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How to Create a Strategic Plan for Your Small Business: Easy 4-Step Process

Biznology

Using the 4 Steps of a SWOT Analysis makes strategic planning easy, even if you’ve never done it before. I often conduct a SWOT with my clients and the results always yield actionable results. As you can see, a SWOT comprises four quadrants. Here’s how to create the SWOT: Strengths. Image created by author.

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Book Review: Marketing in the Round

Webbiquity

As noted in the introduction, “Every contemporary marketing book is dedicated to the topic of social media, whether it be Facebook, return on investment, content, or customer relations. That description (as much else in the book) sounds a lot like web presence optimization (WPO), the framework for which has been covered here previously.

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Does Your Growth Strategy Need an Intervention?

Vision Edge Marketing

Evolving Customer Needs and Foster Loyalty : In his book, The Practice of Management , Peter Drucker declares there is only one purpose of a business: to create a customer. SWOT and Competitive Analysis : Reevaluate your business’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats.

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How to Create a Marketing Plan

Sharpspring

As the name suggests, this model describes the ideal person you’d like to reach — someone who is especially likely to seek and book your services. SWOT Analysis. Your SWOT analysis is an honest look at your business’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. Marketing Plan Example: SWOT. What We Do Equally Well.

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B2B Lead Generation Blog: SWOT Team: Adding webinars to the marketing pool

markempa

B2B Lead Generation Blog About Free Resources Get FREE Updates Instantly Get A FREE Chapter from my book. FREE E-Book 8 Critical success factors for lead generation Just tell us where to send your FREE updates Subscribe in a reader Podcast Feed Subscribe via iTunes Recognition Thanks for Reading! Just scroll down the page a bit.

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3 of My Favorite Strategic Marketing Models

B2B Marketing Traction

Blog entry excerpted from the Marketing chapter written by Jennifer Beever in The Book on Business from A to Z. SWOT Analysis – know thyself. SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats) analysis is well known and easy to understand. Blue Ocean Strategy – know thy industry.

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Real Story on MarTech: Most important vendor selection tips

Martech

Eventually, my colleague Jarrod Gingras and I encapsulated those lessons in a book, “ The Right Way to Select Technology ” (Rosenfeld Media), from which I’ll share some of the most important lessons and tips here. Adopt and modify a “SWOT”-based decision analysis to fit your culture. In short: design thinking.

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