Marketing Funnel Metrics

Tracking marketing funnel metrics is essential to the success of any business. Knowing how people move through the funnel—from becoming aware of your brand, to browsing your website, to making a purchase—enables you to make better decisions about marketing and advertising investments and measure their effectiveness.

Not sure which marketing funnel metrics to measure? We've got you covered. It's easy to get overwhelmed by all the different metrics available, but understanding the fundamentals of each one can help create a strong foundation for measuring performance. Here are five key funnel metrics you should be tracking:

1. Awareness:

The first step in the funnel is awareness; understanding how many people know about your brand and where they're discovering it from. Key metrics associated with this phase include:

• Website traffic and page views
• Social Media Impressions
• Search engine rankings
• Social media following
• Click-through rate (CTR, the number of clicks divided by impressions)
• Cost per click (CPC, how much money you're spending to generate each click)

You should use data about brand awareness to gain a better understanding of your target audience and how to reach them. Knowing the reach of your message, the engagement generated, and the click-through rate can give you an understanding of what kind of message resonates most with your target audience. This helps with optimisation of your campaigns for maximum success.

2. Acquisition: 

Measuring acquisition metrics gives you an idea of how successful your efforts are at converting prospects into leads. Key acquisition metrics include

• new customer acquisition rate
• lead conversion rate (converting website visitors into leads)
• cost per acquisition
• lead quality score

It's important to take into account both volume (number of leads acquired) and quality (quality score assigned to each lead), so that you can make the right decisions on where to make changes to your marketing funnel.

3. Activation:

These metrics show the rate of customers that are taking the desired action, such as purchasing a product, signing up for a service, or completing any other desired goal. The most important metric for activation is:

• Conversion Rate, which is the ratio of active users to total users. 
• Average Activation Time measures how long it takes customers to complete an action and is frequently used alongside Conversion Rates. 
• Customer Engagement measures how often customers use a product or service after initially signing up for it. 

Tracking these funnel metrics provides companies with valuable insights into the success of their activation efforts and helps them identify areas they should improve.

4. Retention: 

Once someone has become a customer, it's important to measure their retention over time. 

• customer lifetime value (LTV)—the total amount a customer spends with your business over time—as well as other related metrics such as 
• churn rate
• repeat purchase rate.

Understanding these figures will give you an idea of which customers are more valuable in the long run, enabling you to allocate resources accordingly for better returns on investment (ROI).

5. Revenue: 

Conversion refers to turning leads into paying customers, so it's important that customers have a positive experience throughout their journey with your brand until they make a purchase decision. Key revenue metrics include 

• average order value (AOV)
• abandonment rate
• cart-to-order ratio (how often visitors add items to their cart vs completing purchases)
• revenue per visitor/page/click/session/country etc
• Revenue per acquisition

Tracking these types of conversions will help identify areas where improvements need to be made in order for more customers to complete orders successfully.

6. Referrals & Advocacy: 

After someone has made a purchase, if they like what they got then chances are they’ll tell their friends about it - so it pays off when businesses focus on building relationships with their customers after sales too! 

• Tracking referral rates or
• Advocacy measures such as Net Promoter Score™ 

Tracking referral metrics means businesses can understand what motivates customers, in terms of loyalty, towards brands - allowing them to tailor activities towards achieving better long-term outcomes from current customers instead of focusing solely on acquiring new ones all the time!

You Can't Improve What You Don't Measure

By tracking these basic funnel metrics consistently over time, marketers can have greater insight into their audience behaviour and develop strategies that capitalise on their insights for growth and increased ROI from their marketing activities! Taking action based on real data rather than assumptions is key.