--- title: "Quick Tip: Maximize Your End-of-Year Marketing Budget Surplus" description: Here are some tips as you make plans to use up your end of year budget surplus. image: https://www.jonespr.net/hubfs/Blog_Images/Blog_376_Budget.jpg --- [![](https://www.jonespr.net/hubfs/Blog_Images/Blog_376_Budget.jpg) ](https://www.jonespr.net/eight-arms-blog/quick-tip-maximize-your-end-of-year-marketing-budget-surplus) # Quick Tip: Maximize Your End-of-Year Marketing Budget Surplus BY:   [ Kristin Jones ](https://www.jonespr.net/eight-arms-blog/author/kristin-jones) ![Quick Tip: Maximize Your End-of-Year Marketing Budget Surplus](https://www.jonespr.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Blog_Images/Blog_376_Budget.jpg?width=1474&name=Blog_376_Budget.jpg "Quick Tip: Maximize Your End-of-Year Marketing Budget Surplus")   With the fourth quarter of the year already under way, chances are you have a good idea of how your marketing department’s budget is tracking for the year. Is there still money left to use? Many companies tend to consider unspent monies at the end of the year as an indication that more was budgeted for that department than needed, and they may adjust the next year’s allocation accordingly. If you don’t use it, you’ll likely lose it. There is also increased emphasis on accountability for the results of your spending. Does your company subscribe to this “prove it or lose it” [philosophy](http://adexchanger.com/data-driven-thinking/prove-it-or-lose-it-budgeting-is-good-for-marketing/)? Whether you face a “use it or lose it” or a “prove it or lose it” scenario, now is the time to move on end-of-the-year projects that will provide both the data to show the ROI of your marketing funds and to set up your next year for success. 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