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Crafting a Marketing PlanHow Marketing & Finance Can Team Up for Greater
Results
Laura Patterson, VisionEdge MarketingWendy Gustafson, Full Sail Partners
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Agenda
1. Resources
2. WebEx Instructions
3. Presentation on Crafting a Marketing Plan | How Marketing & Finance Can Team Up for Greater Results
4. Questions
5. Resources
CRM
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Other resources from Full Sail Partners:
Webinar
• 11.20.2013 - What’s New in Vision 7.1 & 7.2: http://bit.ly/1hmauoD
• Archived: Growing Smarter! Core Growth Strategies for PS Firms:http://bit.ly/16JePLy
Articles
• Difference Between Project Backlog & Forecasting: http://bit.ly/1atDWze
• Why Cash Flow Planning is Essential for Growth: http://bit.ly/1hmbfhe
• Professional Services Marketing – A Changing Landscape: http://bit.ly/1hPCe2G
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Sarah Gonnella (Host)
Your Name
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Presented by:
Crafting a Marketing PlanHow Marketing & Finance Can Team Up for Greater
Results
Laura Patterson, VisionEdge MarketingWendy Gustafson, Full Sail Partners
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What is a budget?
A budget is a documented expectation of your revenue, expenses and profit for a given timeframe.
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What ELSE is a budget Documentation of your goals:
New Services
New Geographic Areas
Growth – Existing and New
# New Clients
# Referencaeble Clients
Documentation of your assumptions: Employee Utilization
Lead Generation
Hit Ratios
Pay Rates/Bill Rates
Ensure your goals are measurable and reportable
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Establish your Growth Goals: Target New Clients Increase # of New Clients by 5%
Webinar Event Sponsorship Organization Participation
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Understand Growth Goal Costs Webinar
5 webinars with 3 hours needed average pay rate $45 - $675
Event Sponsorship $12,000 Sponsorship – Banner, Booth,
Registration
6 people attending for 4 hours average pay rate $50 - $1,200
Organization Participation Registration $500
1 person at $50/hour 2 hours month $1,200
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Total Cost $15,675
Who will do the work
What is lost revenue
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Understand Benefits (ROI – Return on Investment) Growing client base by 5%
Currently 150 clients so adding 8 clients Targeting clients with expected average revenue to be 75,000
per year Current hit ratio is 34% so need 24 proposals Conversion ratio is 25% 96 Leads
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Expected Revenue Growth
$600,000
3,500 additional staff billable hours or a 3% increase in
utilization
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Tracking Results Set up tracking mechanism
when setting goals Know your current metric
Specifically define goal
Set reporting frequency (daily [whew!], quarterly, monthly, annual) with benchmarks (i.e. 1 new client by March, 4 new clients by June, etc.)
Automate with your ERP is possible but ensure you have mechanism – even excel works
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Example in Excel
Report your results:
Over (Under) Goals# Budget # Budget # Budget
GRAND TOTAL 5 423,000 5 375,000 0 48,000.00 Q1 Client Adds 2 178,000 1 75,000 1 103,000.00
Corona ConstructionProject1 150,000
Sam Adams and SonsProject 1 25,000
Project 2 3,000
Q2 Client Adds 3 245,000 4 300,000 -1 (55,000.00) Petron Brothers
Project 1 30,000 Smirnoff Intl
Project 1 200,000 Makers
Project 1 15,000
Actual Goals/Assumption
Labor intensive
Easily forgotten
Hard to report to executives
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Use Your ERP for Results… Info is already there
Marketing Goals
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Use Your ERP for Results… Info is already there
Employee Goals
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Use Your ERP for Results… Info is already there
Financial Goals
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Use Your ERP for Results… Info is already there
Budgeting in Excel
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Use Your ERP for Results… Info is already there
Budget Import
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Delete header row before import
Use Your ERP for Results… Info is already there
Budget Import
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Questions?
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