The Marketing Stack II: Advanced Analytics and Customer Focus

Positioning to ROI. This sequence of five training simulations teaches analytical marketing skills through segmentation, customer lifetime value, and media attribution for subscription-era businesses.

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Forio Stacks are a curated sequence of simulations that teach connected skills. 18 learning pathways span the disciplines that drive business today. Unlock the Stack from Forio's Ready-Made catalog that best aligns to your team's goals.

"Seeing students cheer each other on while playing the simulation confirmed we'd created something truly impactful with Forio."

Matt Lisle - Thrive Scholars

Market Segmentation

Positioning Game

Provides the strategic basis for market definition before planning execution.

Learning Objectives: Understand perceptual maps, identify underserved market segments, product development to maximize market share and profit.

Total Time: 120 min

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Integrated Marketing Strategy

Managing Segments and Customers

Sets up the need for advanced customer data management and ROI analysis due to competing allocation demands.

Learning Objectives: Link market strategy formulation to effective implementation, resource allocation to different B2B segments.

Total Time: 120 min

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Marketing Simulation

Customer Centricity

Deepens the learning objective of managing acquisition and retention by focusing specifically on maximizing the financial value of individual customers and cohorts.

Learning Objectives: Product-centric to customer-centric shift, Customer

Total Time: Not specified in source

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Measurement and Analysis

Media Attribution

This analytical optimization capstone applies advanced tools to solve the budget allocation and campaign effectiveness questions raised earlier in the stack, with a subscription business acquisition and retention focus that links directly to CLV objectives.

Learning Objectives: Regression analysis, A/B testing, marketing spend, ROMI.

Total Time: 135 min

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High-Tech Innovation (alt for stacks focused on scaling rather than optimizing spend)

Crossing the Chasm

Centered on taking a disruptive innovation to market by finding the right segment (the "beachhead") and dedicating all resources to building a complete, whole product solution to achieve the "bowling pin effect."

Learning Objectives: Marketing strategy and segmentation.

Total Time: 150 min

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