Marketing Strategy and Planning

You don’t go on vacation without planning where you are headed, and how you are going to get there. Otherwise you just drive around aimlessly. No fun, especially with kids. The same goes for your strategic marketing plan.

Whether there is an official, or unofficial plan, one thing is for sure, you need one. From branding and messaging to targeted inbound marketing and outbound organic sales calling, to community participation, and customer service, all actions taken need to be deliberate, coordinated, and supportive of the main goals set forth in the strategic plan. Far too many organizations, and sadly professional marketing companies as well, focus on tasks in silos. They look at building a website, or creating a brochure, etc as if it were on an island on it’s own. You must integrate the strategy, messaging, and other parts of your business and their initiatives into the fabric of each and every product and service delivery that carries the company’s torch. That includes the people as well. The right hand needs to know about, and support, what the left hand is doing at all times. Bring the team, and the tools together under one unified mission. Create and execute the plan!