If your marketing plans contain, well, just marketing plans, you might want to consider casting a wider net. Unfortunately, you may be missing other key information that could impact sales and the overall performance of your organization.
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It is time to trade up from personal productivity to organizational productivity.
The spreadsheet can be a very powerful tool, especially for personal productivity, problem solving and modeling scenarios. It is where most organizations first develop their marketing plan. Four or five marketers sharing the same room determine that it is time to write down the plan, share it with others, use it to meet with finance, assign ownership to tasks, and generally feel good that the plan is in one place.
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How to Create an Integrated Marketing Plan (And Why You Need One)
Enterprise marketing organizations employ a lot of people for different types of work. Scale allows you to hire highly specialized staff for grade-A outcomes. But if the sophisticated pieces of your marketing plan don’t all fit together, you won’t see the results you need.
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