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You Know What You Want to Do With Your Business – So How Do You Do Achieve It?

Written by: Lee Lister

Article Overview: Business Marketing Strategy or knowing where you want your business to be next year and what steps you should take to achieve these aims. A business marketing strategy or strategic marketing plan is your overall plan of the marketing actions you intend to take in order to accomplish a specific goal for your company. So how do you define yours?

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You Know What You Want to Do With Your Business – So How Do You Do Achieve It?

Start with your Aims: Think
 What do you want to do?
 When do you want to do it by?
 What do you want to achieve?

An example would be: Increase our turnover by 10% by the introduction of 3 new products in the next year.

That’s the easy part – now you need to decide how you are going to do it. Think of al the ways that you can market your business and then work out the combination that you are looking at. Think of such marketing activities such as:

1. Produce a monthly newsletter for my past clients.
2. Aim to sign up 10 new newsletter subscribers each week.
3. Write 1 article each month and submit it to at least 5 major article databases.
4. Produce or buy at least 12 viral ebooks or reports each year.
5. Give these viral books away to my clients.
6. Add at least 3 new products to my range in the next year.
7. Add at least 3 product based web sites in the next year.
8. Add as least 1 page of extra content for each web site, each month.
9. Undertake a pay per click marketing strategy each month with a budget of at least $100 for the new and existing products.
10. Submit our web sites to at least 20 search directories within the year.
11. Enter into 3 joint ventures or be part of at least 3 giveaways in the next year.
12. Test my marketing strategy every month and make the necessary changes.

Once you have done this then sit down and work out what you have to do each month. All that is left is for you to roll up your sleeves and get down to the hard work. Good luck.

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About the Author: Lee Lister
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Lee Lister is a Business Consultant with more than 25 year's consultancy experience for many household names. She is known as The Bid Manager or The Biz Guru.

From an early age she began an unparalleled journey through business consulting that continues to span across the UK, USA, Europe and Asia. She has consulted for a considerable number of companies all over the world. Specialising in business change management, start up consultancy and trouble shooting. Lee's experience in marketing and internet marketing is also keenly sought after.

She is a prolific published writer of books, ebooks and articles and can easily be found on major search engine and Amazon. Her books include: FastTrack Bid Management, Proposal Writing For Smaller Businesses, How Much Does It Cost To Start A Business, Entrepreneur's Apprentice and a series of Start My New Business books that do as they say in the title!

Her major web sites are:
http://www.BizGuru.us
http://www.Bid-Manager.com
http://www.MarketingGuerrillas.com
http://www.StartMyNewBusiness.com



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