Let’s say you are writing a new marketing plan and it all seems pretty mundane. You have no idea what to do. You may decide to add in the fancy stuff. You know, the things you read in glossy marketing magazines that feature your peers holding beer glasses, or stuff you read in your favourite brand book by that branding guru that wrote the other 50 branding books you bought and read, and things that speaker at that hyper cool marketing seminar you paid your whole marketing budget to attend says you “gotta do, otherwise you are so nineteen eighties.”
Doing all
these might be fine and good, but you may want to do yourself a favour.
Write down
all the stuff that you know; you know stuff like the classics. Classic strategy
you have used. List things you have done that worked and seem to work every
time you do them. Write down more stuff your competitors have done to you that
seemed to work.
In between
these three things or list or whatever you call it is a whole bunch of ideas
you can mix-and-match that can give you a good program. What’s the problem? It’s
free and it’s not very fancy. We all know people don’t like free stuff that is
not very fancy.
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