Automatically prescribing total budget for marketing and sales resources and allocation across spending categories

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.