Return on Investment (ROI) - Online Marketing

Ways to calculate ROI for online marketing

One of the many benefits of online marketing is that it enables more accurate calculation of return on investment (ROI). For example, if a company is using an ad that costs a specific amount of money every time it is clicked, the number of times the ad is clicked times the cost of the ad gives us the investment in that specific ad. The number of online purchases that resulted from users who clicked on the ad is the revenue created from that ad.

Return on Investment (ROI) measures the profit earned from each investment. It’s calculated as a percentage:

%age ROI = (Return - Investment) X 100

Investment

Total revenue - is the total revenue or sales generated from the campaign.

Gross profit - is the revenue minus the cost of goods to produce and/or deliver a product or service. This includes multiple factors and costs involved in development, marketing and delivery of the service.

Net profit is the gross profit minus expenses

Additional cost variables can be:

· Creative

· Printing

· Technical (email platforms, website coding, etc.)

· Management

One basic formula uses the gross profit for units sold in the campaign and the marketing investment for the campaign:

%age ROI = Gross Profit – Marketing Investment

Marketing Investment

Using Customer Life Value in place of Gross Profit is another ROI calculation option. CLV is a measurement of the total profit generated from a single customer or group of customers over their lifetime with your company.

%age ROI = Customer Lifetime Value – Marketing investment X 100

Marketing Investment