


Let’s say you only want to spend up to $200,000 – but you also only want to spend if you finish within your ROAS goal. You use the Set Objective box to specify the objective cell, and you use the To group to tell Excel Solver what you want from the objective cell: the maximum possible value the minimum possible value or a specific value. This will tell you what your yearly or quarterly budgets and goals should look like per the previous year or quarters statistics at the campaign-level, location level and account-level. You set up your Excel Solver model by using the Solver Parameters dialog box. The constraints assure that 1) we don’t pace higher than our budgeted amount per locations, 2) we don’t pace lower than our minimum amount per location and 3) the spend amount allocated to each campaign is within the realms of possibilities based on availability of traffic.įinally, you get your results once you hit solve. The variable cells includes the allocated spend cells across all of the campaigns, as these are the numbers the solver will be adjusting within the constraints. The objective being to maximize revenue in this scenario. For complex problems, you can tell Solver the maximum number of. The first number at the top of the page is the totals in the revenue column. When we use Goal seek, we will ask Excel to change the value of a cell in order to reach. The solver setup is a fairly simple setup.
