Engagement: Marketing Programs Effectiveness

Client

A leading technical software vendor.

Challenge

Identify high and low-performing marketing programs. Client had thousands of marketing programs and lacked quantitative measures and management attention needed to assess programs at the level of detail required.

Solution

Introduce metrics based on program contribution margins.

  1. Sensibly allocate revenue to marketing programs
  2. Redefine the customer as the purchase decision network, not the person who places the order
  3. Combine metrics and field knowledge of what worked and did not work

Client Impact

Greatly improved management’s ability to identify and expand over-performing programs and to fix or eliminate under-performing programs.

Related Product

Marketing program analysis shows imputed revenue, contribution margin $ and %.

Marketing program evalution in ModelSheet