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A Refresher on Marketing ROI

Harvard Business

Marketing ROI analysis can help answer those questions. What is Marketing ROI, and How Do Companies Use It? Marketing ROI is exactly what it sounds like: a way of measuring the return on investment from the amount a company spends on marketing. It’s about “delivering customers and sales.”

ROI 28
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Deals Should be Nothing but Common Sense

Martinka Consulting

EBITDA ‡ FCF – Sam’s comments about how you can’t calculate ROI based on EBITDA when it’s a capital expenditure type business sounds like one of my Myths of Business Valuation: Using EBITDA in a capital-intensive business will burn the buyer. You must use free cash flow to truly calculate ROI.

ROI 40
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Business Valuation Lessons From ESOPs

Martinka Consulting

In the Discounted Future Cash Flow method profits are projected (same as the first issue) and discounted back to a present value. A well-run company rated a 5 out of six (a 20% ROI) is now an 8.33 (same rating percentage but now a 12% ROI). Using comparable sales of much larger firms will distort the value.

ROI 40