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B2B Marketers: If You Fail to Plan, You Are Planning to Fail

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If you want your marketing to work, you have to first plan it, and then you have to execute the plan. You’d be surprised how many businesses fail to write a marketing plan. Now marketing plans are even more important, because there are more moving parts. So here is a roadmap for a successful marketing plan.

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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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Is Your Marketing Plan SMART?

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One Page Marketing Plan. If there is one thing I’ve learned as a marketing consultant, strategic marketing plans must be SMART to be successful. Here are my descriptions for SMART B2B marketing plans: Specific. My one-page Excel marketing plan has a SMART design. Without the What?, and How Much?

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4 Winning Tactics to Put in Your Marketing Plan

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Although technically this is not a tactic… …as always, the best marketing is planned strategically, using deep knowledge of customer needs and marketplace trends. If you need assistance, I provide marketing consulting, including strategic plans and implementation of traditional and social media marketing.

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Is Your Social Media Marketing Plan SMART?

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” Just as with marketing as a whole, it helps to have a strategy and a plan for execution. The plan is essential to successful, consistent execution, because there are a lot of moving parts in social media. In your social media plan, make sure social media goals are SMART. Is your social media marketing plan SMART ?

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