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business / July 30, 2014

Handy Marketing Budget Calculator

Never get caught unprepared. Make sure you know what expenditures are here, which are coming, and which might be unexpected with our handy calculator.

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There are lots of elements to a marketing campaign, website improvements or redesigns, SEO, PPC, blogging and content development, social media, press releases and more. And we have not even talked about traditional marketing like print, broadcast media, direct mail, events and other conventional marketing. More often than not, there are more things to do than there is budget to fund. So every marketing manager has to play the budget allocation game and juggle the numbers until the budget works. We created a handy Excel spreadsheet listing the common budget items by category and with detailed items showing monthly spending, daily spending and percent of total budget. Just fill in the blanks and juggle the numbers until it fits.

Marketing Budget Spreadsheet Example

Below is an example of how the marketing budget spreadsheet works. Even though our focus is digital marketing, we recognize most marketing managers have to work out a marketing budget for all media, so we included print, broadcast, direct mail and even telemarketing in case you use these. You can change figures or titles. Click on the image below to download the Excel file.

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Marketing Budget Summary Pie Chart Example

ARCHIVE IMAGE / SOURCE UNAVAILABLEMarketing Budget Pie Chart from Excel budget spreadsheetThe original file was referenced by this article but was not present in the export.