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What Are the Advantages of Strategic Planning?

The most difficult position a business can find itself in is just keeping up day-to-day. There are so many daily operations, tasks, and emails that it becomes impossible to look ahead. You're doing all you can to chip away at a backlog of work. This torpedoes your long-term plan, and it's why businesses need to focus on the advantages of strategic planning. Many businesses follow a plan but only discuss or update it once a year. This is how they begin to tread water instead of swimming ahead. What are the benefits of strategic planning that solve this problem?

How to Be More Strategic in Your Strategic Planning

Strategy is based on goals. Your plan to achieve those goals requires design. There's an art to any kind of design, no matter how practical or business-oriented it is. Many go into strategic planning with an idea of applying anything and everything they can think of. If it can be achieved, let's achieve it, right? Yet this can result in redundancies, overwork, and dead-end paths. It's important to identify the elements of strategic planning that are best to implement. Don't mistake doing everything possible for doing it the most efficient way.

Starting Your 2020 Business Planning - Where to Begin?

Planning for the next year always seems like a daunting task. Ideas trample over each other, as budgetary and logistical concerns jockey for brain space. Whether you are new to this or a seasoned pro, the following can serve as a simple guide to 2020 business planning.

Now is the time to be more disciplined. This step-by-step process can help you in creating a strategic business plan:

How to Quickly Enhance Images with Photoshop

Now a days there are so many different Photoshop tips, tricks, and tutorials out there but what’s the most efficient way to edit a photo to pop? There always are a million ways to get to the outcome but I will show you the most efficient way to do this.

What Does a Branding Agency Do?

Your brand is you. It is your promise to your customers and clients; it is your identity; it is your message and mode of delivery. It differentiates you from the competition, and it gives stakeholders insight into what it is like to do business with you. Yes, your brand does all of this! Powerful — when you leverage it to its fullest potential. This is just what an effective branding agency can help you do.

What to Expect When Onboarding a New Marketing Agency

Hiring a new digital marketing agency? This could be a great strategic move! Many companies are looking to grow their online sales, but they're not sure how to move forward. There's so much technology and skill involved. 

5 Digital Marketing Mistakes Killing Your ROI

Digital marketing is an incredibly powerful tool. It offers you the opportunity to interact with customers in a way you just can't when it comes to other marketing methods. More than that, though, it expands your reach to a global level quickly. It's both inexpensive and measurable, making it a popular choice for companies today.

Why Become a Channel Partner?

The competition gets tougher every single day, and innovating to ensure you stay on top is nothing short of a must. One of the best ways to help your company do more is to look into becoming channel partners with manufacturers. Not sure? Explore exactly what a relationship like this can do for you.

How to Be a More Productive Marketer

When you're in marketing, staying on top of your myriad tasks - not to mention the changes that occur daily (and, it often feels, every minute!) in the industry! -  can be difficult, to say the least. You can read all of the time management strategies blogs you want and still not translate that into real productivity.

How to Align Your Sales and Marketing Teams

Sales and marketing... It's never been easy to get these two teams on the same page, but given the overwhelming number of technologies available today to make it happen - and the changing nature of the buyer’s journey - integration should be part of your corporate strategy.