your creatives planned, and your offers ready. You’re good to go, right?

Not necessarily. Setting up your campaign is all well and good, but running a successful retargeting or display campaign requires, first and foremost, good analytics.

Good Analytics

Here at Kwanzoo, we’ve built one of the most extensive analytics interfaces in the industry. Here are a few key metrics that we consider essential for campaign success.

Budgeting & Spend Metrics

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3 Ways to Boost Top-of-funnel Leads Using In-banner Forms

By now you have probably heard about Kwanzoo’s in-banner lead form technology, which allows you to collect leads in a form directly inside your ad unit to boost top-of-funnel leads. In-banner form ads can deliver significantly higher lead conversions versus redirecting users to landing pages using traditional banner ads.

Here at Kwanzoo, we have gathered some unique insights running retargeting and display campaigns with in-banner forms across B2B and B2C. The following are 3 quick tips for increasing top-of-funnel lead captures using in-banner form ads:

Zend In-Banner Lead Forms
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From 15 to One: Simple and Versatile Demand Marketing

Scott Brinker (@chiefmartec) has just released his new 2014 Marketing Technology Supergraphic with 947 companies, in 43 categories, across 6 major classes! We are excited for Kwanzoo to be placed in the “Display Advertising” category within the Marketing Experiences class.

As Scott himself points out, many solutions can fall in more than one category. Although he had to pick one category in which to place each company, we took a closer look, and realized that Kwanzoo in fact has capabilities spanning 15 (!) categories including Video Ads and Marketing, Mobile Marketing, Email Marketing, and Marketing Analytics (see picture below).

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