Marketing is increasingly being recognised as a strategic board-level function within organisations, and the pressure is on CMOs to prove its value to the business. Assessing the impact of marketing strategies on business performance is now an essential skill, and today’s marketing managers need to be familiar with the metrics that are responsible for commercial success. There are 12 in total, which Robert Brunning explains in a two part series on the University of Sydney Marketing Matters blog. The first six are listed below: