{"id":634,"date":"2018-08-22T02:12:37","date_gmt":"2018-08-22T02:12:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.smartsims.com\/support\/?post_type=ht_kb&#038;p=634"},"modified":"2022-05-19T06:02:31","modified_gmt":"2022-05-19T06:02:31","slug":"live-forecast-music2go-marketing-simulation","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/www.smartsims.com\/support\/article\/live-forecast-music2go-marketing-simulation\/","title":{"rendered":"Using the Live Forecast in Music2Go Marketing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What is the Live Forecast in Music2Go Marketing?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The Live Forecast feature in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smartsims.com\/business-simulation\/music2go-marketing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Music2Go Marketing Simulation<\/a> is located at the top-right of all decision screens:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"432\" height=\"196\" src=\"https:\/\/www.smartsims.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Music2Go-Marketing-Budget-Available.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1956\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.smartsims.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Music2Go-Marketing-Budget-Available.png 432w, https:\/\/www.smartsims.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Music2Go-Marketing-Budget-Available-300x136.png 300w, https:\/\/www.smartsims.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Music2Go-Marketing-Budget-Available-50x23.png 50w, https:\/\/www.smartsims.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Music2Go-Marketing-Budget-Available-60x27.png 60w, https:\/\/www.smartsims.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Music2Go-Marketing-Budget-Available-100x45.png 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 432px) 100vw, 432px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How Does it Work?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The Live Forecast displays two key metrics; <strong>Forecast Contribution<\/strong> and <strong>Budget Remaining<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Forecast Contribution<\/strong> is your projected <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smartsims.com\/support\/article\/marketing-contribution-in-music2go-simulation\/\">Marketing Contribution<\/a>&nbsp;for the year ahead based on your&nbsp;currently entered decisions. This will&nbsp;update in real-time as you save changes.<\/li><li><strong>Remaining Budget<\/strong> is the amount of your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smartsims.com\/support\/article\/marketing-budget-in-music2go\/\">Annual Marketing Budget<\/a> which has yet to be allocated\/spent. This updates in real-time&nbsp;as you save changes.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n    \t\t<div class=\"hts-messages hts-messages--info  hts-messages--withtitle hts-messages--withicon \"   >\r\n    \t\t\t<span class=\"hts-messages__title\">Tips<\/span>    \t\t\t    \t\t\t\t<p>\r\n    \t\t\t\t\tClick on the Live Forecast to bring up the&nbsp;<em>Forecast Results Summary<\/em>.    \t\t\t\t<\/p>\r\n    \t\t\t    \t\t\t\r\n    \t\t<\/div><!-- \/.ht-shortcodes-messages -->\r\n    \t\t\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Note:<\/strong> The Forecast Contribution figure uses your currently entered decisions. It does not take into consideration future market changes or your competitor decisions. So make sure that you have an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smartsims.com\/support\/article\/how-to-sales-forecast-music2go-simulation\/\">accurate sales forecast<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the Live Forecast in Music2Go Marketing? The Live Forecast feature in the Music2Go Marketing Simulation is located at the top-right of all decision screens: How Does it Work? The Live Forecast displays two key metrics; Forecast Contribution and Budget Remaining: Forecast Contribution is your projected Marketing Contribution&nbsp;for the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"ht-kb-category":[4],"ht-kb-tag":[],"class_list":["post-634","ht_kb","type-ht_kb","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","ht_kb_category-music2go-marketing-simulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smartsims.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smartsims.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smartsims.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ht_kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartsims.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartsims.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=634"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartsims.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1974,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartsims.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/634\/revisions\/1974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smartsims.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartsims.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-category?post=634"},{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartsims.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-tag?post=634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}