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Marketing Budgets are set at the beginning of each calendar year. Every dollar spent is tracked so that the budgets are not exceeded. The numbers are reviewed on a monthly basis. The following is a Marketing Budget Spreadsheet. You will notice that several multi-purpose campaigns are duplicated; however, we have only input their costs in one section, leaving the other sections at $0. You can simply keep this in mind when analyzing the various campaigns.

Marketing Forecasting & Budget Spreadsheet:

Categories Cost # in Prospect List # of Referral Meetings New Business from Clients Cost/ Prospect
Referrals
Ask for Meeting Referral $0 N/A 10 N/A $0
E-Referral Campaign (3) $1,000 50 N/A N/A $20
E-Newsletter (Monthly) $1,500 30 N/A N/A $50
Web Site (Hosting) $240 5 N/A N/A $48
PAB $500 N/A 5 N/A $100
COIs $500 N/A 10 N/A $50
Relationship-Building
Client Appreciation* $10,000 N/A 5 10 $667
* Aimed at client retention, referrals, & new business.
New Business – Existing Clients
Ask for New Business $0 N/A N/A 5 $0
E-Newsletter $0 N/A N/A 5 $0
Web Site $0 N/A N/A 2 $0
Seminars $0 N/A N/A 10 $0
** Generating new business from current clients is a spin-off from other initiatives already in use for prospecting, referrals, etc.
Prospecting
E-Newsletter (Monthly) $0 25 N/A N/A $0
Direct Mail Ads (2 to 5,000) $5,000 75 N/A N/A $67
Telemarketing $2,500 50 N/A N/A $50
Seminar Invitation (4) $10,000 150 N/A 10 $67
Other $0 1 N/A N/A $0
TOTAL $31,240 386 30 42 N/A
Last Year's Numbers N/A 300 12 23 N/A
Change from Last Year N/A 22% 150% 83% N/A
Forecasted Marketing Goals N/A 291 24 31 N/A
Meeting Ratio N/A 5% N/A N/A N/A
Closing Ratios N/A 53% 67% 77% N/A
New Clients N/A 18 16 24 N/A

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