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As marketers evolve their strategies to more effectively advertise their brand or products, there are plenty of metrics used to evaluate the success of their ad campaigns. We are doing a deep dive into the data that every marketer should be tracking. We’ve already covered ROAS (Return on Ad Spend), CLV (Customer Lifetime Value), and next up – we’ll discuss what is conversion rate, how it’s calculated, and why it’s important for marketers.
Conversion Rate Definition
Conversion rate is a measure of the percentage of users who complete a desired action. This action will vary depending on industry and business, and will possibly even change as a marketer moves from one campaign to the next. By looking at each campaign’s goals, a marketer can better determine the best action to compare against the total number of users. Some examples of conversions that you can measure for both ecommerce and non-ecommerce businesses are purchases, clicks, leads, and downloads.
How to Calculate Conversion Rate
Once you have decided on a goal (or three) to track, you can use the formula below to calculate conversion rate. There are a couple of versions of conversion rate formulas out there, but we think this one is the best way to measure success:
Conversion Rate = Clicks or Visits / Conversions
An Example of How It’s Used
As an example of using this formula, let’s say that 100 people saw your ad and visited your site, and 10 of those users converted. Your campaign’s conversion rate would be 10%. This formula is pretty straightforward, so just make sure you are plugging in the correct data.
What is a Good Conversion Rate?
Just like anything else involved in measuring your marketing success, determining whether you have a optimal lead conversion rate will depend on your business. The easiest way to know your conversion rate is indicating a successful campaign is by measuring it against past work. To do this, look at your marketing metrics before running a new campaign and use it as a a baseline. For example, let’s say you are a clothing company running an advertising campaign for a new sweater line and want to determine whether your ad campaign is successfully driving conversions. By comparing the new conversion rate to any campaign run in the past, you will get a baseline for measuring the success of your new conversion rate. And if you have no past campaigns to measure or benchmark against, just know that the higher the percentage, the better your campaign is performing.
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Why Is Conversion Rate in Marketing Important?
There are a couple reasons why you should be keeping track of your marketing conversion rate. Firstly, a conversion rate allows you to track how successful your campaigns, lead gen pages, and website actually are. If you have a high conversion rate, you are doing something right! Conversion rates can also be an indicator of a successful UX design strategy. If your pages have a high conversion rate, the designs of your website and ads are likely appealing to your target audience.
Final Thoughts on Calculating Conversion Rate
Knowing how to calculate conversion rate is a critical component for identifying strengths and weaknesses of your marketing campaigns but it’s not the only metric to consider. At MNTN, we’ve compiled a library of the Essential Marketing Calculators that every marketer should use to track the success of their campaigns.
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