recent news
Please take a few minutes to review recent news, presentations & white papers, and publications highlighting Marketing Analytics’ capabilities and contributions to industry best practices.
Press Releases & Articles:
August 1, 2008
Marketing Analytics Introduces Next Generation Simulation and Forecasting Product Suite - Marketing Analytics Planner 3.0
July 15, 2008
Marketing Analytics Introduces Next Generation Business Analysis Product Suite - Market In·Sights™ 3.0
July 1, 2007
Using Long-Term Metrics to Manage Brands Critical to Restoring Growth in Share & Profitability
February 15, 2006
Response Modeling and Optimization Increasingly Critical as Marketing Channels Become More Fragmented
December 1, 2003
Marketing Analytics Models Play Key Role in Pioneering Effort to Quantify Sales Effect of PR
April 1, 2002
Marketing Analytics and Information Resources, Inc., Announce Joint Offering of New Marketing Resource Allocation Tools for Consumer Package Goods Manufacturers
Conferences & Presentations
April 4, 2008
Marketing Analytics' CEO Ross Link Presents to University of Iowa Marketing Symposium
March 3, 2008
Drivers on Demand™ and Marketing Analytics Planner Featured at IRI Consumer Packaged Goods and Retail Summit
February 27, 2007
Drivers on Demand™ Integrated with Marketing Analytics Planner Featured at IRI “Changing the Game” Consumer Packaged Goods and Retail Summit
May 22, 2006
Marketing Analytics’ Products Demonstrated at Retail Systems® 2006 Conference in Chicago
February 28, 2006
Drivers on Demand™ Marketing Effectiveness Tracking System Featured at IRI Reinventing CPG Summit
February 6, 2006
Marketing Analytics CEO Ross Link Chairs IIR Return on Marketing Investment Conference
June 13, 2005
Marketing Analytics CEO Ross Link Chairs AMA Advanced Research Techniques Forum
April 7, 2005
Ross Link and Alvin Lim from Marketing Analytics present to Georgia Tech College of Management in Atlanta
January 12, 2005
Marketing Analytics’ CEO Ross Link and Sears Canada Director of Catalogue Productivity and Analytics Peter McCulloch present to IIR 2005 Return on Marketing Investment Conference
March 9, 2004
Marketing Analytics’ CEO Ross Link Presents to IIR 2004 Return on Marketing Investment Conference
October 21, 2003
Ross Link and Alvin Lim from Marketing Analytics Present to INFORMS National Meeting
March 1, 2001
Marketing Analytics’ CEO Ross Link and Mark Garratt of Miller Brewing present to IIR Marketing Mix Modeling Conference
October 25, 1999
Marketing Analytics' CEO Ross Link presents to IIR Marketing Mix Optimization Conference
January 10, 1995
Marketing Analytics’ CEO Ross Link presents to American Marketing Association Behavioral Research Conference
March 1, 1994
Marketing Analytics’ CEO Ross Link and J. Dennis Bender presented to TIMS Marketing Science Conference
White Papers & Reports
Inflated T-Values in Scanner Data Models
Standard T-Values in Scanner Data Models Can Overstate Precision of Promotion Coefficient Estimates
"Impact of Improved FSP Data on Base Price Elasticities"
Full Reflection of Frequent Shopper Discounts in Syndicated Data Changes Base Price Elasticity
"Use of Price Gap Ratios in Sales Models"
Using Price Gap Ratios in Sales Models Adds Unnecessary Complexity
"Use of Weekly Dummy Variables to Estimate Seasonality"
Measuring Seasonality in Single-Brand Models with Weekly Dummies a Risky Practice
"Aggregation vs Pooling"
Tradeoffs between Aggregation & Pooling in Response Models
"The Value of Survey Data in Marketing Mix Models"
Use of Survey Research Data in Marketing Mix Models One Way to Help Distinguish Strong from Weak Advertising
"Building Towards Full Market Mix Models"
Sears Roebuck and Marketing Analytics Partner to Understand and Optimize the Retailer's Results from Short- and Long-Term Brand Spending
"Model Affordability Means Usability"
Marketing Analytics Develops Coefficient Generator™ to Make Market Response Modeling More Cost-Efficient So Benefits Are Available to More Users
Published Papers & Books
Market Response Models, Econometric and Time Series Analysis
Hanssens, Dominique M., Leonard J. Parsons, and Randall L. Schultz. Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2nd Edition, 2001

Respected Sales Modeling Textbook Credits Marketing Analytics’ Contributions to the Field
"Using Market-Level Data to Understand Promotion Effects in a Non-Linear Model"
Marketing Analytics Store-Group Model Independently Validated in Refereed Journal
"Are Aggregate Scanner Data Models Biased?"
Aggregation Bias a Serious Market Response Modeling Issue, but Store-Level Data not Required to Avoid It