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Introduction
The Performance by Marketing Channel tool can be used for performance monitoring and plan
that are specific to each channel you are using, such as farmers market, on-farm market, roa
service. Two other tabs are designed to keep track of costs of activities and assets that are us
documented in the Marketing Infrastructure tab. Costs related to marketing activities are doc
All the cost and sales figures are drawn together in the Overview tab that reports the financia
operation as a whole. This makes direct comparison of different marketing channels easy.
Products Tab
The products tab is a very simple data entry form that asks the operator to enter the products that th
sheet automatically fill out the products line on each marketing channels tab and the overview tab.
Instructions
1.Replace letters in yellow shaded cells with the names of your product offering.
2.If your number of products exceeds 30, you can put products into larger product catego
workbook. Or you can list the 29 most important products and then put the remaining produc
added before entering them into the workbook.
Overview Tab
The overview tab is a collection of highlighted information from the individual channel tabs. It
marketing, gross margin post marketing, and net margin. At the bottom of the tab the three m
compare financial performance across channels, making it easier to spot strengths and weakn
The only data-entry on this tab is for the entrepreneurial hours you have invested/are plannin
gross and net margins. These can be interpreted as return on your entrepreneurial skills and
to your entrepreneurial time. However, the total margin is more important when it comes to a
If you have invested in marketing overhead, e.g. for planning an ad campaign or promoting y
Overhead tab (see below). These hours, as well as the cost of marketing infrastructure and m
calculation of margins in cells I38 to I48 in the Overview tab.
The Marketing Infrastructure tab allows the user to enter costs equipment and structures that
facilities and equipment for processing/packaging, storage, transportation, and product displa
maintenance, and operating costs are taken into account, to give a total annual cost for each
by more than one channel, you can also enter a percentage share for each marketing channe
not to split the cost across marketing channels, e.g. because it varies a lot or you do not have
infrastructure cost will be accounted for in the Overview tab when the net margin for the enti
It has to be stressed though that tracking annual costs of structures, machinery, and equipme
the cost across the channels. However, the value of keeping track of these costs is a better u
Instructions
The annual cost of a piece of machinery, equipment or a structure is broken down into four co
1. Enter annual depreciation in column B, for each of the items applying to your operation tha
Estimate how many years your purchased item will remain in good working order
Subtract any salvage value you expect at the end of the items useful life from the total
Divide (the purchase price minus the salvage value) by the expected number of useful y
2. Enter the interest paid or financing costs in column C. Where an asset is fully financed thro
cost. This is, however, hardly ever the case, because most assets are financed through a mix
3. Enter annual maintenance and repair costs in column D.
4. Enter annual operating costs in column E. This would include utilities, fuel etc. Labour cost
recorded in the tabs for the individual channels.
5. In columns G to L, for each cost item that you have used, you can enter the % use by each
stores them (and nothing else) in deep freezers. The birds are sold in roughly equal quantities
be split evenly between the two channels, i.e. each receives a 50% share. Column M gives th
example when the asset is also used for other things than the marketing channels listed in th
The Marketing Overhead tab allows the user to keep track of the costs (expenditures and ope
marketing channel, such as designing and running advertising campaigns, signage and produ
these activities usually benefit more than one channel, they are labeled Marketing Overhead
Where possible and meaningful, you can distribute the expenditures for these activities acros
However, operators own time is not treated as expenditure. Instead, they are being tracked o
entrepreneur hour in marketing is reported.
Instructions
1. Enter an overhead marketing activity in column B Marketing Overhead Activity, as defined
which you invested time and direct expenditures.
2. For each such activity, enter the time that you spent on it (in hours) in column C.
3. For each such activity, enter the total annual expenditures in column D. For the promotiona
accommodation. However, promotional material that is also used at different locations, e.g.
