It's common to measure winners via total demand generated.
It's an easy calculation. But it's also the wrong calculation.
It's important to assess ad cost as well (and gross margin and marketing promotions, yup). Email marketing is inexpensive. PLAs are frequently expensive because they attract a disproportionate number of new/reactivated customers. Catalogs are ridiculously expensive in modern times. As a result, the item that is a winner may not be a winner after accounting for profitability.
In this example, the high-performing catalog-centric item is not as profitable as the email-centric item that generates 60% of the sales of the catalog-centric item. The PLA-centric item is much less profitable ... in part because of the customers the marketing channel attracts.
I've had requests to provide more "free tips" ... this is a whopper of a free tip, I'm helping you figure out the items that are true winners, the items that should be featured where possible across your marketing channels. Please take advantage of this "free tip" that you've asked for, ok?
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