From the category archives:

Marketing Metrics and Reporting

“I’m drowning in data, float me some insights!” Let marketing analytics be your life ring!

More and more marketers are using both web activity and offline data to make marketing decisions, and this trend will continue to increase – so there’s more data coming to add to the confusion. Investing in marketing analytics support services will keep you afloat and will also help you set a course and keep on tack as you navigate through the sea of offline and online data.

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Marketing Measurement and Analytics Top Ten Impediments to Success

Marketing measurement and analytics can’t be a “do it once and don’t look back” kind of process. Learnings are iterative and, when successful, initial analytics projects will stimulate a keen interest in learning more across the organization. The successful organization will make resources available to continue the research so findings are evergreen.

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Nine Key Marketing Metrics every company should be measuring

When organizations begin to standardize marketing measurements across their sales channels, business units and media, the closer they will come to the more complex process of tracking corporate Brand Equity, Market Share, Marketing ROI, and Product and Customer Profitability.

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As a campaign metric, ROI beats response rate every time

A simple ROI calculation does it all: Test cell revenue/test cell cost. Run the numbers on your next campaign and you may find some fascinating new insights about the results of your programs.

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