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5 Steps To A Better Marketing Plan

Marketing Insider Group

The first step to great marketing is having a great marketing plan. However, not everyone bothers to plan – even though most agree that it is the foundation to successfully achieving your marketing objectives. ” If you haven’t started your marketing plan exercise, now is the time!

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How To Focus On Your Marketing Plan

Marketing Insider Group

It’s that time of year for creating your marketing plan. If you are looking for a more formal approach, check out The Marketing Leadership Council which offers a marketing planning tool called MarkPlan and recently held a series of workshops on marketing planning.

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What Product Lifecycle (PLC) Means for B2B Inbound Marketing

B2B Marketing Traction

One marketing tool to use in determining which marketing strategies and inbound marketing tactics will be most effective in B2B marketing planning is your product or service lifecycle stage. Here are some examples of marketing strategies and inbound marketing tactics that are best suited to each stage.

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Money Is the Root of All Marketing Plan Evil

Marketing Insider Group

Which means your 2011 marketing plan has just a few more chances to be analyzed, reviewed and refined in order to help you meet your objectives for the year. Are you on track to meet your plan? One of the biggest reasons I see B2B marketing plans veer off course starts right at the beginning. So don’t wait!

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A SaaS Marketing Plan for High Growth Companies

Hubspot

This is a daunting challenge, but in today's post we're going to look at the four core tenets of a marketing plan (goal setting, tactics, resources and evaluation) that can help you achieve these goals. The Four Core Tenets of a SaaS Marketing Plan. Marketing and sales alignment. Marketing budget.

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How to Overcome Objections to Get Your Company to Invest in B2B Inbound Marketing

Hubspot

The same study says that 80% of marketers struggle to demonstrate the business effectiveness of their marketing activities to their top management. How can marketers win the budgets they need to attract customers if they can't prove to management that inbound marketing spend will result in a measurable return?

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The Ultimate Resource for 2013 Inbound Marketing Stats and Charts [SlideShare]

Hubspot

and statistics from the recently released 2013 State of Inbound Marketing Report. Feel free to use this data in your own content, tweet the stats you find most interesting, or just enlighten yourself about the current state of inbound marketing. 86 Revealing Charts From the 2013 State of Inbound Marketing Report.