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Paul W. Farris

Landmark Communications Professor Emeritus of Business Administration

Paul W. Farris, Darden Professor Emeritus specializing in marketing metrics, promotion strategy, and consumer branding. Expert in marketing analytics and performance measurement.

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Paul Ferris

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In recent decades, marketing efforts have grown in sophistication, speed and expense. Now the field’s metrics need to catch up, so that marketers can effectively assess what a campaign did — or failed to do.

A territory is a salesperson’s battleground; it’s the turf that he or she defends. As one of the first decisions that many sales executives make, territory assignment can be quite a complex process, serving several goals — and stakeholders — at once.