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Progressive Insurance: Not Your Standard Insurance Story
Farris, Paul W.; Pfeifer, Phillip E.; Zimmerman, AlanCase DARDEN-M-0758-EMarketingProgressive Insurance, a leader in the automotive insurance market, has succeeded through innovation. This case describes the company’s strategies for differentiating its service through programs such as Immediate Response Vehicles and Express Quote. Through these programs and a series of creative advertising campaigns, Progressive has built a strong brand in a relatively short time.Starting at €8.20
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Customer Profit
Pfeifer, Phillip E.; Farris, Paul W.; Bendle, NeilTechnical Note DARDEN-M-0799-EMarketingThis technical note introduces important metrics firms use to monitor customer relationships. The note begins by discussing how to count the firms’ customers and keep track of their activity using the concepts of recency and retention. An important summary of customer activity is the profit the firm receives from each customer. Just as some brands are more profitable than others, so too are some customer relationships more profitable than others....Starting at €8.20
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Customer Lifetime Value
Pfeifer, Phillip E.; Farris, Paul W.; Bendle, NeilTechnical Note DARDEN-M-0800-EMarketingThis technical note introduces important metrics firms use to monitor customer relationships. An important summary of customer activity is the profit the firm receives from each customer. Customer profit (CP) is the metric that summarizes the past financial performance of a customer relationship and is covered in a companion note, "Customer Profit" (UVA-M-0799). The central difference between CP and customer lifetime value (CLV) is that CP measur...Starting at €8.20
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Motorcowboy: Getting a Foot in the Door (A)
Farris, Paul W.; Maddux, Robert; Harr, Timothy; Gray, Martha; Kanaparthi, Gautam; Shrivastava, Prateek; Weiss, Matthew; Pfeifer, Phillip E.Case DARDEN-M-0814-EMarketingAs part of the Google Online Marketing Challenge, a team of Darden students devises an AdWords campaign for Motorcowboy, an online source of custom footwear that caters to segments as varied as motorcycle police, cross-dressers, movie buffs, equestrians, and plus-size individuals. When an initial keyword list yields low traffic, the team must adapt its approach. This three-part case illustrates the segmentation process and the relative merits of ...Starting at €8.20
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Motorcowboy: Getting a Foot in the Door (B)
Farris, Paul W.; Maddux, Robert; Harr, Timothy; Gray, Martha; Kanaparthi, Gautam; Shrivastava, Prateek; Weiss, Matthew; Pfeifer, Phillip E.Case DARDEN-M-0815-EMarketingThis continuation of the case about a Google AdWords campaign for Motorcowboy, an online source of custom footwear, recounts the Darden team's revised approach.Starting at €5.74
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Motorcowboy: Getting a Foot in the Door (C)
Farris, Paul W.; Maddux, Robert; Harr, Timothy; Gray, Martha; Kanaparthi, Gautam; Shrivastava, Prateek; Weiss, Matthew; Pfeifer, Phillip E.Case DARDEN-M-0816-EMarketingThis third and final part of the case about a Google AdWords campaign for Motorcowboy, an online source of custom footwear, delineated the Darden team's recommendations for future efforts.Starting at €5.74
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List Testing Exercise: Economic Selection - Teaching Note
Pfeifer, Phillip E.Teaching Note DARDEN-M-0870TN-EMarketingTeaching note for product M-0870Starting at €0.00
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Changing Channels: Progressive Insurance Drive Insurance
Farris, Paul W.; Pfeifer, Phillip E.; Zimmerman, AlanCase DARDEN-M-0756-EMarketingSequel to Progressive Insurance: Not Your Standard Insurance Story. The company launches a new sub-brand, Drive Insurance, which will be only sold through independent agents, not through the Web or 1-800 numbers.Starting at €8.20
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Progressive Insurance: Multivariable Testing
Pfeifer, Phillip E.Case DARDEN-M-0762-EMarketingThis case describes a 21-factor, 56-recipe multivariable test (MVT) conducted by Progressive Insurance with the help of QualPro, a leading MVT consulting firm. The object of the test was to improve Progressive's direct-mail retention campaign. The results of the test are available in a spreadsheet (UVA-M-0762X) for students to analyze.Starting at €8.20
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Media Modeling and Budgeting at DMI
Farris, Paul W.; Pfeifer, Phillip E.Case DARDEN-M-0791-EMarketingA marketing director applies a scientific/quantitative approach to understanding and optimizing his company's marketing spending decisions. His hypotheses include the concepts of diminishing returns on spending, a results ceiling, carryover, and differential effectiveness. His team develops a mathematical formula that provides parameter estimates resulting from fitting the model to the three years of regional and national data. He must then decid...Starting at €8.20