The URL shortener is a must-have piece of the toolkit for the social media marketing age. PixelMe is a combination of a tried and true URL shortener with a retargeting pixel in every link to help your marketing efforts. Bingo!
If you’re not #intheknow, retargeting is a form of online advertising that uses cookies to help you advertise to your visitors while they browse the web. Basically, a piece of Javacript, a “pixel” is placed on the browser as a cookie. The cookie then notifies retargeting platforms to serve specific ads.
Usually, it’s part of an overall marketing strategy to help capture potential customers who visit your site, but don’t necessarily check out or become customers. Combined with content marketing and targeted displays, it can help get more people back to your site and ultimately become customers. In terms of numbers, if only two percent of customers normally convert on first visit, the ability to retarget gives you a better shot at the other 98 percent.
Key features of this tool beyond link shortening include: Measurement, with links analytics to help you determine what is working; Custom Domains with branded short domains; the ability to include single or multi-pixels so you can retarget with multiple ad platforms; bulk import that lets you quickly add multiple links and then share them from the dashboard; customized slugs edits (to the last part of the URL); a custom 404 screen if you have a dead link; and team member collaboration if you have a small marketing team coordinating your efforts.
The effectiveness of PixelMe comes from its development (a great story pulled from the blog here) with specific use cases in mind.
Influencer marketing (which we’ve written about: check it out here) for example, is often a one-time marketing exposure – with PixelMe, the campaign audience gets retargeted so you get more ROI on working with influencers.
PixelMe starts at $10 per month (with up to 200 shortened links a month and one pixelID); and goes all the way to $79/dollars a month (for 15 pixel IDs, 10 team members, and 5,000 links per month). At three pricing levels, practitioners of all kinds can find marketing benefits.
