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How Brands Should Distribute Budgets for Digital Marketing

Finding the right marketing budget is a question that many consumer brands and retailers are addressing nowadays. What kind of digital marketing expenditure is required in particular to remain competitive in the new always-on digital environment. The marketing budget need not necessarily be stretched any more due to a broken client journey. But how much should be spent on digital marketing to increase both online and physical sales?

What Should Be the Marketing Budget?

Even in marketing war rooms across the nation, it’s frequently noted that marketing demands more funding than the majority of businesses are prepared to commit in order to remain competitive. Marketing is frequently more of a required cost than a wise investment. Leaders in marketing fight their way into the boardroom to extol the benefits of investing in strategic marketing.
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Here is a quick formula to help you calculate the correct digital marketing budget, nevertheless, if your company is trying to persuade your board to include a competitive marketing expenditure.

Marketing spending as a percentage of revenue grew to 10.3% percent, The CMO Survey reports, returning to pre-pandemic levels. According to the same estimate, this number will increase during the course of the following year, reaching 13.6%.

Experts advise allocating between 5% and 15% of the whole company revenue to marketing. Which end of the spectrum your team supports depends on your business’s stage and your marketing objectives for the year. Your marketing investment would be more aggressive as a consumer company entering a new category this year than it would be for an ecommerce brand keeping things the same. A reasonable guideline for allocating your digital marketing spend is as follows:

  • Spending plans for ambitious/high-growth models: 12 to 15 percent is the overall revenue
  • Budgets for maintaining competition: 8% to 11% of total revenue
  • Budgets for being prudent and sustaining the status quo: 5% to 8% of total revenue

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Budget projections for digital marketing

Budgets for marketing have been allocated, but an agile marketing team can excel in how they utilize that budget. Since the first Google ad impression was served, there has been a constant budgetary conflict between digital marketing and traditional marketing. The majority of the expenditure has gone into digital marketing, however, as consumer shopping now starts and continues mostly online rather than through conventional channels. With the help of tracking, agility, and complete funnel effects, marketers can demonstrate that their investment in digital marketing is worthwhile. When compared to its aimless sibling, traditional marketing channels, data protection and identity issues only caused a modest blip in the digital marketing attribution.
In February 2022, the CMO Survey revealed that 57.1 percent of marketing budgets are spent on digital marketing. And over the following year, this figure will increase by 16%. The current marketing team’s reality is not reflected by this fundamental shift. Ecommerce firms will spend significantly more on digital marketing than the industry average of 57 percent.

Budget Allocation for Digital Marketing Issues

Which channels merit larger expenditures than others now that we agree on how much to invest in marketing and where to distribute funds for digital marketing? There is no correct response, is the answer. The distribution of the budget by channel depends on a number of variables. The ideal customer profile is the biggest one, though (ICP).
First, understand your audience. Every online channel isn’t used by the online shopper with the same purpose. Where you allocate your digital marketing budget will depend greatly on how well you know who your ideal customers are and what they do on these digital platforms.
Ask your marketing staff these questions:
  • Where do our customers look for product information?
  • Where do our clients look for answers to issues like this one that we can fix?
  • Who do our clients tune in to? What resources do they employ to gain power?
  • What part does each internet channel play in this persona’s customer journey?
These fundamental inquiries will help you advance your discussions about marketing budgets and delve deeper into the appropriate tests to pinpoint the ideal media mix. To learn which channels, campaign message, and even specific creative assets are most effective at attracting the correct customers to the sales funnel, marketing teams should test out multichannel plays at various phases of the buying process. Choose a benchmark and try some things.
Modern agile marketing teams will search for novel strategies to increase top-of-funnel brand recognition or determine which channel mix delivers a faster velocity from awareness to purchase, in order to reduce the customer acquisition rate. To connect your marketing expenditure to the demands of the business, each of these data points will be essential.

Planning Your Budget for Future Digital Advertising

Although the future of digital advertising is promising and complicated, its fundamentals are still straightforward. Plan, execute, evaluate, and iterate. You’ll find more opportunities to increase the budget with the boardroom if you allocate your digital marketing budget to cover the business funnel. Do you require a partner to assist you in demonstrating the worth of attribution in digital marketing? Learn more about IDX.Marketing’s ecommerce advertising experience or contact us for a consultation.

Contact us! We can create a digital marketing plan that will fit your budget and objectives.

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