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.
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.
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.