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How to conduct an effective competitive analysis in 7 steps

Tomorrow People

There are three main ways to get competitor information: Published sources: This includes company reports, trade reports, press releases and industry surveys commissioned by industry associations or the government. Accessing relevant information about your chosen competitors can be trickier—but it’s not impossible. Conclusion.

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Nine Essential Soft Skills That Empower Marketing Teams

Trade Press Services

While it’s common to focus on the hard skills that align with specific marketing tactics such as search engine optimization, copywriting, graphic design or email marketing, there are many soft skills that are essential to building a strong marketing team.

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How to Create a Marketing Plan

Sharpspring

SWOT Analysis. Your SWOT analysis is an honest look at your business’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. Again, you likely did this in your business plan, but let’s revisit SWOT for marketing (or on behalf of your client). Marketing Plan Example: SWOT. What We Do Equally Well. What They Do That We Don’t.

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The Beginner's Guide to Competitive Benchmarking

Hubspot

Watch out for press releases, news articles, and sales reports that offer specific information about the company. After conducting a competitive benchmarking analysis, it’s a good idea to organize and design the data in a way that makes sense to you. SWOT Analysis. Competitive Benchmarking Matrix. Image Source.

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Social media moderation: How to respond to world events

Sprout Social

Conducting a SWOT analysis on your channels and communication style will inform your strategy and prepare you to be proactive rather than reactive to world events. With a well-designed and strategic guide, you can plan for communication in times of crisis. If no, consider pressing pause. Form a proactive plan-of-action.

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How to Build Bullet-Proof Account Plans to Help You Win

Business Brainz

A well-designed account plan combines all the important information , its financials, competitors, strategic priorities, and newer developments in the account and industry. Press releases reveals a lot of information. Business priorities to list strategic business priorities including SWOT analysis of the target account.

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Everything to know about Marketing Environmental Analysis.

Valasys

In the press release that followed, Levi Strauss & Co. Several techniques can be employed to conduct a thorough Marketing Environmental Analysis: SWOT Analysis. SWOT Analysis: Strength: These are the characteristics of a business that gives it advantages over its competitors. SWOT ANALYSIS. Expectations. OPPORTUNITY.