“He, who fails to plan, plans to fail.”.

Sounds familiar, right? A lot of us had this statement drummed into our consciousness from the beginning, but somehow we forget how important it is in our daily lives..

Listen, marketing is not an afterthought. It shouldn’t be, unless of course you’re running a business just for the fun of it and you’re not concerned about making money, which I very much doubt is true..

You work so long and hard to plan your dream business, and scrimp and save to start that business. Now, you have opened your shop or website, yaaaayyyy!!.

But wait, you do not have customers. Or you have the same customers, no new ones. Orrrr you do not have enough customers..

This is because you didn’t have a plan on how to inform people about your products, services and business. You didn’t have a plan, or budget for marketing. You probably thought to yourself; customers will come..

But why should they come to YOU? You aren’t the only person offering that product or service..

First rule of thumb: you have to spend money to make money. When you don’t spend on marketing, you’re not saving money. Instead, you’re losing out on a huge amount of revenue that can be tapped into.    .

Click here for our marketing budget checklist to know if you’re budgeting right for your marketing

What does having a marketing budget do for you?.

• It helps you measure your progress and targets

You can then measure exactly what works and what doesn’t. You can measure the number of new customers, recurrent ones etc..

• It keeps you in business

Other people do what you do. Your customers WILL eventually forget about you if you don’t keep them engaged. When that happens, you don’t make money or worse, you’re soon out of a business..

• The economy is always up for you.

People cut down on marketing when the economy is down, like now. When that happens, customers drift and shift. That one extra customer is extra money you can make..

• People take you, and your business more seriously

The reason is simple. Because it becomes obvious you take you, and your business, more seriously..

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