Marketing Metrics: Do Yours Help Determine Success or Failure?

This section highlights some articles and thinking about measurement and metrics of your marketing activities.  From Email to Website to Social media, how can you best determine whether what you're doing is working?  Almost every article we reviewed say one thing about establishing metrics:  Clearly know your objective before you figure out what to measure.

But don't let that slow you down -- pulling together the metrics you need - whether they are click-through rates, engagement metrics, such as lead score, or conversions for lead generation, the one thing that all articles address is simply:  Get Started.

If you've got some great articles that we missed - let us know and we'll get them out here.  The idea of B2B Online Marketing Pros is simple.  We know marketers are busy.  Yet we all need to improve, and there are more articles, blog posts, and tweets available than ever before -- how do we cull through them all and make it easy to figure out the essential threads that will contribute to improving our efforts.  That's what we're attempting to do with this site.

Enjoy!

Nov 4, 2009 Blog post at What Works, What Doesn't Blog provides case study of tracking effectiveness from content and thought leadership campaigns resulted in increased contribution for those very campaigns.

Oct 27, 2009 post from Start With A Lead blog. Brian Carroll talks about the ways in which metrics have evolved with the increase in digital B2B marketing, and what is one ROI metric that he's found to be very effective.

Sept. 15, 2009 post at Sales x Marketing Blog - Is it as easy as saying all benefit from marketing automation comes from increased revenue? This post explores the ROI of marketing automation.

Nov 1, 2009 Multichannel Marketing Metrics blogpost that introduces a new tool that helps you troubleshoot a drop in your website conversions. Definitely an interesting tool to help utilize your web analytics to solve problems.

Oct. 30, 2009 Online Metrics Insider Post looks at marketing metrics and applying those to social media actions and activity.

Oct 30, 2009 Blog post at HRM Today provides a perspective about keeping it simple, and tying your metrics to the goals that you have for your marketing efforts.

Oct. 30, 2009 blog post from Chief Outsiders blog discusses what are the 10 essential metrics for a marketing organization to know and track.

Oct. 26, 2009 post from Move Your Business to the Next Level Blog talks about basic marketing metrics -- a great read for those just starting to consider what metrics might be great to measure. Just remember, whatever you determine they are - keep with them to build metrics over time.

Oct. 29, 2009 Interview with Dan Martell about fast growth companies and marketing metrics -- it's the conversions, not the traffic!

Ezine Article by Kellie D'Andrea takes a look at the basic email metrics and what they tell you.

Oct 13, 2009 post on Marketing NPV site takes a fun look at marketing metrics - for those of you interested in having a good laugh.

Jul 30, 2009 Post by Tom Pick in The WebMarketCentral Blog takes a look at RONI - the Return of Not Investing - in other words, if you do NOT participate, what will it cost in terms of lost reputation. Very cool idea. He also explores the falsity of "last-click" measurement - i.e. giving all the credit for a lead to the last activity they did before they gave you their information and became a lead - or turned into a sale.

Feb 5, 2009 post on Traffic Report Blog highlights what's true today: know what you're shooting for before starting a social marketing campaign. If you're thinking of starting a social media campaign - this post is worth a read.