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Define campaign budget

Learn how to build a detailed marketing budget

Module purpose

Improving your budgeting approach will help you be more confident about expenditure and the results delivered by the selected media.

This module explains how to use our comprehensive marketing budget template to create a more refined budget.

Module structure

  • Objectives
  • Recommended steps for creating a budget
  • What should be budgeted for?
  • The importance of creating a detailed budget
  • Main categories of investment in a budget
  • How much budget to invest?
  • Test your understanding
  • Summary

Learning objectives

  • Review your current approaches to annual communications budgeting
  • Define the best investment/cost categories to include within a comprehensive communications budget for managing inbound marketing

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This module is in the Campaign Planning Learning Path

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What are Learning Paths?

A modern training solution to help businesses grow through marketing

Learning Paths bring together all of the relevant training and associated resources into a single, customizable journey.

Whether it's specific, task-based skills or fully mastering a single discipline, Learning Paths provide the training your business needs to expand into new channels and improve the results of your current marketing activities.

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Learning Paths are divided into strategic and channel-based marketing modules, which help you align development needs with business objectives.

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Each Path is supported by our 20 comprehensive marketing toolkits, reducing outsourcing costs by expanding your in-house knowledge and expertise.

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