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10-Step Guide to Building a Concrete Marketing Plan

Calvyn Lee Blog

Doing marketing without a strategic plan leads to failure. As a business owner, you need a clear, actionable marketing plan guide to reach your goals. This comprehensive guide walks through the 10 essential steps for crafting an effective marketing plan from scratch. Market to specific niches.

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73% of marketers planning to up RMN spend

Martech

This includes email newsletters and other promotional emails, video streaming services and social media. Here’s a breakdown of the top channels that marketers are demanding more of: Video (64%) Connected TV (CTV)/streaming services (57%) Off-site media (56%) Email-based newsletters, promotions and receipts (54%) Bumps in the road.

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5 Steps to Create an Outstanding Marketing Plan [Free Templates]

Hubspot Marketing

Do you take a good, hard look at your team's marketing strategy every year? Without an annual marketing plan, things can get messy — and it's nearly impossible to put a number on the budget you'll need to secure for the projects, hiring, and outsourcing you'll encounter over the course of a year if you don't have a plan.

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Rethinking the marketing planning process for an agile world

Martech

The whole premise of agile marketing is exactly that: To be agile in our delivery of marketing assets, campaigns, educational content and product launches. The traditional annual marketing plan is a waterfall approach that does not support fast experiments. Old habits, bad habits. And that’s okay.

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7 Proven Social Media Promotion Ideas That Don’t Suck

Hootsuite

There are many reasons to use social media to promote your business. Here are 7 social media promotion ideas to explore instead, and how to execute them. Bonus: Get a free social media strategy template to quickly and easily plan your own strategy. Why promote your business on social media? You need a plan, man.

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7 Things Creators Should Know About Marketing Their Book

Hubspot Marketing

How I Marketed My Book 5 Helpful Book Marketing Tools 7 Tips for Marketing Your Book How I Marketed My Book My book, How to Be a Digital Nomad, was published by Kogan Page in January 2024. I was eyebrows-deep in my book marketing plan when my publisher let me know that they'd be funding a 12-week publicity campaign.

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The 7 Building Blocks of a Solid Content Marketing Plan

Rock Content

In addition to a website redesign and repurposing old content, the tax and consulting firm created a content marketing plan with a new vision focused on developing their reputation as subject matter experts. One of the most important components of a solid content marketing plan is audience profiling. Create a calendar.