This spreadsheet was created to help marketers build their direct-sell digital marketing plan and supporting channel budgets.<\/p>\n
It has been designed to help you work back from an overall, annual online acquisition revenue target, in order to define the monthly traffic volume and conversion percentages required across digital channels to meet your objective. Using past performance data, (or if you don't have the data, your assumptions), you can then model various combinations of digital channel activity to determine the best mix to meet your target ROI and acquisition volumes. You can use this to put together your digital acquisition budget, relating your spend allocation to the best performing channel mix model.<\/p>\n
You can then put together your digital acquisition budget, relating your spend allocation to the best performing channel mix model. This budget is a starting point and a useful way to justify your marketing investment plans to other stakeholders - but do track actual performance against ROI and volume targets to ensure that budget is allocated fluidly to the best performing channels through the year. You can also add the resource required to manage each channel (expressed in \"man\" days) to help your planning\/budgeting.<\/p>\n