Compare Program Effectiveness with the Program Analyzer compare-program-effectiveness-with-the-program-analyzer
Use the Program Analyzer to identify your most and least effective programs, by comparing program costs, member acquisition, pipeline, and revenue.
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Click Analytics.
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Select your Program Analyzer.
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Change the View to By Program.
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Use the Channel Filter to reduce the view down to just one or two channels. For now, we’ll look at programs in the Tradeshow channel.
note tip TIP A quick way to filter programs to just one channel is to select View > By Channel, click the bubble for that channel, and then click the channel name in the pop-up dialog. -
Use the X Axis drop-down to choose a metric for the horizontal axis. We’ll start with Program Cost.
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Use the Y Axis drop-down to choose a metric for the vertical axis. Let’s choose New Names to find programs that are good at capturing new leads.
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Turn on the sliders to zoom in.
note tip TIP You can also try to improve your view by changing from a linear to a logarithmic scale, or vice versa. Use the Scale menu at the top. -
Explore the resulting graph.
In our example, we learn the Origami Expo is far better than all the other programs in that channel at capturing new names, and at a medium cost. But that’s not the whole story. We’ll add two more metrics to get a deeper understanding.
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Use the Bubble Size drop-down to choose a metric to compare by the size of the bubbles. We’ll choose (FT) Revenue Won for our example.
note note NOTE Many of the metrics you can choose in the program analyzer are available with first-touch (FT) and multi-touch (MT) calculations. It is important to understand the difference between FT and MT attribution. -
Watch the bubbles change size in your graph.
By adding (FT) Revenue Won, we see quickly that, while the Origami Expo acquired a lot of new names, it results in comparatively little revenue. Also, we see that the Paper Fest 12 program is getting fewer but better names, as it influences more revenue won (bigger bubble).
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Use the Color drop-down to add a fourth metric. We’ll look at (FT) Revenue to Investment.
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Watch the colors change in your graph.
We see that the Paper Fest 12 program not only influences more revenue (bigger bubble), but despite its relatively high program cost (on the far right side), it has the best return to investment (greenest bubble) of all the programs in the Tradeshow channel.