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6 responses to “Marketing Headcount / Budget Calculator”

  1. Hi all! Thanks for checking out this tool. Before commenting please understand that this is a V1. The high level numbers are on-point, but the headcount / budget breakdowns still have kinks. Comment below with what strikes you as odd! I’d love your feedback, and to take it into account when editing for a V2. Take everything with a grain of salt!

    • Casey Carey says:

      Jon – This is a great tool. Does the budget number include headcount or is it just discretionary and program spend?

      • Thanks Casey! Glad you like it.

        If you click the “Budget” tab it will actually show you the full breakdown of the budget, and yes it does include headcount baked in.

        Something to note is that the top level budget # isn’t my opinion, it’s based on real numbers. but the budget breakdown is largely me trying to bucket things after some research into how marketing budgets are structured at various phases of growth.

  2. Ashley Ward says:

    This is great, but what about Customer Marketing/Advocacy?

    • Jon Blumenfeld says:

      They’re in there 🙂

      As the # of total employees grows certain roles show up that are more specialized like customer marketing, partner marketing, etc.

      Customer marketing is playing a vastly more important role within the marketing team these days. Would probably shift the calculation had I programmed this in 2020!

  3. Corey Williams says:

    Is “marketing budget” inclusive of headcount cost, or just programs, etc? I ask because headcount seems high relative to total budget…

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When you’re growing as fast as we are over here at Nexthink you need to put a little extra thought into your headcount, budget, etc. to ensure you are growing responsibly. Moving fast isn’t an excuse for chaos.

Those who know me will acknowledge lovingly that I’m a nut job and track stuff relentlessly. Over the past 2.5 years I’ve tracked the evolution of our marketing team structure, skillsets, and general needs with hawk-like attentiveness. Part of this involved research to benchmark against peers within the enterprise B2B tech marketing community.

The end result, this benchmarking tool.

When showing a couple coworkers this model they insisted that I open it up to the broader marketing community to help CMOs and heads of marketing plan and obtain the budget and headcount they need to be successful.

When I originally started working on this tool I didn’t record my sources as well as I probably should have, but this report from OpenView Ventures is what originally spurred the idea. Kudos to Kyle Poyar and Sean Fanning over there for this incredible report year after year.

A secondary source of inspiration was a really well thought out exercise run by Erica Seidel / Drew Fortin during the MarTech East conference. The exercise was oriented around allocation of budget / headcount in a current / desired state. I stole the general categorization of functional areas from this exercise.

Some other sources include:

Enjoy!

A special thanks to my incredible coworker Eli for turning me onto Vue.js. This tool wouldn’t exist without him / it.

 

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