Firms can choose metrics based on the particular issues or problems they face.
London Business School’s Tim Ambler believes firms can split evaluation of marketing performance into two parts:
- short-term results and
- changes in brand equity.
Short-term results often reflect profit-and-loss concerns as shown by sales turnover, shareholder value, or some combination of the two.
Brand-equity measures could include customer awareness, attitudes, and behaviors; market share; relative price premium; number of complaints; distribution and availability; total number of customers; perceived quality; and loyalty and retention.