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8 Pivotal Steps To An Effective Marketing Plan
A marketing plan is a vital aspect in successfully launching a new product or service. It acts as a blueprint in ensuring your target audience is well educated on your expertise, with the overall aim to generate leads and increase overall sales. All companies are aware of the importance of having a business plan, yet many ignore the plethora of benefits a marketing plan will bring to your business.
The difference between marketing strategy and marketing plan
Oftentimes, these terms are used interchangeably…
But they actually mean two different things.
Think of it like this…
You are a military leader and about to go war, you would obviously need to prepare all the necessary machineries, weapons, equipment, troops, and the perfect combat strategy to penetrate your opponent’s defences.
The approach to how you are going to tackle the enemy’s defences will be different for each opponent (your competitors), hence this describes your marketing strategy, it lays the foundation before you attempt to do anything.
So, it is essentially like your strategy on how to win the war with your limited sources and capabilities.
5 Ways to Align Marketing with Sales
Has your business ever performed so well on a promotion, yet was unable to convert them to sales and revenue? If this sounds familiar, there is a high chance your company may be dealing with ‘smarketing’ misalignment.
How to fast track your marketing career
When you start out in marketing, you always think the career path will be easy, fun and a bit on the glamorous side. Then when you start, you realize that it isn't easy, fun is for Friday's and there is no glamour in organizing an event even if it is for your favorite fashion brand.
Many don't start in the mail room or doing photocopying anymore, but at an entry level there is plenty of mundane tasks that can often bury our enthusiasm for the career that you are by this point indebted to through your university degree.
The one problem with companies that don’t write down their strategy
For years, I kept my business strategy in my head. It was a reliable place to keep it, or at least I thought. My memory is fairly decent when it comes to things that matter and reaching my business goals – matters.
With our marketing plan, that was another story. Writing it down is what we do, and we know that it is the only way to achieve marketing goals, aligning the sales function with marketing tactics that derive results.
How to set marketing goals and keep them
How to stick to your New Years resolution
Quite often, we make the same new years resolutions as we may have done the year before, simply because we didn't commit to the our goals in the way we had hoped. However, there is good news for those who don't quite make good on their New Years Resolutions as you are more likely to achieve it when it becomes a goal that is repetitive.
How to write your 2020 marketing strategy
A 2020 marketing strategy looks a lot different to any other year. The market has changed dramatically. There is an election in the works and of course, the economy is playing havoc with cash flow, so how does a small business navigate their way to marketing success in such murky waters?