Running a marketing campaign can be extremely expensive and difficult to keep track of. Planning ahead is critical to having a great marketing campaign because it requires the campaign members to think critically about how much money your campaign requires. The marketing event budget template allows you to set out a plan for your marketing budget in a simple and easy to understand way.
How to Use the Marketing Event Budget Template
Using the marketing event budget template is extremely easy. The heart of the template is a chart found on the first page that requires you to categorize and then subcategorize each of your costs. The user then has to put in the estimated quantity of each item that they plan on buying during their campaign and the estimated cost per unit. The table will then spit out an estimated subtotal. This step is extremely simple and easy and the rest of the template pretty much runs itself.
On the first page in the upper left hand corner you will see an estimated total of the marketing budget plus the cost of the actual event in order to reach an estimated subtotal. The next page features a category chart that will show the entire cost of the event broken done based on the type of item. This chart is done in bar graph form and is extremely useful when dealing with the visual people in your office. When you are planning an event it can be hard to plan out a proper budget to market the event. The marketing event budget template is free and is a fully customizable allow you to budget for your event.
Tips for Using the Marketing Event Budget Template
- After your event is held be sure to look back at your marketing event budget and see what your actual costs were. Use this as a way to evaluate how you could have planned for.
- Be as thorough as you possibly can when you plan out your budget. It does your organization no favors for you to not be thorough as you will just end up with an inaccurate budget.
- Utilize the graphs that this template gives you in meetings.
Download: Marketing Event Budget Template
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