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The complete marketing plan for solo tax practitioners
The author discusses low and no-cost marketing strategies. Topics covered include writing a weekly blog, keeping an email list of prospects and clients, and making cold calls to potential clients.
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Breaks business marketing into three sections covering client relations, client purchasing and professional sales. It provides marketing advice on reaching key partners, developing persuasion skills, managing risk, and strategic decision making. It includes appendices with sample marketing plans.
A practical guide to developing a marketing plan. The latest research findings in the marketing area are included. Useful for marketing students and also business practitioners.
The book offers practical guidance for entrepreneurs who are considering starting a consultancy business. It helps to assess whether you have the required skills to be a successful consultant, and how to rate yourself against other entrepreneurs. It also looks at the personal, professional and financial considerations relevant to starting a small business. The book provides tips for creating business plans, finding clients, marketing and public relations.
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The UK is a market leader in self-storage, but there is plenty of room for future growth.
The article offers information on content marketing to connect financial planners with clients. Topics discussed include financial planning practice's marketing plan; develop avatars or case studies, to clearly define different members of core audience; and regular pulse-checks to marketing strategy related to website traffic, social media posts and email broadcasts.
The article reports on the growing number of brands employing the influencer marketing strategy or the technique of getting lifestyle bloggers and users of the social media platform Instagram to promote their products. Topics discussed include the defining characteristics of influencers, the factors that marketing teams consider when choosing the influencer for their company and the challenges of navigating influencer markets outside the U.S. and Europe.
How to write a marketing plan
A comprehensive how-to tutorial on writing a marketing plan from knowthis.com.
Step-by-step ideas for promoting your business locally
A practical step-by-step guide aimed at small businesses from American Express
Step-by-step ideas for planning a new marketing campaign
A practical step-by-step guide aimed at small businesses from American Express
MPlans.com
Over 70 sample marketing plans showing full details of the contents of the plans including executive summary, situation analysis, marketing strategy, financials, budget, forecast and controls.
Write a marketing plan
A guide from Business Link, outlining the key areas to look at in an effective marketing plan and what you should include in it. The Business Link website was replaced in October 2012 but no direct equivalent to this page has been included in GOV.UK. The archived guidance is now available through the UK Government Web Archive. A live version of this information can be found on the Northern Ireland Business Info website.
Write a marketing plan
A guide from the Scotland's Business Gateway organisation. A further guide is available on Write an e-marketing plan
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