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Why you should always ask why: Strategy must lead tactics in marketing planning

Martech

It was hellish for a while, but for marketers, it was also all about doing things, about reacting to swiftly changing events. Marketers certainly demonstrated their tenacity in navigating the unknown and getting things done. Up to that point, we had a balance between tactics and strategy — and that was important.

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4 Tactics for Your 2024 Facility Service Marketing Plan

sagefrog

1] So, while there’s no doubt that this sector is expanding, how much of the pie a facility management company can take depends largely on its marketing. With a growing market of sophisticated customers, understanding how to market to them is critical to the success of your facilities services business. billion by 2030.[1]

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Six Essential Elements for your 2023 Marketing Plan

Trade Press Services Newsletter

2023 is just around the corner and now is the perfect time to prepare your strategic marketing plan for the coming year. Although a documented strategy is a key indicator of marketing success, only 41 percent of B2B marketers take the time to develop a written plan.

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The Impact of COVID-19 on B2B Marketing Plans: Tech vs. Non-Tech

Webbiquity

The abrupt shutdown of vast swaths of economy and the entire live events industry, to help slow the spread of the novel coronavirus, has dramatically impacted plans for B2B marketers. More than 450 B2B marketing professionals gave their input to this study. Online Event Plans. overall budgets will be cut).

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How COVID-19 is Impacting B2B Marketing Plans

Speaker: Tom Pick, Chief Digital Marketing Consultant, Webbiquity

B2B Marketing Zone and Tom Pick, a well-known B2B Marketing expert, recently conducted a survey of over 450 senior B2B marketing professionals about the impact of COVID-19 on their B2B marketing plans. Whether marketers are planning on live events this Fall and where budgets slated for live events are going.

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4 key characteristics of an effective go-to-market plan

Tomorrow People

Consider these points when developing your next GTM strategy. I don’t mean to alarm you with this statistic—but it is a reminder that in today’s volatile markets, having a quality go-to-market (GTM) plan is key if you want to ensure product launch success. Diversification: you want to launch a new product in a new market.

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20 B2B Marketing Strategies That Will Deliver Success In 2021

Marketing Insider Group

Strategy without tactics is a daydream; tactics without strategy is a nightmare.”. Influenced by Sun Tzu and coined by Sagefrog CEO and Co-founder Mark Schmukler, this quote implies that there’s a clear difference between marketing strategy and marketing tactics. Have a Formal Marketing Plan.

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An Actionable Guide to Building Out an Account-Based Marketing Strategy in a Single Quarter

Speaker: Justin Keller, VP of Marketing, and Brad Beutler, Director of Content at Terminus

Are you searching for a new creative go-to-market plan in our new digital-first, work-from-home environment? Or maybe you’ve done your research on ABM, understand the benefits, and now you want to see some tactical ways on how to get started? How the TEAM framework relates to an effective go-to-market strategy and plan.