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Let's say your gross margin is 9%.

You spend $100K in advertising. You get an additional $1000K in revenue, on which you make a 9% profit. You bank $90K profit from this.

You're $10K worse off for having done that advertising.



OK - not so used to terms like "gross margin" ;-)




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