Metrics are up: Marketoon of the Week
Get creative with results instead of how to name them.
Chris Wood on September 24, 2021 at 3:19 pm | Reading time: 1 minute
Fishburne’s take: As WPP CEO Sir Martin Sorrell put it, “The referee and player cannot be the same person.” The issue brings to light a broader issue. Frequently in digital marketing, the referee and player are the same person. Marketers have no shortage of metrics on their dashboards, but they are still often flying blind. Marketing visibility can be simultaneously clear and opaque. To paraphrase Coleridge, the state of marketing is “metrics, metrics everywhere, and not sure what to think.”
Why we care: KPIs and higher company goals come first. Work back from those to determine which metrics will “move the needle” and yield the results your team has targeted.
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Chris Wood draws on over 15 years of reporting experience as a B2B editor and journalist. At DMN, he served as associate editor, offering original analysis on the evolving marketing tech landscape. He has interviewed leaders in tech and policy, from Canva CEO Melanie Perkins, to former Cisco CEO John Chambers, and Vivek Kundra, appointed by Barack Obama as the country's first federal CIO. He is especially interested in how new technologies, including voice and blockchain, are disrupting the marketing world as we know it. In 2019, he moderated a panel on "innovation theater" at Fintech Inn, in Vilnius. In addition to his marketing-focused reporting in industry trades like Robotics Trends, Modern Brewery Age and AdNation News, Wood has also written for KIRKUS, and contributes fiction, criticism and poetry to several leading book blogs. He studied English at Fairfield University, and was born in Springfield, Massachusetts. He lives in New York.