Improve Your Ad Conversion Rate with Surefire

An ad conversion rate is the ratio of people who took a specific action to the number of people who saw an ad. Some marketers consider the “action” a simple click, while others may look at the number of people who actually made a purchase, and still others may look at the number of people who became leads. While all are relevant metrics in different scenarios, for the purposes of this article, let’s look at the number of people who complete a lead form relative to the number of people who view the ad.

The math will look something like this:

500 (lead forms returned) divided by 50,000 (people who saw your ad) = 1% ad conversion rate

In this scenario, the conversion rate relies on the effectiveness of several aspects of your approach – how well you’ve targeted your audience in your social engine marketing, the appeal of the ad itself, and the success of the landing page or form in enticing people to take the next step after their initial click. Surefire can boost an ad’s effectiveness at the last stage of this process.

Which Surefire tools can boost ad conversion rates and bring in quality leads?

Surefire has out-of-the-box and build-your-own solutions to boost the number of leads generated from social engine marketing. These solutions work together to create an experience that can educate potential borrowers and inspire them to act, creating more quality leads.

Landing pages – Surefire offers pre-built landing pages, or standalone web pages, where prospects can “land” when they click on an ad. These pages contain experiences ranging from simple, stylized educational information to interactive content to mortgage calculators. Optimized for mobile viewing, they typically include options for social sharing as well as response forms.

Surefire’s landing pages are designed to be branded for the LO or company sharing them, with space for licensing, contact information, and even cobranding with referral partners. Many designs pull in the LO’s company colors, providing a seamless experience for prospects.

Forms – Surefire forms can be placed on a Surefire landing page or even on a non-Surefire website. Surefire-created web forms are typically very simple, since longer forms often result in abandonment and fewer conversions.

When a prospect completes the form, they’re immediately added into the LO’s database as a lead. With Surefire’s marketing automation, the LO will receive a notification, and the lead will receive an immediate automated SMS response (a key factor in converting leads to borrowers).

While Surefire has plenty of pre-built forms, which are branded for the LO, the mortgage CRM also has the tools so mortgage companies can build their own forms.

Mortgage Calculators and Educational Interactive Content – Here’s how Surefire really helps capture quality leads. When your ad entices someone to click and they land on a page with quality content, they’re more likely to take the next step and complete a form. Furthermore, assuming they’ve taken time to input some numbers in the calculator or otherwise engage with the content, they’ll be a better quality lead, too – one who has put more thought into a mortgage than the average rate shopper.

Like landing pages and forms, many of Surefire’s mortgage calculators, games, video riddles and interactive content pieces are color branded, and all contain LO info and a space for cobranding with referral partners.

What comes after ad conversion?

What comes next is just as important as capturing a lead in the first place. With Surefire’s marketing automation:

• The lead will get an immediate response over their preferred channel.
• The LO will be notified so they can engage personally at their earliest convenience.
• An omnichannel automated workflow can be triggered to engage the lead for days, weeks or months until they become a borrower.

If you’re interested in learning more about boosting your mortgage company’s ad conversion rates with the power of Surefire, register for a demo today!