Measuring Marketing 103 Key Metrics Every Marketer Needs

Acknowledgments.

Introduction.

SECTION I: MARKETING PLANNING AND CUSTOMERS.

1. Revenue.     

2. Gross Profits.

3. Value to Volume Ratio.        

4. Net Profits.                                

5. Earnings-Based Value.

6. Return on Sales.

7. Return on Assets.

8. Return on Equity.

9. Marketing Cost Per Unit.

10. Program/Non-Program Ratio.

11. Program/Payroll Ratio.

12. Net Sales Contribution. 

13. Time-Driven Activity Based Costing. 

14. Causal Forecast.

15. Time Series Analysis.

16. Market Growth.               

17. Market Share.    

18. Market Demand.

19. Market Penetration.

20. Segment Profitability.

21. Customer Profitability. 

22. Share of Customer.

23. Customer Acquisition Cost.

24. Cost Per Lead.  

25. Break-Even Analysis.    

26. Customer Equity and Lifetime Value Analysis.         

27. Consumer Franchise.

28. Retention Rate.

29. Churn Rate.

30. New Customer Gains.

31. Customer losses.

32. Return on Customer.

SECTION II: THE OFFERING.

33. New Product Purchase Rate.

34. Profit Impact.

35. Price.                

36. Mark-up Pricing.

37. Target-Return Pricing.

38. Share of Voice.   

39. Advertising to Sales Ratio.

40. Reach.              

41. Frequency.        

42. Gross Ratings Points.

43. Cost Per Gross Ratings Point.

44. Sales Premiums.

45. Promotion Profit.

46. Response Rate.  

47. Conversion Rate.

48. Direct Mail Revenue Goals.

49. Direct Mail Profit Goals.

50. Direct Mail Gross Profit.

51. Direct Mail Net Profit.

52. Direct Mail ROI.

53. Click-Through Rates.

54. Gross Page Impressions (or Gross Page Requests).

55. Cost Per Click.

56. Cost Per Action.

57. Cost Per Sales Dollar.  

58. Hits.

59. Pay Per Lead.

60. Brand Equity.     

61. Brand Premium.

62. Recall.  

63. Recognition.

64. Usage.

65. Transactions Per Customer.

66. Returns to Net Sales.

67. Transactions Per Hour.

68. Hourly Customer Traffic.

69. Inventory Turnover.

70. Percent Inventory Carrying Costs.             

71. Gross Margin Return on Inventory Investment.

72. Sales Per Square Foot.

73. Sales/Profits Per Employee.

74. Average Transactions Size.

75. Average Items Per Transaction.

76. Retail Close Ratio.          

77. Retailer’s Margin Percentage.                  

78. Markdown Goods Percentage.

79. Percent Utilization of Discounts.

80. Shrinkage to Net Sales.   

SECTION III: SALES FORCE.

81. Independent Sales Agent Analysis.

82. Percent of Sales.

83. Turnover Rate. 

84. Recruiting. 

85. Breakdown Approach.

86. Workload Approach. 

87. Incremental Approach. 

88. Sales Performance Quotas. 

89. Average Sales Per Call.

90. Close Process and Close Ratio.

91. Cost Per Call.

92. Sales Productivity.

93. Four Factor Model. 

94. Sales Variance Analysis. 

95. Sales Price Variance.

96. Sales Volume Variance.

97. Straight Commission.

98. Profit-Based Commissions.

99. Straight Salary.

100. Salary Plus Commission or Bonus.

101. Salary Plus Commission and Bonus.

102. Commission Plus Bonus.

103. Team Selling Compensation.

Index.

John Davis is a Practice Associate Professor of Marketing at Singapore Management University where he is also Director of the Center for Marketing Excellence.He is the author of Magic Numbers for Consumer Marketing, and is founder of Brand New View, a global tr5aning and consulting company.
John teaches and consults with companies around the world, and is a feature speaker at conferences. he has founded two award winning companies and let marketing teams at Nike, Informix and Transamerica.
He earned his MBA from Columbia University and his BA from Stanford University.