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Talking to many customers and by just simply looking around at what is going on in the market, it is clear that marketing budgets are under pressure as businesses look to control their costs. Whilst this is a perfectly sensible thing to do, the challenge is make sure that a rational approach to cost management is adopted and this is as true with marketing budgets as it is elsewhere within the organisation. The risk is that many companies simply adopt a ’slash and burn’ approach to cutting their marketing spend and accordingly take investment away from activity that is actually delivering a positive impact on revenues and profitability.

Whilst it may be wise to look to control costs, it is even more wise to do this in a ’scientific’ way and make sure that you keep spending on those areas of marketing activity that are giving you a return on investment.

Organisations that do this will achieve their objective of reducing marketing spend and at the same time reduce the risk of creating a self-inflicted down-turn in sales performance.

Of course a necessity for adopting such a rational approach to controlling costs is actually knowing the return on investment being delivered by the different marketing activities an organisation undertakes. This is particularly true with online marketing activity as this activity is generally very measurable and transparent.

Unfortunately we still find that many organisations do not actively measure the performance of all of their online marketing activity.  As digital marketing strategy consultants, we believe that, if they do not already do so, now is the time that organisations should be auditing their digital marketing activity to ensure they understand what is delivering the biggest impact and that they get the maximum possible return on their investment.

The following slides will walk you through how we approach this task on behalf of our clients…

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