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What Does Marketing Actually Cost Your Startup?
Compare the true annual cost — cash spend plus your time — across every marketing approach: a full-time CMO, an agency, freelancers, or doing it yourself.
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Advanced: set your founder salary assumption (used for time cost)
Used to calculate the cost of your time. Default: $120,000/yr.
Annual Total Cost Comparison
Includes cash spend and the cost of your time at your salary rate.
Bar lengths are proportional to each option's total annual cost. Adjust inputs above to recalculate.
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Full Cost Breakdown
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