Posts Tagged ‘business’

Monday, June 2nd, 2008

History

Question.

One of the ongoing dilemmas of our industry – balancing the art and the business…. not to mention the science – which should lead to the business – meaning that which is purely creative, combined with the need for serious business outcomes; added to ROI…all of which should lead to more business.

  • I like that -- the slippers finding the feet....time for the Princess to bloom
  • Measurement and the use of metrics has been a big part of running a business since Taylor (and in the minds of business leaders, for a long time before that). My feeling is that Marketing Departments lost the plot and the imperatives over the years, as Finance and Operations got more power and did their efficiency and effectiveness bit better. ...
  • It’s a little off topic, but now you’ve got me curious. If you wanted to price a P&G;campaign around Business Outcomes, how would you price the campaign? What metrics are P&G;trying to measure? Presumably sales, but how do you correlate pricing/value of a specific online social campaign to an offline product (especially when there are probably numerous advertising channels, and on and ...
Monday, May 12th, 2008

Outcomes

The marketing battlefield is littered with the bones of “elegant” strategies that translated into brilliant creative, that won big awards, that drove no business, that caused the client to change agencies, and you know the rest….