All costs are per month, and column C has helpful notes about certain rows. Ad Costs Ad costs are divided into ad spend and ad management. Adding up ad spend is simple. Just insert your average monthly spend by channel. ad spend One big advantage of a spreadsheet calculator (vs. a rigid on-page calculator) is that you can easily customize the rows. So, in this case, you can add and remove rows as needed depending on where your company spends ad budget.

In the base example, we’ve set a hypothetical $3,000/month spend on Facebook and $4,000/month on Google. Ad management The ad management section gets more interesting. In addition to any monthly spend on a marketing agency that manages your ads, you’ll estimate what portion of internal team members' time is spent managing the agency or the ads themselves. Estimating this cost will take time—but it's worth it for more accurate data.