Mobile is driving the big transformation in today's world, across industries. This transformation is in the way organizations do business, the way consumers avail products and services and the way marketeers present their offers. Just to give you an idea of the importance of mobile:
- 80% people don't leave home without their mobile devices
- In India, 72% of all website data actually comes from smart phones
- Internet contributed 5% of GDP growth in India
- In March 2015, for the first time ever in US, Comscore registered more people accessing internet through mobile only. The trend is only increasing
As step 1, let's try to establish how behavior of people interacting with your mobile applications might be different from those who interact with normal websites (though the user might still be the same).
- Interactions: Mobile application users are expected to be more focused, their interactions are more transactional based, like bill pay, buy product, transfer funds, make a booking. Whereas website users are expected to be more inquisitive, they still in process of discovery of solution.
- Entries/Exits: There are more exit points for people coming on normal websites, than mobile applications. Hence this would provide a better opportunity to deliver your message in absence of environmental noise.
- Metrics: Since there are many behavioral differences between mobile application and website users, it's important to identify distinct success metrics for both. In case of websites you might need to focus on searches, product views, time spent on page/website, whereas for mobile applications it could be transactions per visit, events/goals per visit etc
Analytics solutions won't only help you quantify your performance and marketing strategy, but it would also help you to optimize:
- Design: Entry/Exit screens, Screen flow, accessibility issues within your platform like errors, crash reports etc, and other cosmetic features
- Effort: Which on site tools need overhaul, where to deploy your time and resources to improve, which operating systems are driving the maximum traffic and conversion rate?
- Strategy: Which traffic sources are sending most profitable customers? What could be best channel strategy for you in this multi-channel marketing world?
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