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Marketing School - Digital Marketing and Online Marketing Tips

What Percentage of Your Revenue Should You Allocate to Marketing? | Ep. #944

Marketing School - Digital Marketing and Online Marketing Tips

Eric Siu and Neil Patel

Marketing, Careers, Business

4.61.4K Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2019

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

In episode #944, we discuss what percentage of your revenue should be allocated to marketing. Tune in to hear how much you should be spending. We have committed to throwing a FREE Marketing School Live Event in Los Angeles, once Marketing School reaches 1M downloads in a 30 day period. Take action: Rate, review, subscribe, and SHARE. Check the progress here! TIME-STAMPED SHOW NOTES: [00:27] Today’s Topic: What Percentage of Your Revenue Should You Allocate to Marketing? [00:45] We think budgets are useless. [00:55] Even Fortune 1000 companies agree with us. [01:15] If you could spend money and it’s profitable, why wouldn’t you keep scaling up? [01:30] Budgets should be based on profitability. [02:10] There’s nothing wrong with losing money on the front end. [02:35] If you have to have a percentage, most people would say 15% (or somewhere in that range). [02:55] Neil would start with as little at $100-1000. [03:47] If you have a service business, the more customers you add, the worse the service gets. It’s different when you have a product. [04:08] Focus on getting the ratio correct. [04:10] That’s all for today! [04:13] We hit our goal of 1 Million downloads! So, we will be throwing a free event in Los Angeles. Check out this website if you would like to attend. Remember: we are capping the event at 500 people, so sign up now, if you’re interested! Leave some feedback: What should we talk about next? Please let us know in the comments below. Did you enjoy this episode? If so, please leave a short review. Connect with us: NeilPatel.com Quick Sprout Growth Everywhere Single Grain Twitter @neilpatel Twitter @ericosiu Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0

Get ready for your daily dose of marketing strategies and tactics from

0:06.8

entrepreneurs with the guile and experience to help you find success in any

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marketing capacity. You're listening to marketing school

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with your instructors Neil Patel and Eric Sue.

0:19.4

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Welcome to another episode of marketing school.

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I'm Eric Sue.

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And I'm Neil Patel.

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And today we are going to talk about what percentage of your revenue

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should you allocate to marketing.

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So, look, there's always people talking about budgets,

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like how much should we put into marketing,

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what percentage should it be?

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And you know what the funny thing is?

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We've actually done an episode on this before

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about how we think budgets are useless.

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