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Chris Kervinen

Sellforte | MMM - Continuous is better than project-based

It is self-evident that measuring the effectiveness of marketing makes sense. As the great thinker Peter Drucker put it, “You can’t manage what you can’t measure”. Or to put it the other way, you can manage what you can measure. Even if your marketing seems to be working just fine and needs absolutely no fixing, how can you be sure it’s not broken unless you measure it?

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Sellforte | How to measure the sales uplift of an individual media channel

· What was my last campaign’s return on marketing investment?

· How did the different channels perform individually and as a whole campaign?

· What action does the results imply me to take?

These are some of the key questions marketers have and should be able to answer in a post-campaign analysis. Looking at one campaign’s data isn’t, however, a feasible way to get accurate & reliable results, especially if there’s multiple overlapping offline and online media channels at play (which usually is the case with larger advertisers). In order to measure individual media channel’s sales & profit uplift, you need to look at marketing effectiveness on a much longer time period.

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Sellforte | Some good marketing news #5

True to the original format – John Krasinski’s Some Good News – the goal of this series is to share some upbeat happenings from past weeks to the midst of all of the crisis alerts. As we all know, it’s currently very tough out there. It’s alright to look for the silver lining every now and then :)

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Sellforte | What data do I need for Marketing Mix Modeling?

What data do I need for MMM and where to get it from?

Neil Borden has been identified as one the first persons to use the term marketing mix in his famous phrase from 1949: “An executive is a mixer of ingredients, who sometimes follows a recipe as he goes along, sometimes adapts a recipe to the ingredients immediately available, and sometimes experiments with or invents ingredients no one else has tried." The mix (which consisted of 4Ps at first, then 7Ps, and eventually 7Cs) has been somewhat clear for the marketers throughout the years, the modeling on the other hand not so much. We’ve previously covered what is Marketing Mix Modeling and what ROMI stands for , but in this article we’re diving into the ingredients – data inputs – you need for Marketing Mix Modeling.

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Sellforte | Some good marketing news #1

Some good news – Marketing Edition

True to the original format – John Krasinski’s Some Good News – the goal of this series is to share some upbeat happenings from past weeks to the midst of all of the crisis alerts. As we all know, it’s currently very tough out there. It’s alright to look for the silver lining every now and then :)

Procter & Gamble hits sales target as marketing spending accelerates

P&G’s organic sales grew +6% along with the company’s biggest hike in marketing spending within this fiscal year. There’s no signs of pulling back the marketing investments in the current quarter either, as the Co-Chairman Chief Financial Officer Jon Moeller sees no negative trends in marketing effectiveness:

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Sellforte | Steps to Agile marketing

Steps to Agile marketing and why to utilize it

The current trend that is sweeping the global business community is a style of marketing that tackles targeted objectives with a certain guerrilla gusto. This tactical marketing approach is able to react quickly to changes that happen in the market, prevents narrow-mindedness and connects departments through campaigns and projects that strengthen a company’s overall marketing efforts. So, what is this mysterious trendy moneymaking method called? The answer, of course, is Agile marketing.

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Sellforte | Measure or Die – Why data-driven marketing is a must-have mindset in 2020

In 2020, World Federation of Advertisers conducted its largest global study to date , surveying 683 leading marketers from over 30 countries together with a global market research agency 2CV . The goal was to find out what are the biggest challenges today’s marketers face, what can be done to bridge any skill gaps that exist, and what else CMOs need to be conscious of to succeed into the 2020s. The massive research defined three core categories:

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