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## [Are Your Mobile Ads Getting People to Your Store?](https://resources.cmglocalsolutions.com/are-your-mobile-ads-getting-people-to-your-store)

Posted by [Zuri Stanback](https://resources.cmglocalsolutions.com/author/zuri-stanback) on August 29, 2016 at 1:23 PM

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![Mobile ads](https://resources.cmglocalsolutions.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Blog_Post_Images/_323155.jpg?width=350&name=_323155.jpg "Mobile ads")More than 90 percent of retail sales happen offline, as [Marketing Land](http://marketingland.com/google-expand-store-visits-online-offline-foot-traffic-measurement-178478) notes, but much of today's shopping journey happens online. Thankfully, lift studies that link online behavior with in-store visits are becoming more readily available. These metrics allow you to measure in-store visits driven by your mobile ad campaign to learn precisely how well it's performing.

Previously, it was a challenge to link online ad exposure to offline sales, but with mobile's geolocation data, vendors — who serve mobile ads — can measure the number of customers who [visit a retail location](http://blog.cmglocalsolutions.com/use-mobile-technologies-to-drive-consumers-right-to-your-door) after seeing said mobile ad. For instance, Facebook offers location-based awareness ads that show stores "near me," and offer calls-to-action such as "directions" or "call." Now those ad reports include a store visits metric, which enables you to see how many people came to your retail location after seeing your Facebook ad and analyze results across multiple locations — but there are many ways to crunch the numbers.

A recent [Pinterest](https://business.pinterest.com/en/blog/oracle-data-cloud%E2%80%99s-study-proves-promoted-pins-drive-store-sales) lift study showed how the company's Promoted Pins impacted in-store sales per impression as compared to other online advertising. As [Marketing Land](http://marketingland.com/pinterest-starts-measure-store-sales-impact-promoted-pins-180055) mentions, as is typical of a lift study, they used control groups to determine if exposure to digital ads made an impact on purchase. In addition to creating a wealth of profile information about Pinterest users, the lift study showed five times more incremental sales per impression.

According to [Marketing Land](http://marketingland.com/google-expand-store-visits-online-offline-foot-traffic-measurement-178478), Google introduced its store visits tracking two years ago, and is now expanding it to more kinds of advertisers — and will eventually offer it to small businesses. Using these reports, Target discovered that one out of three clicks on their mobile search ads resulted in a store visit, which they saw as a clear mandate to increase mobile search spend.

There are many options for understanding the value you're getting from your mobile ad buy, and a trusted digital marketing partner can help you make sense of the wealth of available data to create actionable plans for your business.

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