As a business owner, you work tirelessly to move the needle on what often seems like a laundry list of metrics. You look at website visits, conversion rates, generated leads per channel, engagement on social media platforms, blog post shares, email click-through ratesโฆ and the list goes on and on. When the time comes to evaluate the impact of your marketing efforts, you need to be able measure those efforts and determine their ROI.
While many business owners understand that a solid marketing plan can directly impact your companyโs bottom line, 73% of executives donโt believe that marketing is focused enough on results to truly drive incremental customer demand.
Here are the Marketing Metrics Every Business Owner Needs To Understand:
Customer Acquisition Cost
The Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC) is a metric used to determine the total average cost your company spends to acquire a new customer.
Marketing % of Customer Acquisitions Cost
The Marketing % of Customer Acquisition Cost is the marketing portion of your total CAC, calculated as a percentage of the overall CAC.
Ratio of Customer Lifetime Value to CAC
The Ratio of Customer Lifetime Value to CAC is a way for companies to estimate the total value they derive from each customer compared with what they spend to acquire that new customer.
Time to Payback CAC
The Time to Payback CAC shows you the number of months it takes for your company to earn back the CAC it spent acquiring new customers.
Marketing Originated Customer %
The Marketing Originated Customer % is a ratio that shows what new business is driven by marketing by determining which portion of your total customer acquisitions directly originated from marketing efforts.
Marketing Influenced Customer %
The Marketing Influenced Customer % considers all of the new customers that marketing interacted with while they were leads, anytime during the sales process.
These are the marketing metrics every business owner needs to understand.
