NAMED BEST MARKETING BOOK OF 2011 BY THE AMERICAN MARKETING ASSOCIATION

How organizations can deliver significant performance gains through strategic investment in marketing

In the new era of tight marketing budgets, no organization can continue to spend on marketing without knowing what's working and what's wasted. Data-driven marketing improves efficiency and effectiveness of marketing expenditures across the spectrum of marketing activities from branding and awareness, trail and loyalty, to new product launch and Internet marketing. Based on new research from the Kellogg School of Management, this book is a clear and convincing guide to using a more rigorous, data-driven strategic approach to deliver significant performance gains from your marketing.

• Explains how to use data-driven marketing to deliver return on marketing investment (ROMI) in any organization
• In-depth discussion of the fifteen key metrics every marketer should know
• Based on original research from America's leading marketing business school, complemented by experience teaching ROMI to executives at Microsoft, DuPont, Nisan, Philips, Sony and many other firms
• Uses data from a rigorous survey on strategic marketing performance management of 252 Fortune 1000 firms, capturing $53 billion of annual marketing spending
• In-depth examples of how to apply the principles in small and large organizations
• Free downloadable ROMI templates for all examples given in the book

With every department under the microscope looking for results, those who properly use data to optimize their marketing are going to come out on top every time.

Table of Contents

Part I: Essentials

Chapter 1: The Marketing Divide

Chapter 2: Where Do You Start?

Chapter 3: The 10 Classical Marketing Metrics

Part II: 15 Metrics to Radically Improve Marketing Performance

Chapter 4: The Five Essential Nonfinancial Metrics

Chapter 5: Show Me the ROl!

Chapter 6: All Customers Are Not Equal

Chapter 7: From Clicks to Value with Internet Marketing Metrics

Part Ill: The Next Level

Chapter 8: Agile Marketing

Chapter 9: Wow, That Product Is Exactly What I Need1

Chapter 10: What's It Going to Take?

Chapter 11: Marketing Budgets, Technology, and Core Processes

About the Author

MARK JEFFERY (Evanston, IL) is the Director of Technology Initiatives and Senior Lecturer in the Center for Research on Technology and Innovation at the Kellogg School of Management. He has more than thirty publications in management, scientific, and technology journals, and has published twenty-four original Kellogg case studies distributed by Harvard Business School Publishing. At Kellogg he directs multiple executive programs including Strategic Data-Driven Marketing and Driving Strategic Value from IT, and teaches in custom executive programs for many organizations including Microsoft and DuPont. He is also the Managing Partner of Agile Insights LLC, a marketing and technology consultancy, www.agileinsights.com.