Social media marketing budget

A marketing budget advocates how much a business should spend on marketing over a specific duration. When preparing a budget for social media marketing, consider all costs associated with marketing your business such as sponsored ads, hiring costs, marketing tools, website maintenance expenses, and more. Planning a marketing budget helps you to stay on track financially. It helps with the right allocation of resources and is also beneficial to set aims and objectives and plan for long term goal. The money spent on social media marketing helps your business grow and develop.

Here are a few tips that you should follow before making the budget for your social media marketing budget:

Preparing a budget can be a hectic process. Many companies estimate their budget based on their last year’s budget expenditure. However, if this time you have decided to go with bigger campaigns, then you’ll have to increase the budget more than you normally would. You can also use return on investment (ROI) to determine the appropriate total budget for your marketing campaigns.

Dig down into your sales figures and track results throughout the revenue cycle from all potential customers. Getting data from your company software for CRM makes this process comparatively easy. 

For new companies trying to grow fast, ad costs should be 12-20% of your overall gross revenue. You will need more money to earn money. But if you are an established company and are looking to maintain and maximize profit, then you’ll have to spend about 5-12% of your return on investments. The difference is because established companies have already created a place for themselves among their target audience.

Select wisely from all the available marketing platforms as that will help you divide your marketing budget efficiently. You have a plethora of options such as search ads like Google ads, social ads including Facebook ads, Instagram ads, and LinkedIn ads, content marketing, influencer marketing, SEO and on-site marketing, email marketing, affiliate marketing, etc. Be specific about the platform that you want to use. Consider the cost and revenue of each platform. Assess where to spend to get immediate profits. Be realistic and don’t expect the impossible. Design your marketing strategy based on things already working for you. Avoid reinvesting on platforms that are not working for you. 

Making the marketing budget involves deciding your financial limits and also finalizing resource deployment, thus ensuring that they are allocated in the right places.