How we used data science and Key Leading Indicators of Sales to better understand marketing campaign effectiveness and improve sales and marketing ROIs
Increase in conversion rates online
Improved marketing ROI
Through enhancing valuable marketing activities
Customer profiles cleaned
Through accurate CRM data management
THE SITUATION
In today’s digital landscape, marketing campaigns have become incredibly sophisticated – and measuring their success takes an equally intelligent approach. However, some businesses are still relying on lagging indicators such as market share to determine if their goals have been met.
Our client was struggling to assess the success of particular marketing campaigns in regards to sales performance, as well as how the individual marketing components were interacting with each other and attributing to the results. As a result, a significant part of the marketing spend was not being optimized, as there weren’t enough valuable insights to learn from after campaign completion.


THE SOLUTION
To effectively undertake marketing optimization, there needs to be a granular understanding of the activities and variables that drive sales performance, beyond the amount spent on media.
This understanding is achieved by using a Key Leading Indicators of Sales (KLIS) approach, which supports performance-focused marketing optimization through the use of data science and machine learning. By exploring individual relationships between marketing and sales activities, as well as their systematic interconnectedness, KLIS can also answer business questions via a series of hypothesis testing that is done in parallel with the model building.
Additionally, with the KLIS system in place, the dependencies across online and offline activities were identified and managed for maximum impact. This was achieved by the use of advanced statistical analysis such as Bayesian belief networks and elastic nets – which helped to answer questions around the various factors that drive sales and marketing performance.
THE SUCCESS
By using KLIS as a marketing spend optimization approach, we were able to create a statistical model that showed how each marketing activity affects these outcomes and how they affect each other. The findings helped our client reevaluate marketing campaigns’ value and focus on the campaigns with the highest ROI.
Crucially, the model also showed that some marketing campaigns and practices were not impacting the outcome variables at all. For our client, that meant saving costs on inefficient campaigns and improving conversion rates online.
How we used data science and Key Leading Indicators of Sales to better understand marketing campaign effectiveness and improve sales and marketing ROIs
Increase in conversion rates online
Improved marketing ROI
Through enhancing valuable marketing activities
Customer profiles cleaned
Through accurate CRM data management
THE SITUATION
In today’s digital landscape, marketing campaigns have become incredibly sophisticated – and measuring their success takes an equally intelligent approach. However, some businesses are still relying on lagging indicators such as market share to determine if their goals have been met.
Our client was struggling to assess the success of particular marketing campaigns in regards to sales performance, as well as how the individual marketing components were interacting with each other and attributing to the results. As a result, a significant part of the marketing spend was not being optimized, as there weren’t enough valuable insights to learn from after campaign completion.


THE SOLUTION
To effectively undertake marketing optimization, there needs to be a granular understanding of the activities and variables that drive sales performance, beyond the amount spent on media.
This understanding is achieved by using a Key Leading Indicators of Sales (KLIS) approach, which supports performance-focused marketing optimization through the use of data science and machine learning. By exploring individual relationships between marketing and sales activities, as well as their systematic interconnectedness, KLIS can also answer business questions via a series of hypothesis testing that is done in parallel with the model building.
Additionally, with the KLIS system in place, the dependencies across online and offline activities were identified and managed for maximum impact. This was achieved by the use of advanced statistical analysis such as Bayesian belief networks and elastic nets – which helped to answer questions around the various factors that drive sales and marketing performance.
THE SUCCESS
By using KLIS as a marketing spend optimization approach, we were able to create a statistical model that showed how each marketing activity affects these outcomes and how they affect each other. The findings helped our client reevaluate marketing campaigns’ value and focus on the campaigns with the highest ROI.
Crucially, the model also showed that some marketing campaigns and practices were not impacting the outcome variables at all. For our client, that meant saving costs on inefficient campaigns and improving conversion rates online.
How we used data science and Key Leading Indicators of Sales to better understand marketing campaign effectiveness and improve sales and marketing ROIs
Increase in conversion rates online
Improved marketing ROI
Through enhancing valuable marketing activities
Customer profiles cleaned
Reduction of inaccurate data in CRM system
THE SITUATION
In today’s digital landscape, marketing campaigns have become incredibly sophisticated – and measuring their success takes an equally intelligent approach. However, some businesses are still relying on lagging indicators such as market share to determine if their goals have been met.
Our client was struggling to assess the success of particular marketing campaigns in regards to sales performance, as well as how the individual marketing components were interacting with each other and attributing to the results. As a result, a significant part of the marketing spend was not being optimized, as there weren’t enough valuable insights to learn from after campaign completion.


THE SOLUTION
To effectively undertake marketing optimization, there needs to be a granular understanding of the activities and variables that drive sales performance, beyond the amount spent on media.
This understanding is achieved by using a Key Leading Indicators of Sales (KLIS) approach, which supports performance-focused marketing optimization through the use of data science and machine learning. By exploring individual relationships between marketing and sales activities, as well as their systematic interconnectedness, KLIS can also answer business questions via a series of hypothesis testing that is done in parallel with the model building.
Additionally, with the KLIS system in place, the dependencies across online and offline activities were identified and managed for maximum impact. This was achieved by the use of advanced statistical analysis such as Bayesian belief networks and elastic nets – which helped to answer questions around the various factors that drive sales and marketing performance.
THE SUCCESS
By using KLIS as a marketing spend optimization approach, we were able to create a statistical model that showed how each marketing activity affects these outcomes and how they affect each other. The findings helped our client reevaluate marketing campaigns’ value and focus on the campaigns with the highest ROI.
Crucially, the model also showed that some marketing campaigns and practices were not impacting the outcome variables at all. For our client, that meant saving costs on inefficient campaigns and improving conversion rates online.