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4 Reasons Your Marketing Plan Saves You Money

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Have you been saying, “ We don’t need to invest in a marketing plan! ” If so, read this blog post in which I explain the reasons a marketing plan can actually save you money. Here are four things I’ve observed that happen when you don’t have a written marketing plan. We know what to do!

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Why Written Plans Improve Web Site Project Success

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The solution is a written web site project plan. By writing a plan, marketing has a document that the user community has to approve and sign off on before any programming starts. The written web plan is an iterative process. What are the elements of a good web site project plan? What is the plan for website optimization

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The Benefits of a One-Page B2B Marketing Plan

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This is the time when many organizations and businesses are thinking about planning and budgeting for the next year. A one-page plan for managing and executing planned marketing is something I’ve used successfully for my business and for my clients. They can just check the plan regularly to get their marching orders.

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Why Your Marketing Plan Needs A Content Strategy, Not Just SEO

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It’s marketing planning time again, and I’m seeing that many businesses and organizations have “SEO” in their plan, but not “content.” In the hub and spoke system, your website and a strategic blog are the hub. If you don’t have a content strategy, New Incite can help.

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Inbound Marketing: Are You Attracting Quality Leads?

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A recent study showed that Inbound Marketing generates 54% more leads than outbound marketing campaigns. Sure, more leads sound great, but how do you make sure they are qualified? Marketing departments plan to spend $135 billion on online content in 2014. Score your leads. You should have a lead scoring system.

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Create a 1-Page Marketing Plan

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I like working from a one-page marketing plan for my clients and for my own business, whether or not we have a multi-page written plan as well. One Page Marketing Plan. I usually reserve a cell at the top of the Excel spreadsheet to enter in the business goals that the plan supports. Do you use it?

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Plan For Marketing Success So You Don’t Crash and Burn

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Review and planning helps ski racers avoid mistakes that lead to crashes on the race course (coded as DNF for “Did Not Finish”) – or, perhaps worse, finishing last (coded DFL for… … well, I’ll let you decode that acronym!). The same is true for your marketing.

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