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Here is your guide

No email to wait for. Download it below, take a copy of the worksheets, and you can be looking at your own numbers inside ten minutes.

Where did the budget go?

Seven parts. The full guide as a PDF.

Download the guide

The worksheets

One workbook, three worksheets, formulas already built in. The link opens a copy in your own Google Drive, so nothing you type is visible to us or anyone else.

Open a copy of the worksheets

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10 minutes

Tab 1. Spend sorter

List last month's spend, choose who measures each line, and your three-way split calculates itself.

5 minutes

Tab 2. Double-count check

Enter what each platform claims and what you actually sold. Shows how much is being counted twice.

10 min per channel

Tab 3. Channel review

The five questions, one row per channel. Any blank is a finding worth chasing.

Where to start

If you only do one thing this week, do the first one.

1

Open the spend sorter

List last month's marketing spend and choose who measures each line. About ten minutes.

2

Look at the unmeasured row

Do not act on it yet. Just look at it, and show it to one other person.

3

Read Part 2 of the guide

It explains why your tools disagree, so the split makes sense rather than just alarming you.

Or try the two-minute version

The calculator does the same sorting in your browser, with nothing to download. Useful for a quick check between full reviews.

Open the calculator

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