Driving More Profitable Business Investments with Holistic Commercial Effectiveness Analysis
Sequent Partners Whitepaper: Driving More Profitable Business Investments with Holistic Commercial Effectiveness Analysis
Marketing Management Analytics | February 21, 2017
Helping CEOs, CFOs and CMOs Sleep Better at Night
Prologue
Through our recent work in assessing the ROI measurement landscape, Sequent Partners has seen a tidal shift in sentiment toward marketing mix modeling. Long a stalwart of corporate finance and marketing, some people still view mix models as too slow, too macro and too backwards-looking. The speed and agility of digital attribution modeling flickers ahead, like the glittering lights of Las Vegas against the starkness of the desert night, and marketers are urgently thinking about ROI measurement and driving business investments with ROI insights—at the tempo and granularity of today’s decision-making.
But there’s something else happening. Something more important. Digital attribution, no matter how sophisticated, is still solely about a marketer’s digital investment. It rarely takes into account the impact of traditional marketing and other important factors. Historically, marketing mix models—again, no matter how sophisticated—have been about the marketing and media mix, which can represent as little as 10% of corporate budgets, depending upon the industry. It’s evident to us that in many industries, successful marketing, both traditional and digital, is highly dependent on not only working together, but also working with sales, operations and other important internal investment areas. We’ve come to realize that too much of the dialogue in analytics is focused on the digital and offline marketing silos.