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How To Create A Solid Inbound Marketing Plan

April 16, 2015Roger BryanInbound MarketingNo comments
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Roger is the Founder at Enfusen. He was #40 on Entrepreneur Magazines Most Influential Digital Marketers in 2016. His past companies have made INC Magazines Fastest Growing Companies in 2011, 2012, & 2013.

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Anyone who is engaged in running a business will tell you that there is no such thing as one size fits all. When you’re at the helm of a business you must wear an assortment of hats. But when you put on your marketing hat, there are still many jobs that you’ll have to perform within the marketing field. That’s why it is essential that you have a well thought-out marketing plan to cover the different types of marketing tasks you’ll need to undertake. You might think that a good website design is enough to bring in new customers, but with the amount of content that is available online today, you’ll also have to master content writing, email marketing, blogging, social media, pay-per-click and more.

A Marketing Plan Can Help Achieve Goals

What Is a Marketing Plan?

If you’re new to the business world, you’re probably not entirely clear on what a strategic marketing plan is. Simply put it is a detailed guide that outlines your overall marketing goals and the various strategies you will use to attain them. Of course, that is an over simplified definition but with a detailed marketing plan you will be able to prioritize each step of your marketing efforts, decide what marketing strategies you should pursue, analyze and determine what will work best for your particular business, and fully implement an effective inbound marketing campaign.

Establish Your Goals

One of the first things you’ll have to do for your marketing plan is to determine your marketing goals. You’ll need this information to help you to measure the success of your plan as you implement each stage. Without clearly defined marketing goals and objectives that can be measured or quantified, you will not have any way of knowing whether or not the strategies you’ve used are actually hitting their mark.

And in order to determine your marketing goals and objectives you need to know your starting point. How is your business bringing in traffic to your site now? What methods are you using to convert leads into customers? The answer to these questions will lay the groundwork for setting up your goals for the future. From the information that you gathered, you have a starting point for which you can create both a conservative and aggressive goals for the future.

Learning how to create an inbound marketing plan may not be easy for the newcomer to the marketing world but there is no disputing the rewards that will follow when you have a concrete plan in place. In addition to setting your goals, you’ll have to study your buyers; know what type of people will buy your product, identify what motivates them to buy, learn how they search for what you have, determine what type of content you will use to attract them, and put the entire thing in motion. Once all of that is completed, you’ll have to do a careful analysis of the results and continue to tweak your marketing plan until you reach your goals. Once your goals are reached, your job is not yet done. Now you have to turn around reassess, create more goals and do it all again.

 

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