Marketing Budget Calculator | What to Spend on Marketing?
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How do I Use the Marketing Budget Calculator?
If you have a product or service that requires connecting with new clients and customers – it’s likely true that if you’re not growing you’re dying. This digital marketing budget calculator is intended as a guidepost along your journey so that you can find the most accurate and appropriate marketing budget and digital marketing budget for your company.
If you’re in an industry where digital marketing can have a greater effect, of course digital marketing could be much, much higher – and in some cases is 90% of some companies budgets. In e-commerce and B2C service oriented businesses for instance, sales directly on site, and leads from their website can constitute 90% to 100% of certain businesses overall revenue, and thus the portion allotted to digital should correspond!
We made this tool for people to give them greater clarity and confidence in what they are spending online. If you’re a director of marketing, business owner or just someone who wants to get more clarity about how the different pieces of digital marketing might fit together for your particular situation – Schedule a consultation now, and we can walk you through some suggestions based on your unique business model.
What if I’m currently spending more than the marketing budget calculator suggests?
It’s important to look at the totals more than the individual spends. These numbers are just based on benchmarks across B2B and B2C product and services. If you spend more on SEO than you do on social media marketing, or e-mail marketing – consider that when looking at suggested spend per category. The most important number is the ‘total marketing budget’, how you split that up is up to you! Use your budget wisely, but customize the specifics to what makes the most sense in your market and with your resources.
However – if you haven’t been spending any time or effort on e-mail marketing for instance, perhaps it’s time to look at a newsletter, some kind of giveaway and automation – along with building your e-mail marketing list. Certain markets like B2C services might need to be a little bit more creative with this, but if you make the content useful to your audience – it will always be a good idea.
Also – check out our ‘How to Get Results Fast as a Crazy Awesome Marketing Director’ Guide!
A CMO Survey suggests that 67% of companies give marketing and sales joint responsibility– 7.5 percent put marketing in charge of sales, 10% put sales in charge of marketing, 13% do not have a sales function, and 2.5 percent of all companies don’t even have a sales function!
Marketing spend seems to go up when Marketing is in charge of sales – some might say that because they are taking a more long-term approach, that it’s less about the moment and pushing to milk the very last drop of sales to reach goals, but rather are nurturing leads with the marketing strategies. It all depends on the tactics used of course.
Your marketing budget spend, and your digital marketing budget should reflect who you are as an organization and the present economic situation of your company – but more importantly, where you want to go.
I definitely don’t suggest people who are making 50k to 200k spend to much MONEY on their marketing and digital marketing, but I generally highly suggest spending a lot of EFFORT. It’s when your time becomes worth more than your money that you’ll want to start outsourcing your marketing efforts. The marketing budget calendar was made to help you make these kinds of realizations a little easier. I want it to be easy for people to decide whether they should hire people internally, utilize different agencies or marketing experts who are experts at their respective specialty.