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This is how this is how the economy works. We have to have feasible products that speak to practical customers, and so uh consumers this next year, they're going to be buying, but they're going to be more worth inspecting. They are gon na the prices have increased and they're not gon na decrease.

It's it's just more this is the new This is just how it is now pricing flooring, if you will. Caleb Agee: 3:56 Yeah, so they're changing their spending plans to account for because all of 25, they were like, whoa, what's going on?

It didn't go down, it simply flattened and however 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 threat aware, um, and then they'll be less tolerant of friction and uncertainty.

Uh, one is how much should your company be spending on marketing? Uh, the 2nd is gon na be subtleties and method, how you require to place yourself in 2026 versus years past.

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Yeah. Uh by the end of that, you're going to pair that with in 2015's how to make a marketing strategy, or maybe your extremely own copy of the Maven Marketer. You simply build your marketing strategy uh over Christmas break, reading your hundred and no, sorry, two hundred and forty-eight pages of marketing.

Um yeah. Um, hey, you know what? Person to make a remark about uh something you're altering your 2026 marketing uh is gon na get a copy of the Maven Marketer, thanks to Nate, the cam guy.

Caleb Agee: 5:32 We're gon na just ship a ship a Nate in a box and it'll just pop out and hint. Brandon Welch: 5:36 Let's dive in. We have actually got 4 sections to cover. How much should your service be invested spending on marketing? Um, this is a loaded question, and everyone who gets asked that in our industry 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 attempting to do?

That's an average based upon US marketing spin. And after that um the SBA said 7 to eight percent on any uh roundabouts or near five million pursuing growth is how they framed that. Brandon Welch: 6:24 So this is gon na subtlety by market, not since the real marketing spend most likely need to nuance like what it takes to make things take place, but because margins are various in every market.

So um we're gon na go line by line with that. I desire to I desire 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, but uh, if we spend 7.7% of our budget plan, how do we know it's working? We're going to get there.

The huge concept is that business that um ended up being popular, favored, and well-trusted before the sale, they win in the marketing and advertising video game, and they win in the growth video game. There was an extremely, 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 method, studied billions of dollars worth of marketing over a long period of time, and they they brought out a grand conclusion that if you are well known, liked, and trusted from a psychological level, if individuals like you and believe in you before the sale, you will not see that roi this 2nd.

That is huge, huge business stuff, but it also directly uses to your uh owner-operated service. And less in that uh because study was popular for saying if brands are built over years, we all know it takes a while to construct a brand. Like Nike didn't end up being Nike or Apple didn't become Apple or you know, any of these big brand names we like.

Caleb Agee: 8:36 Yeah. We're gon na rapidly go through just some criteria of marketing spend for various markets. Yeah, you could you could discover 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 given circumstance.

Uh A/c criteria typically cite seven percent of leading line earnings. Um and but also top line revenues tend to be lower in those industries.

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Uh, and then uh medical centers, one to five percent. Brandon Welch: 9:31 The medical group management association states one to five percent. Um, there's in some cases a lot of retail connected up in there, but there's also a lot of um there's a lot of overhead medical practices.

People know what they require, so you're simply trying to be the one on the list that people select. Go ahead. Caleb Agee: 9:54 Dental workplaces, um, four to seven percent.

That's uh similar to that medical center. Brandon Welch: 10:04 We work with one of the most popular leaders in that space, and they they typically point out in their organization like 2 to 3 percent. So um car service center are 4 to five percent, same thing. A great deal of a great deal of expense of goods, so a lot of overhead.