Plans overview
Plans in Mix Modeler allow you to allocate budgets by business unit and channel. The planning functionality is integrated with the outcomes of the trained models based on your harmonized data.
A plan outlines the discretionary investments (for example budgets) a business intends to spend on marketing-related projects over the course of a given timeframe in service of common KPI (for example orders, revenue). Plans can incluse expenses from channels such as paid advertising, sponsored web content, events.
A plan requires:
- a model,
- a data range,
- a budget.
A plan can optionally include:
- a configured recognition window,
- multiple flight dates with each having a target budget,
- minimum and maximum budget constraints by channel and flight date.
If a model that you have used for your plan is scored on new data you need to create a new plan to take into account the re-scored data.
Build plans
To build a plan, use the Mix Modeler plan creation wizard. See Build plans for more details.
Manage plans
To view a table of your current plans, in the Mix Modeler interface:
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Select
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You see a table of the current plans and their status.
The table columns specify details about the plans.
table 0-row-2 1-row-2 2-row-2 3-row-2 4-row-2 5-row-2 6-row-2 7-row-2 8-row-2 9-row-2 layout-auto Column name Details Name Name of the plan Model The model used as the base for the plan. Date range The full date range for a plan. Budget The total budget for a plan. Forecasted return The forecasted return for a plan Forecasted ROI The forecasted ROI for a plan. Forecasted conversion The forecasted conversion for a plan Forecasted CPA The forecasted CPA for a plan Status The status of a plan:
鈼 Failed,
鈼 Processing, or
鈼 Complete.
You can use
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Use
Plan insights
To view the insights of a plan and to edit a plan:
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Select
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Select the plan name.
You are redirected to Plan insights.
Duplicate a plan
To duplicate a plan:
- Select
- Alternatively, select a plan in the table
A new plan, with a name composed of the original plan鈥檚 name appended with (Copy) (n), is created. You are automatically redirected to Plan creation to provide updated details for the copied plan.
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Details (like Description, Budget, and more) from the original plan are copied over.
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Budget constraints from the original plan are copied over to the newly created plan.
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You have the option to select another model as the base for the copied plan.
- For touchpoints or channels that do exist in the copied plan but do not exist in the newly selected model, any constraints for these touchpoints or channels are removed from the plan.
- For touchpoints or channels that do not exist in the copied plan but do exist in the newly selected model, the constraints are set to a minimum value of
0
and a maximum value in line with the plan flight range budget.
Compare plans
To compare plans:
- Select two plans from the table.
- Select
Delete plans
To delete a plan:
- Select
Alternatively, select a plan in the table - Select Delete in the Delete plan confirmation dialog to delete the plan. Select Cancel to cancel.
To delete multiple plans:
- Select multiple plans.
- From the blue action bar, select
- Select Delete in the Delete x plans confirmation dialog to delete the plans. Select Cancel to cancel.