Category: Conversion

  • Why Your Agency Should Give You Full Analytics Access (And Red Flags If They Don’t)

    Why Your Agency Should Give You Full Analytics Access (And Red Flags If They Don’t)

    I log into his Google Ads account and check his permission level and he didn’t have a login, the agency had never created one, and when he asked for one they offered him read-only access to a dashboard that showed impressions and clicks but not what he was actually paying per click or where the…

  • Revenue Attribution: Tracking Marketing to Case Settlements, Not Just Leads

    Revenue Attribution: Tracking Marketing to Case Settlements, Not Just Leads

    We had a firm cut their highest-performing campaign because the cost per signed case was $2,500 when every other campaign was running at $500, and it took six months for anyone to notice that the expensive campaign was the only one producing med mal cases that settled for seven figures.

  • How to Set Up Marketing Attribution for a Multi-Office Law Firm

    How to Set Up Marketing Attribution for a Multi-Office Law Firm

    The firm opened a second office and the tracking system that worked fine for one location started producing numbers that made no sense, and it took about three months to figure out that every lead from the new office was being attributed to the original one because nobody reconfigured anything when they launched the new…

  • The Overwhelmed Partner’s Guide to Understanding Marketing Reports

    The Overwhelmed Partner’s Guide to Understanding Marketing Reports

    The report says traffic is up and leads are up and every chart has a green arrow, and then the managing partner asks why cases aren’t up and nobody in the room can answer that question, which is the whole problem.

  • 5 Signs Your Marketing Agency Is Inflating Lead Numbers

    5 Signs Your Marketing Agency Is Inflating Lead Numbers

    The report says traffic is up and leads are up and every chart has a green arrow, and then the managing partner asks why cases aren’t up and nobody in the room can answer that question, which is the whole problem.

  • How Argota Tracks Every Lead from Click to Signed Case

    How Argota Tracks Every Lead from Click to Signed Case

    Tracking doesn’t mean what most agencies mean when they say tracking. They mean they installed a script that counts how many people visited your site and how many of them called. What I mean is that when a retainer gets signed three weeks after someone clicked an ad, we can tell you which keyword, which…

  • CallRail vs. WhatConverts for Law Firms: Which Tracking Tool Is Better?

    CallRail vs. WhatConverts for Law Firms: Which Tracking Tool Is Better?

    Everyone asks which platform is better and that’s the wrong question because they’re built for different problems, CallRail is basically a phone system with tracking attached and WhatConverts is a reporting dashboard with call tracking attached, and which one you need depends on whether your intake team is drowning in calls or your marketing team…

  • First Touch vs. Multi Touch Attribution: Which Model Should Your Law Firm Use?

    First Touch vs. Multi Touch Attribution: Which Model Should Your Law Firm Use?

    Your attribution model is the rule that decides which marketing channel gets credit for a signed case, and if the rule is wrong then every budget decision you make based on that data is wrong too, which is the situation about 82% of firms are in right now and most of them don’t know it.

  • Conversion Tracking for Law Firms: How to Know If Your Agency’s Data Is Accurate

    Conversion Tracking for Law Firms: How to Know If Your Agency’s Data Is Accurate

    I spent years looking at agency reports that said ‘you got 100 leads this month’ and it took me way too long to ask the obvious question which is ‘did any of those leads hire us and which ad actually produced them’ because the report couldn’t answer either one and nobody seemed to think that…