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Quantium is often quoted in the media as a ‘thought leader’ on issues of channel neutral planning, data driven strategy, and marketing measurement and accountability.

 

 

Understanding the Impact of the New Entrants into Australia's General Insurance Market

The long awaited launch by Progressive Direct adds yet another player to what is fast becoming a very crowded insurance market. More...

Keeping the CFOs at Bay (AdNews 4 Dec 2009)

 

As we recover from the economic downturn, Tony Davis assesses the damage and points out some realities of the new marketing landscape. More...

Marketing By Maths (BRW 12-18 Nov 2009)

 

Science provides a sounder platform than psychology when reaching out to customers. More...

The Growing Marketing Accountablity Imperative

A recently pulished report from USA on the growth in Marketing Accountability. More...

Solving the Dollar Dilemma

Published Professional Marketing Oct-Dec 2008.
Where should you invest your marketing spend... price reductions or more advertising?
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The Rise of the Marketing Geek

Published Professional Marketing Jul-Sep 2008.
Accountability? How dull did we really join this creative industry to be immersed in data, measurement and financials?
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Evidence Based Channel Planning within MBF

Yvette Littlejohn, Head of Research and Analytics at MBF
New channel planning techniques are emerging, and are being quickly adopted by advertisers responding to the need to be financially accountable and optimise their results. MBF is a brand which has been an early adopter of these new techniques and now sets the benchmark for efficiency rates in its industry.
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But, where are the Effie results?

Published B&T 06 Jun 2008.
With the AFA Effectiveness Awards coming under the wing of the international Effie Awards from next year, Oliver Milman investigates the state of Australian effectiveness measurement with some disturbing findings....
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Time To Redefine Integration

Published Professional Marketing Apr-Jun 2008.
Integration at a creative level is certainly a worthy objective. But it should form the basis of all marketing strategy, not just campaign ideas...
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The Short And The Long Of It

Published Professional Marketing Jan-Mar 2008.
While we frequently talk about integrated communications there is a constant and hugely unhelpful separation of “the codes”, whether it be around above and below-the-line “channels”, or brand and direct response “executions”...
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An Actuarial Approach to Optimising the Trade-Off Between Media and Price Promotions

Presented to the Institue of Actuaries of Australia Sep 2007.
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The ever-changing price of your grocery basket

Published Professional Marketing Oct-Dec 2007.
By fully understanding the relationship between customer demand and price, FMCG brands are increasingly harnessing price to control their sales volumes, sometimes clearing stock, at other times boosting margins or turning up the heat on competitors...
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Higher Prices = Fewer Customers?

Published Professional Marketing Aug-Sep 2007.
It is said that in some industries a 10% improvement in profits can be achieved from just a 1% increase in price. But the natural laws of supply and demand tell us that under normal conditions the more we charge the less customers wil buy...
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What are we measuring?

Published In Business Aug-Sep 2007.
It is clearly outdated thinking to attribute sales results directly to a single ad in the paper, TV spot or banner because the response call was made to the dedicated phone number or URL published.
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Are you wasting half of your ad spend?

Published Professional Marketing December 2006.
The explosion of new media channels is creating a more fickle, fragmented and restless audience, but a new customer analytics and media planning tool based on actuarial science is helping marketers justify their budgets.....
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On-Target Ads

Published BRW 2nd February 2006.
It was only a matter of time before the professionals behind customer analytics, actuaries, started to develop methods to measure advertising effectiveness....
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Segmentation - thin edge of the marketing wedge

Published B&T 14th October 2005.
Broad brush segmentation is simply inefficient compared to using more specific lenses through which to view issues. Appreciating the characteristics of customers at any moment in time who have a propensity to act in a particular way allows the behaviours themselves to be influenced and results dramatically improved.
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