Campaign Tracking – Managing and Analyzing the Results

October 27, 2009

Campaign Tracking

With all the effort put forth to execute the campaign, a key point of failure for campaign effectiveness lies with the tracking and analysis.  Just getting the message out isn’t sufficient.  How was that message received?  What does the overall response to the message say for future campaigns?

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LucidEra

January 22, 2009

Lucid offers an on-demand BI capabilities that are very tailored to delivering ROI for specific business horizontals.  A very interesting offering.

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Affinova

September 16, 2008

Affinova certainly isn’t the easiest firm to categorize.  They are idea generation specialist that understand product launches and branding.  Okay, plenty of firms that do this, but what they’ve also done is brought analytics to the party by finding ways to quantify steps in their development methodology.  Innovation by the numbers.

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Fractal

August 24, 2008

With a name like that these folks better be some serious data geeks… and from outward appearances they are. If you have solid datasets and really want to tear into it to create better segmentations, predictive models, calculate acquistion / retention costs, or develop a better revenue / channel attribution approach they have the chops to get the work done.

Biggest limitations are slight on-shore delivery, and focus on financial vertical.

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Siperian

August 6, 2008

Has a centralized MDM focus on measuring ROI and pushing continuous improvement metrics from a marketers perspective.  It’s great that they’ve messaged towards the highly valuable marketing horizontal, but by moving too far up the service paradigm I think they’ve taken the eye off the ball in terms of the core integration requirements (like an Initiate Systems) and have opened themselves to more focused marketing service providers like a MarketingNPV or VisionEdge.

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G2

August 4, 2008

A full service agency that has a well defined methodology for enacting a customer centric program. It’s not just about pushing “insights” but in driving engagement. Have some very large, brand name clients under contract. A very interesting firm worth considering.

MarketingMojo Vendor to Watch!

MarketingMojo Vendor to Watch!

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Anthem Marketing

August 4, 2008

Anthem has deep experience and skill sets to bring quantitative rigor to your marketing activities. An excellent partner for implementing continuous improvement programs, developing ROMI or other campaign performance metrics.

MarketingMojo Vendor to Watch!

MarketingMojo Vendor to Watch!

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Active Conversion

August 1, 2008

For a marketing automation platform they have top not analytical capabilities.  Certainly a vendor to watch if you have data rich campaigns.

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Pardot Systems

August 1, 2008

A marketing automation platform like MarketBright that focuses on integrating with transactional systems to develop a comprehensive view of ROMI. Great for continuous improvement. Seems inclined towards b2b.

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IRI

July 11, 2008

Market research firm focused on CPG and retail verticals.  On top of this they also offer analytic services and methodologies for marketing organization performance.

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