2008-12-05

Dialing up and Down the Business Goals

In amongst a bunch of gobbledygook with a few decent points halfheartedly mixed in, Max Kalehoff at MediaPost’s Online Spin throws out a true nugget:

[A]dvertisers are garnering the power to dial up or down according to their business goals --- for no other reason.

This is put a little gobbledygookedly, but it really is what I’m writing this blog about.

  1. Formulate a business goal
  2. Work out the marketing model to address that business goal
  3. Figure out how to track the model’s success (and not only with instant-gratification metrics, which will severely limit your tools, not to mention your ability to judge results)
  4. Launch the model and tracking
  5. Brutally cut or modify the model if your tracking shows that it isn’t addressing the original goal

Why else would you ever do any marketing at all?

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