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New Side Project: Attribute.Pro (a marketing & advertising attribution solution)

https://attribute.pro/blog/introduction

I found myself in a position.. (explained below). I needed a solution to a client problem, so I built it as an MVP. It's now being used in production by this client, and I'm posted it here for feedback.

It started off as a problem summed up as: "what are the existing cross-domain traffic attribution solutions"

Details:

  • Client X. They have all marketing pages on "root*com"
  • Their signup flow is on "accounts.root*com"
  • Their actual SaaS app (which has Mixpanel installed) is on: "app.root*com"

Outline of Problem:

  • You want to drive traffic to their homepage (rootcom, rootcom/case-studies...)
  • You want to use UTM variables to track ad performance from Google Ads.
  • You have to get those UTM variables down into "app.root*com" (and inside mixpanel)- so we know which exact people+purchases are attributed to which campaigns/sets/ads.

I came to find some tech solutions, but like I said.. I wanted to build it in a re-usable way, for other people in this dilemma.

My solution:
Attribute.pro (https://attribute.pro/blog/introduction)

  • it allows me to drop a tag on "rootcom", use UTM links, then re-call those UTM links from "app.rootcom" when an account is logged-in / purchase is made..

Let me know what you think, I'd love to hear any feedback for better or worse :)

(on the road to v1.0: paid accounts & more features worth signing up for.. like a link shortener that auto-tags people using the same underlying framework)

submitted this linkon August 28, 2019