MRI® for Marketing
Market Ready Index® helps marketing departments evaluate, strategize, and optimize.
“Marketing is accountable for optimizing performance — and leadership wants more than a simple ROI.”
THE BEGINNING
Marketing meets technology
Most marketers have been early adopters of technologies in order to do the right things that meet their objectives: Streamline process, increase efficiencies and glean insights from terabytes of data in order to make better decisions.
EVALUATION
The digital things that can be easily measured, such as customer sales, web page analytics and Nielsen syndicated data.
STRATEGY
Based on available data and past performance, most strategy is developed using education, experience, and acumen.
OPTIMIZATION
Most often, optimization comes incrementally, and not fast enough, based solely on resources, objectives and results.
Measure, Monitor, Optimize: Get Market Ready Index®
Marketing is more complex and fragmented
The 4 Ps (Product, Price, Place, Promotion) are being challenged by the 4 Cs (Consumer, Cost, Convenience, Communication) as Marketing as a discipline is evolving at an accelerated pace. Marketing technologies have proven insightful and frustrating at the same time.
Incomplete Evaluation
Traditional channels of communications have expanded with technology, splintering into subchannels of specialization. Digital has become a dominant force and demands a growing share of most marketing budgets. The struggle to evaluate has compounded with disparate systems using separate measurements, making it difficult or impossible to understand what works best.
Competing Strategies
Over the last 10 years, mass media has become secondary to social media with changing patterns of consumer consumption. Media fragmentation has created market fragmentation as consumers follow specific interests, channels, or trends. Today, more people and more decisions are required to create an integrated marketing communications plan that achieves business objectives.
Inconsistent Optimization
Optimization has become even more challenging because traditional analog channels (i.e., branding, public relations, sales, et al) provide the same accuracy or metrics as compulsory digital channels. The perception of measurement is often confused with actionable data; there’s a difference between having knowledge and knowing what it means. Marketers at all stages are then tasked with making positive changes to reach critical KPIs based on incomplete data.
Market Ready Index® helps marketing departments evaluate, strategize, and optimize
Marketing department customers are realizing that adopting a Market Ready Index® discipline improves efficiency, and leveraging our technology platform is helping them make critical improvements throughout their organization.
Sender Analytics
Measure and evaluate all channels and subchannels of communications using a new discipline, and optimize Receiver Analytics by addressing Sender Analytics.
Data-Driven Creativity
Create more effective strategies that better meet business objectives more consistently by applying data-driven creativity to all forms of communications.
Channel Optimization
Make well-informed decisions to improve efficiency of marketing spend by channel and subchannel, leveraging real-time dashboard monitoring over time.
IN THE END
Exceed business objectives.
The ability for marketing departments to flourish depends on their ability to meet business objectives on a regular basis, over time. Consistent and accurate evaluation is critical to understanding your organization's current position in the marketplace, while new strategies for analog and digital channels are required to properly impact target markets. By implementing a proven process for optimization, marketing leaders can consistently increase revenue and set up the department for long-term success.