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As birds migrate north to secure nesting ground, gaggles of marketers flock to secure budget for their marketing plans. The most fruitful of these plans are built on customer insights. We all know that successful marketing propositions perfectly align with customer needs and wants. That’s why a regular customer satisfaction survey should be a staple in any marketing plan. What marketing channels work? . Spring. MORE
As a business owner, I really enjoy working with my marketing team. I find their creativity and flexibility to be inspiring and they work hard to develop great strategic plans with detailed timelines. Those are great ideas, but if we add them on now we’ll be behind with our plan. MORE
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Your marketing organization sits down and really does the work of outlining their goals and creating a marketing plan. Then, as the organization’s different departments get mired in the day to day of doing their jobs, the plan is deviated from and ultimately forgotten. MORE
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Planning is the first step toward successful campaigns. That’s not the sort of topic marketing professionals debate, rather, it’s the kind of thing we all treat as common knowledge. But it’s also one of those things marketing departments never quite manage to sit down and actually do.
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