Automatic designation of sales resources, and distribution across spending categories and the total budget of the marketing

摘要

In one embodiment a software facility that uses a qualitative description of a subject offering to automatically prescribe both (1) a total budget for marketing and sales resources for a subject offering and (2) an allocation of that total budget over multiple spending categories-also referred to as "activities"-in a manner intended to optimize a business outcome such as profit for the subject offering based on experimentally-obtained econometric data ("the facility") is provided.