Management has a two-pronged challenge: the need for strategic planning and implementation, and the day-to-day demands of a rapidly changing world.
There are
two truths
at work:
Brand Audit & Refinement
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Brand is the personification of a carefully planned long-term marketing strategy. It is the vehicle that will carry your values, message and competitive differentiation, or not.
When a potential customer encounters your company for the first time, they meet your brand. It’s an paralleled opportunity to communicate just who you really are, clearly, succinctly. It establishes your identity and values, and reinforces them over time, over engagements.
When the world shifts, it’s important that your business responds– even if it’s just a small change, to acknowledge that, globally, we’ve moved to a new paradigm.
If your business has weathered the storm without changing at all – that’s wonderful! For the vast majority of us, however, much has changed. A brand refresh (or redo, if necessary) ensures we stay relevant in the days, months, and years to come.
MarTech Stack and Data Analysis
Having high standards for your technology ensures that you’re efficient and your operations drive growth. Having high standards for your data ensures that you have your finger on the pulse of:
- What’s being measured?
- Is it changing over time?
- How does this data benchmark/compare with others?
- What’s being measured?
- Is it changing over time?
- How does this data benchmark/compare with others?
Data provides a unique window into both performance and opportunity. The first step is to make sure the data is good – much like looking through a window, making sure it’s clear, polished and providing an accurate picture. The second step is to determine if your window is placed correctly: looking at the right things, and interpreting them correctly.
Marketers also need to be looking at the wide variety of data available to them, from Google Analytics to social media to email and other tracking reports. To understand your target market, it’s critical to have a 360-degree view of who they are, what they need, and how and why they buy products and services.
It’s also critical to understand the buying process itself. Too often, marketing is done for only one or two steps in the purchasing process; it doesn’t follow the purchaser all the way from prospects finding out about the product/service to the final purchasing choices and decisions.
