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Well, there are about 40 products, out of which there are two different types of forms. So for example "red shoes" product page will go to either:

www.website.com/red-shoes/call-form/Thank-you

www.website.com/red-shoes/Info-Form/Thank-you

Repeat that across all products. The urls start to look a bit messy as you start to see all of the CLID (PPC) and other strings after the thank-you section of the URL. This is why I'm trying to just use a the regular match to say "Yeah, it contains Thank-you somewhere in the URL". Does this make sense?

Hey Dubs,

Thanks for the reply. Much appreciated. Forgive me for being a little naive, does this mean the URL needs to begin with "thank-you" then? This would be ideal but the problem is there are over 80 forms and each have different mechanisms of working, which will result in various URL outputs. All I know is that in every outcome, "thank-you" will feature in the URL. Does this make sense?

Steve

Likewise.

You're quite right but often if I am interested in what an email had to say, I'll already be on to the next email / work task and the notion of contacting them will be a distant memory.

Sometimes it pays off and when it does, it's an opportunity gained and not missed. I'd rather have 30 people tell me to shove my face in to a moving bus and have one person convert rather than let 31 people stew over an email which they may or may not ever get back to me about.

I can understand your approach though and I guess it really does depend on the type of email. I assume from the question, we're talking more outreach than we are DR/Sales.

Hi Dana,

Many thanks for prompt reply. I've actually heard this a few times now about people clicking X before the script can load. Would this also affect the recorded visits to that page as well? Also, the code is sitting just before , so perhaps moving it up to the top may help?

Welll the set up is very simply, there are no steps to it, for a goal to happen the user must hit a page with Thank-You in the destination URL. That's it! The only way to get to these pages is via a form and they're not indexed either. I'll look in to your question regarding commonality in visit paths, interesting suggestion and worth looking in to.

Stephen

Hi Bob,

Personally I've always had more success emailing first. Then I follow up with a phone call. Reason being is that I found myself spending way too much time explaining myself to someone who had no idea what I was talking about or who I needed to speak to within the company. Even when I eventually did get through to the right person, it was difficult to get their attention without sounding like a cold call sales person.

Secondly, people are bombarded with nuisance calls now on a daily basis, to me it shows some respect when sending an email through first (no harm in mentioning the fact that you're avoiding to call them first).

The best route in for me at the moment is Linkedin. Easy to find specific people within an organisation that you know you need to speak to make things happen. Tend to get a better conversion rate through this.

Cheers, Steve.

Hi,

Hoping someone can clarify this for me. I've set a goal up whereby the rule is to pick up all pages with "Thank-you" in the destination URL (regular expression). So, when someone fills out a form, it will count as a lead. I'm about 8 weeks in to the campaign now and measuring the last 4 weeks I've had a total of 30 goals completed. I have two issues with this and I really hope someone can help clarify:

1. Using a custom report I can see that I've actually had 52 Visits to the Thank-You pages, 49 Unique Visits and 60 pageviews. Where is Google getting the goals from?

2. I have 51 leads in my inbox from the campaign so far. So, much closer to the above stats in the custom report than in the Goal report. Why is this?

Thanking you in advance!

Hi Bob,

Personally I've always had more success emailing first. Then I follow up with a phone call. Reason being is that I found myself spending way too much time explaining myself to someone who had no idea what I was talking about or who I needed to speak to within the company. Even when I eventually did get through to the right person, it was difficult to get their attention without sounding like a cold call sales person.

Secondly, people are bombarded with nuisance calls now on a daily basis, to me it shows some respect when sending an email through first (no harm in mentioning the fact that you're avoiding to call them first).

The best route in for me at the moment is Linkedin. Easy to find specific people within an organisation that you know you need to speak to make things happen. Tend to get a better conversion rate through this.

Cheers, Steve.

You're quite right but often if I am interested in what an email had to say, I'll already be on to the next email / work task and the notion of contacting them will be a distant memory.

Sometimes it pays off and when it does, it's an opportunity gained and not missed. I'd rather have 30 people tell me to shove my face in to a moving bus and have one person convert rather than let 31 people stew over an email which they may or may not ever get back to me about.

I can understand your approach though and I guess it really does depend on the type of email. I assume from the question, we're talking more outreach than we are DR/Sales.