marketing planning

End-of-The-Year Marketing Calendar

Year end marketing plan strategies to finish off the year strong and prepare for next year’s plans The approaching end of the year presents a perfect time to ensure that you capture as much business as you can — and to plan for all the opportunities a new year presents. Here a few simple ways...

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Create a Simple Marketing Plan for Your Small Business

Templates and tips to create an annual marketing plan to keep your marketing and budget on track throughout the year Each year businesses have a chance to “start fresh” with their annual marketing plans and budget. Its a chance to look back at what you accomplished with your marketing the previous year and build...

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Marketing Plan Template Builder for Tactics and Budget Plans

Create a customized annual marketing plan template that works for YOUR business to help you plan specific marketing tactics and track budget allocations Many marketing plans lack the flexibility to capture specific tactics for your business... you end up spending hours editing and changing the template layout to meet your specific planning needs. With...

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Building a Smart Annual Marketing Plan Budget to Spend Less Money

Create a small business marketing budget for your annual marketing plans and goals that maximizes your investment while tapping into low-cost marketing ideas and tools For many small businesses their marketing budget can be one of their biggest expenses. When growth is your biggest goal you know that you need to invest in marketing...

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First Step in Building a New Marketing Plan is Looking Back

Reviewing a previous year’s marketing goals and accomplishments is the first step to preparing a new annual plan with realistic goals and objectives. Many businesses start off a new year going full speed ahead with a new annual marketing plan without ever reviewing what worked or didn’t work from the previous year. If you...

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Advertising Media Plan Template for Cost Analysis and Annual Calendar

Prepare an annual media plan and budget for print and online advertising with downloadable worksheet package that helps businesses create a budget, review ad sizes and rates and develop an annual advertising calendar for scheduled media placements Most small businesses can’t afford to use advertising or media buying agencies to help them evaluate print...

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Template for Tracking Annual Marketing Plan Goals, Strategies and Tactics

Free downloadable worksheet for defining and tracking specific marketing goals and objectives for the year – including sample strategy, tactic and budget data to demonstrate how to use the template Marketing plans should revolve around setting and tracking specific goals and objectives for your business. Establishing measurable goals – along with specific marketing strategies...

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Free Annual Marketing Plan Templates and Resources

Download free marketing templates, outlines and worksheets designed to get you started on building an annual marketing plan Spontaneous marketing activities rarely produce desired results for small businesses. Without a solid annual marketing plan to outline a year’s activities businesses typically end up spending well beyond their budget or missing out on opportunities throughout the...

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Developing an Annual Marketing Plan for the New Year

Make your business New Year resolution to start the year with an integrated marketing plan that clearly outlines your business objectives and the marketing strategies and tactics you plan to use to achieve them An annual marketing plan helps keep businesses on track with goals and objectives for the year and ensures that marketing...