Those who are just starting a business can be confused by the differences between a marketing plan, marketing strategy and marketing campaign. Understanding the need for a marketing strategy in your ...

A marketing plan turns choices into numbers, timelines, and owners your marketing team can ship. A well crafted marketing plan ties marketing strategy, marketing efforts, and business objectives to ...

1. Does the marketing plan support the marketing strategy? Is the “what” of strategy supported by the “how” of planning in a specific fashion? There can often be an uncoupling between the strategy and ...

The following excerpt is from Robert W. Bly’s book The Marketing Plan Handbook. Buy it now from Amazon | Barnes & Noble | iTunes Robert W. Bly explains how you can develop big-picture marketing plans ...

Since long before digital marketing was called “digital,” it has been a category of marketing that encounters constant change. Whether we’re talking about search engines, social media, automation or ...

Planning challenges persist. B2B marketing strategy often struggles with fragmented tools and data, which makes it hard to track and manage plans across systems. AI for efficiency. While AI can help ...

The first step to writing a brilliant marketing plan is to understand what marketing is, and what it is not. And that can be difficult because the standard definition of market is, well, sorta kinda ...

Without defined goals and measurable outcomes, activity can become scattered. A structured plan connects strategy to ...

You may be wondering what I mean by a “marketing mindset.” When I led marketing departments for various organizations, I used to say that my role on the executive team was to ensure that the ...

This is the 12th installment in a Financial Planning series by Chief Correspondent Tobias Salinger on how to build a successful RIA. See the previous stories here, or find them by following Salinger ...

To stay in business, every business needs to convert prospects to closed sales. How a company markets to potential customers is a marketing strategy. A company may have more than one strategy in place ...