The budget split most Indian marketing teams get wrong

The 70/20/10 rule is fine. The mistake is what teams classify as the ten percent, and how quickly they cut it.

The 70/20/10 rule is fine. The mistake is what teams classify as the ten percent, and how quickly they cut it.

Four signals that your paid channel has hit its ceiling, and what to do with the budget instead.

Paid CAC is roughly flat and rises with scale. Content CAC starts absurd and falls toward zero. The crossover is the only number that matters.

Quality rating drops cap your sending limits. The five causes, in the order they usually apply, and how to recover a damaged number.

Open rates are the wrong metric because WhatsApp reads are near-universal. Measure block rate, reply rate and revenue per message instead.

The Business app broadcast list caps at 256 contacts who must have saved your number. Here is the honest threshold for moving to the API.

Four opt-in flows ranked by how they hold up under DPDP, with the record fields you need to capture at the moment of consent.

Meta moved to per-message pricing in 2025. What actually shows up on the bill, and the three line items that surprise Indian teams.

Content decay is predictable enough to plan around. What decays fastest, what barely moves, and a refresh trigger worth automating.

Most content depreciates from the day it ships. A hub-and-spoke structure with one original-data anchor per quarter is what makes it appreciate instead.