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It's because the truth of your marketing budget modifications over the life-span of your organization too. And so normally, usually, the bigger you are, the more mature, hopefully, you have actually been planting seeds, you're following the Maven approach, the more fully grown your marketing becomes, the more past consumers you have.

In the one to three million variety, you know, it might be 8 to twelve, however it once you get to 10 or above, we may be in more of the four to eight percent variety. Brandon Welch: 11:17 So now that depending on this, the the most significant what or the biggest um depends part of that is how strong is your competition.

You don't wish to see what you can get away with for a couple of years on a low spin since someone is going to interrupt you, and it's way more pricey to get that market share back than it is to maintain and defend it. Also, if you are attempting to interrupt someone else, if you are trying to take market share, you're gon na need to um outspend them in message quality and in probably marketing and ad budget.

Um you might be you could quickly be a 10 plus million company and require to spend 12%, no issue. If you remain in a market and you want to grow huge market, maybe big dollars because of what you're offering, no problem. Brandon Welch: 12:14 Yep. If you believe of this of driving as driving a nail into a uh a board, um the amount of swings you take is your marketing budget plan, but the size of your hammer is the quality of your message.

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Which's what we're gon na speak about in the messaging section. Uh last thing I desire to say on budgeting. So there's what you must be spending as an overall portion, and after that there's how you allocate it. Um that uh research study I pointed out a minute ago, the long and the except it, by far the biggest study that's ever been done on advertising, they took out that the most reliably growing companies who are able to charge more, secure margin, uh, get a bigger percentage of the marketplace over the long haul, and not be disruptible.

So um if you are a if you are a home service company, it's gon na be five to 10 years before the average person needs you. If you are a professional service business, it may be 10 to twenty years. Um, if you remain in a category like roof or actually big, or you understand, we state roof or coffins, it could be 30 to 50 to 80 years before someone requires you.

When people are coming to you without going through those other methods of marketing, you get them much faster, they spend more. And so that's why we desire you spending 60% of your spending plan uh and any good marketing strategy a minimum of is going to tomorrow marketing. Caleb Agee: 13:58 Yeah.

Caleb Agee: 14:00 Yeah, simply to make sure we're clear, if this is your first time becoming aware of the Maven method, this is most likely one of the essential uh aspects of the Maven method that assists to help to clear up marketing for everyone who hears it since I believe a lot of times we have great deals of different marketing motivations.

We're going to build a relationship with them for the long haul. A today customer is somebody who actually woke up this this morning or this week and they said, I need that thing. Brandon Welch: 14:32 Warm, so I need a fridge.

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60 on tomorrow marketing that's emotional branding, making individuals like you, understand your character, know your brand, understand what you stand for, entertainment, making attention before the sale. Today marketing goes 30%, um, which is like, hello, we have an offer, you should purchase today, it's a really good time to buy.

And after that we state as much as 10% on the other day marketing because a company who has past consumers is uh has has the greatest opportunity um and that and the most efficient marketing when they focus on the other day marketing. Caleb Agee: 15:31 Usually the most affordable dollar expense of all the years.

So if you're a brand new company, you're not gon na have probably enough to invest in yesterday marketing. However if you're established, we have some business that have been around 50, 60 years, like investing a tremendous amount of time in the messaging and email marketing and text messaging and client gratitude events, like that's method cheaper than marketing for brand-new customers.

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So um long-term brand building is the key to firmer rates. If you desire to be able to charge more and be picked by the premium purchasers, long-lasting branding is your good friend. Caleb Agee: 16:07 I'm gon na advocate that if you haven't increased your rates through all this mess of twenty-four and twenty-five and settling into twenty-six, you most likely need to.

Brandon Welch: 16:24 You understand people are prepared to you can not be the greatest brand in your category by being a low cost company. Brandon Welch: 16:31 So uh that's area one. It's gon na look like 5 to ten percent for most businesses, and you want a sixty percent of that general spend in tomorrow marketing, thirty percent today, and then as much as 10 percent on today marketing.

Brandon Welch: 16:55 All right, uh, we're gon na go on to 2026 subtleties for um your technique. Um, Caleb mentioned this a little bit early in the episode. Strategy really shouldn't alter year to year, uh, like an entire lot, unless you are just reinventing yourself or you have actually been interfered with.

Um, and we tend to focus on a lot of that with our projects. The subtlety in 2026 is that even the high quality premium buyers are getting pinched in the bag a little bit. Worth searching is going to end up being a thing.