Marketing Metrics, 4th edition

Published by Pearson FT Press (July 14, 2021) © 2021

  • Neil Bendle
  • Paul W. Farris
  • Phillip Pfeifer
  • David Reibstein

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ISBN-13: 9780137460267
Marketing Metrics
Published 2021

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This award-winning guide will help you accurately quantify the performance of all your marketing investments, increase marketing ROI, and grow profits. Four renowned experts help you apply todays best practices for assessing everything from brand equity to social media, email performance, and rich media interaction.
This updated edition shows how to measure costly sponsorships, explores links between marketing and financial metrics for current and aspiring C-suite decision-makers; presents better ways to measure omnichannel marketing activities; and includes a new section on accountability and standardisation in marketing measurement. As in their best-selling previous editions, the authors present pros, cons, and practical guidance for every technique they cover.
  • Measure promotions, advertising, distribution, customer perceptions, competitor power, margins, pricing, product portfolios, salesforces, and more
  • Apply web, online, social, and mobile metrics more effectively
  • Build models to optimise planning and decision-making
  • Attribute purchase decisions when multiple channels interact
  • Understand the links between search and distribution, and use new online distribution metrics
  • Evaluate marketings impact on a publicly traded firms financial objectives
Foreword     xvii

Foreword to the Fourth Edition     xix

Chapter 1:  Introduction     1

1.1 What Is a Metric?       1

1.2 Why Do You Need Metrics?     1

1.3 Marketing Metrics: Opportunities, Performance, and Accountability     2

1.4 Choosing the Right Numbers     3

1.5 What Are We Measuring?     3

1.6 Value of Information     5

1.7 Mastering Metrics     7

1.8 Where Are the “Top Ten” Metrics?     7

1.9 What Is New in the Fourth Edition?     9

1.10 New Developments in the World of Marketing Metrics     10

Chapter 2:  Share of Hearts, Minds, and Markets     19

Introduction     19

2.1 Market Share     24

2.2 Relative Market Share and Market Concentration     27

2.3 Brand Development Index and Category Development Index     31

2.4 Penetration     33

2.5 Share of Requirements     36

2.6 Usage Index     40

2.7 Awareness, Attitudes, and Usage (AAU): Metrics of the Hierarchy of Effects     44

2.8 Customer Satisfaction and Willingness to Recommend     49

2.9 Net Promoter     53

2.10 Willingness to Search     55

2.11 Neuroscience Measures     57

Chapter 3:  Margins and Profits     67

Introduction     67

3.1 Margins     71

3.2 Prices and Channel Margins     77

3.3 Average Price per Unit and Price per Statistical Unit     87

3.4 Variable Costs and Fixed Costs     93

3.5 Marketing Spending—Total, Fixed, and Variable     99

3.6 Break-Even Analysis and Contribution Analysis     104

3.7 Profit-Based Sales Targets     108

Chapter 4:  Product and Portfolio Management     113

Introduction     113

4.1 Trial, Repeat, Penetration, and Volume Projections     116

4.2 Growth: Percentage and CAGR     129

4.3 Cannibalization Rates and Fair Share Draw     134

4.4 Brand Equity Metrics     140

4.5 Conjoint Utilities and Consumer Preference     149

4.6 Segmentation Using Conjoint Utilities     154

4.7 Conjoint Utilities and Volume Projection     157

Chapter 5:  Customer Profitability     159

Introduction     159

5.1 Customers, Recency, and Retention     162

5.2 Customer Profit     167

5.3 Customer Lifetime Value     172

5.4 Prospect Lifetime Value Versus Customer Value     178

5.5 Acquisition Versus Retention Cost     182

Chapter 6:  Sales Force Management     185

Introduction     185

6.1 Sales Force Coverage: Territories     187

6.2 Sales Force Objectives: Setting Goals     190

6.3 Sales Force Effectiveness: Measuring Effort, Potential, and Results     194

6.4 Sales Force Compensation: Salary/Reward Mix     198

6.5 Sales Force Tracking: Pipeline Analysis     201

Chapter 7:  Channel Management     207

Introduction     207

7.1 Numeric, ACV and PCV Distribution, Facings/Share of Shelf     210

7.2 Supply Chain Metrics     217

7.3 SKU Profitability: Markdowns, GMROII, and DPP     223

7.4 Online Distribution Metrics     228

7.5 Combining Search and Distribution     230

7.6 Understanding Channel Dependencies     231

Chapter 8:  Pricing Strategy     235

Introduction     235

8.1 Price Premium     238

8.2 Reservation Price and Percent Good Value     242

8.3 Price Elasticity of Demand     248

8.4 Optimal Prices and Linear and Constant Demand Functions     255

8.5 Own, Cross, and Residual Price Elasticity     268

Chapter 9:  Promotion     279

Introduction     279

9.1 Baseline Sales, Incremental Sales, and Promotional Lift     282

9.2 Redemption Rates, Costs for Coupons and Rebates, and Percentage Sales with Coupon     290

9.3 Promotions and Pass-Through     293

9.4 Price Waterfall     296

Chapter 10:  Advertising and Sponsorship Metrics     303

Introduction     303

10.1 Advertising: Impressions, Exposures, Opportunities-to-See (OTS), Gross Rating Points (GRPs), and Target Rating Points (TRPs)     307

10.2 Cost per Thousand Impressions (CPM) Rates     312

10.3 Reach, Net Reach, and Frequency     314

10.4 Frequency Response Functions     318

10.5 Effective Reach and Effective Frequency     323

10.6 Share of Voice     325

10.7 Advertising Elasticity of Demand     327

10.8 Return on Advertising Spend (ROAS)     332

10.9 Equivalent Media Value from Sponsorship     334

10.10 Sponsorship ROI     336

Chapter 11:  Online, Email, and Mobile Metrics     341

Introduction     341

11.1 Impressions and Pageviews     345

11.2 Media Display Time and Interaction Rate     348

11.3 Clickthrough Rates     351

11.4 Cost per Impression, Cost per Click, and Cost per Order     355

11.5 Visits, Visitors, and Abandonment     360

11.6 Bounce Rate (website)     364

11.7 Social Media Metrics: Friends/Followers/Supporters/Likes     367

11.8 Downloads     370

11.9 Mobile Metrics     372

11.10 Email Metrics     374

Chapter 12:  Marketing and Finance     377

Introduction     377

12.1 Net Profit and Return on Sales     380

12.2 Return on Investment     382

12.3 Economic Profit—EVA     383

12.4 Evaluating Multi-period Investments     386

12.5 Marketing Return on Investment     390

12.6 Financial Market Measures     397

12.7 Combined Market and Accounting Measures     399

Chapter 13:  The Marketing Metrics X-Ray and Testing     403

13.1 The Marketing Metrics X-Ray     403

13.2 The Value of Information     412

13.3 Testing     414

Chapter 14:  System of Metrics     421

14.1 Modeling Firm Performance     421

14.2 Three Reasons for Using Systems of Identities in Marketing     424

14.3 Marketing Mix Models: Monitoring Relationships Between Marketing Decisions and Objectives     429

14.4 Related Metrics and Concepts     433

Bibliography     435

Endnotes     439

Index     447

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