SWOT Team: What's the Least Painful Way to Measure ROI?
Math may not be everyone's favorite school subject, but we all know its value in our business. Numbers tell a story about the strengths and weaknesses of a marketing campaign. Even though numbers are vital in marketing, not all creative marketing types are comfortable interpreting them.
Marketing departments also have the challenge of dealing with too much data, thanks to all the computer applications that collect it.
Endless data streams impact the many arms of marketing: Web, print, radio, mail and television. What resources are useful for collecting and understanding these numbers? Is there a standard process or approach that with a little tweaking works with most products and services? How do you collect and measure the efficiency of a marketing campaign?
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This Week's Dilemma
Number crunching the marketing way
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Hank Stroll (Hank@InternetVIZ.com) is publisher at InternetVIZ, a custom publisher of 24 B2B e-newsletters reaching 490,000 business executives.
