Expert advice on managing marketing budgets to boost ROI and optimize advertising spend.

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How To Manage Your Marketing Budget For Improved ROI

This article was originally published in Authority Magazine’s “The CMO” newsletter.

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With the growing complexity of marketing channels and the need for businesses to constantly adapt their strategies, managing marketing budgets effectively has become more critical than ever. In this interview series, we speak with CMOs and other marketing leaders who have significant experience in budget management and optimization, to share their “5 Ways To Manage Your Marketing Budget For Improved ROI.” As a part of this series, we had the pleasure of interviewing Armin Kakas.

July 19, 2023 No Comments

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Demistifying Marketing Mix Modeling

In our popular webinar on Marketing Mix Modeling (MMM), we disdcuss the pros/cons of MMM, and its growing importance in today’s privacy-centric, cookie-less world.

We also deep-dive into Meta’s innovative MMM framework, Robyn, highlighting how it has revolutionized marketing analytics with its cost-efficiency, granularity of insights, and flexibility.

Our detailed presentation and recorded webinar offer practical demonstrations of Robyn’s capabilities, providing a holistic view of channel effectiveness, adstock decay rates, and marketing budget optimization.

The era of six-figure marketing analytics is a thing of the past – welcome to a future of accessible, affordable, and robust marketing effectiveness measurement.

July 8, 2023 1 Comment

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The Merits of Aggregated Data for Demand and Price Elasticity Modeling

It’s time to rethink traditional sales and price elasticity modeling methods.

Aggregated data at the retail chain level and modern machine learning models are vital in shaping an efficient, practical, and robust approach for predicting and explaining retail sales.

Why this shift? The traditional reliance on granular, disaggregated (i.e., store-product-day level) data and old-school models are costly, complex, and often misaligned with practical management strategies.

Turning to aggregated data and modern ML approaches reduces costs, enhances model accuracy and efficiency, and makes these valuable insights more accessible to smaller firms and faster for larger ones.

Moreover, in-sourcing these capabilities builds critical, sustainable expertise for Revenue Growth Management, freeing companies from reliance on 3rd parties. This shift signifies an effective and sustainable future for Revenue Analytics and redefines competitive positioning, enabling superior service and product offerings.

June 20, 2023 No Comments

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Unveiling Your Revenue Growth Analytics Maturity: Unlock Your Full Profit Potential

Discover the power of Revenue Growth Analytics with our newly launched Maturity Scorecard, designed to assess your organization’s capabilities in Margin Analytics & Optimization, Sales & Customer Growth Analytics, and Promotion Effectiveness & Optimization.

Take the 3-minute assessment and gain access to tailored recommendations for improvement, as well as an extensive library of free Revenue Growth Analytics resources, including Tableau dashboards and price elasticity models in R and Python. Don’t miss out on this opportunity to elevate your Revenue Analytics capabilities and drive significant business impact.

April 9, 2023 No Comments

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A Brief Guide to Price Elasticity Modeling – Part 2

Understanding the impact of price changes and promotional investments on business outcomes is crucial for all commercial teams (revenue management, finance, analytics, sales, and marketing). In today’s data-driven world, it is essential to have a deep understanding of price and promotional elasticities at the customer-product level to optimize sales, profitability, and market share.

The below guide gives an overview of the typical modeling approaches for price elasticities and contrasts regression vs. machine learning methods for industry best practices.

March 6, 2023 2 Comments

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RA Quick Insights Video Series: Revenue Growth Drivers Analysis Tutorial

In this video, the Revenue Growth Drivers Analysis technique is explored in detail for a fictitious company, Company ABC, to understand the drivers of year-over-year net revenue growth.

The analysis breaks down the impact of Pricing actions, Volume, and Customer and Product mix on the company’s Net Revenue growth. The detailed analysis is conducted at the customer-product level rather than an aggregate level, allowing for more actionable insights.

We illustrate the detailed calculations for Pricing, Volume, and Mix impacts using an Excel Growth Drivers Analysis template, available for download at https://www.revologyanalytics.com/revenue-analytics-tools.

February 22, 2023 No Comments

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RFM Analysis as an Important Revenue Growth Analytics Capability – Part 2

RFM Analysis is a powerful tool for businesses seeking insights into customer behavior and segmenting them based on purchasing habits. By calculating RFM scores and creating segments, companies can identify valuable customer groups and target them with personalized sales and marketing campaigns. RFM Analysis is not limited to the retail industry or the marketing domain. It can be applied to most industries and functional domains that touch the customer, including pricing, supply chain, A/R, product management, and customer service. Additionally, RFM Analysis can benefit nonprofit organizations by understanding donor behavior to optimize fundraising initiatives.

In part 2 of our RFM Analysis article, we’ll dive deeper into how we can calculate RFM scores, visualize customer performance by RFM segment and discuss sales and marketing implications.

February 22, 2023 No Comments

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Beyond the Hype: Practical Revenue Growth Analytics Use Cases that Drive Impact

AI/ML is not the ultimate solution for every data-related problem. We must first set up foundational descriptive and diagnostic analytics capabilities and more straightforward ML approaches before applying more advanced techniques. It’s essential to understand the business problems and work closely with functional partners to solve them in a way that aligns well with the company’s analytical readiness and operating rhythm.

The examples of Revenue Growth Analytics use cases mentioned, such as Promotional Analytics, Everyday Price Optimization, Dynamic, Automated Clearance Pricing, Bulk Purchase Optimization, Customer Segmentation & Predictive Insights, and Customer Churn & Cross-Sell Modeling, are practical and impactful capabilities that can drive measurable sales and gross profit improvements. They can be implemented using simple math and essential ML and with popular tech stacks with which pricing, supply chain, and sales partners are familiar.

Overall, the focus should be on pragmatic and co-created approaches with business stakeholders that are most likely to get adoption and impact rather than on celebrating complexity for its own sake.

February 18, 2023 No Comments

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RA Quick Insights Video Series: Driving rapid margin actions with transactional data analysis (Part III. – Gross Profit Growth Deep Dive)

Companies are in the business of making money, and most often, they care about maximizing their Revenues, Gross Profit, and Operating Income. One of the biggest challenges Finance and Revenue Management teams face is the ability to systematically diagnose the drivers of fundamental business performance changes near real-time.

The price-cost-volume-mix analysis, sometimes known as Revenue or Gross Profit Growth Deep Dive, helps you understand the relevant components that drove your revenue, gross Profit, or other critical financial changes from one period to the next (or for actuals vs. budget).

This short video will show you a simple Gross Profit Growth Deep Dive built on customer transactional data.

February 9, 2023 No Comments

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