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You mention co-reg and most marketers will fall into one of three categories:
- Er, what's this co-registration thingy about again?
- Tried it, didn't work for me
- I love it, but I'm not going to brag about it
If you answered 1, 2 or 3 you need to keep reading...
It may not be sexy or what you always dreamed of in your formative years at Marketing School... but, damn, what won't win best looks in a marketing beauty contest does deliver stonking results!
Using the UK market as an example, what other channel can give you....
... opt-in email leads for 50p which convert at 30% to double opt-in (DOI)?
... telephone leads for £1 which convert to sale at 10-15% on calling?
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The uniqueness of co-reg bobbing amongst the sea of Lead generation channels is what makes it unrivaled in terms of performance and misunderstanding in equal measures.
What makes it unique
- Only lead gen channel purely priced on cost per lead (CPL)
- Highest opt-in rate from impression - think 5% versus 0.5% on performance display ads or email marketing
- Huge scale - 1 million UK leads in a month is doable
- Lowest cost in generating leads compared with other channels
- 1-click sign-up - hyper convenient for consumers to opt-in
Why is it misunderstood
- Driven by native style advertising
- You're unlikely to stumble across a co-reg site - they have no SEO value as Google bot crawlers can't creep past the initial registration page so you must be driven there by push email, display, mobile marketing
- Dual registration process means you need to appreciate how opt-in consent and privacy policies work
- Predominance of competition style publisher sites
- Huge variance in lead quality from best to worst from similar looking sites
- Labour intensive to manage the data without the right know-how and lead management technology
- Not taught at any level from degree to professional qualification
- Co-reg ads are an ugly name! Sign-up ads are a better expression!
What's new?
This is the reveal moment, because the new and improved 'sign-ups' (aka co-reg) are actually starting to look more easy on the eye these days. Here's why?
- Big brand content publishers integrating sign-ups into their advertising suite - from Dennis Publishing to the Daily Mail Group
- Lead management platforms are increasingly tidying up the messy side of handling leads to deliver fuss-free automated campaigns
- Lead scoring means you can slice and dice your audience into look-a-like customers rather than use generic lead capture
- Geo-demographic targeting works because a bigger audience means zoning in on the right target with a profiled sign-up advert.
- Improved retargeting by database building at super low cost
So whilst traditional co-registration will always remain a guilty pleasure, you may yet come to openly show your love for sign-ups instead.
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