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Marketing for the Future
For many businesses, success or failure depends upon keeping up with and understanding financial concepts and principles. Understanding the basics helps the organizations to make significant and necessary financial decisions. These decisions may be the key to ensuring that the organization keeps and maintains a competitive advantage over competitors. Marketing plans are very important for…
Promotional Calendar Template: Stop Scrambling and Start Planning
What is a Promotional Calendar? A promotional calendar is a strategic planning tool that maps out your marketing campaigns, holidays, and events for the entire year. It ensures you identify promotional windows early and schedule the necessary production time (typically 45-60 days in advance) to create assets, preventing last-minute scrambles and wasted budget on rush…
How To Harness The Power Of CRM Segmentation
In every small business, there’s a requirement to market the company without breaking the bank. Effective marketing means balancing the needs of your customers with the resources the business has, and leveraging all of the available data is a big part of that. From small companies to massive multinations, segmentation is a common concept in…
Launching a New Business: Unique Ways to Announce Your New Venture
After months of planning and preparation, you’re ready to launch your new business and make your new business announcement. Now you need to focus on bringing in customers and developing a loyal foundation. That’s easier said than done. Is print advertising worth the money? Will online advertising bring in enough local customers? With seemingly endless…
Strategic Marketing Vision
Marketing is one of those tricky fields. It bridges the gap between strategy and execution. It’s equally at home either in the Boardroom as an outgrowth of strategy, as it is in the Human Resources Suite, as a compliment to internal culture, and of course, in the Business Development group as a business acquisition plan. Strategic Marketing…
5 Things You Must Do as a Brand Manager
Being a Brand Manager in today’s world isn’t easy. But it’s one of the most important jobs that exists in the Marketing Department — if not the Company. The reason is, the Brand Manager is the first and last line of defense for the brand. To successfully fulfill your duties as Brand Manager, these are…
Marketing Techniques for Brand Creation
In today’s world, a brand is created through the careful execution of marketing techniques. Those marketing techniques incorporate both online and offline tactics designed to increase word of mouth, reputation, and buzz. Right now, we are about to enter the season where many of the national brands execute marketing techniques they have been planning and strategizing for…
How to Create an Annual Strategic Marketing Plan
As the year draws to a close, now is the perfect time to think about setting your business up for success in the coming year. One of the most important steps you can take is to develop a comprehensive strategic marketing plan that will guide your efforts to attract and retain customers. If you’ve…
The One Marketing Tool You Can’t Afford to Live Without-the Marketing Calendar
Marketing is equal parts science and art. It’s about being nimble enough to take advantage of opportunities that present themselves. And most of all, great marketing is about planning. There are many tools available to aid your planning, but hands down, no question about the very, very best marketing tool you can’t afford to live without is…a…
Setting Business Planning Goals: Why Dreaming Matters
I came across this quote this morning, and it stopped me in my tracks: “We’ve got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true.” ~Denis Waitley It’s a simple line, but it’s a powerful reminder of something we often forget: planning isn’t just about charts, calendars, or task lists.…
Branding Lessons from Trees: Embracing Branding Evolution
Although marketers often talk about brands as if they are fixed and unchanging, branding evolution is a natural and necessary process. Like trees, brands must grow, adapt, and evolve to thrive. Their roots deepen while their ideals stretch upward, reaching for new and bold goals—just like trees spreading their branches toward the sunlight. The Nature…
Why You Should Revisit Your Marketing Plan Regularly
As we often assess our personal lives and make resolutions for change, the same should be true for our marketing strategies. Whether you’ve already developed a marketing plan for the year or are just starting, this is an ideal time to review, tweak, or create it to ensure it aligns with your business goals. Revisit…
Examining Your Marketing Environment
As you begin to put together your new strategic marketing plan, you should take into account the internal and external factors in your marketing environment that will be affecting you in the upcoming year. In my previous post, How Effective is Your Marketing Plan? I asked you the following you the following question: “Did your…
Tweeting is Word of Mouth
We were recently out of state attending a client’s strategic planning session. We didn’t know much about the area and had been very busy in the weeks leading up to that, so we didn’t do much investigating on the Internet. It wasn’t a vacation to pull up all the to-do’s of the place you’ll be…
Using and Buying Media Wisely
Before we get into planning season, this seems like a good time to discuss the best ways to think about buying media. I touched on this briefly in my recent post, The Intersection of Planning and Improvisation. But this topic deserves an entire post before annual plans are laid for 2011. The first thing you…
Marketing Plan: Intersection of Planning and Improvisation
Before the frenzy of annual strategic planning begins, I thought I’d take a moment to discuss some strategies you might want to consider as you build your strategic yearly marketing plan. Naturally, your strategic marketing plan should contain your best guess on how you will advance your brand and product positions throughout the upcoming year: where…
Social Media and Brand Strategy
Social media is a scorching topic right now, and rightfully so. I’ve heard more than one company wonder if it is, longs I,n the Brand Strategy. In my opinion, the answer is a resounding YES. If it’s not part of your integrated Brand Strategy, you’re missing a vital channel for furthering your brand position. As…
