Your marketing strategy is the top-level guide or ‘rule book’ which dictates the direction your business is going in. It is this guide that then informs the actionable marketing plan which is the more detailed blueprint of how the company’s plan is going to be actioned. At Shareable we are able to help you build both the overarching strategy and the fine detail, actionable plan.
Underneath your marketing plan sits the specific tactical activities that deliver on the plan. This is important to understand because this is where many businesses go awry.
An awful lot of businesses, in particular SMEs, jump straight to this third stage, before carrying out the all-important strategic marketing thinking, and with no marketing plan in place. The result of this is that inevitably results in a lot of noise being made, which ultimately leads to nothing.