New Report Defines Multichannel Measurement Framework Needed to Address Accelerating Pace of Mobile Growth

HIGHLAND PARK, Ill., Aug. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- While smart phone adoption is growing at breakneck speeds, and with mobile apps predicted to generate over $30 billion by the end of 2013 according to Gartner, most businesses today are still ill equipped to effectively measure their mobile efforts, which includes the interaction, use, and enjoyment of mobile websites and mobile applications.  A new report from Eric Peterson, Founder and Senior Partner at Web Analytics Demystified, and sponsored by OpinionLab, the pioneer and leader in voice-of-customer (VOC) listening technologies, describes the mobile-measurement conundrum and defines the framework necessary to better leverage qualitative feedback data into improved measurement of mobile initiatives.

The whitepaper, titled The Mobile Measurement Framework: Making Sense of Your Mobile Efforts in the Context of Your Business, explains that for businesses, mobile measurement is a tough task due to the multitude of platforms, devices, and underlying privacy concerns. However, focusing on qualitative data and direct consumer and user response delivers significant value to companies willing to listen.  The result is a rich set of key performance indicators focused on user experience, interaction, engagement, and costs that can be applied to mobile sites, mobile applications, and traditional web sites easily, effectively, and inexpensively.

"The overall quality of the user experience is the first essential metric in the new mobile-measurement framework — and it's crucial to use a tool that provides the audience with a direct mechanism for expressing their joy as well as frustration," said Peterson. "Using an opt-in, open-text system like OpinionLab enables businesses to get into their users' heads and gather great and useful insights while also preventing potential PR and product-support challenges."

The report establishes a new set of metrics more appropriate to the current multi-channel marketplace: a core set of three "essential" measures that businesses can apply equally to mobile websites, mobile apps, traditional websites — in fact, to the entire digital landscape.

"It's common knowledge that invested customers would rather share their opinions and frustrations directly with the brand," said Rand Nickerson, CEO of OpinionLab. "In order to capture your customers' feedback, it's vital that you listen across all touch points, from mobile, to digital, to brick and mortar. By doing so, you're inviting your customers to help build the brand, and they will see that as a gesture of goodwill."

The paper recommends that businesses put these new measures into the context of costs and revenues, outlines how to do so, and describes a series of examples from major organizations. All company executives will understand the value of decreasing costs per interaction and increasing revenue per engaged user.

To access the complimentary white paper, The Mobile Measurement Framework: Making Sense of Your Mobile Efforts in the Context of Your Business, please go to http://www.opinionlab.com/mobile_meas_framework_wp_dl.html

About OpinionLab

Based in Highland Park, IL, OpinionLab is the pioneer and leader in real-time voice-of-customer (VOC) listening technologies. The patented, proven methodology behind this page-specific, opt-in customer-feedback system helps many of the world's top brands collect, manage, and leverage input from engaged consumers. By inviting customers to share insight in their own words, at anytime, from anywhere, OpinionLab harnesses the collective intelligence of consumer voices, interprets that information, distributes it, and provides essential tools to make VOC data actionable. Consumers in 50 countries click on the familiar [+] symbol millions of times each month. OpinionLab is also the parent company of DialogCentral, a breakthrough mobile technology that provides a single platform for real-time feedback delivered directly to any business. DialogCentral is free for consumers and businesses. For more information, visit www.opinionlab.com or www.dialogcentral.com.

About Web Analytics Demystified

Web Analytics Demystified, founded in 2007 by internationally known author and former Jupiter Research analyst Eric T. Peterson, provides objective strategic guidance to companies striving to realize the full potential of their investment in web analytics. By bridging the gap between measurement technology and business strategy, Web Analytics Demystified has provided guidance to hundreds of companies around the world, including many of the best known retailers, financial services institutions, and media properties on the Internet.

For more information on Eric T. Peterson and Web Analytics Demystified, please visit www.webanalyticsdemystified.com.

SOURCE OpinionLab