Return on Marketing: Using Customer Equity to Focus Marketing Strategy
- Topics:
- Brand Strategy,
- Marketing Strategy
- Source:
- American Marketing Association
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Overview: The authors present a unified strategic framework that enables competing marketing strategy options to be traded off on the basis of projected financial return, which is operationalized as the change in a firm's customer equity relative to the incremental expenditure necessary to produce the change. The change in the firm's customer equity is the change in its current and future customers' lifetime values, summed across all customers in the industry. Each customer's lifetime value results from the frequency of category purchases, average quantity of purchase, and brand-switching patterns combined with the firm's contribution margin. The brand-switching matrix can be estimated from either longitudinal panel data or cross-sectional survey data, using a logit choice model.
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Format: PDF | Size: 222KB | Date: Jan 2004 | Pages: 19
