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Work out what your store should spend.

Eight facts about your store. In return: a monthly marketing budget worked out from your margins, and a map of where your current spend has gaps that cost you profit.

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01 / Your store

About your store.

Currency
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Revenue minus product, shipping and payment costs.

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How often do customers buy again
Age of the store
Growth ambition

02 / Your spend

What you spend now.

Rough monthly figures are fine. Zero is a valid answer - zeros are usually where the story is.

a
Acquire
Paid ads that bring in strangers - Google, Meta, TikTok.
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b
Compound
SEO and content - traffic you own, that keeps working when spend stops.
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c
Retain
Email, SMS and loyalty - monetising customers you already paid for.
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d
Convert
CRO, site speed and UX - making every other rand work harder.
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e
Brand
Awareness plays - sponsorships, video, PR.
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03 / Your budget

What your economics support.

Recommended monthly budget

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Affordable cost per new customer

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04 / Your mix

Where the money goes.

BucketNow - /moTarget

One dot is 5% of budget. Targets shift with store age and repeat behaviour - method below.

05 / The gaps

What the gaps cost you.

Notes / Method

We estimate what a customer is worth over 12 months - average order value, times gross margin, times expected orders for your purchase frequency - then cap acquisition cost at a share of that value set by your ambition: 30% holding steady, up to 55% growing aggressively. The total budget is checked against what stores of your maturity and ambition typically invest (roughly 8-25% of revenue), held lower for thin margins. Target mixes shift with store age and repeat behaviour: young stores legitimately overweight acquisition; established stores that still spend everything on strangers are refilling a leaking bucket. Figures are directional, drawn from patterns across the ecommerce accounts we audit - most accounts, not all. Your numbers deserve a proper look.

06 / Start

See the gaps.
Then close them.

Claim your free profit audit and we'll run these numbers against your actual account - findings, graphs and action items included.

Book your free profit audit

30 minutes. No deck, no obligation - you keep the audit either way.