When a new executive team came to Progress Software, Carmen Gardiner, Marketing Operations Manager, was given a new challenge. Her new managers wanted to see digital attribution incorporated into their marketing process. After about a year of efforts, Progress now has digital attribution for about 80% of marketing efforts. Learn more about how Carmen and her team utilized utm parameters, referral data, and cookies to track journeys.

Tune in and Get Inspired to:

  • Build more complex reporting
  • Standardize your utm parameters
  • Utilize your “village” for success
  • Tie together Google Analytics and Salesforce
  • Know when to bring in third party vendors

Key Takeaways:

[:45] Who is Carmen and what does she do for Progress?
[1:15] What was Carmen originally trying to solve by starting this digital attribution project?
[2:15] Carmen discusses some of the results she’s seen from the project so far.
[3:05] What were some of the steps that Carmen took to get this project off the ground?
[8:35] Carmen shares some of the wins and successes that have come from the project.
[11:10] How does technology play a role in all of this?
[14:15] What’s next for Carmen?
[15:50] What inspires Carmen?

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About the Author: Scott Ingram

Scott Ingram is no stranger to marketing technology! He's been in the space since 2009 and joined Eloqua in 2011. After writing a successful book on Event Marketing, “Making Rain with Events”, he joined Relationship One and is now the Strategic Account Manager. As if that didn’t keep him busy enough he started our Inspired Marketing Podcast series and is raising two daughters. A true Austinite, he always wears his Rickshaw boots while remaining a data geek with his constant Fitbit data retrieval.