You control the budget, not the ROI
Budgets can be dialled up or down by a factor of ten, while campaign ROI rarely moves that much. The budget is a lever a marketer reliably controls; ROI is a gamble. Viral successes exist but are rare, so spend is the dependable route to bigger effects.
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