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Marketing Budget Calculator

Work out what a customer is worth, what you can afford to spend acquiring one, and what that makes your marketing budget. Nothing is sent anywhere; the maths runs in your browser.

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How aggressively are you willing to pursue growth?

Lifetime value of a customer

Gross profit one customer produces across the whole relationship.

You can afford to spend, per customer

Your target cost to acquire one, at the growth appetite you chose.

Which makes your annual budget

Sales and marketing combined, to hit that many customers.

This is the same arithmetic I use on a first call. It is a ceiling, not a target: if you can acquire customers for less, the difference is margin. What it replaces is picking a percentage of revenue and hoping.

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The other one

What is your brand actually contributing?

The budget question and the brand question are the same question from two directions. One asks what a customer is worth; the other asks how much of that worth exists because of what people think of you.

Brand Value Calculator