4. For each activity entered in column B, enter the percentage share of the expenditures in co
by surveying customers you have found out that a new road sign or an advertising campaign
20% to the near-by farmers market. You can then allocate 80% of the expenses for these acti
argue that marketing and promotion activities benefit all marketing channels and an allocatio
whether it is meaningful to spread these expenditures across channels. If you think it is not m
be accounted for in the total net margin in the overview tab. For your own time spent on thes
advertising and promotion will always benefit the entire operation. Therefore, your own time
entrepreneur hour in cell J48 in the Overview Tab.
There are six detailed tabs, which allows for data entry of unit sales, revenues and direct cost
Market, Roadside Stand and Online Store/Delivery Service are identical in structure. The titles
Infrastructure and Marketing Overhead tabs can thus be changed to reflect your actual chann
might rename Farmers Market and On-farm Store with the markets names. The tabs for Pick
these two particular channels and thus unique to them. The key performance indicators that
margin before and after marketing, total direct costs of marketing direct, and gross margin ov
Instructions
The tabs for Farmers Market, On-farm Market, Roadside Stand and Online Store/Delivery Serv
refer to the same time period, which is usually a year.
Fill out the Cost of Production column. If your records are incomplete, you can put in a
addition, the cost of production can also be adjusted upwards to account for waste, e.g. when
10% of fresh produce taken to a farmers market is returned without secondary use, the cost
10) =1.11 in this particular example.
Fill out the Processing/Packaging/Handling column. The same as for cost of production
into account.
Enter your wholesale price, in $/unit, where the units are the same as what you entered
wholesale price is for your products/product categories. For example, for planning purposes o
the coming season. However, there will be many cases where no direct wholesale price for co
specialty crops that no wholesale options with minimal marketing efforts actually exist. Howe
restaurants or other food service business would pay. From that price, however, you need to s
3. Below the product list, there is a list of direct costs. Enter your direct costs that correspond
explanations where applicable.
4. For the CSA tab, the set-up is slightly different, as revenues are generated through selling s
multiplied with the number of shares sold and added up to yield total CSA revenue.
You can keep track of the quantities sold though, and, where possible provide a wholesale pri
5. The pick-your-own or U-pick tab has an addition to the calculation of margins over wholesa
own labour for selling wholesale. The tab does not provide for the option that fields are first
realistic option, the U-pick loss should be assumed zero. The figure to be entered in column G
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Marketing Infrastructure
Marketing Overhead
Net Margin
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Annual
interest/
financing
Annual
depreciation
Total $
Share of use by
Annual
mainte-nance
and repair
Annual
operating
Total annual
cost
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Marketing Overhead
Total
Your time in
hours
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for in channels
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Direct Costs
Labour (whole chain)
Supplies
Transport
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Average price
Cost of
production
Revenues
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Harvesting/
Processing/
Handling/
Packaging
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or all market days from loading truck to unloading/record keeping after return
gas costs, approximated by distance travelled times rate per kilometer
of product
Wholesale price,
*net of cost of
required handling,
applicable fees or
delivery charges
Gross margin
prior to
marketing
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Average price
Cost of
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Revenues
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Special
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Labour (whole chain)
Supplies
Transport
Other operating cost
Stall fee
Other specific eqipment
Total
Gross margin II, after marketing
over wholesale
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Units sold
Cost of
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Harvesting/
Processing/
Handling/
Packaging
Units sold
Price
Revenue
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required for
handling, applicable
fees or delivery
charges
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Full labour cost for all pick-up/delivery days: staffing ; delivery, if applicable; record keeping
Bags, clips, etc.
For delivery; Vehicle plus gas costs, approximated by distance travelled times rate per kilome
E.g., hydro
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Wholesale
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Other specific eqipment
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Gross margin II, after marketing
over wholesale
Per unit
Average price
Cost of
Proportion of uproduction, excl.
pick harvest
Harvest, if
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marketed
wholesale (=100%wholesale
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Revenues
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Average price
Cost of
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Revenues
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required handling,
applicable fees or
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Gross margin
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Gross margin
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