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Why Direct to Consumer Brands Struggle with Profitability

Indigo 9 Digital

That is significantly higher than what companies typically spend on sales and marketing. Take department store Kohl’s, last year its marketing costs were only 4.9% A survey by Gartner found the average marketing spend as a percentage of a company’s revenue was 6.4% of revenue. At one point Casper was valued at $1.1

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Why DoorDash & Other Delivery Apps Struggle with Profitability

Indigo 9 Digital

In the third quarter of 2022 DoorDash paid $446 million in marketing expenses or 35% of revenues. A healthier rate of marketing spend would be around 10% of sales. In 2019 DoorDash spent 101% of its revenues on marketing in the first quarter a few months before it passed Grubhub in market share. "We