Return on investment (ROI) is todays key business tool for measuring how effectively a company uses its assets, yet few marketing managers receive any ROI training at all. Marketing ROI changes that, showing marketing practitioners at all levels how to employ ROI and other financial tools to quantify their organizations strategic marketing decisions and maximize the incremental profits generated by each dollar invested in their marketing programs. The first comprehensive, easy-to-follow guidebook on using ROI to improve the effectiveness of virtually any marketing program, this results-focused book provides step-by-step guidelines on how your organization can: Align marketing measurements and goals with operational objectives Track marketing performance and provide feedback for improvements Include all decision makers in the success of its marketing program For far too long, marketing efforts and expenditures have been seen as a world unto themselves, logically and logistically separate from labor, plant, and other more traditional costs. Marketing ROI presents a program for removing the veil of mystery from marketing efficiency by measuring the validity and success of marketing investments and dramatically improving the ROI for each dollar spent in your organizations marketing program.