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• “If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it”<br />
(Kaplan, Robert & David P. Norton, 1996)<br />
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Objectives<br />
• Marketing: Art vs. science<br />
• Setting feasible marketing target<br />
• Quantify marketing performance<br />
• Evaluating marketing accomplishment<br />
• Comparing marketing effectiveness among<br />
competitors in the market.<br />
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Materials<br />
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Contents<br />
• Chapter 1: Overview of marketing metrics<br />
• Chapter 2: Developing marketing metrics system<br />
• Chapter 3: Market & Sales forecast<br />
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• Chapter 4: Non-financial metrics<br />
• Chapter 5: Financial metrics<br />
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Overview of<br />
marketing metrics<br />
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Contents<br />
• What’s a metric.<br />
• The need of measuring marketing performance<br />
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Marketer’s challenges<br />
• Empowered customers<br />
• Fractured media<br />
• Continuing growth<br />
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• Extensive competition<br />
• Demand for effectiveness and accountability<br />
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Metrics<br />
• A measure system that quantifies a trend, dynamic<br />
or characteristic.<br />
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Roles & functions<br />
• To assess past situations:<br />
◦ Explain phenomena<br />
◦ Diagnose causes<br />
◦ Share findings<br />
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• To forecast the future<br />
◦ To project results of future events<br />
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Benefits<br />
• Focus on the key performance criteria.<br />
• Better vision.<br />
• Better decisions.<br />
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• Raising marketing’s role, influence and stature in<br />
the company.<br />
• Better buy in and support from other<br />
departments.<br />
• Better performance<br />
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Limitation and difficulty<br />
• Availability of data<br />
◦ Permission, privacy<br />
◦ Ability to access<br />
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• Sources of data<br />
◦ Bias<br />
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• Accuracy<br />
◦ Methodology to collect data<br />
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Developing a marketing<br />
metrics system<br />
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Contents<br />
• Data needed for developing marketing metrics<br />
system<br />
• Building process for measuring marketing activities<br />
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Type of metrics<br />
• Activity-based metrics: track and assess marketing<br />
activities<br />
• Operations performance metrics: evaluate<br />
performance of marketing department<br />
• Outcome-based metrics: measure marketing<br />
efforts to defined objectives<br />
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• Leading-indicator metrics: help company in<br />
making strategic decisions.<br />
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