Tag Archives: marketing metrics

QR Codes: From Passé to Practical

Nearing the end of 2011, QR Codes (short for Quick Response Codes) were the red-hot new word in the marketer’s vocabulary. The 2D matrix-type barcodes were beginning to appear everywhere, from traditional places for print marketing such as corkboards and city busses, to newer locations like storefront windows television screens. Armed with smartphones that have [...]

The Price of Gut Instinct is High

Ad Age’s CMO Strategy recently published a survey of 243 CMOs and other marketing executives about their current practices, yielding some surprising results. With an alarming 28% of the respondents claiming they establish budgets based upon ‘gut-instinct’ and perhaps more surprisingly, 7% saying they do not base strategy upon metrics at all. It is time [...]