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It's because the reality of your marketing spending plan changes over the lifespan of your business. And so normally, usually, the larger you are, the more mature, hopefully, you've been planting seeds, you're following the Maven method, the more fully grown your marketing becomes, the more past customers you have.

In the one to 3 million range, you know, it may be 8 to twelve, but it once you get to 10 or above, we may be in more of the four to eight percent range. Brandon Welch: 11:17 So now that depending on this, the the biggest what or the biggest um depends part of that is how strong is your competition.

You don't desire to see what you can get away with for a couple of years on a low spin since someone is going to interrupt you, and it's way more pricey to get that market share back than it is to maintain and safeguard it. If you are trying to disrupt somebody else, if you are attempting to take market share, you're gon na have to um outspend them in message quality and in most likely marketing and advertisement budget.

Um you might be you might quickly be a 10 plus million company and require to invest 12%, no issue. If you're in a market and you desire to grow big market, possibly big dollars due to the fact that of what you're selling, no issue. Brandon Welch: 12:14 Yep. So if you think of this of driving as driving a nail into a uh a board, um the quantity of swings you take is your advertising budget, however the size of your hammer is the quality of your message.

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And that's what we're gon na talk about in the messaging section. Um that uh research study I mentioned a minute back, the long and the short of it, by far the biggest study that's ever been done on advertising, they pulled out that the most dependably growing companies who are able to charge more, secure margin, uh, get a bigger percentage of the market over the long haul, and not be disruptible.

So um if you are a if you are a home service business, it's gon na be five to 10 years before the average individual requires you. If you are an expert service company, it may be 10 to twenty years. Um, if you remain in a category like roof or truly huge, or you understand, we say roof or caskets, it could be 30 to 50 to 80 years before somebody needs you.

When individuals are coming to you without going through those other methods of marketing, you get them quicker, they spend more. Therefore that's why we want you investing 60% of your budget uh and any excellent marketing strategy at least is going to tomorrow marketing. Caleb Agee: 13:58 Yeah.

Caleb Agee: 14:00 Yeah, simply to ensure we're clear, if this is your first time finding out about the Maven method, this is most likely one of the key uh elements of the Maven technique that helps to assist to clear up marketing for everybody who hears it since I believe a lot of times we have lots of different marketing inspirations.

We're going to build a relationship with them for the long haul. A today consumer is someone who actually woke up this this morning or this week and they said, I need that thing. Brandon Welch: 14:32 Warm, so I need a fridge.

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60 on tomorrow marketing that's emotional branding, making people like you, know your character, know your brand, understand what you stand for, entertainment, making attention before the sale. Today marketing goes 30%, um, which is like, hello, we have an offer, you need to buy today, it's an actually excellent time to buy.

And then we state as much as 10% on yesterday marketing because a business who has past customers is uh has has the greatest chance um and that and the most efficient marketing when they concentrate on yesterday marketing. Caleb Agee: 15:31 Usually the most affordable dollar cost of all the years.

If you're a brand new business, you're not gon na have most likely enough to invest on the other day marketing. However if you're established, we have some business that have actually been around 50, 60 years, like spending an incredible quantity of time in the messaging and e-mail marketing and text messaging and customer gratitude events, like that's method more affordable than marketing for new clients.

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So um long-term brand name building is the key to firmer pricing. If you want to have the ability to charge more and be selected by the premium purchasers, long-term branding is your good friend. Caleb Agee: 16:07 I'm gon na promote that if you haven't increased your rates through all this mess of twenty-four and twenty-five and settling into twenty-six, you probably need to.

Yeah. Brandon Welch: 16:24 You know people want to you can not be the strongest brand in your category by being a low price company. Caleb Agee: 16:30 No. Brandon Welch: 16:31 So uh that's area one. That's budgeting. It's gon na appear like 5 to 10 percent for many services, and you desire a sixty percent of that total spend in tomorrow marketing, thirty percent today, and then as much as 10 percent on today marketing.

Brandon Welch: 16:55 All right, uh, we're gon na go on to 2026 subtleties for um your method. Um, Caleb discussed this a little bit early in the episode. Method really should not change year to year, uh, like an entire bunch, unless you are simply transforming yourself or you have actually been interfered with.

Um, and we tend to focus on a great deal of that with our campaigns. The subtlety in 2026 is that even the high quality premium buyers are getting pinched in the purse a little bit. Yeah. So worth searching is going to end up being a thing. Yeah. I suggest, not ending up being a thing.