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What is included in the financial model of the Digital Marketing Agency?
This editable Excel workbook models the agency's five-year forecast from active clients, billable hours and hourly rates through three financial statements and management reports.
Plan customer acquisition, capacity, price, employment, costs and financing by observing how these operational options flow through the agency's forecast.
The editable assumptions combine revenue and operational schedules with financial statements, scenario analysis and reporting with dashboard.
Built to plan the editedChanges to the Agency's objectives to update related forecasts and reports.
revenue engine of the customer cohort
How does the agency calculate revenue in this model?
Marketing costs and CAC create new customers, cohorts remain active throughout life and active customers generate billable hours by service level.
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Get customers
New customers equals marketing expenses divided by customer acquisition costs.
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Layers
New customers are assigned to different service levels and retained for each specific lifetime.
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Follow active clients
Start-up clients and cohorts continue to identify active clients at the monthly level.
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counting hours
Active customers multiply by the average monthly billable hours for service level.
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Calculation of revenue
The invoiced time is multiplied by hourly rates, with the revenue being combined at different levels and months.
In view of the revenue assumptions it combines marketing expenditure, CAC, level allocation, customer retention period, billable hours and hourly rates with the planning of revenue active customers.
Revenue assumptions
Revenue assumptions together display acquisitions, customer cohort, billed hours and hourly rates.
02 / COGS & operating expenses
How are service costs and operating expenses planned?
The COGS and operational expenditure shall separate the delivery costs related to revenue, the variable rates of expenditure and the recurring fixed costs throughout forecast.
COGS and operating expenses
COGS & Operational Expenses displays assumptions for direct, variable and fixed costs depending on the period.
03 / Analysis of the scenario
What can Low, Base, and High cases show?
The scenario analysis compares the Low, Base, and High options for revenue and margin measures so that buyers can see how alternative assumptions change outcomes.
Analysis of scenarios
The scenarios analysis articles compare the revenue trajectories and the Low, Base, and High margins.
04 / Dashboard
What Does the Dashboard Bring Together?
You can use the dashboard to view configuration controls, scenario results, basic finances, a mixture of revenue, profitability, cash flow and payback period investments all in one place.
Dashboard
The Dashboard combines model controls, scenario outcomes, basic financial data and management charts.
Product adjustment
Is the financial model of a marketing agency right for you?
A ready-made model is tailored to the economy of the customer cohort and billable hours, while substantially different revenue logics or reporting structures may require custom modelling.
Model ready
It fits perfectly
Your agency gets customers from marketing spending and customer acquisition costs.
You're distinguishing clients at different levels of service with specific lifetimes.
Revenue depends on active customers, billable hours and hourly rates.
You want a five-year Excel forecast with scenarios and financial statements.
Order structure
Think about the model
Your revenue is not primarily dependent on the client cohort and billable hours.
You need a completely different logic of acquisition, storage, capacity, or pricing.
Your operating schedules require specialized modules outside the model structure.
Reports must be organised differently from the available workbook results.
The indicator is the starting point for planning, not a guarantee of performance.
Financial modelling service for orders
Do you need a pattern that meets your requirements?
The Financial Model Laboratory may build or adapt the model where different revenue logic, operational timetable or prepared reporting is needed.
Upon purchase, you will receive a fully editable financial model of Excel for the Agency's five-year forecasts, scenario analyses and related financial statements.
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Editable workbook
Adjustment of the Agency's commitments and use of related calculations and reports.
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5 - Annual Forecast
Plan a five-year financial forecast with monthly cash flow visibility.
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Analysis of scenarios
A comparison of Low, Base, and High level cases between revenue measures and margins.
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Financial statements
Analyze the income statement, the cash flow statement, the balance sheet and the management results.
Before purchase
Agency for Digital Financial Model Marketing FAQ
The basic answers are visible in their entirety, without the need to click on the accordion.
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How does the financial model calculate the revenue from the agency's business activity?
Revenue come from an active cohort of customers multiplied by average billing hours and hourly rates per service level. New customers are driven by marketing spending shared by CAC.
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Which assumptions can I change?
You can change the launch date, initial customers, marketing budget and seasonality, CAC, level allocation, customer retention period, billable hours and hourly rates.
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What can I compare between Low, Base, and High scenarios?
A comparison can be made of how alternative cases change revenue, gross margin, contribution margin and EBITDA over the five-year period of forecast.
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What financial results are taken into account?
The workbook contains the income statement, the cash flow report, the balance sheet, the dashboard, the scenario analysis and the additional financial statements shown in the product gallery.
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Can the Financial Models Lab adapt the model to individual requirements?
Yes. the Financial Models Lab offers personalised financial modelling for different revenue logics, operational schedules or reporting requirements.
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Is the workbook a prediction or a guarantee?
This is a planning forecast based on edited assumptions, not a guarantee of business results or financial results.
What Does the Digital Marketing Agency Financial Model Contain?
This download provides the best financial model template for marketing agencies, complete with detailed financial statements, a dynamic dashboard, and a dedicated assumptions sheet.
All-in-one Dashboard
Core inputs and core outputs
Low/Base/High
Three scenario analysis
Professional Charts
Presentation ready
ROE Components
DuPont analysis
Revenue Inputs
Researched revenue assumptions
Bank-Ready Reports
Lender-friendly financial outputs
Revenue Breakdown
Revenue stream detailed view
KPI Dashboard
Performance metrics benchmark
Choosing a selection results in a full page refresh.
Revenue assumptions
COGS and operating expenses
Analysis of scenarios
Dashboard
