A practical example
Example: under a U-shaped model, a deal's credit splits between the first webinar registration and the demo request, with the three emails in between sharing the remainder.
What to evaluate before investing
- Ask which identity resolution method the vendor uses to stitch anonymous and known sessions, and where it breaks down.
- Confirm you can run several attribution models side by side on the same data, since model choice is a judgment call.
- Check whether touchpoint data can be exported, so your analysts can audit the credit distribution independently.
Limitations and tradeoffs
MTA undercounts channels that are hard to track, such as word of mouth, dark social, and privacy-restricted browsers, which can systematically skew budget decisions.
Plan your next step with MeshLine
Connect this decision to your automation, organic marketing and customer lifecycle management. In a MeshLine demo, discuss your existing tools, the scope you need and how to measure the result.