Running successful marketing combining both online and offline channels to reach and influence your audience requires excellent planning. Budgeting is a key part of this to ensure you're investing in the right marketing activities to get the biggest possible impact. Failing to model costs and track spend against target will mean you're 'marketing in the dark' and will be unable to be flexible during the year or campaign.<\/p>\n
Getting budgeting right isn't easy since you have to devise the right set of activities to track spend in and group them in such a way you so you can see the big picture. This template contains a set of spreadsheets to help you create a well thought out budget and track your spend across the year. It can also serve as a checklist to ensure you've considered and planned for all the key channels and media available to you.<\/p>\n
Of course, there are other free budgeting spreadsheets available online. However, they're often too simple to reflect the reality of running modern marketing activities AND they haven't been created by marketing professionals.<\/p>\n
Our marketing budgeting spreadsheet template has been created to provide a comprehensive checklist of all the modern marketing activities you need to budget for, including managing digital experiences (mobile and web), content marketing and traditional offline channels.<\/p>\n
A\u00a0budget tracker is a key planning tool in the armoury of marketers, be it for a small start-up business or a large multi-national.<\/p>\n
We have designed this budget template to be suitable for startups, small and medium businesses looking to refine their budgeting processes as they expand to include a comprehensive range of investment categories, including both online and offline channels.<\/p>\n
It could also be suitable for larger businesses to review your approach. It has been used in all these situations for different types of businesses by the author. You can use it for setting up a budget 'from scratch' or for reviewing the budget categories you have created for the year ahead - to avoid any 'nasty surprises' and embarrassing conversations in the year ahead with your boss or finance director.<\/p>\n
The budget template contains a 'Read Me' tab to explain how the budgeting process works, and eight different spreadsheet templates in separate Google Sheet tabs:<\/p>\n
The template is provided as a Google Sheet and is formatted in British pounds with the date format dd\/mm\/yyyy. It can easily be modified if you don't work with this currency or date format.<\/p>\n
This content is evergreen and has been updated to our newest branded document style to ease readability, with updated dates for 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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