Marketing Services Linked to Brand Revenue for ROI

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By now everyone is aware that the future of the world rests on AI & those who control it. (That explains AI’s strong links with geopolitics.) Meanwhile, technology refuses to be left behind. We continue to mess with the human body, from butt-lifts to gaming the  human hormone systems for short term benefits – to transplanting pig hearts. Even as our apps try to find a place on every screen on the planet!

On a parallel level, delivering customer revenue as a service (RaaS) is emerging as  the new business model where third-party agency partners manage, optimize, and accelerate the client’s sales and revenue operations, shifting the focus to cost-per-brand revenue generated from cost-per-customer touchpoint. 

It’s Official

British advertising group WPP’s latest global business strategy is designed to revive its decelerating revenue by satisfying an age-old need for linking client’s marketing spends to brand revenue. Other agencies have also reportedly started offering versions of this model, at least as a part of their new client acquisition practice. 


But for this, agencies must go back to the full-service agency model a.k.a. full stake agency, albeit with an added bouquet of tech offerings. This is a sharp departure from the independent, specialist agencies for media, digital & creative services – a practice that prevailed in the past 2 decades. 

 

A major addition is that agency fees can be partly linked to sales outcomes with inbuilt incentives.

Results as a Marketing Service (Raas)

RaaS is a business model where clients pay for guaranteed, measurable outcomes related to sales (e.g., sales revenue, enquiries, test-rides booked, etc.) – rather than for pure services delivered at various customer touchpoints.

The RaaS model attempts to shift a part of the risk from the client to the agency – ensuring higher accountability with a direct measure of RO. It achieves this by focusing on meaningful sales performance rather than pure  services.

Key aspects of RaaS:

  • Outcome-Based Fees:  Clients pay for what they get—such as qualified leads, resolved support tickets, test ride enquiries, or completed sales—rather than service fees.
  • Balancing ROI & Risk: The provider is paid in full (& more) if the desired result is achieved. For the client, this reduces financial risk. For the agency, it means a  tighter, transparent link between cost, revenue, & value delivered – with a chance to generate more additional revenue, based on performance.

     

  • Balancing ROI & Risk: The provider is paid in full (& more) if the desired result is achieved. For the client, this reduces financial risk. For the agency, it means a  tighter, transparent link between cost, revenue, & value delivered.
Back to Full-service Agencies
  • At a complex level, the new agency model would need to orchestrate
    ​multi-platform, multi-media, online & offline activities for a single set of sales outcomes.

  • Occasional campaigns could be narrow-focused, limited to managing direct email, WhatsApp, or direct messages via AI sales agents that
    ​generate interest, book appointments, & close sales.
  • At an elementary level, performance marketing is already an example of the new model in action – single-platform campaigns focused sharply on tangible metrics like customer leads or conversion.
Challenges

The challenges are a-plenty, but the rewards are exciting. Besides it also promises to address the perennial question about the future of the ad agency model. 🙂

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