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This is how this is how the economy works. We need to have feasible products that talk to viable customers, therefore uh customers this next year, they're going to be buying, however they're going to be more value scrutinizing. They are gon na the rates have actually increased and they're not gon na decrease.

Brandon Welch: 3:48 And so however it's less inflation driven. It's it's simply more this is the brand-new This is just how it is now pricing floor, if you will. Caleb Agee: 3:56 Yeah, so they're adjusting their budgets to represent because all of 25, they resembled, whoa, what's going on? Groceries and all these things are more costly than I am used to them being.

It didn't go down, it just flattened and but your interest rates and your huge purchases are less scary. Caleb Agee: 4:24 Yeah, so we got to pay attention, customers are gon na be worth scrutinizing, more danger mindful, um, and then they'll be less tolerant of friction and obscurity.

Uh, one is how much should your company be investing on marketing? Uh, the second is gon na be nuances and method, how you need to place yourself in 2026 versus years past.

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Yeah. Uh by the end of that, you're going to combine that with last year's how to make a marketing plan, or possibly your extremely own copy of the Maven Marketer. You just build your marketing plan uh over Christmas break, reading your hundred and no, sorry, two hundred and forty-eight pages of marketing.

It's truly genius. Who composed that? Who composed that book? Um yeah. Um, hey, you understand what? Individual to make a remark about uh something you're changing your 2026 marketing uh is gon na get a copy of the Maven Online marketer, thanks to Nate, the electronic camera guy. I enjoy it.

Caleb Agee: 5:32 We're gon na simply ship a ship a Nate in a box and it'll just pop out and hint. Brandon Welch: 5:36 Let's jump in. We've got 4 areas to cover. So, just how much should your service be invested spending on marketing? Um, this is a packed concern, and everyone who gets asked that in our market goes, Well, it depends.

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Now some of you just went, is that all? And some of you went, holy crap, what are you trying to do?

That's a typical based on United States marketing spin. And then um the SBA said 7 to eight percent on any uh roundabouts or near 5 million pursuing growth is how they framed that. Brandon Welch: 6:24 So this is gon na nuance by market, not due to the fact that the actual marketing invest most likely ought to nuance like what it requires to make stuff take place, but because margins are various in every market.

Um we're gon na go line by line with that. But I wish to I wish to just reset if you are the the individual or if you are working for a person, or if you have to report to the person who's going, yeah, however uh, if we spend 7.7% of our spending plan, how do we know it's working? We're going to get there.

The big idea is that companies that um become well known, favored, and well-trusted before the sale, they win in the advertising and marketing game, and they win in the development video game. There was a very, large study called The Long and the Short of It, done by Les Bennett and Peter Field.

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They took a scientific approach, studied billions of dollars worth of advertising over a long duration of time, and they they came out with a grand conclusion that if you are well known, liked, and relied on from a psychological level, if individuals like you and think in you before the sale, you will not see that return on investment this second.

That is huge, big company things, however it also straight applies to your uh owner-operated service. And less in that uh in that research study was well-known for stating if brands are developed over years, all of us know it takes a while to develop a brand. Like Nike didn't become Nike or Apple didn't become Apple or you understand, any of these huge brands we love.

Caleb Agee: 8:36 Yeah. We're gon na rapidly go through simply some criteria of marketing spend for different industries. Yeah, you might you might find some relatable uh industries, and we're just gon na go through these and then we're gon na talk about how this modifications in your your provided circumstance.

Uh heating and cooling benchmarks typically point out 7 percent of leading line income. Uh professional services, think consulting, believe agencies, believe a lot of B2B, uh 10 to 12 due to the fact that it's presumed that there's higher margin in the product itself. Yeah. Um and but likewise leading line earnings tend to be lower in those industries.

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Uh, and then uh medical clinics, one to five percent. Brandon Welch: 9:31 The medical group management association says one to five percent. Um, there's sometimes a lot of retail connected up in there, but there's likewise a lot of um there's a lot of overhead medical practices.

And they tend to be on the more commoditized scale. People understand what they need, so you're simply attempting to be the one on the list that people choose. That's. Uh yeah. Go on. Dental offices. Caleb Agee: 9:54 Oral offices, um, four to seven percent. That's from oral economics.

That's uh similar to that medical clinic. Brandon Welch: 10:04 We work with among the most popular leaders in that area, and they they commonly mention in their company like 2 to 3 percent. Um auto repair shops are four to five percent, same thing. A great deal of a lot of expense of goods, so a lot of overhead.