Building a Marketing Budget That Survives a Slow Quarter
The mistakes we see most often around building a marketing budget that holds up in a slow quarter, and how to avoid them.
Where This Actually Shows Up
A lot of confusion around building a marketing budget that holds up in a slow quarter comes from advice that's either too generic or too technical to actually act on. This is the version we'd give a client directly, without the filler.
What Actually Moves It
We've found that fixed versus flexible spend explains most of the variance between accounts that perform well and ones that don't, with channel prioritization under pressure accounting for the rest once the basics are covered.
The Takeaway
building a marketing budget that holds up in a slow quarter is one of the few areas where getting the fundamentals right genuinely outperforms a clever shortcut.
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