A local eye doctor, Dr. Corneal, is interested in expanding her business. The retail store next to her medical office is available for rent. Shed like to expand and open a larger frame selection including high-end sunglasses. Shes already built an attractive website and now she is planning on advertising to increase her business. Her advertising options include:
Google Paid Display Ads
Local Newspaper Advertising
Local Magazine Advertising
Radio Advertising
For each form of advertising, she has created a separate landing page to track site visitors generated from each ad.
For this assignment, you are going to fill in the excel chart, using Chapter 13 as a guide and then answer the questions below. To start you off, Dr. Corneal is providing you with her definitions of Prospects, Leads, Opportunities, Customers.
Definitions:
Prospect Anyone who lives within 15 miles of Dr. Corneals medical practice.
Lead Anyone who lives within 15 miles (a prospect) who wears glasses or is interested in fashion sunglass frames.
Opportunity Anyone who lives within 15 miles (a prospect) who wears glasses or is interested in fashion sunglass frames (a lead) and responds to a call to action.
Call to Action the ads include a call to action that lead potential customers to a landing page offering 20% off on the first exam.
Customer people who purchase as a result of the promotion.
Questions:
1. Using the assumptions provided in Excel Spreadsheet, what is the total number of customers generated from this advertising?
2. If Dr. Corneals customers spend $300 on average, what is the total revenue generated from this advertising?
3. The cost to purchase the advertising is as follows:
Google Ads: $5,000
Newspapers: $3,000
Magazines: $6,000
Radio: $1,000
Using these costs and the revenue generated from each ad source, calculate the overall ROI and the ROI per advertising source. How do these number help you plan your advertising budget going forward? To answer this question, define ROI, explain how ROI is used (see your book), apply the numbers you have calculated and show how you would use these numbers for planning purposes.
Note – ROI is expressed as a percent. ROI= (Revenue – Costs)/Costs
