Know Exactly Where to Put Your Budget. Channel by Channel. Analyse your channel economics — revenue share, growth rate, acquisition cost, order value, and customer lifetime value — and get recommendations on how to distribute your budget across two strategic scenarios: Maximize Revenue and Focus on Growth.
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Sales channel optimization is the process of analysing how each route to market – direct sales, ecommerce, marketplaces, affiliates, mobile apps, and more – performs against your revenue, acquisition cost, and customer lifetime value targets, then reallocating budget toward the channels that deliver the highest return on those metrics.
Each channel you configure is matched against a library of 70 strategic permutations. The matcher classifies your inputs – revenue share into low/medium/high, growth rate into declining/flat/moderate/strong, CAC-to-LTV ratio into healthy/caution/critical, conversion rate into low/medium/high, and CLTV multiplier into low/medium/high. It then scores each permutation for fit and selects the best match. Each permutation carries pre-calibrated scenario weights for Maximize Revenue and Focus on Growth. Those weights are normalised across your channels to produce the final budget allocation percentages.
General Settings
Sets benchmark defaults and pre-selects your top 3 recommended channels.
Recommended: 12 months for annual planning.
Your baseline – channel shares are weighted against this figure.
Up to 9 channels. Industry top channels are pre-loaded in the next tab.
Your own store, social commerce, and marketplace listings capture the full digital demand curve.
Frequently Asked Questions
This is one of 40+ free tools in the Businease Toolkit – models, planners, canvases, and trackers for every stage of business growth.
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