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see what marketing could make you.

We bring in the leads and your team closes them. Our job is marketing qualified leads (MQLs). Turning those leads into clients and placements is down to your team, so this tool takes the leads marketing brings in and applies your conversion rates to work out the return.

win new clients.

Marketing brings in the leads for your team to close.

● What marketing brings in

MQLs are marketing qualified leads: people who have engaged with your marketing and could become clients, for example by downloading a guide, joining your mailing list, registering for a webinar, requesting a callback or booking a call.

Marketing qualified leads we bring in each month.
● What your team converts

Everything from here is down to your team, your market and your process.

Share of leads your team qualifies into real sales conversations (SQLs).
Typical: 30 to 50%
Share of those conversations you turn into live clients.
Typical: 20 to 35%
Roughly how many placements you make for a new client in year one.
Typical: 2 to 4
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What you bill on a typical placement.

attract candidates.

Marketing brings in the candidates for your team to place.

● What marketing brings in

Relevant applications and candidate enquiries from your campaigns and content.

Relevant candidate applications we bring in each month.
● What your team converts

Your consultants match, work and place the candidate.

Share of candidates that become a fee-earning placement.
Typical: 2 to 5%
£
Use the same fee as above, or change it for candidate-led roles.

your investment.

What you put into marketing

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Only used to work out your return. Enter your own figure, as this is not a B&H quote.

where you could be (a year).

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Fee revenue the marketing pipeline could lead to
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What you spend on marketing£0
Left after marketing costs£0
Placements a year0
The funnel
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These figures are estimates based on the numbers you enter. The benchmarks are typical industry ranges to give you a starting point and are not a promise of results. We bring in the leads, and turning them into clients and placements depends on your team, your market and how you work, so real results will vary.

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