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Marketing Control. Management is all about. Planning Executing Control. Marketing Organisation. Functional Geographic Product/Brand management Market Management Matrix. Any strategy is as good as its implementation. Marketing Implementation.
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Management is all about • Planning • Executing • Control
Marketing Organisation • Functional • Geographic • Product/Brand management • Market Management • Matrix
Marketing Implementation is the process that converts plans into assignments, which after successful achievement accomplishes the plan’s stated objectives
Marketing Control • Budget • Profitability • Efficiency (Productivity) • Strategic
Budget Control • Measurement of results against monthly/quarterly budgets (goals) • Reasons for deviations (variances) • Remedial steps to be taken to close the gaps • between performance and goals • Review performance in the next month/quarter and assess results
against last year against budget against targets % growths % variances % market share Benchmarks for Efficiency
Sales Force Advertising Sales Promotion Market Research Sales Administration Public Relations Direct Marketing Marketing Expense
Financial Analysis • RONW - Net Profits/Net Worth profit margin *asset turnover*financial leverage • Increase margins by increase in sales or reduction in costs or both • Increase asset turnover by increasing sales or reducing the assets (inventories, debtors) against a given level of sales
Market based scorecard analysis • Customer Analysis • Stakeholder Analysis
Profitability Control • 80 : 20 rule • Product rationalisation • Customer rationalisation • Costing Analysis
Efficiency Control • Sales force efficiency • Advertising efficiency • Sales promotion efficiency • Distribution efficiency
Sales force Efficiency • No. of calls per salesperson per day • Average revenue per sales call • Average cost per call • Average call time per call • No. of new customers per period • Sales force cost per unit sales
Advertising Efficiency • CPT • Before and after measure of attitude towards the product • No. of enquiries per ad • Cost per enquiry
Sales Promotion Efficiency • % sales sold on ‘promotion’ • Display cost per sales rupee • % coupons redeemed • No. of enquiries resulting from a demonstration
Distribution Efficiency • Time taken to execute orders • % order executed • service levels
Other Control Measures • Marketing Effectiveness Review - customer philosophy, integrated marketing organization, adequate marketing information, strategic orientation and operational efficiency • Marketing Audit - comprehensive , systematic, independent and periodic review of a company’s business environment, objectives, strategies and activities with an idea to identify areas of weaknesses and recommend a plan of action to improve on such areas.