Advertising Budget : How Much Money You Should Be Spending On Your Ad Budget

We put $500,000 towards television advertising, and $700,000 towards magazine advertising. We assumed that newspaper advertising was unnecessary and less effective opposed to television and magazine advertising. Next, we decreased public relations expenditure from $500,000 to $320,000. Like advertising, we put more money towards magazines and television than newspaper. In television, we spent $125,000 and $195,000 in magazines. By following the scenario information, our company believed it was best to spend our money according to the suggestions and preferences that were stated in order to meet market demand.

3. Marketing expenses increased by $0.05 per unit due to the new advertising campaign to boost lagging sales. While it was indeed a higher expense, sales were boosted in the last quarter.

After a period of declining sales for Allround, we increased the advertising budget to be consistent with our competitor’s budget. We decided to be very consistent with our strategy over the ten periods; however, in hindsight we should have implemented a more dynamic strategy that factored in the changing

The common public goal of the marketing discourse is to attract attention from targeted audiences, in other words make the consumer buy, buy, and buy. In order to achieve these goals I have to execute different marketing strategies with the help of the staff and company executives. Together we brainstorm different marketing trends, design different kinds of ads; analyze social media for more effective ways of advertising and calculate risks based on customer insight. When all is done right the end goal will result an increase of sales revenue for the company, which will sharpen its image and name.

During these quarters, at the very beginning, the sales are opened in the market and hence a floodgate is opened for the clients to flock and get a hold of the products. At this stage the establishment of the brand is quite critical and in that regard the decision was made to spend 63,384 for the sake of advertising. This would reverberate the target market to get to know about the product and to get the desire to want to buy more and more of the product. The aspect of

Another budgeting strategy is the objective/task method. Objective/task “considers advertising to be a marketing tool to help generate sales.” (Arens, page 294) I feel this method is a well planned out proposition. The steps include defining the objectives, determining strategy and estimating cost. The objective here is to increase the awareness of Southern Rice Company’s instant rice. Next, we will research and determine which ads, television or print, and media outlets to use. Measuring the results from these campaigns will determine whether or not they need to be revised. Based on this information, we can estimate the overall cost and then allocate the money in the marketing budget into each specially designed task. If we cannot afford some of the tasks, we can devote more of our budget to a task that will work in the most effective way. Objective/task is more accurate and flexible when it comes to budget allocation.

It may be possible that the manager elected to spend his variable expense advertising dollars during a time period where they would produce the most sales, and then tapered off his advertising dollars during a time period of steady business flow.

If we analyze the numbers now we see that there are small changes, by the end of the first year, in Q4 we get $15.2m instead of $15.1, a subtle change but still a faster result. The market share is 6.46% in Q3 instead of 6.40%. This way we can get results faster. However, I would not recommend the advertising manager to do this as it gives a poorer end result. By the end of the third year we get a result of $57.1m in profit where we made $57.2m if we weight short term the same as long term. Also the final market share is 7.65% instead of 7.66%, a small change albeit, but still no reason to choose scenario 3 over scenario 2.

I was pretty confident that our sales would justify the additional office and salary expense. However, as I looked at the pro forma statements it became very apparent that the sales force would sell more unit than the plant could produce. In hindsight, I should have increase production in Quarter 2 so I could keep up with future sales in Quarter 4. As a result, I did not hire new sales people but I fine tuned my advertising by copying my competitors and increased the advertising budget from $198,598 to $311,897. The pro forma income statement showed total revenues at $8,280,065 which was jump from $6,888,870. My operating profit also increased from $1,104,794 to $1,658,769. I was content with the slow but steady growth.

The biggest challenge that they face as a company is they do not have the room the increase expenditure by such a vast amount. Currently there is $3,675,000 in promotional dollars allocated as follows; sales and administration expense (995,000), cooperative advertising programs with retailers (1,650,000), consumer advertising (562,000) and trade promotion (467,000). adding the $225,000 increase in consumer advertising will not allow the 5% of expected sales for total promo expenditures. John Bott, the vice president of sales disagreed with the budget allocation and noted that sales expenses and administration cost were projected to be $65,000 in 2008. This led him to believe that an additional sales representative would be needed to service company accounts because 50 were being added. Therefore he estimated this addition would cost at least $70,000 including salary and expenses in 2008. Bott also stated that “That's about $135,000 in additional sales expense that have to be added to our promotional budget for 2008”

Now that you are in the growth stage, how should you adjust the amount of your budget for promotion, compared to the launch year?

Total Sales Dollars (for covering each incremental dollar of advertising) = Absolute increase in dollar sales / Advertising expense = $500,000 / $150,000 = $3.33

The advertising strategy was also to be an immediate market follower. J.D.B.T.’s advertisements were modified by comparing them to the top rated brands’ advertisements. This worked well until R&D came into effect. Other companies were able to advertise titles such as Highest Performance Processor, and Technical Leader Most R&D. We had a decline in our advertising because we did not strategize in the beginning to invest in the R&D as fully as other companies.

Advertising expenses were unfavorable as the standard output figure is 28,412 and the actual output was 31,250. The variance is 2,838 over budgeted. This is a

Before spending an additional $3,000 on an advertising campaign Marilyn Lysohir needs to strategically consider how to reach her goal of becoming a profitable company by analyzing consumer perceptions, pricing strategies, identifying and gaining access to effective distribution channels and efficient use of its Web site.